Year: 2014

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Parents’ Information Evening Resources

Many thanks to all who attended last nights presentation here in school.It was a really informative, thought provoking and interesting evening!

A special word of thanks to our speakers Maureen McEntire and Caroline Sweeney for their excellent presentations.

Please find below links, materials and suggestions from last evenings talks.

Nutrition

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x84x2z0qw28d8j5/AADhTLLSRFvWT9Vm-_p__ia-a

Please copy and paste this link into your browser and you will find interesting resources in a dropbox folder.

Another super website that Maureen recommended is www.fooodforthebrain.org

Internet Safety

www.ictarscoil.com

In particular on this site please examine the

Internet Safety Videos
Internet Safety Tips for Parents
Cyberbullying Tips
Parental Controls

All are worth a visit!

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Parents’ Evening: Healthy Eating / Internet Safety

We have a very exciting evening planned this coming Wednesday 14th May, when two excellent speakers will address our parent body on the important and topical areas of healthy eating and internet safety.

The evening will begin at 8 p.m. sharp in our 5th and 6th class room. It promises to be most informative and worthwhile.

We hope that all our parents/guardians make every effort to attend.
We look forward to meeting you all !

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School Teams Progress to County Quarter Finals

Both our Boys and Girls school teams progressed this afternoon to the County Quarter Finals of Cumann na mBunscol defeating Scoil Iosa Carrcastle in our area finals.

The final scores were
Boys
St. Attracta’s 6-8
Scoil Íosa 3-8

Girls
St. Attracta’s 5-7
Scoil Íosa 3-2

THE games were closely fought with great performances on both sides. A special word of thanks to John Burke who refereed both the games and the boys and girls of Carracastle for two very sporting and enjoyable games.

After Mr.Bracken of Carracastle presented the area shields to our captains for the afternoon Evan Carney and Leanne Duffy.

Next up for our Boys is a County Quarter Final v Midfield N.S. and the Girls a Quarter Final against Meelick N.S.

Both games will take place next week in Swinford Amenity Park with the date yet to be decided.

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Connaught Ladies G.A.A. Programme begins in St. Attracta’s.

Our school was very fortunate this afternoon to begin a coaching programme with Connaught G.A.A. Development Officer Noelle Gormley.

This programme operates in conjunction with Charlestown Ladies G.A.A. A number of club members, mentors and coaches were present to help and encourage the girls who really enjoyed the first of this five week programme.

It is a great link between the club and our school, affording the girls the opportunity to practice their skills and have great fun!

A special word of thanks to Noelle, club organisers Patricia Ruane and Tom McLaughlin, and of course our coaches Bernadette Durkin, Sarah Duffy, Emma Jane Buckley, Fidelma McHale, Richella O’Connor, Karena Finn and Maureen McEntire.

We are really appreciative of the opportunity to participate in this wonderful programme.

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Dulux Ireland:Let’s Colour Project

Please help us to win much needed paint for the back of our school. We have entered the Dulux Lets Colour Project for 2014 and we need your votes and the votes of all your friends to win.

This is a Facebook competition and votes can only be registered from the Dulux Ireland Facebook page. Further details of this competition can be found at www.letscolour.ie. You can vote everyday up to the closing date at midnight on June 1st.

Please click on the link below,select Community Project and as of this post, St. Attracta’s entry is on page 2, bottom left corner and click vote.

Well done to all our enthusiastic children (3rd-6th) who participated in the video. Excellent poetry!

However,, we still need your vote to win so please take a few moments to vote and to share the link with all your friends and help us win some much needed paint!

Thank you as always for your time and continued support.

https://www.facebook.com/DuluxIreland?sk=app_131558967051694&app_data

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Summer Works Scheme Approval

We were delighted over the past number of days to learn that our application for the Summer Works Scheme has been approved.Our successful application is for roof repairs.

Please find a letter of confirmation from Deputy John O’Mahony below.

Further details will follow.

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An Chéad Comaoineach Naofa

Comhghairdeas mór le Rang a 2 a fuair an Chéad Comaoineach Naofa
ar an Satharn 2ú Bealtaine. Bhí sibh ar fheahas !

Well done to our Second Class who on Saturday last made their First Holy Communion in St. James’ Church Charlestown. It was a lovely afternoon. The church looked amazing. For this we must say a special word of thanks to Mrs McCafferty and her son Joseph who as always put so much work into our sacramental preparation.

The children added so much to the ceremony with their beautiful reading, singing, responses and movements throughout the mass. Mrs Reilly can be so proud of each of you. We really hope you had a lovely afternoon and weekend after all your hard work.

A special word of thanks also to the parents of our Second Class students who presented Mrs.Reilly and Mrs.McCafferty with beautiful flowers as a token of their appreciation for all their hard work. It was a lovely gesture.

Thank you to Elaine Madden for her beautiful singing and music throughout the ceremony, again as with the children it added so much to our day.

Finally we could not forget Fr.Doherty and Fr.Johnston who played such a special role in the children’s Communion day. They both have worked so hard helping the children prepare for this day. We are as always so appreciative of their support.

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Aviva Health FAI Primary Schools 5’s

This Friday the 2nd of May Rang 5/6 will take part in the Aviva Health FAI Primary Schools 5’s in Milebush Park in Castlebar.

The children will leave the school by bus at 9.00 a.m.sharp and return when their competition’s concludes. We don’t expect this to go beyond the school day, however if this happens to be the case we will send a text out to inform of the late return and time the children can be collected.

Boys and girls will need playing gear, football boots, runners (for AstroTurf pitch), rain jacket or coat, drinks and lunch.

Our Girls team are in Group 7 alongside
Mountpleasant
Charlestown
Gortjordan

Their fixtures are as follows on Pitch 5
10.00 Charlestown V Mountpleasant
12.00 Charlestown v Gortjordan
12.45 Quarter Final v Winners of Group 8 if Successful

Our Boys team are in Group 8 alongside on Pitch 2
Kilmaine
Meelickmore
Charlestown

Their fixtures are..
11:15:00 Kilmaine vs Charlestown
12:15:00 Meelickmore vs Charlestown
12:45:00 Quarter Final v Winner 7 If successful .

Again they must top their group to progress.

We wish both teams every success!

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Reopening of our School Pitch

Today saw our children play on our new school pitch for the first time. They have been so patient over the past number of months waiting expectantly to get out on the grass!!

Over the Easter break the goalposts were put into place. Sincere thanks to Ciarán McBrien, Joe Lenehan, Marty Fleming , Owen Callaghan and all at Charlestown GAA for their help and assistance.

Finally and perhaps most importantly a special word of thanks to Kieran Durkin who has invested so much time, energy and interest into ensuring our playing field was ready for all the children to use. It really is a credit to his hard work and enthusiasm.

It is a resource which we are delighted and fortunate to have!