Roisín saw the first snowdrop outside Yvonne’s classroom.

Now there are some more in the “CETNS” tyres.

That’s also where Lola spotted the first Iris. 

Adam was first to comment on the rhubarb leaves peeking out of the tyres near the

chicken coop. 

So, what flower is next? Make sure you submit a comment via the blog.

You could also look out for other signs of spring. This year children all over Ireland are looking and recording sightings of frogspawn, primrose, swallow, hawthorn, horse chestnut and ash. Get your teacher to sign up to

www.greenwave.ie

CETNS Easter & Summer Camps 2013

The CETNS Easter and Summer Camps are back again this year.  This year’s  Easter Camp will run from Monday 25th – Friday 29th March, from 9:30am to 2:30pm each day. The camp will be full of fun and exciting games and activities for children from Junior Infants to 6th class. Children are grouped according to age and class. Application forms will be handed out to classes next week and will also be available from reception.

Registration for the camp will take place on Thursday 7th March in Room 1 (JP’s room) from 1:50pm until 4pm. Places are limited to 60 and are given out on a first-come-first-served-basis. Both Easter and Summer Camps have booked out for the last couple of years so please register on the day to be sure of your child’s place.

Dates for this year’s Easter and Summer camps are as follows –
Easter Camp: Monday 25th – Friday 29th March
Summer Camp 1: Monday 1st – Friday 5th July
Summer Camp 2: Monday 8th – Friday 12th July

On Monday, 4th of February, our school sent two teams to the Credit Union Quiz.

There were two competitions, competition A (third and fourth class) and competition B (fifth and sixth class). On team B, there were Omar, Billy, Megan (all from Romey’s 6th class) and Seamus (From Siobhán’s 5th class). On team A there were Alannah and Ella (Jen’s 4th class), Garbhan (Eadaoin’s 3rd class) and Tom (Conor’s 3rd class).

The fifth and sixth class had to do a ‘trial quiz’ in Liz’s room. It was taken from one of her many quiz books and was more difficult than the one she had given us last year.

The night of the quiz was very exciting. The quiz took place in the main hall of Naomh Perigrine’s GAA Club. Each team was allocated a table. There were 12 rounds of 6 questions in the B competition and 10 rounds of 6 questions in the A competition.

Team B came 1st and brought home a plaque each, a glass trophy for the school and a silver trophy to display in the school trophy cabinet for one year. Congratulations to both teams; everyone did very well, but there are still more rounds to come for team B and high hopes for next years quiz.

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Well done to Sasha, who is our new CETNS chess champion. In a tight final he managed to beat 2012 champion Adam. Josh won his match against Cian to claim 3rd place overall.   Well done to all 30 children who took part in the lunchtime competition for 5th and 6th class over the last three weeks.

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Two mixed teams from CETNS took part in the annual Dublin Spikeball competition in Lucan on Friday. The children from 5th class only narrowly missed the semi-final. We learned a lot and had plenty of fun.

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Census Night Tonight Tuesday 29th January!!! 

The Ethos Subcommittee have been working very hard to prepare the survey for all parents, students, staff and board members of the school. The pupils and staff are completing  their survey in school today Tuesday Jan 29th. Parents will receive the survey in schoolbags today and we hope parents will take the time to complete the survey online (see links below) as this will help with collating the data and speed up the process. Closing date for completed surveys is Friday February 1st. .

Parents: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CETNSparents
Staff: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q7LCGHP
Pupils: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QVPW2QC

Well done to Jennifer’s 1st class. They spotted the first snowdrop of the year in a tyre outside Yvonne’s classroom.

Lola in JP’s junior infant class spotted more than one Iris with its beautiful petals outside her class and she is going to show them to everybody in her class.