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No Homeworks
Created : 01 Feb 2021, 2:49 PM
Archived : 02 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
There were an extraordinary amount of no homeworks yesterday. Would parents/guardians please check their son's homework. This can be done in the Behaviour tab on Vsware. Thank you
CAO Reminder
Created : 01 Feb 2021, 1:19 PM
Archived : 01 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
A reminder to those 6th years applying to the CAO. The CAO closes today at 17:15pm today. The CAO change of mind will reopen on the 5th of May so do not panic if you are not 100% about your course choices. Please make contact with your guidance counsellor if you have an questions. See attached the timeline of important dates.
1st year baking
Created : 01 Feb 2021, 11:15 AM
Archived : 01 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
Well done to Ms Lannon’s first year home Ec class who got into the kitchen and did some baking last week!! The results look delicious! Keep up the hard work lads! And don’t forget Ms Murphy is still looking for entries for her bake off!!
Happy St. Brigids Day
Created : 01 Feb 2021, 11:10 AM
Archived : 01 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
Happy St. Brigids Day to our school community. Attached is an activity to get you out into the fresh air and look for rushes to make your own St. Brigids Day cross.
TY Young Social Innovators selected to compete in the YSI Den
Created : 01 Feb 2021, 10:57 AM
Archived : 01 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
The YSI Team have been selected to compete in the YSI Den. The team will pitch their YSI projects (Fight for Sight) to a panel of local and national representatives with the hopes of securing funding and/or mentor ship for carrying out their project. The Den will take place next Wednesday (10th). Best of luck to all the lads involved!
Today is the first day of Spring, let us make this day a new beginning for us all.....
Created : 31 Jan 2021, 10:55 PM
Archived : 01 Apr 2021, 12:00 AM
As Principal, I thought I should provide some direction on this day, the first day of Spring. If you, as a parent consider this relevant for your son, please share it with him. If not, that’s fine too. To me, Spring is the start of HOPE, and by God, we need HOPE this morning. Thank you for reading. Today, February 1st, is the first day of Spring. We have had a long year, a long winter and a long lockdown. We are tired, fed up, angry, fearful, worried. We need to pick ourselves up and rejuvenate ourselves, not because there is going to be a miracle at the end of the week, but because each of us has our own mind, no matter how old or young we are. We do manage our minds, even when we find them difficult to live with. How so you ask? We filter what goes into it, what we view, what we listen to and what we dream of. Even if we’re not aware of it. Sometimes our choices are poor and damaging to our mental health. During the winter darkness it is easy to allow darkness into our minds and let it dictate our moods. Today, more than ever before, we all need to make a conscious effort to look around us, look for the early daffodils, the delicate snowdrops, the longer stretch in the evening, that beautiful sound of the birds twittering on the air. They have inspired generations before us who have also had their dark days, their wars, their plagues and hardships. They can do the same for us on this dark Monday morning, if we allow them to. We are tired, we have little certainty. Plans have been cancelled, jobs have been lost, lives have been lost, people are separated and nobody knows how to start providing us with a new plan either. Yet these flowers, these little animals of the wood and grassland, they have a plan. They are following their plan to the 'T', and yet they aren’t even aware of it. They are not wasting their time fighting on the airwaves, the TV, social media, etc. about who is right and who is wrong. We are exhausted listening to that because it hasn’t gotten us out of this new Covid-19 world which seems to have taken us over. Like you, I am tired too. Sit still too long and we can become afraid, because we have lost control. But we never had much control anyway, did we? Tragedies, accidents, sickness always happen, when we least expect them, and overcome us for a period. I have no answers for you this morning, but I think as a school leader I should try to point out that we can look outside ourselves (and outside social media) and seek some inspiration today for the weeks ahead, in the beauty around us. Open our eyes to the plan of nature, which even Covid cannot disrupt. Because it hasn’t, has it? Life has ALWAYS gone on. Nature is still following its own plan. New nests, new dens, returning migrations, bulbs breaking through the soil through the old branches of last year, they are new life. Any parent will acknowledge there is nothing in this world as beautiful as a new life appearing into this world, harsh as it is. Whether it be a newborn baby, a newly dropped calf, a litter of pups, buds bursting open into flowers – they always bring a smile to our whole being, not just our face. So, we MUST take this opportunity this week to look for the new life, the new plans in the making for new wildlife, the farmers ploughing the