Last week the Nursery walked over to the local Post Office in Spar to post a very important letter to the North Pole. Our sincere thanks to Grainne and Co for their warm welcome and for very kindly giving each child a selection box , the children were delighted. The speed of the postal service was extraordinarily fast because when we returned to the Nursery the presents we had asked for from Santa had magically appeared under the tree. This surprise caused huge excitement, our thanks to those that made the purchase of the toys possible. We look forward to lots of fun in the New Year with our new resources.
Christmas would not be Christmas without our annual Nursery Nativity play. We have gone virtual for a second year now, we really hope you enjoy the performance as much as we enjoyed making it . Congratulations to our three and four year old superstars, we are very proud of you and your hard work.https://youtu.be/gi9WoCA7oHE
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P5 have been lucky enough to have the opportunity of learning the African Drums for the past 4 weeks. They enjoyed every minute of it and a big thank you goes out to Jimmy and Austin. Thank you for everything, especially playing the fun drumming games! The class loved them. Lots of future drummers in this class!
A big “Thank You” to David Rushe for visiting Primary 5 yesterday to discuss the importance of fire safety. The children learnt so much about the rules regarding charging electric devices, the safety needed with matches and what to do / who to call, in the case of a fire. All the fire alarms in our homes will be checked this weekend.
We at St Mary’s wish to extend a sincere welcome back for our new school year 2021/22 and hope to continue with a very positive outlook for the months ahead, despite the persistence of the COVID-19 virus which remains with us.
Strategies adopted by the school have served us well and we can see no reason to abort the established routines and practices that we had in place prior to the summer holidays.
The arrangements planned for other schools and the multiple press releases from Ministers may have created some confusion. Each school is different in size, space, resources and staffing. We all have our unique features and specific concerns as to how our school can best manage a current or future situation. Our Procedures are:
School Day
To reduce congestion in the morning and afternoons we will have four drop-off and pick-up points: Family Groups should all enter together through the entry point assigned to the youngest family member.
Drop Off Points
Nursery car park for a Nursery child and older siblings
Front of the school for Year 1& 2 children and older siblings
Main School Car Park for Year 3 & 4 children and older siblings
Ti Chulainn Car Park where children can enter school grounds at the green house entrance for Years 5, 6 and 7 (and were applicable older siblings.)
We are asking children to come into school between 8.45 am and 9.15 am. This should allow the children to filter into school.
Pick Up Points:
Home times and Pick-up Points are as follows:
Siblings exiting school at the SAME home time should exit via the allocated exit for the youngest family member.
Nursery 1:30 pm via Nursery Car Park
Years 1 & 2 2 pm via Front Door
Year 3 2 pm via Main School Car Park
Years 4 & 5 3 pm via Main Front Door
Years 6 & 7 3 pm via Ti Chulainn Car Park
Classes will operate in Social bubbles as far as possible.
Dinner times will remain as normal. Only those taking school dinners will eat in the Dining Hall, where pupils will be seated in their class bubbles.
Normal procedures for Nursery dinners will remain, where Nursery pupils will be served dinner in their own Classroom.
Break times and lunchtimes will be arranged in a manner to ensure that children are playing together in their Social Bubbles in the playground. Each Bubble will be assigned a separate play area.
We will continue to insist that children wash their hands at key times in the school day, i.e.when they come in, at break-time, before/after lunchtime and before home-time.
Pupils uniform, school bags and homework
Pupils can attend school in full school uniform or PE kit. They should NOT bring in school bags but should take in a pencil case with their own materials, e.g. pens, pencils, a rubber, sharpener, Pritt Stick, colourings etc (this excludes P1’s). Pencil Cases will remain in school. Pupils cannot be sharing their equipment with others.
Pupils should bring in a packed lunch in a small bag and a water bottle.
There will be no homework issued during the month of September.
Cash handling in school
Any payments should be placed in a sealed envelope and submitted to the class teacher by your child.
Visitors/parents to the school
We will maintain the policy of no visitors/parents permitted into the school until further notice.
School dinners.All payments should be made on the first day of the week.
After school clubs and activities
The After School Club will run as normal. Please book a place in advance by contacting the School Office.
There will be no other “After School Activities”, during September, the situation will be reviewed at the end of the month.
School buses
Buses will be running from the beginning of September.
On World Autism Awareness Day we would like to give a big shout out to all our wonderful children with Autism. We treasure your valuable insight into the world and the joy you bring to the classroom. To the families of Autistic children, we see everyday what a brilliant job you are doing. Thank you for allowing us the pleasure of getting to know your child. We hope you have a very special day.
Kind regards from the whole school community.
We hope you enjoyed our Masked Readers yesterday, the competition between the staff caused great excitement and lots of laughs.
The staff member who got all the readers correct within the shortest time was:
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🌟. Mrs O’Hagan 🌟. Well done.
The readers were as follows:
1. Miss C. Crawley.
2. Miss N. Murphy
3. Mrs K. Nolan
4. Mr. P. McDonnell
5. Miss K. McArdle
6. Mrs P. Byrne
7. Mr P. McCoy
8.Mrs L.O’Hagan
9. Miss P. Mulkearns
10. Miss E. McCann.
Let us know how you got on. We hope you enjoyed it and thank you for your participation.
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