Dear Parent/Guardian,

Please find attached the following webinars-one aimed at parents and the other for both parents and students. This is good timing for our 3rd years in advance of their state exams and our other students who will be starting assessment week on those dates.

Hope you find them useful,

Lorraine

As HCETSS is a Smart Moves school, we are delighted to share with you information regarding our upcoming FREE online webinar series for parents/ carers and Young People around exam time and dealing with anxiety. On the night Bree O’ Neill, Digital Support Coordinator, Clinical Lead with the ISPCC will focus on:

• What is anxiety?
• Dealing with an anxious child
• Anxiety Management Tips & Tools
• Childline Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing programmes – support for young people and parents

Monday May 13th 7 - 8pm.

Exam Time & Anxiety - A webinar for parents/ carers

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 Tuesday May 14th 7-7.30pm

Exam Time & Anxiety - A webinar for YP aged 12+ & their parents/ carers

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 Registration is now open, and we would appreciate if you could share the above information and the attached leaflets promoting the webinar to your school community.

By clicking on the above links or the link on the leaflet you will be able to register for this webinar.

Dear parents/guardians, 

Todays book to film club is cancelled due to personal reasons.

Kind regards, School Office

Dear parents/guardians, The school office will be closed today.

Please contact us by email if necessary. Kind regards, Aleksandra

Dear parents/guardians, We are pleased to share with you our final Leaving Certificate 2025 Option Subject bands as follows:

Block 1

Art

PE

Politics & Society

Physics

Block 2

Business

Economics

Home Economics

Music

Block 3

Biology

Computer Science

History

Based on your children's previous subject preferences inputted via MS Forms, and using our option band creation sofware in Vsware, these option bands have been created to allow for the highest possible choices for the year group as a whole rather than for an individual student. We are delighted to say that 100% of students are in a position to select 2 out of their top 3 subject preferences. These option band formations are now final for 2024-2026.

We would greatly appreciate if you could, with the help of your child, select their subjects by 5.00pm on Thursday, May 2nd. To do this please log into Vsware and click on the tab that says 'options'. As we will be commencing timetabling for 2024-2025 on Friday 3rd May, please note that any students who have not selected subjects by Thursday 2nd May will be randomly placed into the option subjects.

Thank you.

Test your knowledge and have a blast on Thursday, April 25th at 7:00pm at Peggy Kelly's Pub for the PSA's Annual Pub Quiz and Raffle Event.

It's gonna be a night filled with fun, laughter, some friendly competition, and school fundraising. Don't miss out on this chance to win some awesome prizes! Grab your team, buy a table and get ready to quiz it up!

Don't forget to buy a Raffle ticket to be entered into a drawing for fabulous prizes!!! Can't make it? You can still be part of the fun by supporting our school and buying a Raffle Ticket that will enter you into the same drawing as the Pub Quiz attendees.

PUB QUIZ AND RAFFLE TICKET INFO:

Individual Ticket: €15 each

Table of 4 Attendees: €60 each

Raffle Ticket: €5 each

All Pub Quiz and Raffle Tickets can be purchased via the HCETSS App. Please enter your full name in the comments section of your purchase on the app.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Parents Staff Association

 Dear parents/guardians,

We were asked to pass on this information to you on behalf for Bus Éireann:

 As you are aware Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department of Education.  Applications for the next academic year are currently being received from parents.  

The local school transport office has concerns due to the decreased numbers that families have not yet enrolled their children and they could miss out in securing a seat on the school bus.

 Applications for School Transport for the new school year are currently open and can be accessed online at www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=522

• Details of the scheme are also available on Bus Éireann’s website and Department of Education’s website gov.ie/schooltransport.
• The closing date for NEW school transport applications is Friday 26th April 2024 – critical date, 2 weeks to go
• Existing school transport applications will automatically roll over into the new school year
• Payments or medical cards can be received up to Friday 7th June 2024

 Yours Sincerely,

School Transport Team, Bus Éireann

As discussed with all year groups in assemblies over the past week, the TY Mini Company Market will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) at the school. All students will have the opportunity to visit the market at some stage during the school day. There will be some fantastic products and services on offer which the students in TY have designed including sorbet, baked goods, second hand clothes etc. Please make sure your child brings cash if they would like to purchase any of the goods. 

Dear Parent, Guardian, Carer

We hope that this letter finds you all well. We are writing to update you on our permanent accommodation and seek your help in contacting local elected representatives to outline the need for the construction process to commence as soon as possible.

Recently, we were contacted by our patron, Educate Together to inform us that the tenders for our school have been opened, are being processed and that we should expect a decision mid 2024 with construction to commence very shortly after the contractor has been announced.

As you know, we were previously informed that we could expect a decision at the latest by the end of Quarter 1 2024 and construction to commence shortly thereafter. We are hugely frustrated with yet another delay and need your help.

We seek your support in contacting each of our local elected representatives (details attached) to highlight our concerns and ensure that there are no further delays. Please see attached proposed text.

In order to maximise the impact of our school’s communication, we ask that all emails/letters be sent on Monday 4th March 2024.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Padraig Conaty,

Principal/Secretary to Board of Management

Reminder - As per our calendar, the school will be closed on Monday 15.04  to facilitate Staff Planning Day. There are no after school clubs on that day.

Kind regards, School Office

Dear parents and guardians,  

 We would like to invite parent applications for the Parent Plus Adolescent Programme which we will be taking place on Thursday mornings from 8:30 - 11.00am in the school.

 The Parent plus programme is a 6-week course where you will learn about positive parenting and positive discipline. The Parent Plus course was developed by the Mater hospital and is an evidence-based programme. It is open to all parents/guardians of current students. We provide a supportive environment where participants can share parenting challenges while also building connections with other parents and guardians.

 Programme dates:

• session 1  - 11th of April
• session 2 - 18th of April
• session 3 - 25th of April
• session 4 - 2nd of May
• break for 2 weeks - 9th and 16th of May
• session 5 - 23rd of May
• session 6 - 30th of May

 If you are interested in participating in this programme, please contact: jennytynan@hcetss.ie

The programme is free of charge and will be offered on a first come first serve basis.

I look forward to hearing from those interested,

Jenny Tynan