Since announcing the 'Our School Rocks' initiative we have had a great response from our wonderful community!

Take a look here at some of the super creations we have received!

Some really great advice from the Arguello Pitt family!

What a beautiful rainbow received from the Schnittger family!

Here's a lovely variety of sizes and shapes with beautiful colours from the Murphy family!

We like this suggestion! Thanks to the Kwasnik family for these gorgeous rocks.

Some really beautiful colours on these rocks sent in by the Boitan family, they really made us smile!

The Mikolajczyk family reminding us to stay positive with their great selection of uplifting messages and silly faces! 

Great work from Maja Kubiczek, sending us this large selection of beautifully coloured rocks with lovely messages!

The Murphy family sent us these fun repurposed garden slabs. Great idea guys!

The Doran family sent in this beautifully coloured rock with a lovely message for everyone!

The Dooley family sent in this very creative selection of smiley faces and we agree, CETNS is cool!
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Keep them coming everyone!

Custom rocks have been popping up in local communities, including at our own school gates. This is a fun, simple idea that can be done easily with children young and old! We are inviting families in our school to create their own rocks and upload a photograph of them to the school website so we can display these creations. Typically people place their rocks around the community for others to see. However, we are suggesting something a little bit different. We invite you to hold on to your rocks and when then time comes for us to come back together in school we will bring our rocks back and look at how we might use them around our campus as a memorial to these times. When this time comes, we will invite suggestions from our community as to how best we might use them!

How to make your rock creation:
- Pick a rock or stone
- Rinse off any mud/muck
- Once dry you can use paint, nail varnish, markers, crayons to customise
- Seal your rock - this prevents washable paints/markers from washing away when put out. You can use PVA glue, clear nail varnish or even clear varish that you may have.
- Most importantly, have fun!

We look forward to seeing your creations!

We are all truly devastated at the news today that we did not win patronage of the secondary school for Citywest & Saggart.
We were always up against it but we fought long and hard to even get a secondary school for our area in the first place and we could not be more proud and grateful to each and every one of our amazing supporters over the past 5 years ❤️
More information can be found here:
https://www.education.ie/…/2019-press-rele…/PR19-12-17a.html

Huge thank you to Klaudia for another of her wonderful art & crafts workshops. Families were invited for the afternoon to prepare some beautiful ornaments and decorations for the upcoming holidays. We look forward to the next one!

Date: Thursday 17th October
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Events: Parents' Association AGM and Election of Parents to the Board of Managment

Please join us at our AGM and find out all about the events the PA were involved in over the past 12 months and plans for the upcoming year.

Elections will be held for two PA positions - Chairperson and Secretary as Joanne Smith and Liz Murphy will be stepping down.

The Board of Management are also seeking two parent nominees, one male and one female for the coming term of the Board of Management.

As you all are aware by now , a new secondary school will open in Citywest in 2020, following many years of hard work and dedication by parents, students and staff in our school community. The patronage of this new school will now be decided by an Online Patronage Process System (OPPS) where Parents/Guardians will get to vote for their preferred patron to run this school. Please see the information below on how to vote:

• Get your child/children’s PPS numbers and your eircode to hand.
• Go to: http://bit.ly/VoteETCitywestSaggart
• Follow the instructions and make sure to #VoteEducateTogether

The vote is open to all children in the defined geographic area of the Tallaght and Rathcoole/Newcastle School Districts, between 2nd to 6th Class, with parents getting one vote per child, voting will take place from 9th September to 4th October 2019. This is a unique, historical opportunity for you to shape the future of our wonderfully diverse and vibrant community.
We cannot stress enough how important it is to use your vote!!
Thank you for your time and most importantly for making the choice for real equality based education for the whole community!
#VoteEducateTogether