STORM DEBI: SCHOOL OPENING TIME CHANGED: In keeping with advice form the NECG, the Department of Education and the school patron Saint Mary's will open on Monday 13th November at 10:00 for staff and 10:30 for students. Swimming classes for 3rd and 5th classes are cancelled. Bus transport and bus escort services have been cancelled and will hopefully run in the afternoon. School closing times will be the same. If there are any changes in this health and safety arrangement, the school will be in touch. Please keep an eye on the latest news and advice. Travel safely.
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT LAST MEETING: A huge thank you to our current Board of Management who have their last meeing this week. We wish to thank all the patron, parent, community and teacher nominees for all their wisdom, support, dedication and investment of time in Saint Mary's Boys' National School. Your work over the last four years is very much recognised and appreciated by all the staff, students and whole school community.
FRÁSAÍ NA MÍOSA/ GAEILGE/ CONTENT LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING: Más féidir libh cabhrú le bhúr bpáiste frásaí na míosa a chleachtadh sa bhaile. 1. Cad a tharla? 2. Tóg go bog é. 3. Tá/ Nil me ar scoil 4. Ta mé ag imirt...peile/ rugbaí/leadóige srl.
TEAM HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOE BOX APPEAL: Thank you to all the students who brought in shoe boxes today for the Team Hope Christmas Shoe Box Appeal. We also thank all the boys who dropped them off at designated drop off points or who donated online. Drop Off Points. It was great to see so many boxes with the 4 big Ws; something to write with, something to wear, something to wash with and finally a surprise WOW item. A heartfelt thanks to all who donated.
PARENT TEACHER MEETINGS: Most of school parent/teacher meetings will take place in the week of November 20th-24th 2023.The main day for meetings for will be Wednesday 22nd November. Some teachers, due to larger classes, may also schedule meetings on other days and during the week before or after. Each class teacher hasset up a signup sheet on Aladdin with dates, days and times of meetings. This meeting slot schedule were released on Wednesday 8th November 2023. The deadline for signing up for a meeting is Wednesday 15th November. Meetings will last 10 minutes and we ask everyone to respect this as other meetings will be scheduled. We would hope that most meetings take place in person. If a face to face meeting is not possible please notify the class teacher directly by email of the same and an online meeting can be facilitated. You received a questionnaire from your child's class teacher on Monday 6th of November which you may complete and return to the teacher outlining any queries you may have for the PT meeting. Please return this questionnaire to the class teacher by Friday 10th November. The class teacher will give you a written report of your child's progress on the day of your meeting. Further meetings may be scheduled by the class teacher and/or SET teacher should the need arise throughout the school year.
ADMISSIONS 2024-2025: Saint Mary's started accepting admissions for 2024-2025 on Monday 2nd October. The closing date was Friday November 10th. Parents/ guardians will be advised of their application on Friday November 24th and have until Friday 8th December to accept offers made. Please see our Notice of Admissions, our Admissions Policy and our school Code of Behaviour on our school website for more information.
Kind Regards,
Noel Scully.
Principal.