Dear Parents/Guardians,
A number of incidents have occurred in the set-down area and the school car park where cars have double parked blocking the access into and out of the car park. A number of cars have been left in the set-down area for many reasons, however, please note should you park your car and leave it there, you are causing a delay for other cars at the entrance to the school. Gardaí have asked that parents co-operate with the system that is in the car-park in order to ensure traffic flows in and around the school as smoothly as possible as this has a knock on effect on the avenue outside. It is unacceptable to leave your car at any point in the set-down area as this is not a car-parking space. Parents are also reminded that the safety of all users on school premises is most important, in particular the safety of children.
Book Week takes place at CETNS next week where an emphasis will be put on literacy activities and we hope to promote and encourage in children a love of books. We hope you can also encourage your child to read and participate in book activities this week. Celtic Travelling Book Fair will be here at the school during the week and it will run from Tuesday 9th October to Friday 12th October 2012. The 60% commission we get from the fair allows us to buy books for the school and class libraries. However at the same time, in this current economic climate please don’t feel under any obligation to purchase books. The M.S. Readathon is also beginning during this week on Friday 12th October and will run until November 12th 2012. The school has been successfully involved in the M.S Readathon for over ten years now and it helps to encourage children to read whilst also raising funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland. Our school can also keep 10% of funds raised to buy books for the school library. Class teachers will be providing further information and forms to any children wishing to participate. If you would like to be involved in any literacy activity either next week or during the year please let your child’s class teacher know. Activities could include reading with children, helping out with classes during their library slot, telling children about your own favourite book as a child, reading aloud to children, helping with the school library etc. While I visited Paula’s 2nd class recently they were telling me all about their book review on ‘Cows are Vegetarians’ which they enjoyed immensely. Sharon has been busily organising things for the week and we will have a visit from the author David Donoghue next week for 3rd & 4th classes. The children in Conor’s class went to visit the author Judy Curtin on Tuesday in town and had a very nice time there listening to and asking her questions about her books. They were especially intrigued to learn all about Walter and the Doughnuts and enjoyed their trip.
National Maths week is taking place 13-22nd October and the children at CETNS will be participating in a variety of activities throughout the school during this week. Many of the children have been working with Mangahigh and competing, we already have a number of Mangahigh heroes. Well done especially to Oert, Fergus, Layla, Oliver, Anna, Éadaoin, Max, Norbert, Katie, Rianna, Megan, Piotr, Oisin, Aisling, Katerina and Omar who have contributed to our match.Read all about our heoroes in the post below.
Last week we had two wonderful assemblies hosted by 2nd classes and 6th classes based on the Learn Together Programme and everyone enjoyed their thoughts and poems on Friendship. we are very lucky to have the friendliest children in Ireland in our school and for the past few weeks we have witnessed all sorts of kind and generous acts of frienship throughout the school. Well done to the children on hosting two great assemblies for the school.
On a number of occasions in the past few weeks, children have been greeted in the yard with dog dirt in the mornings. You may have noticed the signs at the entrance to the yard stating dogs are not permitted to enter the school yard/building.
Obair Bhaile Gaeilge (homework) for parents This week’s frása for infants is, “Fáilte ar ais!” which means (Welcome back!) and is pronounced, “Foil teh err ash”. This week’s frása for 2nd class to 6th is, “An bhfuil cead agam mo chóta a fháil, más e do thoil é?” which means (May I get my coat ,please?) and is pronounced, “On will cad a gum muh co tah a oil,maw shay duh hull ay?”. Go n-éirí libh! (Good luck!)
A Parents’ Policy Development Subcommittee has been set up in order to involve parents from the school in a constructive way to help formulate policies which influence school life. This subcommittee would liike to work on behalf of parents and hopefully parents will engage with the school through this committee. We hope to develop a format of putting draft documents up on the website with a time period for all comments and responses to be returned to info@cetns.ie email address. After this deadline all comments will then be reviewed by the committee and an open forum may discuss further amendments to the draft policy prior to recommending a final copy to the Board of Management of the school for ratification. To begin with there will be two policies available shortly at the parent tab of this page under the heading policies for comment. The email address will open for comment from Friday 5th – Friday 19th October and we welcome any comments you would like to offer.
Coolmine Community School are holding an open evening October 4th for parents of students in 6th classes. Registration for 2012/2014 will take place October 15th, 16th & 18th. Contact the school on 01-8214141 or www.coolminecs.ie
There are a number of training sessions taking place at CETNS for parents of children with Autism. These will take place on Tuesdays from 16th October for five weeks. If you are interested in coming along please sign up at www.middletownautism.com and we hope they will be of benefit to you and your child. The sessions will take place in CETNS school hall from 11-1pm on these Tuesdays.
Beir bua, Aedín
