Christmas Party

Thank you so very much to the very hardworking members of our P.T.A. who organised this year's Christmas party.  A huge amount of work, effort and time went into arranging everything so we thank them very much.  

Carol Service

Thank you also for your support of this year's Carol Service.  We hope you enjoyed the children's singing and dancing - they put a lot of effort into getting this performance ready for you.  As always thank you to those parents who provided food and sweets for the evening.  We also appreciate the help of those parents who served tea and the refreshments in school after the service and also those who helped to tidy up afterwards.

Copies of the show DVD are available from school for a donation of €5 to school funds.  Our thanks to Ezra and Muriel for their help with recording.

Dates

School will close for Christmas on Friday 22nd December and will open again on Monday 8th January.

Attendance

Our current attendance is 98.5% which is excellent!  Thank you for ensuring that the children are in school regularly.  We especially appreciate the effort made recently when the weather was poor - we hope the delayed roll call in frosty mornings has been helpful.

Facebook Page

Don't forget to check our Facebook page from time to time.  It often has updates which aren't always posted here.

Christmas Wishes

The staff would like to thank you for all your support and help this term and we wish everyone a very Happy Christmas.  We look forward to welcoming you all back in 2018.

 Internet Safety Workshop for parents

An Internet Safety Workshop will  held in the Millpark Hotel on Tuesday 17th October at 8pm. This workshop has been organised by the P.T.A. in association with several other schools in the area and will be a great opportunity to find out how to keep your children safe online. 

Library Visits

The children had great fun this week visiting the local libraries.  Junior Infants - 1st visited Bundoran Library to watch a play.  2nd - 4th visited Ballyshannon library for storytelling.and the Senior children went to Bundoran Library for a talk by visiting author Steven Butler.

If you are not already a regular visitor to the library, please take time to bring the children along.

Co Donegal Schools' Service

5th Class and 6th Class enjoyed their outing to Ramelton Presbyterian Church on Thursday 5th where they joined with over 600 other children from the other 30 schools in Donegal which are under Church of Ireland or Presbyterian management.  We say well done to Bobbie Griffith for reading a 'Please' prayer on behalf of our school.

Unihoc

Our annual sponsored Unihoc will take place at 12.30 p.m. on Friday 20th October.  Our thanks as always to Muriel and Ezra and if you can help in any way, please let us know.

Cheerios Breakfast Morning

Although we are always trying hard to raise funds for ourselves, we believe that it is important to support other causes from time to time.  We will be holding our 'Cheerios Breakfast Together' morning on Wednesday 18th October.  Cereal and milk will be provided for the children in return for a donation of €2 (or whatever you would like to donate). Money raised will be donated to Childline.  The children will need to bring their own bowls and spoons! 

C.E.F.

We are delighted to have Brian Donaghy from C.E.F. rejoining us on Thursdays.  We have missed his lively guitar and fun stories.

Harvest Thanksgiving Service

Well done to the children from 1st to 6th Class for singing and performing so well at this morning's Harvest Thanksgiving Service. We also thank all those parents who ensured their children were present and came along to support their children and the school.  On display in the church was a selection of the fruit and vegetables grown in the school organic garden.  Miss McGinley and Miss Johnston did a great job of arranging the display and as always we thank Mr Barnett, without whom we would not be able to keep our garden going.  Pictured are some of the children who came along to school in the summer holidays to help in the garden.

What a lovely morning we had celebrating Harvest.  Well done to the children and thank you to all the parents and friends who came along to hear them sing.

Congratulations

Congratulations to the Leslie family on the birth of baby Shona during the Easter holidays.  She has already made her first visit to school and was even able to help us with one of our science investigations. We thank her mum and dad for allowing her to take part.

Warm Weather

Please bear in mind that there is little shelter or shade in the playground so please make sure the children have sun hats this week and if necessary, either send or apply sunscreen.

Standardised Tests

Please make sure there are no absences or morning appointments from Monday May 15th until Thursday 25th May.   

Important Dates

Senior Tour - Wednesday 7th June
Junior Tour - Friday 9th June
Beetle Drive - Wednesday 14th June @ 7 p.m.
End of Year Show - Thursday 22nd June @ 7 p.m.
Last Day of Term - Tuesday 27th June
New School Term begins - Friday 1st September
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Football

The children in the middle room enjoyed a football blitz in Killybegs on Wednesday.