Newsletter
12th October 2018
Dear parents, carers, staff and friends,
News this week
Yesterday, 3rd and 4th Class visited Liberty Hall Theatre to meet author, Andy Griffiths, who wrote the ’13–Storey Treehouse’ series of books. The children had lots of fun considering the kinds of trees you might use to build a treehouse! Our thanks to Julianna, our ‘Reader in Residence’ from Dublin City Libraries who invited us to the event.
Ms. McCaughey’s Class have been reading the book ‘Supertato’ as part of their learning about ‘Superheroes’ this term. They created their very own supertatoes – you can check out the photos on our Twitter page @stmarysdorsetst. The authors, Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet even tweeted back to tell us how great they were – well done children!
Yellow Flag Programme
We are very excited to be chosen as one of the schools taking part in the ‘Yellow Flag’ programme this year. The programme promotes inclusion and diversity in schools and we want to continue our good work this year to achieve this award. We have a new ‘Diversity Team’ of children, staff and parents/carers. If you are interested in being involved, please do let us know. The team met for the first time today and are very excited to get started!
Language Explorers
Our second week of the ‘Language Explorers’ programme took place today. The children are looking for different languages in the environment. Have a look at food packaging in your home – how many different languages do you see? What about your clothes labels? You can help your child to find items to bring to school to show us!
Dates for your diary
14 October – Family Mass at 11.45
18 October – 9am meeting for parents of children making their 1st Communion
26 October – Annual Sponsored Disco
26th October – School closes for Mid-Term Holiday
5th November – School re-opens at 8.50 a.m.
23rd November – School closed for children – staff training day for new Primary Language Curriculum
Attendance and punctuality
We are really pleased with our improving attendance. Well done to Ms. Oppermann’s 1st Class, Ms. McCaughey’s 2nd Class, Ms. Glynn’s 4th Class and Ms. Staunton’s 6th Class all with attendance of 97-98%. Our winners this week though, with 100% are 5th Class!
Parents’ Association News
Our Parents’ Association met this week to start preparations for our annual Sponsored Disco at Hallowe’en. They would love some help with decorations, posters and sponsor cards – please let Síle know if you can help even in a small way.
…and finally…
We have our first family Mass of the year this Sunday at 11.45 a.m. in St. Joseph’s Church in Berkeley Road. All families are welcome to join us, especially children making their First Communion this year.
Best wishes,
Éadaoin Kelly
Principal
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