Holy Family NS

St Mary's NS, established in 1911 and now known as Holy Family NS since the amalgamation with St Joseph's in 1995, will be celebrating its centenary the weekend of June 3rd/4th 2011. We look forward to welcoming all our pupils, past and present, to the celebrations.

Latest News

Welcome to our latest news and information!

Rainwater harvesting is one of our latest projects! We are working hard to earn our next Green Flag and we are learning along the way. Click here to see how we are shaping up...

Here are some class photos taken recently...click here

Lots of new pages have been created in the OUR PUPILS section - check it out and enjoy!

Thank you to all who supported the fundraising event organised by The Parents' Association last week. The race night was held in Mickey Macs last Friday March 18th.

Our holidays for Easter begin when the pupils finish up on Friday 15th April and school will re-open again on Tuesday May 3rd.

The children of 5th and 6th class went on retreat to Attymass on Wednesday 16th March.

Enrolment forms are now available for children starting Junior Infants this September. Please contact the secretary on 071 9186291 for more information.

Felix Schuffel has now been posted on to his next destination school which is in Poland. We are expecting to receive Kaytek, the Polish project mascot shortly. We will get Nathy, our own mascot when teachers attend the next project meeting which is in Paris in May.

Ms Brennan's class are learning the dance "The stack of barley". We will record this and send it to our partner schools with instructions for the children there to learn this dance too. Click here to see some of the footage!

Ms Coyne and Ms Brennan had a very interesting visit to a prospective partner school in Iceland last month. Click here to see photos. The school is in the second largest town in Iceland, situated in the north of the island, called Akureyri. A preparatory meeting was held there to plan another Comenius project. The partner schools for the next project will be the Polish school and the German school we have already, together with three new schools which are in Akureyri in Iceland, Pieksamaki in Finland and Ig in Slovenia. We look forward to another interesting project commencing in the autumn term if our application to Leargas is successful.

On Thursday 3rd of February, our sixth class went on a trip to the Ulster American folk park.

We are working hard to conserve water at Holy Family NS. We want to get another Green Flag! Ms Gordon and her Green Flag pupil committee have been teaching us all about water conservation. We are regularly checking how many units of water we are using and we have been trying to cut down our use of water to save the environment. We are going to harvest rainwater which will be used in our tanks for flushing toilets. We have had push-taps fitted so that we will reduce the water we use when washing our hands - and in case we forget to turn off the taps! We are proud of earning two flags already and looking forward to earning our third one!

Here are the dates for the sacraments this coming year:

First Confession: 15th March 2011 @ 7:30pm
Confirmation: 26th March 2011 @ 11am
First Holy Communion: 15th May 2011 @ 11:30am

Click here to see the school calendar for 2010/2011.

Pupils are requested to wear school tracksuits for PE. on Mondays.

Please make an appointment if you wish to talk to your child's teacher. This will ensure the teacher can give you the necessary time needed to discuss matters appropriately.

Don't forget to send a note in with your child when they return to school following an absence - this is a requirement of the National Education and Welfare Board, thank you.

Please note that it is school policy that dogs are not to be brought in to the school grounds. It is a matter of health and safety. Also, many children are frightened of dogs and therefore your co-operation is appreciated.

TIPS FOR PARENTS for children starting school can be found here

Thank you to all the parents who have supplied their contact details for the Text-a-Parent service. We expect this will be a very useful service for families.

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Please remember to put name labels on all uniform jumpers and tracksuit tops. Many items of uniform become misplaced each term due to lack of labels. It is also useful to label coats

REMINDER
School starts at 9:20am and ends at 3pm. Children should be in their line at 9:15am. Junior and Senior infants go home at 2pm. There is no yard supervision before 9:15am or after 3:15pm, therefore, parents are requested to collect chldren on time.