Start Term: Tuesday, 30^th August 2016 9.20a.m.

October Mid-term break

Friday, 28^th October 3p.m. – Monday, 7^th November 2016 9.20a.m. (1 week)

Christmas Holidays

Thursday, 22^nd December 2016 12.30p.m. – Monday, 9^th January 2017 9.20a.m.

February Mid-term break

Thursday, 23^rd and Friday, 24^th February 2017

St Patrick’s Day

Friday, 17^th March 2017

Easter Holidays

Friday April 7^th 2017 12:30pm to Monday April 24^th 9.20a.m.

May Bank Holiday

Monday, 1^st May 2017

 June-Bank Holiday

Monday, 5^th June 2017

Summer Holidays

Friday, 23^rd June 2017 at 12.30p.m.

 

Note

Under The Education (Welfare) Act, every school must notify TUSLA (Child and Family Agency) if a child has missed a total of 20 days in the school year.

Under the Act, every absence of a child from school must be accounted for, by giving the child a note to explain his/her absence on his/her return to school.  Please note that the roll is called every morning at 9.30a.m.

 

Other Dates for your diary 

Confirmation Day - Sunday, 21st May at 3p.m. in St. Mel’s Cathedral

First Holy Communion – Saturday, 6th May at 11a.m. in St. Mel’s Cathedral

First Confession – Tuesday, 7th March at 6.15p.m. in St. Anne’s Church, Curry

 

School Day

Infants 9.20a.m. – 2.00p.m. All other classes 9.20a.m. – 3p.m.

Break – 11.00-11.15a.m.

Infants – 2^nd – Lunch (12.30p.m. – 1p.m.): 3^rd – 6^th Lunch (1p.m. – 1.30p.m.)

Every class in the school were treated to a fabulous morning of Science experiments recently, with a scientist from the Young Einsteins. A big thank you again to the Parents’ Association for sponsoring the event.

 

          

         

6th class had a very busy couple of weeks getting ready to leave primary school. They had a great day at the Garda Sports Day in Slashers, where they took part in lots of fun events. That same day they played the annual basketball game against the teachers. For only the third time in fifteen years 6th class beat the teachers, with Callum McCormack’s winning basket bringing the final score to 12-10. Well done to all the girls and boys who took part.

                   

We would like to wish all the children from 6th class the very best of luck as they move on to secondary school.

 

 

The annual Michelle Glancy Poetry Memorial was held in 4th class and the children produced some beautiful poems. Congratulations to this year’s winner, Michael Smith.

As always we had a very busy year with sport in our school. The following are some of the children’s sporting achievements throughout the year:

• The girls were runners-up in the County Longford Primary Schools Plate basketball final 2016.
• The boys were also runners-up in the County Longford Primary Schools Cup basketball final 2016.
• We also took part in the Mixed Hurling Championships (in which we got to the finals) and the FAI 5 a-side Schools’ Soccer.
• We are very proud to call ourselves the Division 2A Gaelic Football Champions of 2016! We were serious underdogs going into this final, with St. Michael’s having beaten us significantly in the round stages in March. We came from a point behind at half time to win the match by four points. This was a huge team effort with a huge team attitude. Well done to the boys. You did yourselves, your families and your school proud.

Finally, a huge thank you to Master Leen for all his hard work with all of the sporting events this year.

 

This week was Walk to School Week. Wednesday was WOW Day and we would like to thank all the girls and boys for making such a huge effort to park’n’ stride. Our slogan was ‘be cool and walk to school’  and 162 very cool dudes walked to school on Wednesday!

 

On Thursday 5th May, the pupils enjoyed a wonderful performance of ‘The Legend of the Golden Dragon’ by the West Midland Theatre Company. A huge thank you to our wonderful Parents’ Association for this fabulous treat.

                                         

We received our fourth Green Flag, on Tuesday 10th  May, for our work on Travel over the last two years. Three members of the Green School Committee travelled to the Radisson Blu, in Athlone, where they were presented with our flag and certificate. Thank you to all the pupils and parents for the great efforts made to car pool and park ‘n’ stride. Keep up the great work! A special thank you to Mrs Brady for coordinating all the Green School events over the last two years. We will be having a Flag Raising Ceremony in the coming weeks.

 

 

         

On Tuesday 15th March we celebrated Proclamation Day. Our national flag was raised by principal Meriel McCord. The 1916 Proclamation was read by Fr. Michael McGrath, Mrs Mulligan, Mary Conlon and 6th class pupil Oisin Killane. The Proclamation for a New Generation was read by 6th class pupil Aiden Connell. We were delighted to have so many friends with us on the day, one of whom was Stonepark’s former principal Anthony Casey. Master Casey was presented with a photograph, which was taken on the day he raised our national flag fifty years ago.

               

      

 

On that same day, the children were very proud to perform at our annual Grandparents’ Day. We were delighted to have the parents with us this year also. Every class in the school gave a fabulous performance on the day.   

 

                          

On Wednesday, 9th March, the children from 6th class went on a 1916 tour of Dublin. They visited Collin’s Barracks, O’ Connell St., the GPO, Moore St., The Garden of Remembrance and the Hugh Lane Art Gallery.. Their tour guide for the day was Mr. Brennan and the children were accompanied by Ms. Mulvihill and Mrs. Mulligan. It was a brilliant opportunity for the children to visit places of such historic importance and gain valuable information in this, the centenary year of The 1916 Rising.