Parent Teacher Meetings 2021

Dear parents and guardians, As you will recall, I contacted you earlier in the year rescheduling parent teacher meetings until later in the year because of restrictions on people entering the school building. Unfortunately, not much has changed and it doesn’t look like there will be an opportunity to hold face to face meetings this year which is not ideal. …

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School reopening for Junior Infants to 2nd Class on 1st March 2021

Dear parents and guardians, From my recent email you will be aware that we have been given official confirmation by the Department of Education to reopen our school for Junior, Senior, 1st and 2nd Classes from Monday, 1st March 2021. We are thrilled that the children in these classes will be able to come back to school after such a …

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Mid-term break

Dear parents and guardians, Mid-term break is upon us and more than any other break before both you and your children will be delighted to have a week away from school work. It has been a difficult few weeks since remote learning commenced and I’m sure it has taken a toll on you all. From our vantage …

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Live video calls from the school

Dear parents and guardians, A lot of us are improving our IT skills especially when it comes to helping children with remote learning but it is a steep learning curve for most of us. One of the things we have really enjoyed doing is facilitating online class assemblies where the children talk to their teacher and other children in their …

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Return of Setanta and Google Classroom

Hi everyone, I hope this email finds you well as we continue to work through the challenges of the children not being in school. As you may be aware, yesterday the Department of Education announced that it has a plan in place for the return to school for children in ASD classes which will mean a return …

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Reopening Update

Dear Parents and Guardians, I hope this email finds you well at this very difficult and challenging time for our school community. Tomorrow, we were hoping that we would be in a position to welcome back the children who attend Setanta, our ASD classes but unfortunately, as many of you will have heard, the Department is not going through with …

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Remote Learning January 2021

Dear Parents and Guardians, Over the last few days, the staff have been organising books and learning materials for your children and the vast majority of them will be collected from the school today. Unlike the school closure last year, this time around we have been allowed access to the school building immediately, Google Classroom has already been …

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School Book Collection 11th January 2021

Dear Parents and Guardians, As you know, Level 5 Covid restrictions have once again been put in place for the entire country with the children in mainstream classes in schools asked to undertake remote learning. This is not an ideal scenario for anyone in the school community particularly the children and we will all be glad to …

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School Closure – Friday 26th November 2020 – Water Connection Works

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”50254″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Dear Parents / Guardians, We are deeply sorry to announce at such short notice, that the school will have to close tomorrow due to Irish Water undertaking connection works and the water will be shut off for two days. Unfortunately, Irish Water did not notify us that the water would be turned off and …

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