Another busy week in school.
LCA Italian week, interesting reading in LCA 2, team teaching returned to the senior school,
Cross stitch classes Hug a Book literacy programme commenced, choir with Music Generation started have started practicing for the Christmas Choir.
We welcomed our new Home Economics teacher to our school and our new senior school English programme started.
All parents/ grandparents of pupils from classes 1-7 welcome!
LCA Italian week was a huge success around the school.
Money raised from our staff soup day and Halloween festivities was presented to Saoirse.
Aoibhe from our student council presented a cheque to Saoirse from class 7.
Saoirse heads to a Mauy Thai competition in Wales in November.
Trick or Treat
Happy Halloween!
Happy Harry !
Harry was delighted to see the delivery of our bottle return bin to school. Una one of our SNA's sourced the bin for school.
The question is "What to buy out of the cash we get from recycling our plastic ?"
Ms. Bolger and Ms. Ayres are leading our Travel Flag imitative this year.
Workshops will be held on the theme Composting and bottle recycling, this is underway and all classes are involved.
We had a visit from teachers on Erasmus from The Netherlands last week.
Mrs. Butler gave a presentation on the school, she spoke to them about the history of our school, our pupil pathway, curriculum options and the school leavers process in our school.
Ms Leo spoke about the importance of regulation and how we differentiate to meet our pupils needs.
Our Dutch visitors were delighted to visit classes 4 and 14, where they got an opportunity to see Ms. Ayres and Ms. Lulias teach a lesson.
At the end of their day they interviewed Ms. Lulias on the leaving cert applied programme and learned about our community engagement activities.
They complimented the warm welcoming atmosphere in the school.
A good day for all, learning from each other!
LCA1 received their Junior Certificate results and LCA2 received their Session 2 results on October 9th.
Well done to all. We are proud of your achievements.
We celebrated SNA Appreciation Day on September 26th with nibbles and treats at break time.
A new School Council has been elected and we wish them well in their work this year.
Many of our annual activities have started again - Assemble, Senior School Swimming, Up and Walking, Gym and Music Generation.
We have introduced Strength and Conditioning classes for some senior student groups.
A big day in School of the Holy Spirit, today as we said good bye to our play therapist Helen Clarke.
David from our Senior school presented her with a piece of art while Harry from our Junior school presented a beautiful card.
Helen's dedication to our whole school community was much appreciated and she will be truly missed!
Parent's Evening was on Thursday September 26th and it was a lovely opportunity for parents, teachers and SNA's to meet and get to know each other.
Many of our annual activities have started again - Assembly, Senior School Swimming, Up and Walking, gym and Music Generation.
We have had a very busy and happy start to this school year.
We welcomed 6 new students to the Reception Class and 3 new teachers - Ms. Kenny, Ms. Kelly and Ms. Quigley.
Fr. Dan began the school year with a blessing in the Sacred Space.