Here is a selection of our Junior and Senior Infants make Christmas Cookies with Ms.Connaghan.
The children has great fun baking and enjoying these delicious treats!
They even gave some to all the teachers for being so good!
Nollaig shona agus beannachtaí na hathbhliana daoibh! There is a great buzz around the school with all the children preparing for our Christmas concert. Below are this evening’s arrangements. We would really appreciate if you could follow these for the smooth running of the event.
Arrangements for our Christmas Concert
| Jnr/Snr | Ms.Delaneys |
| 1st/2nd | Ms.Sloyans |
| 3rd/4th | Mr.Rushe |
| 5th /6th | Mrs.Reilly’s 2nd Class |
NB: All our children have seen the dress rehearsal yesterday so they will not be allowed into the hall tonight as spectators. This is for safety reasons.
Here’s hoping for a great night! Sincere thanks to our Parents Association who are manning the door and organising the raffle.Entry is €5 and tickets can be purchased at €2 or €5 for a bunch of 3.
On Monday morning Maura Lyons Programme Manager of Leave No Trace Ireland visited 5th and 6th Class.
Leave No Trace is an Outdoor Ethics Education Programme and compliments the work we are doing for the Discovery Primary Science Exhibition early in the New Year.
Maura’s workshop examined the principles of leave no trace,focusing on ensuring when we visit places of beauty that we make it hard for others to see or hear us and ensuring that we leave no trace of our visit.It concluded with a detailed discussion of places of natural beauty in Ireland that we have visited and impacted positively on us and areas that have left less of an impact on us as visitors.
We used an interesting casestudy in Croagh Patrick and examined the impact of so many climbing this mountain and the results this is having.
We really enjoyed Maura’s visit and look forward to welcoming Leave No Trace back in the New Year to work with some of our younger students in our school grounds.
Finally a special word of thanks to John Carney from our Parent Association who organised this mornings event.
In the coming week we will have a group photo of all our students who have been fortunate to chosen so far this year, however we will start this week with our Students of the Week for this week ending December 13th.
A final word to those who have yet to get there ‘There is always next week’!
Firstly we hope you enjoy a selection of the Christmas Art that can be found throughout our school at present!
St.Attracta’s is a hive of activity in preparation for our Christmas Concert on Wednesday next the 18th of November. All classes are busy rehearsing their plays and musical pieces for what promises to be a fantastic night! The following are the titles of the pieces for our concert…
Junior and Senior Infants:Medley of Christmas songs
First Class:Scarecrows Christmas
Second Class: Hosanna Rock
Third/Fourth Class:Christmas for Aliens
Fifth/Sixth Class: Scrooge N.T.
A note will go out to all the children on Tuesday about the arrangements for the evening.As always we will ask for your support in assisting with the smooth running of events, this will be detailed on the aforementioned note.
Finally a word of thanks to all who attended and participated in the Parish Carol Service. It really was a lovely celebration and a special Parish event.
Congratulations to Millie Pilcher in Mr.Rushe’s Third and Fourth Class who last weekend swam in the Connaught Minor Schools Championships in Leisureland Galway. Millie swam in two events the Backstroke and the Freestyle recording fantastic times. This was the first time our school has had a representative in the finals and we are so proud of Millie’s efforts.
Millie swims with Claremorris Swimming Club and trains three times each week. Well done Millie!
The annual Parish Christmas Carol Service will take place in St. James’ Church this Wednesday evening at 7.00 p.m.
The children have been asked to be present for 6.40 p.m. at the latest.
Junior and Senior Infants who will be angels on the night have been asked to dress in a white t-shirt/shirt with some tinsel as headwear. There is no need to go any expense, something very simple will suffice.
1st to 6th are asked to wear their full school uniform and bring a Santa Hat along if they have one. Again if not, that’s fine also.
We look forward to what is always a special evening in the Parish!
Creating a positive atmosphere in St.Attracta’s is central to what we do. We believe that children learn best in an atmosphere of respect and positive reinforcement. As a result we celebrate the achievements of the children each week at assembly. Our students strive hard for the accolade of ‘Student of the Week’ and in turn work hard to achieve it!
In the coming week we will have a group photo of all our students who have been fortunate to chosen so far this year, however we will start this week with our Students of the Week for this week ending December 6th.
A final word to those who have yet to get there ‘There is always next week’!
5th and 6th Class have resumed Spikeball in the CBD Complex. They are currently on Week 2 of their training in preparation for the local and area Spikeball competition’s which will be held in the New Year. The boys and girls are being coached by four Transition Year students from St. Joseph’s Secondary school over a six week block.
We thank Aoife,Ciara,Jennifer and Jennifer for all their help!
