All students had the priviledge of hearing professor Colm Byrne from the Royal Irish Academy of Music perform a range of music on trumpet, cornet, and piccolo trumpet.

Professor Byrne received a warm welcome and rapturous applause from our enthusastic students.  This is the last chance for you to sign your child up for cut price lessons with some of the best musicains working in Ireland today.

If you are interested and have not already filled in an expression of interest, please do so without delay here and before Tuesday October 18th.

This is an opportunity not to be missed.

Goatstown ETSS

Third Year students will require the following exam papers from next week:

Core Subject List:

Science - Educate
Maths - Edco (for the level they are currently studying)
History - Edco
Geography - Edco
Spanish - Edco

Note: Do not buy exam papers for English and Irish as of yet. Further communication will follow over the coming weeks.

Option Subject List:

Home Economics - Edco
Music - Edco
Applied Tech - Edco
Graphics - Edco
Music - Edco

All above subjects are common level, except for Maths (Irish and English). 

Please note that for Science we are asking that you purchase the Educate publisher version and for all other subjects the Edco publisher version.

Easons currently have them in stock or alternatively they can be purchased from all school book stores online.

Kind regards

Goatstown ETSSect 

Your timetable for the Parent Teacher Meeting on Tuesday October 18th at the school is now available via the PTM system.  

Please log back into the PTM system and enter your child's VSware ID number to access the timetable.

Please note that each teacher meeting should take no longer than 5 minutes.  The meeting is intended to provide a brief overview of academic attainment in the subjects that your child will take for the Junior Cycle examinations. If you need to talk to someone in detail about a concern of any kind then please make an appointment to see one of us by emailing the relevant teacher or contacting the office. 

The Berlin Information Meeting will commence in the school hall at 18:20.  There will be tea/coffee available.

Kind regards

Goatstown ETSS

A reminder that today is the last day to register your attendance at the Third Year parent teacher meeting. Original notification with all the information on how to register is below:

The Third Year parent teacher meeting is scheduled for Tuesday October 18th from 16:15 to 18:30 in the school hall.(The Berlin information meeting will follow after this.)

Overview:

The Parent Teacher meeting is intended to provide a brief overview of academic attainment in the subjects that your child will take for the Junior Cycle examinations. If you need to talk to someone in detail about a concern of any kind then please make an appointment to see one of us by emailing the relevant teacher or contacting the office. Due to the size of the year group we expect that you should be able to meet all of your teacher preferences.

What we need you to do:

To allow us to issue a personalised timetable we require that you log on to the PT meeting organiser system  and confirm your availability by entering your preferences. Enter 1 beside the teacher you would most like to see, 2 beside the next teacher and so on. If you do not wish to meet with a particular teacher, leave that number as 0.

When you have finished, click ‘I will attend the meeting, please save my preferences' 

Alternatively, if you are unable to attend the meeting, please log in and select option ‘I am unable to attend the meeting’.

Also note you can amend the parent arrival/departure time on the system, please remember that if you arrive at a later time the number of teachers you will be scheduled to meet may be impacted.

Please complete this step by no later than Tuesday, October 11th.  We cannot issue the timetable to the full year group until everyone has completed this step. 

Log in details:

To access the PTM system, a student ID is required. This is your child's VSware ID code. 

For ease of access your child has been given this number in their school journal today, alternatively you can access this number via VSware.

You can also log in directly from the school website, you will find the PTM organiser under the section Parent Area.

Next Steps:

The schedule of appointments will issue/be available for viewing when all preferences have been entered by the parent year group.  We will contact you again when your timetable is available but this will be no later than Friday, October 14th.

Feedback/Improvements:

We have listened to your feedback from last year and we hope that having the meeting in person at the school, providing your child with the VSware ID and opening the PTM system further in advance will make this a better experience for everyone.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the office.

Kind regards

Goatstown ETSS

Please note that football will not take place after school today.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Goatstown ETSS

Dear First Year Parents/Guardians/Carers

As part of the HSE Secondary School Immunisation Programme, your child has been given an envelope today with information on the Vaccines HPV, Tdap and Men ACWY along with a consent form.  Please note that you must complete this form in full whether you are consenting or refusing. Completed forms should be returned to school tomorrow.

Further information is also available on the HSE website here.

Kind regards

Goatstown ETSS