Jumble Sale

Just a quick reminder about the Student Council Jumble Sale next Tuesday June 15th. Please donate children’s toys and books (in good condition only please) and any yummy baked goods. You can send donations in from Monday June 14th. Please remember to give your child a euro or so and a bag for their treasures. If anyone has small change please send that in too. The sale is open to parents from 1pm-2pm. Please support this sale. All funds raised will be used to replace playground equipment for the yard.

Thank you

Student Council (Colm, Dubhaoigh, Azzurra, Joshua, Neo, Dara & Seth)

Write-a-Book Project

Congratulations to Alice, Thomas, Grace and Dara, our award-winning authors. They attended a prizegiving ceremony in the Radisson Hotel on Monday night. Well done to all who took part in the project.

June Update

TVs and DVD players on offer

No longer needed in the school as we will have two Interactive Whiteboards from Sept 1^st. If useful please take with you. A small donation to the school would be appreciated in return.

Open Day 27th May Thank you all so much for your help. It was a day to remember. Susan, chairperson of the Parents’ Association, was co-ordinating helpers from 11am, wonderful food - spanish omelettes, fruit salad and carrot cake, science experiments in the pre-fab, our seniors acting as ambassadors and tour guides, Noreen doing Fit Kidz for all, Aoife leading the dance routines and staff mingling. Fabulous. The children shone. Best Open Day ever and we will follow that format next year as it went so well. Plenty of super feedback.

Expansion Plans All going according to plan. Site will be taken over for renovations on 26^th June. Exciting changes ahead. Please get your name down with any staff member if available to lift furniture on Friday 25^th June between 9.30am and 11am.

Spikeball Blitz in Corrandrum Sports Hall 11am on the 3^rd of June. Wish us luck. Team are Katie, Luke, Oisín, Rachael, Joshua and captain Colm. Well done to all Spikeball enthusiasts who came to practices all year. Match against teachers yet to take place and squad not yet selected for that match.

Voluntary Contribution Please remember to send in the final payment of €50 per family (€100 per family per year) this term.Thanks to all who have done so.

SMA Family Day Sunday June 6th. Our art work will be on display. The theme this year is the flooding. Come along and support.

Photographs

Please send back asap. No pressure to buy but do send back all if not purchasing. Many thanks.

Jumble Sale The Student Council are organising a Jumble Sale for Tuesday June 15th in the pre-fab. Please send in cakes, buns, cookies etc and children’s books and toys in good condition. No clothes or shoes thanks. If the items could be stored in your own homes until Monday June 14th, the day before the Jumble Sale, it would help greatly in school. Please remember to give your child a euro or so on the day to buy a bun or a toy. Also if they have a plastic bag or two they can carry the items home safely. All parents welcome to come from 1pm-2pm to the pre-fab to shop on the day. Your child will get an opportunity to shop during the day with his/her class. If anyone can donate some small change to assist the cashiers on the day we would be most grateful. Funds raised will be used to replace playground equipment used at all breaks. The Student Council spear headed a fund raiser for Haiti earlier this year. Thanks for your excellent support.

School Tours

Junior Tour to NUIG on Thurs June 10^th Cost: €30 9.10am - 4.20pm

1^st-6^th Tour to Clare and Limerick on Thurs June 17^th Cost: €30 8am – 7.30p.m

Sports Day 9.30-2pm Friday June 11th

Usual exciting day of fun planned. For new parents this involves active children all day and you are welcome to join in, help and bring a picnic for lunchtime. Some athletics as well as novelty races. Sack races for dads and mums, now that’s worth watching! Hope weather is sunny but whatever the weather we will proceed. All details will be sent out nearer the time. Just so you can plan, the practice is that all are dropped to the Community Centre on the morning not the school. The buses run to the Centre too. Children are collected from the Centre and all events will finish at 2pm so an early finish for all that day.

Student Council and Green Committee Treat

Every year Terri invites the committees to lunch in Subway. Unfortunately Subway is now closed so we will have a treat in Treat this year. No consent form is needed as we have the general consent form to cover all local excursions. We will head off some sunny day when it suits this month. Well done to both committees. Lots of hard work put in by both groups. The school is certainly a better place because of their initiatives.

Graduation Night

Monday June 21st in the SMA hall next door to the school. All parents and children are invited and some local people from the Community. The extra space means we do not have to restrict it to the graduates and their families this year. Thanks to Fr. Nohilly for letting us use the hall. All senior students will be needed for performances on the night.

Our new Green Flag...

The two Oisins (Corcoran and Madden!) collected our brand new Green Flag on Thursday May 27th. Congratulations to all.

Open Day

Thank you to all who came to visit today and helped make our Open Day such a special occasion. A huge thanks to the group of parents who helped with the catering, activities, face-painting etc etc!

OPEN DAY - THIS THURSDAY!

Please call in and visit us this Thursday between 1pm and 3pm. Entertainment, games, science, dance, displays, FUN! See you there.

6th Class Victory at Library Table Quiz!

Congratultions to our Fantastic Four - Aidan, Cian, Colm and Nada, who were victorious at the Ballybane Library Table Quiz 2010. They faced stiff competition from 15 other teams, all from big schools too. They were in the lead for almost every round and faced a nail-biting tie-break situation at the end. Thanks to their amazing general knowledge they came out on top! Nada was thrilled that there were two questions about Jedward; Colm took his time making sure that 'Harrington' was spelt correctly; Aidan knows that the World Cup AFTER South Africa will be in Brazil and Cian, well, Cian knows a LOT!! Well done to all of you! We're all feeling very proud today.