Dear parents and guardians, As many of you will be aware, schools across the country will be closed for mid-term from 27th March 2021 and the children will return to school on 12th April 2021. This Friday is a half day and to follow compliance with a staggered departures, collection times are as follows: 10:45am – Setanta …
Dear Parents and Guardians, It is great to see all of the children back in school today and we are delighted to see how happy they were at returning. Whilst we are aware it was the first day back today for 3rd to 6th Classes and lots of children and parents were anxious to get to school on time, the …
Dear Parents and Guardians, To celebrate St Patrick’s Day we will be pre-recording some class parades in the school yard tomorrow for Junior Infants to 3rd Class. If you have a child in any of those classes we would be delighted if anyone willinging to dress up in green or in St Patrick’s Day costumes would do …
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. …
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 …
Dear parents and guardians, As you will probably of heard yesterday evening in the announcement by the Taoiseach, all children in Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd class can return to school on March 1st. This is fantastic news for the children and we are looking forward to welcoming them all back. Over the next few …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …