Please come to our school this Thursday evening to listen to your child's teacher speak about his/her class and to meet other parents and staff members.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about your child's school, class and teacher.

Adults only. No children will be permitted into the school on Thursday evening.

Junior Infant teachers will give a presentation at 7pm. Parents and guardians are welcome to sample refreshments in the reception hall afterwards.

Senior Infant and Fourth Class teachers will give a presentation at 7.20pm. Parents and guardians are welcome to sample refreshments in the reception hall beforehand and/or afterwards.


Second and Third Class teachers will give a presentation at 7.40pm. Parents and guardians are welcome to sample refreshments in the reception hall beforehand and/or afterwards.


First Class teachers will give a presentation at 8.00pm. Parents and guardians are welcome to sample refreshments in the reception hall beforehand.


We look forward to seeing you! 


Please walk. If you must drive, please obey our car park rules.

The school will be closed to children on the following dates, due to professional development training for our teachers:

• Monday 26th September
• Friday 7th October

Our teachers and SNAs are beginning to plan some great themed weeks for the year ahead. So far, we are thinking of the following:

• Healthy Living Week in October
• Book Week, combined with Mother Language Week, in November, while Scholastic Book Fair visits the school
• Winter Concert in December
• STEM Week in January
• Friendship Week in February
• Seachtain na Gaeilge in March
• Autism Awareness Week in April
• Family Fun Day in May
• Active Schools Week and Sports Day in June

Phew! It looks like a busy year ahead!

We know that some parents had great ideas for developing and improving some of the events we have held previously and would like to help out in organising and running them. Please let us know if you have ideas to suggest and assistance to offer. We would love to work together on these projects.

There will, of course, be other events and activities taking place, such as our clothes collections, the first of which is planned for November, and our calendar, which goes on sale in December.

As well as developing our Caring School approach this year, we would love to develop a Healthy Living focus. We already have a few projects started, such as Playworx in the yard, where our 4th class pupils organise games for the children to play.

Also, our Student Council are leading the children of the school in joining forces with the parents to campaign for a Citywest Educate Together Second Level School, which is badly needed in the area in the next three years.

Here's to a great school year! As the old Irish proverb goes, as scath a cheile a mhaireann na ndaoine - together, we can achieve great things!

As you may know, last year we made great strides in the development of our teaching and learning about belief systems and other cultures. We began to explore a thematic approach to our learning about world faiths and also established a programme that allows every class in the school to visit a place of worship, or speak with a leader of a particular belief system each year.

This year, we are looking to broaden our engagement with belief systems, and international cultures more generally.

Food is a central part of many celebrations, and we would love to use this as another window into world cultures. If you have a dish that you cook in celebration of a particular festival, or at a particular time of year, maybe you could come in and share it with a class?  

We are looking for cooks who could either

• cook a dish in advance, and then share it with a class, talking about the significance of the dish in connection with a particular festival, or
• if the recipe is simple enough, perhaps cook the dish WITH the class, allowing them to gain an even deeper appreciation of the festival

Some festivals that might lend themselves to a food-related lesson include:

• Eid ul Adha (passed this year, but please let us know if you would be interested for next year)
• Sukkot
• Diwali
• Guru Nanek's Birthday
• The Winter Solstice
• Christmas
• St. Brigid's Day
• Chinese New Year
• Nirvana Day
• Fairtrade Fortnight
• Easter
• Vaisakhi
• Passover
• Bealtaine
• Ramadan
• World Humanist Day

*Please note that these are just some examples - if you have any other dates that are culturally significant, we would love to hear from you!

Please complete the form below if you think you could get involved in this new initiative.

We would like to put together a display that communicates the importance of family in our school, and the sense of family that we all feel here.
We would LOVE to have a picture of your family to add to this display! If you have a standard sized photo of your family, that you would like to contribute to this display, please leave it with Nicola in the office. Please note that we will not be able to return this photo to you.

While our junior classes are full for this school year, we do have some places remaining in our higher classes - 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes. Pre-enrol online or call into the school office for more information.

We've recently come across an initiative called Fáilte Isteach - "a community based project where older volunteers welcome migrants to the community through conversational English classes."
This sounds like exactly the kind of initiative we would love to facilitate at our school! - it's a way for us to connect more with our local community, and to build relationships between the diverse members of our community.

Read lots more about Fáilte Isteach on their website, below

If you know of anybody who you think could lead this exciting and rewarding project, please encourage them to follow the plan laid out on the Fáilte Isteach website - and ask them to get in touch with us to let us know! ​

Yesterday, on the last day of school, we had our biggest ever Family Fun Day. There were all kinds of attractions spread all around the school campus - from Fun Fair Activities like a putting green, bowling and Angry Birds, to bouncy castles, a reptile zoo and also demonstrations of our range of After-School Activities.
Well done to the children of Third Class who designed, made and ran all of the Fun Fair Activities - they worked really hard to ensure that everybody had an action-packed day. And thank you to the families who came along to support the day. What a great high to end the school year on!
From all of the staff at Citywest ETNS, we hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing you back here on 31st August!