Dates for your Diary:
School Closures Year 2020-2021.
October Midterm: closing Friday 23rd Oct, re-opening Monday 2nd November
Christmas: closing Tuesday 22nd December, re-opening Wednesday 6th January
February Midterm: closing Wednesday 17th, reopening Monday 22nd February
March: closing Tuesday 16th March, re-opening Thursday 18th March
Easter: closing Friday 26th March, re-opening Monday 12th April
May: closing Friday 30th April , re-opening Monday 10th May
June: closing Friday 4th June , reopening Tuesday 8th June
Summer holidays: closing Friday June 25th
These dates are subject to change.
Please respect the integrity of the above calendar by not planning holidays when the school is open. We are obliged to inform the Education Welfare Officer when a child has missed 20 cumulative school days
We welcome everyone back to school following their Easter break and remind parents/guardians that when your child is absent a return to school declaration must be completed on the Aladdin Connect App or contact the office and request form to be sent by email.
We all celebrated Saint Patrick's day and combined with our intercultural day everyone dressed up, some in our traditional green and others representing their native country. A beautiful day enjoyed by all. Pictures of the day are on school events gallery.
Outdoor and Adventure Letter Sound Hunt
The boys and girls from Junior and Senior Infants have been having lots of fun hunting for their letter sounds in the garden. They brought their clipboards and ticked off each letter as they found it. Super work boys and girls.
Click the 'Active School' tab and then 'Outdoor and Adventure' for more photos.
The boys and girls from Junior and Senior Infants have been having lots of fun hunting for their letter sounds in the garden. They brought their clipboards and ticked off each letter as they found it. Super work boys and girls.
Click the 'Active School' tab and then 'Outdoor and Adventure' for more photos.
Internet Safety Day
Safer Internet Day (SID) is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. This Year SID will take place on Tuesday, 9th February.
It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise. The theme for Safer Internet Day this year is “Together for a Better Internet“.
Promoting Internet safety is more important than ever at the moment. There are lots of valuable resources to support conversations around safe use of the internet and how to guide your children regarding this to be found on Webwise.ie:
https://www.webwise.ie/parents/
Safer Internet Day (SID) is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. This Year SID will take place on Tuesday, 9th February.
It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise. The theme for Safer Internet Day this year is “Together for a Better Internet“.
Promoting Internet safety is more important than ever at the moment. There are lots of valuable resources to support conversations around safe use of the internet and how to guide your children regarding this to be found on Webwise.ie:
https://www.webwise.ie/parents/
The Vincent de Paul called into thank everyone for the denotation of 767.00 which they greatly appreciate.
SANTA MILE
As part of our Santa Daily mile on December 18th children donated €2 and the proceeds collected were presented to St. Vincent de Paul €767 and
Social Services €275.88
Santa dropped by to say hello to all the children and wished everyone
a very Happy Christmas.
Our new Daily Mile flag
We are very proud in Dunboyne Junior School to have received a new flag for our school. On Friday December 18th we raised our new Daily Mile flag. The Daily Mile is a running initiative that is simple and free. It gets the children out of the class for 10 minutes every day to run or jog at their own pace with their classmates, making them fitter, healthier and more able to concentrate in the classroom. We have been participating in The Daily Mile for 2 years now and it has become an integral part of the school day.
To celebrate today we had a very special Santa Daily Mile where all the staff and children wore Santa hats and ran one big lap of the yards. The children really enjoyed it and the Active Committee children from 1st and 2nd class did a fantastic job of leading the classes around the yard. Our Daily Mile flag is now flying high beside our Active flag. Well done to all the boys and girls for taking part.
To celebrate today we had a very special Santa Daily Mile where all the staff and children wore Santa hats and ran one big lap of the yards. The children really enjoyed it and the Active Committee children from 1st and 2nd class did a fantastic job of leading the classes around the yard. Our Daily Mile flag is now flying high beside our Active flag. Well done to all the boys and girls for taking part.
We are taking part in the' Active Break Every Day Challenge' which we started on November 9th and will run for 4 weeks. We commit to doing at least one active break every day in school. This might be a running, dancing or exercise break. We are committed to helping reduce the amount of time that children are sedentary. Having active breaks throughout the day is fun and it helps with our concentration and focus.
Send send love to local care homes with Community Focus
Here's a selection of cards sent by Second class children to Dunboyne Nursing Home and Silvergrove Nursing Home in Clonee. This is a wonderful initiative by An Post and at a difficult time, this is a fantastic way for our school to show vulnerable members of our community how much they are still valued and loved.
Here's a selection of cards sent by Second class children to Dunboyne Nursing Home and Silvergrove Nursing Home in Clonee. This is a wonderful initiative by An Post and at a difficult time, this is a fantastic way for our school to show vulnerable members of our community how much they are still valued and loved.
