We enjoyed celebrating World Maths Day at school on Friday. Junior Infant parents were invited in to school to play maths games with the children. Here are some pictures...

Inniu, eagraíodh cruinniú idir an Comhairle Gaeilge - comhairle sealadach a chuireadh le chéile chun ócáidí spraoiúla a eagrú don scoil mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge. Bhí urlabhraí nó dhó ó ghach rang sa scoil, chomh maith le cúpla múinteoir, agus d'éirigh leo fís don tseachtain a chur le chéile. 
Táimid go léir ag tnúth go mór leis na heachtraí deasa a bheidh ar bun idir 16-20 Márta!

Today, a meeting of the Irish Council was organised - a temporary council that has been put together to arrange fun events for the school as a part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. There was at least one representative from each class, as well as a few teachers, and they have put together a vision for the week.
We are all looking forward to the lovely activities that will take place between 16-20 March!

This week we are celebrating Book Week and Mother Language Week in our school. Thank you to all our wonderful parents/grandparents who gave some of their time to visit the school and read to the children. Here is a selection of photos from our reading sessions.

On behalf of the staff and students at Citywest ETNS, we would like to thank one of our parents who kindly sponsored a set of Bee-Bots for our school.  Bee-Bots are award winning programmable floor robots with a simple, child-friendly layout which is a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language and programming to young children.  We greatly appreciate their kindness and generosity.  What a wonderful gesture to provide our teachers with the IT resources they need and students with a learning tool they can enjoy and benefit from.  The staff and all the children are definitely putting the Bee Bots to good use.

If you would like to learn more about Bee Bots please click on the following link:
http://www.bee-bot.us/bee-bot.html

It's Book Week and Mother Language Week!  Thank you to all the parents who have come in to read in their mother language this week.  It is World Book Day on Thursday and all children are invited to come in dressed up as their favourite book character.   We look forward to an exciting week ahead!

We are currently enrolling for September 2015. 

Just to keep you up to date on progress so far: 

02/02/2015: letters of offer sent to all pre-enrolled by 16/09/2013
09/02/2015: letters of offer sent to all pre-enrolled by 20/01/2014
11/02/2015: letters of offer sent to all pre-enrolled by 19/09/2014
16/02/2015: letters of offer sent to all pre-enrolled by 28/11/2014
18/02/2015: letters of offer sent to all pre-enrolled by 13/02/2015

If you have pre-enrolled and have not heard from us, get in touch. The school office is open Monday – Friday 8:30 – 2:30. Call Nicola at 01 403 5906 or email  citywestetns@gmail.com.

Please note: The school is closed for mid-term break from Monday 16th – Friday 20th February. 

The school will be closed from Monday 16th of February to Friday 20th of February inclusive. 

Have a lovely mid-term break.

This afternoon, a survey about Swimming Lessons was circulated by email. The text of the survey is pasted here for the benefit of anybody who would like to use the Google Translate (at the top right of this page) tool to read the questions in another language.

Parent Teacher Meetings are taking place this week in school. Please arrive at least 5 minutes before your allocated time.

Please note, this meeting is for adults only. Children will not be allowed into the meeting and may not be left unsupervised outside the classroom. Thank you.