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Children's yoga classes will be taking place at the Heritage Centre in Saggart, starting 18 June. See the poster below for more details.
Check out the drama summer camp which will take place in our school from the 4th - 8th of July. Go to www.playact.ie for more information on the costs for each child, or if you would like to sign up. You can also contact Adrienne using the details provided below. In prepartion for our first Active Schools Week, which will run from June 13th to June 17th, a martial arts expert from Martial Arts Tallaght will be running a demonstration for the children in our school hall on Wednesday June 1st. Classes from Junior Infants to First Class will enjoy a twenty minute class with instructor Martin. The children are looking forward to learning some new active skills.
 Dear Parents/Guardians, Last year's Sports Day proved a great success. The children had a super time and that was due to wonderful parent and teacher involvement. Sports Day is on Friday 17th June 2016 and is again at St Mary’s GAA field in Saggart! Here is how you can help! 1. We are looking for volunteers to help with sports activities 2. We need donations of equipment and plastic storage 1. Volunteers Friday 17th June 08:45 to 12:30. Different sports activities will be set up by the teachers with clear instructions. You will run that one activity for the morning. Each class will visit your activity with their teacher. Unfortunately, due to health and safety regulations, we cannot allow babies / toddlers to accompany volunteering parents for this part of the day. You will join in / watch the whole school activities later in the day. Let us know you can volunteer by filling in the form below before Thursday 9th June 2016! 2. Equipment
Do you have any of these items? Please bring into your child’s class teacher or to the office before Thursday 9th June.
With so much learning going on around the school we thought we would take some time to focus on Mathematics.
Below is a review of Mathematics learning throughout the school and throughout the year. Enjoy!!! Junior Infants Seeing Patterns Senior Infants Threading Patterns First Class Fun with Shapes Second Class get Bee Botting around Third Class Weigh It All Up  The clothes collection finished this week.
A huge thank you to all who supported it! It was a great success. €465 was raised towards the purchase of play resources. Keep an eye out for the next collection in September! Parenting a child with extra needs can be rewarding, exhausting, challenging, frustrating, and heart warming. Did you know that there is support available? Click here for more information.
 Congratulations to the boys and girls from second and third class who received the sacrament of First Holy Communion at St. Mary's Church, Saggart on Sunday 22nd May 2016. The children prepared for the sacraments of First Penance and First Holy Communion during their After School Faith Formation class.
Today, the children of 2nd and 3rd class had a very special visitor come and talk to them about story-telling and story writing... and all from the comfort of their own classrooms! Martin Brennan, who goes by the pseudonym 'Edward Crane', is the author of the children's book trilogy The Havishams. When Martin was a young boy in school, he was influenced by authors such as Charles Dickens, Roald Dahl and J. R. Tolkien, and began putting his own imagination onto paper when he started reading these and other authors' stories! Martin explained to us that the more you read, the more you will be able to visualise exciting characters, plots and settings for your own stories! Not only did Martin give us some helpful hints and tips on how to write a good story (for example, he suggested that you should always write about something that is interesting to YOU) but, he also taught us about the process that goes into publishing a book! Thank you Martin (or should we say, Edward Crane!) for answering all of the questions we had about story writing! (The Havishams books are available to buy in our school at €10 per book) Last week our children in Junior Infants took a walk down to Saggart village to visit the Catholic Church there. This visit was a part of our ongoing project of visits to places of worship at all levels of the school. Earlier this year, the children of First Class visited a synagogue and the children from Second Class visited a mosque. These visits give the children an opportunity to see for themselves some of the aspects of each religion that we learn about in class. Breda, a parish worker at St. Mary's was very helpful and accommodating. She showed the children the different parts of the church. The children also had a chance to explore the church with their teacher, and there was even time for a picnic before heading back to school.
Thanks as well to the parent volunteers who helped out on the day. |
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