St. Ciarán’s
N.S. Newsletter
St. Ciarán’s
N.S. Newsletter
Acting Principal’s Address
On behalf of
everybody associated with St. Ciarán’s, it gives me great
pleasure to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas and a
bright and prosperous New Year.
I wish to express my thanks to the B.O.M., Teachers, Secretary,
Office Assistants, Caretaker, Cleaners, School Wardens, Church
Personnel, Parents and Pupils who have all contributed greatly to
another successful year for St. Ciarán’s.
I take this opportunity to wish Ms. O’ Grady well in her retirement. She will be missed by Staff, Parents and Pupils and on behalf of everybody associated with the school I thank her for her marvellous contribution in her time here.
Mr. Lane sends his best wishes and we look forward to his return in 2004.
Parent/ Teacher Meetings
The recent P/T meetings were very well attended. Thank you all for your interest and support. I hope they were fruitful both for parents and teachers.
All the children from 3rd to 6th class have received the sacrament of forgiveness over the past 2 weeks in preparation for Christmas. We would like to wish Fr. Hickey and his parish team a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
The First Communion classes have been visiting the church to meet with Fr. Hickey in preparation for the sacraments next year. They have had 3 visits so far and these will continue after Christmas.
The First
Communions will be on the:
8th of May at 10a.m. for Room 3,
15th of May at 9.30 for Room 2 and
15th of May at 11.30 for Room 1.
The sacrament of first forgiveness will take place on Tuesday the 30th of March.
The school will close for Christmas holidays on Tuesday 22nd of Dec. at 12 noon.
School re-opens on Wednesday 7th of January 2004, this will be a full day.
Christmas Carol Services
Carol Services will take place in the church on Monday 22nd December.
The Junior Carol Service (Junior Infants to 2nd
Class) will be at 11.15 a.m.
The Senior Carol Service
(3rd to 6th Class) will be at 1.15
p.m.
All are welcome.
School Choir
The choir visited Blanchardstown Hospital after school last week to sing carols for the patients there.
They certainly brightened up the day for many patients.
Ms. Reilly held a sale of Peruvian crafts in her room last week. The children loved the crafts and €2,000 was sent through the Columban Fathers (Navan) to the women in Lima, Peru, who made all the beautiful items.
Four teachers
from St. Ciarán’s went to visit one of our partner schools
for the project in Poland. While there they visited classrooms
and shared ideas and experiences with the teachers.
Children from the participating classes have been making
Christmas cards and sending them to schools in Belgium, Norway
and Poland.
Some children also had an opportunity to visit the National
Gallery in November as part of a study on the painting of Jack B.
Yeats.
This is all part of an exchange of cultural awareness which is at
the heart of the Comenius Project.
The 3 sixth
classes visited Draíocht earlier this month to see the fantastic
art collection entitled
“Looking at you, Looking at me”, which is currently on
display.
All paintings are self-portraits from artists both living and
dead.
Our school entered the Fingal Tidy Districts Competition for the first time.
We came out winners in the “Best Presented School Category”.
Congratulations to all- especially our caretaker Eddie.
St. Ciarán’s
had great success this year in the Credit Union Art Competition.
Almira 1st, Sarah came 2nd and Miriam came
3rd in the 11-13 years category.
Also in the 8-10 years category Amy won 2nd place for
her entry.
This was a great achievement for the school.
The winners won substantial prizes.
We would like to thank everyone who entered the competition.
ReadathonMs. Daly’s and Ms. Courell’s classes took part in this years Readathon in aid of The Multiple Sclerosis Society. They raised €1650. They would like to thank all their sponsors.