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
First Penance and First Holy Communion have been postponed and will not be rescheduled until the Government and the Public Health Authorities announce that it is safe to do so.
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We are finally coming to the end of what has been a very challenging and difficult year for the whole School community. I hope you and your family have avoided the virus and are keeping well.
In my first email to you after the sudden closure, I said that at the end of all of this your child’s mental health will be more important than their academic skills and that still remains the most important factor. Remember that you did your best juggling the worries of home schooling your children, working from home, or maybe you lost your job or maybe caring for loved ones.
It’s very encouraging to see the restrictions being lifted and our lives adjusting to the new “normal”.
But we all have to be vigilant and to keep adhering to the HSE guidance.
Our plan is to reopen on the 27TH of August as we had originally planned. What form that will take will depend entirely on the guidelines (which we have not yet received) from the DES and the HSE.
We may not be able to take all children back on the first day and it may be on a phased basis over a few days so just to bear that in mind. But ultimately we must await the guidelines from the Department before we can better inform you.
You may remember that I mentioned in one of my emails that we were appealing the loss of our 19TH Mainstream teacher for this coming year. We received the great news on Tuesday the 23RD of June that we were successful in our appeal of that decision. So, thankfully, we are now in a position to have 5 Junior Infant classes instead of 4 classes for the next school year. This will benefit the children greatly and is especially welcome in the current Covid crisis.
I want to thank you most sincerely for all your support and cooperation to me over the past year in my role as Acting Principal. I also want to thank the staff for all of their support, hard work and resilience during such a challenging year for all teachers. Members of our staff lost loved ones during this school year; we convey our deepest sympathies to them and remember them in our prayers. Our caretaker Ray Hughes has been in hospital over the past few weeks and we wish him a very speedy recovery.
We wish Ms Mahon all the best as she resumes her role as Principal over the summer and I look forward to resuming my role again as Acting Principal on the 1st of September.
I hope you and the children enjoy the end of year greetings video from all the staff. Special thanks to Mr Séan Lyons and Ms Claire Casey for all the hard work in putting it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZPAD6s_qrY&feature=youtu.be
Have a great summer and let’s hope that the next school year of 2020-2021 will be a happy, healthy and memorable one for all our children.
Stay safe and take care of each other.
Slán go fóill,
Anne Gleeson.
We are finally coming to the end of what has been a very challenging and difficult year for the whole School community. I hope you and your family have avoided the virus and are keeping well.
In my first email to you after the sudden closure, I said that at the end of all of this your child’s mental health will be more important than their academic skills and that still remains the most important factor. Remember that you did your best juggling the worries of home schooling your children, working from home, or maybe you lost your job or maybe caring for loved ones.
It’s very encouraging to see the restrictions being lifted and our lives adjusting to the new “normal”.
But we all have to be vigilant and to keep adhering to the HSE guidance.
Our plan is to reopen on the 27TH of August as we had originally planned. What form that will take will depend entirely on the guidelines (which we have not yet received) from the DES and the HSE.
We may not be able to take all children back on the first day and it may be on a phased basis over a few days so just to bear that in mind. But ultimately we must await the guidelines from the Department before we can better inform you.
You may remember that I mentioned in one of my emails that we were appealing the loss of our 19TH Mainstream teacher for this coming year. We received the great news on Tuesday the 23RD of June that we were successful in our appeal of that decision. So, thankfully, we are now in a position to have 5 Junior Infant classes instead of 4 classes for the next school year. This will benefit the children greatly and is especially welcome in the current Covid crisis.
I want to thank you most sincerely for all your support and cooperation to me over the past year in my role as Acting Principal. I also want to thank the staff for all of their support, hard work and resilience during such a challenging year for all teachers. Members of our staff lost loved ones during this school year; we convey our deepest sympathies to them and remember them in our prayers. Our caretaker Ray Hughes has been in hospital over the past few weeks and we wish him a very speedy recovery.
We wish Ms Mahon all the best as she resumes her role as Principal over the summer and I look forward to resuming my role again as Acting Principal on the 1st of September.
I hope you and the children enjoy the end of year greetings video from all the staff. Special thanks to Mr Séan Lyons and Ms Claire Casey for all the hard work in putting it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZPAD6s_qrY&feature=youtu.be
Have a great summer and let’s hope that the next school year of 2020-2021 will be a happy, healthy and memorable one for all our children.
Stay safe and take care of each other.
Slán go fóill,
Anne Gleeson.
JUNE 18TH
INTERNATIONAL PICNIC DAY Thank you to everyone who celebrated International Picnic Day although the weather was not very kind to us. We received some great photos . |
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Dates for your Diary:
Junior Infant Enrolment process for children starting school in September 2020 can be submitted by webenrolment. Go to Tab JUNIOR INFANT ENROLMENTS 2020-2021 and click on link.