St. Eithne's GNS Newsletter

We are so proud of our GAA team and their manager Ms.Pidgeon for reaching the Cumann na mBunscol final in Croke Park last Tuesday. Unfortunately they were beaten on the day by very strong opposition. Congrats to Scoil Solas Chríost from Belgard. Our team showed grit and determination right to the final whistle and will be back in the new year when they tackle the Fingal League once again.

The girls have put a huge amount of effort into their training over the past few weeks with Ms. Pidgeon and Anthony Kelly. A massive amount of work has gone into the underage setup in St. Monica's GAA club and we hope that this success will encourage more girls and boys to train and play.

We were delighted to bring our whole school on the day along with 1st class from St. Monica's IGS and 3rd/4th class from St. Malachy's BNS. Thank you also to all the parents and community members who came down to support on the day.

The New Student Council have had their first meeting of the year and they were full of brilliant ideas! We talked about some new fundraising ideas for the school as well as possible class/school rewards.

In November, Katie and Kayleigh from the Student Council will be representing our school at the Comhairle na nÓg annual youth conference in the Mansion House. There they will meet with other Student Council members from schools all over Dublin to discuss important issues facing young people today.

We are also very excited to be receiving our Túsla Child and Youth Participation award next month. Alisha, Sophia, Caoimhe, Ms. O’ Donovan and Ms. Nolan will be going to the awards ceremony on November 28th to collect the award on behalf of our Student Council.

Thank you so much to our Parents Association for putting together lovely Halloween treat bags for each child in the school!

We are very excited to announce that we will be launching our online school Lotto in November. Parents and community members can sign up to the Lotto for €2.50 per week and be in with the chance of winning the Jackpot! This will be a great fundraiser for the schools. We will be in touch with more news soon!

St. Monica’s and St. Eithne’s Parents’ Association

October was a bustling month for 2nd class, filled with engaging activities during Maths Week. We had the fantastic opportunity to visit Bubbly Maths at Marino Institute of Education alongside 3rd class. The girls explored the concept of length through fun activities involving balloons, enhancing their estimation skills, and even stepping inside a cubic meter made of balloons and bubbles!

We were also thrilled to support our 5th and 6th class girls as they played in Croke Park after winning their semi-final match. Although luck wasn’t on their side that day, we are immensely proud of their performance. They have become incredible role models for our younger girls, inspiring them to continue their journey in sports.

To wrap up the month, we welcomed some spooky characters on the last day of school before the mid-term break.

Wishing everyone a spooktacular Halloween!

In October we celebrated many wonderful things. For World Space week we created some planet art using oil and chalk pastels. We enjoyed our Maths week activities especially when estimating how many sweets are in a tub of Cadbury’s heroes. We have been mastering fractions in Maths too.

Our class have loved GAA training with Anto this past month. We were so excited to go to Croke Park and watch our friends in 5th and 6th class compete in the finals. We are so proud of them. They really have inspired us to work hard at our GAA skills.

We have really enjoyed learning together this month and are looking forward to November.

As the excitement for Halloween break builds, we have spent the last month working hard in 5th class. We created our first project of the year as we looked at Irish rivers in SESE.

Our class are very artistic and we have loved writing our Halloween stories and basing our art on this theme too.

Sofia has worked really hard with Ms. Trimble creating a lovely information sheet on Brazil for European Language Day. Sofia taught the class some Portuguese phrases and we really enjoyed learning some new facts.

This month was extra busy in 6th Class! We continued with our learning about recount writing during Literacy, explored Bia in our Gaeilge lessons, and learned about data, lines, and angles in Maths. Last week, we participated in various events and activities for Maths Week! We had a great time playing maths games with the 1st Class girls from St.Monica’s, and we tested our maths skills during a table quiz with 5th Class!

We also celebrated ‘Space Week’ and explored the Solar System across our SESE subjects - we even created a Solar System in our classroom! We also learned about Roman and Greek Gods and their connections with the planets in our Solar System. We also created some space-themed art!

Several 6th Class girls were selected to take on the role of 'prefect' during our school open day! They did a fantastic job and were excellent representatives of the school!

Some girls in our class also participated in an enrolment ceremony for their Confirmation, alongside the 6th class boys from St.Malachy’s! These girls have officially begun their journey to receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation, and we are excited about preparing for the big day in February!

Ms. Reede's class have been busy this month with lots of Sensory play in their outdoor space. Thank God for good weather!

In Ms. Glavin's class we have been learning about light and shadows. We used a Halloween theme and the girls made silhouette art of their favourite Halloween creature and also took turns putting on puppet shows with a shadow puppet theatre. We played with torches and worked on making shadows get bigger and smaller and move across a screen by moving the light source.

Have a safe and enjoyable Mid-Term break everyone and see you back on Monday morning, the 4th of November! Happy Halloween!

Please email steithnesgns@gmail.com or call 01-8480630 if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your continued support,

Cormac Henry

Principal