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Dear Parents/Guardians
As we come to the end of our first term of 2011/2012 we would like to give parents on update on plans for the coming year.

The book club is back up and running and it is never too late to start saving. Our book club is the 1st Wednesday of every month along with our coffee morning. We have also started up a Gaeltacht Savings Club for classes from 4th to 6th. We felt this would give parents the opportunity to put a little away each month for the annual Gaeltacht trip which takes place in 6th. This is also run on the 1st Wednesday of every month.

The school insurance scheme has also been completed for this year.

On the 30th September we had our first school disco. This was divided into two categories junior and senior, and due to the great success of this we hope to hold another one coming up to Christmas. We will keep you updated on this.

As most parents are aware during September the children got their photographs taken for the school Christmas calendar, these have gone to the printers and we hope to have the calendar on sale mid-November.

We will also be arranging the printing of tickets for our annual Christmas Raffle which will be sent home at the start of December. We will be looking for prizes for the raffle so all donations are greatly welcomed.

As this year sees the 10th anniversary of the school we will be holding a Celtic week, a letter has already been sent out looking for volunteers to help out and you will be hearing more about this in the coming weeks. During the Celtic week we will be holding our Winter Fair and the funds raised from this will go into the Gaeltacht Fund. This fund is to try and keep the cost of the 6th class trip to the Gaeltacht to a minimum for parents.

On the 18th October we had the election of parent representatives on the board of management, we are please to say our 2 new representatives are Carol Dunne and Brien Nolan, we look forward to Carol and Brien coming on board and working with them.

We have decided to change the date of our annual table quiz and this will now be held in February.

There will be a healthy eating week the second week in November and we encourage parents to continue giving the children healthy lunches. The PTA will prepare platters of fruit for each class for that week.

Also in November we will be collecting old mobile phones to get an ipad/laptop for the resource classes. There will be a letter with an envelope attached sent out in November and all we ask is that you return any old phones you have to us. If we collect 165 we get an ipad, which will be set up in the resource class for the children to use. You will also be in with a chance to win your mortgage paid for a year. This is all being done through Autism Ireland

Finally we would ask parents to be aware of the following No Dogs on school grounds and to think about how you park your car in the mornings and afternoons at the school, we still have some parents who park erratically and we don’t want any of the children to be injured.

Also remember you can log on to the school website for all school updates.

Dates for your Diary for 2011
Healthy Eating Week 7th-11th November
School Calendar on sale Mid November
Christmas Raffle Tickets 1st week December
Celtic Week 5th -9th December
Winter Fair 9th December

As always we thank you for your continued support and look forward to the year ahead.
THE PTA