Newsletter
27 10 2023
4th class
Good afternoon everyone,
What great excitement we had today trialling the first parade in our new building. It worked a treat and as one child said at the end ‘it was such fun!’ A big thank you to the parents and guardians for the spectacular display of costumes.
I hope all you all have a lovely mid-term break.
We return to school on Monday , November 6th
Library Committee
The newly selected Library Committee met this week to discuss the future of our school library space. The students came to the meeting full of enthusiasm and brimming with ideas. We discussed the process of designing the space, hiring furniture makers, budgets and book grants. We walked through the new library space and discussed layouts, measurements and finally agreed on a theme for the design. Watch this space!
GAA Blitz October 26th
The weather Gods shone on us on Thursday for our mini-Blitz in TUDublin. The event was organised to round off our Gaelic Football season. Both teams were amalgamated creating four teams representing the 4 provinces. In a very eagerly contested competition, the Connaught team ran out winners in the end, without the assistance of their coach Niamh who had to take her class to their swimming lessons. There was never more than two scores between any of the teams and there were some very impressive displays from all of the teams. The low scoring was a tribute to some excellent defensive work and our goalkeepers were on their game, pulling off some excellent stops. It was a nice way to wrap up this season and we can look forward to the hurling starting up again in springtime. Thanks to our loyal supporters who were out in force once more and congrats to all the participants for contributing to an enjoyable afternoon of football.
Arlene, Niamh, Michael & Padraig
Community Garden
Both second classes enjoyed a quick de-tour on their Maths Hunt this week to look at the community garden – where we will have the opportunity to plant later in the year.
Dublin 7 ETNS have been invited to have two sections of the community garden on the Grangegorman Campus (down by the Pear trees). All classes will have the opportunity to do planting there.
Before we buy more tools for our planting we just wanted to see if any families had tools to donate. We are looking for:
- large watering cans
- hand trowels (metal)
- hand forks (metal)
If you have any to donate to the school, please leave them with Celine in the office.
Inclusion and Integration week 6th-12th November 2023
Beatrice Casserly from Dublin City Council got in touch with us to see if we would like to participate in a kite making workshop as part of Inclusion and Integration week which takes place from 6th-12th November, 2023. This week highlights all the good work taking part throughout Dublin city on a weekly basis by Statutory Agencies, NGOs, Community Groups, Sports Clubs, Volunteers and others. One of DCC’s Flag Ship events this year will take place on the Grangegorman Campus at St Laurence’s church on Monday 6th November. The event is called “Kindness is a light in the Darkness” and will focus on Inclusion. DCC are hoping to have between 200-500 people attend. Our children from 3rd – 6th have made hand make and personalised kites in their workshop and will be invited to the event on the first Monday back at school. Parents can accompany them as it is after school as it is taking place after school. Everyone will release their kites at this event. I will let you know more about this on Monday November 6th. The children who attended the GAA blitz did not get a chance to make their kite yesterday. However, they will have an opportunity to do so on the Monday, 6th.
John Lavery Exhibition by Vera and Holly
Veronica’s 5th class went to the National Gallery of Ireland on Wednesday. We went to see the John Lavery exhibition. First, we saw paintings about his family and his favourite places. We learned about his life and his paintings. We saw this painting of his first daughter, in the painting you can see it’s very windy. The girl is wearing a white dress and a red ribbon around it. She is holding her hat and there is a steamboat in the background. John Lavery was very interested in nature and water and he loved creating big paintings.
John was born on 20th March 1856. He died on 10th January 1941. He lost his father at the age of three, and when his mother died shortly afterwards, he was sent to Scotland to live with relatives. Some of the paintings we saw will get sent to Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then to where they were originally painted in Glasgow, Scotland. John’s paintings were sketched with paint, then he finished them after he had an idea of what he wanted to paint. He explored many different painting styles and always wanted to follow the latest trend. A lot of his paintings were very detailed, his art was fantastic. We had a lot of fun at the gallery, our guide was very kind and she told us about the paintings and their background.
Thank you Vera and Holly.
Have a lovely midterm break,
Fionnuala