When ordering on our app canteen service, please ensure that you check the day/date you are ordering for to avoid disappointment by ordering for incorrect days.

Many thanks.

Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),

If your child in 3rd year or TY is progressing to 5th year 2023-24, please follow the steps below to enter their subject preferences.  Please note that this process is best completed on a laptop/PC as there are issues regarding retention of options if they are entered on a mobile phone.  If you have entered preferences using a mobile phone, please re-enter them using a laptop/PC.

Dear Parent(s) / Guardian(s)

Foróige have approached the school about running a 6 week Drug and Alcohol Education and Prevention Project aimed at current 1st and 2nd year students.  

This is essentially a personal development programme that focuses on facilitating activities to educate young people on smoking, alcohol and drugs whilst also focusing on increasing young people's communication and decision-making skills. It aims to give young people factual information in order to dispel myths surrounding drugs & alcohol and to challenge their attitudes and opinions with regards to substance use. The programme is facilitated in a fun and interactive manner for students with lots of group activities, discussions, quizzes etc. Further information on the programme can be viewed in the attached document. 

The programme is free of charge and would run for one hour after school beginning on Wednesday 22nd February.  Therefore parents would need to be available to collect their child from school at 5pm. 

If you would like your child to attend please complete the interest form at the link below before Tuesday 7th February.  If there is enough interest, parental consent forms will be sent out for completion.  

https://forms.gle/5353rVuyYQFpYmrc9

Kind Regards

Fiona McNamee

The very best of luck to the Junior Boys Gaa team in their semi final againist Ballygar tomorrrow (Friday) after school. The game is on in the Connacht Gaa Centre of Excellance at 3:30. If you are free for the evening, please come out and support the team.  

Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s)

The 3rd and 6th year mock reports are now available to view on VsWare.  You can log in using your username and password.  You can reset your password yourself on VsWare should you need to do so.  

Kind Regards

Reminder that there is a non-uniform day tomorrow in aid of Daffodil Day and our Wellbeing room refurbishment.  Please donate €2 in lieu of wearing the uniform and try to wear something yellow. 

Kind Regards

Dear Parent(s) and Student

The Defence Forces are coming to the school tomorrow to speak with 6th year students around opportunities in the military.  This will be a very informative talk and this is the only time the defence forces are free to facilitate us.  Therefore all 6th year students are expected be in school and to attend. 

Kind Regards

Ms McNamee

The Department of Education has commenced a review of the legislation that provides for education for children and young persons with special educational needs.

The Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, is often known as the EPSEN act and provides for the education of children aged under 18 years with special educational needs.

The purpose of the review is to ensure that legislation on education for students with additional needs is up-to-date, fully operational, and reflective of the lived experiences of students, families and school communities. The review will help us to understand what aspects of the law is working well and whether aspects of it should be amended.

As part of the review process, a public consultation is taking place. This consultation will seek the views of a wide range of organisations and individuals that have experience with the law and with the services provided under it.   It is an important part of the review that the lived experiences of students and families are recorded.

To achieve this, the Department is seeking views from students and parents, staff and from young people who left school in recent years.  The link to the survey for public consultation is below:

www.gov.ie/epsenreview

The Department is committed to ensuring that the views of persons with disabilities are fully considered in policy making.  It will also hold focus groups with staff, parents and students over the coming months.

When the survey process is completed, the Department will produce a consultation paper, and will run further consultation events. If you would like to be invited to a consultation event, please contact the Department on epsen@education.gov.ie.

Many thanks for your assistance.