earth and the birds flying overhead to catch the earthworms. WHY MUST WE? Because we are coming to the end of our own devices, of ways to keep going, of new ways to find positivity. But NATURE is here to our rescue this day, look around, breath it in, keep an eye out for daily changes, SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE. This world is bigger than ourselves, and after 11 months we need to look outside ourselves. The world has turned for millions of years, we are not the first casualties. Technology allows us things your grandparents and my parents didn’t have to keep in contact with their loved ones. This morning look outside your window, go for a walk, notice the time it gets dark this evening, open the window and listen to the birds in the morning, look at the flowerbeds for new life, wait a few weeks and see the fresh green of new buds on the trees. Is this going to get you a Junior or Leaving Cert? Unless you also study, no. Will it widen your perspective on the world you live in? Yes. Will it improve your view on your own life? Yes because you will realise you are part of something bigger than you and it will carry you along. Will it harm you in any way? Definitely not. Try it, take a deep breath and smell the new spring. We are part of Nature; don’t think we are not part of the Cycle of Life. And let that cycle give you a new rhythm -which never falters or stops. Fall in with it and make short term goals which can be attained by you. Aim for them. Don’t let the media and other negative wizards throw you off. There will be a plan, and as best as we as a school can provide one for you, we will keep going for you. Take care, have a good and a positive week. Let’s all aim for “better than last week”. Good luck to us all! MM
Letter from the Department of Education for Principals, Parents and Teachers
Created : 29 Jan 2021, 2:17 PM
Archived : 29 Mar 2021, 12:00 AM
We have been issued with the attached letter today from the Department of Education which summarises the supports, resources and information available to school principals, parents and teachers. You will find links to guidance information, support for parents of students with special educational needs, remote learning, digital safety when spending time online, student wellbeing, support for traveller parents, subject specific resources etc. I hope you find them useful in the coming weeks of remote learning. Have a nice weekend. MM

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UPDATE - Payment of 3rd & 6th Year Mock Fees
Created : 28 Jan 2021, 1:01 PM
Archived : 28 Mar 2021, 12:00 AM
Mock Fees may be paid, in up to 2 instalments,, on the school App. The total cost of both the LC and of the JC is €113. We prefer not to take cash or cheque into the office, as do other businesses at this time, Please pay online if at all possible. The payments can be found on the school App as follows: Open App, click on 3 lines on top left, on that list select Shop, then choose School Payment. If you have never made a payment on this App or are using a different card, you may have to add the card under Manage Payment Methods. If you cannot find SHOP on your App, it is probably because you are set up as a Student and not as a Parent. If you have this or any other problem, do not ring our office, but email Unique App and they will sort your issue themselves. Their email is: support@uniqueschools.ie . Please give your phone number and the email which is on your son's file here in school. It is through this information that you are verified on the App as a parent. Thank you and apologies for any confusion which may be around. MM
REMINDER - 5th Year Option Forms
Created : 23 Mar 2021, 10:43 PM
Archived : 27 Mar 2021, 12:00 AM
Many 3rd years and TY students have not yet submitted the 5th Year Option Forms. These can only be completed through the parent's app. Each day reminders are being sent out, but the forms are very slow to come back in. There are many sources of information available to you regarding Senior subjects, whether to do LCVP or not, what subjects need to be chosen together to qualify for LCVP, etc. Most are available on this App, and also on the school's website. Notices have been put on this app during the last week telling you where to find this information. Scroll back through the Notifications. Also, more importantly, please notice that when you open to the Notification page on the App, you will see Personal Notification and Attention Please at the bottom. Click on the personal notification and you are taken to the Subject Links - that is all the subjects information you could possibly wish to have. Click on the Attention Please and you come to the Option Form itself. Please submit it by Friday. Thank you. MM
Congratulations!!
Created : 27 Jan 2021, 5:59 PM
Archived : 27 Mar 2021, 12:00 AM
Congratulations to Dean Winters and James White who have been awarded the Trinity College Dublin Entrance Exhibition Award. The boys achieved the award as the incoming student with the highest points from their Leaving Certificate exams from our school. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the college held the ceremony online this year. Both students are studying Physics. We wish them all the best in their future studies and congratulations once again to the boys and their families.