St. Eithne's GNS Newsletter

Thank you to all who attended our Carol Service on Wednesday. The girls, led my Ms. Heffernan, put in a lot of practice over the past few weeks, even learning a few carols in lámh. We are so proud of them and they certainly got everyone into the Christmas spirit!

The girls had great fun playing bingo together in the hall yesterday. Well done to our winners, including Emily in 3rd class and thanks so much to Paula and Ann for organising.

Thanks to our traffic warden Anto, not only for his generosity as can be seen below this morning, but primarily for keeping all our children safe over the 2024 school year when coming to and from school. We are lucky to have you!

A huge well done to the following girls who didn't miss a day in term 1! They earned lovely certificates and hot chocolate vouchers for Unity. Keep it up in the new year girls!

Thank you to all who have supported our school lotto to date. You can still sign up at any time by putting your phone camera up to the QR code below and clicking the link that pops up!

Parents and community members can sign up for €2.50 per week and be in with the chance of winning the Jackpot! This will be a great fundraiser for the schools. Thanks to those who have signed up already.

Put your phone camera on the following QR Code to get the link to sign up, it's quick and easy!

Well done to Gemma Jordan for winning the extra Christmas prize presented by the Parents Association. Her Granddaughter Lauren happily collected it on her behalf!

Thank you to all who supported our Christmas Raffle. In total, over €1,300 was raised so well done!

We have had a lovely December in Ms. Glavin's class. We had fun decorating our door for Christmas. We read the gingerbread man and then recreated the story in drama and wrote our own version of the story called "The Gingerbread Girl" on the bookcreator app on the iPad. We also cooked and decorated some gingerbread women and men.

December was a busy and exciting month for 2nd Class, filled with lots of learning and fun! We kicked off the month with a surprise visit from Bubbles the Elf, who kept a close eye on us and entertained us with his mischievous antics.

In maths, we explored 3D shapes, learning about their properties and even building some of our own! In English, we focused on procedural writing, creating experiments, instructions, and recipes. We even tried out some of our recipes—take a look at our work!

Our classroom was buzzing with creativity as we worked on Christmas art projects. We designed baubles, snowflakes, snow globes, and even decorated our class Christmas door.

After a month of hard work, we’re all looking forward to a well-earned Christmas break. Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season!

We have had a fun filled December getting into the Christmas spirit. We really enjoyed decorating our Christmas door and loved seeing them around the school.

We learned all about Italy this month and created a travel brochure using all of our new facts. We loved looking at the culture, art and tourism.

Lastly, we made Christmas cards to send to our friends in the nursing home.

We wish everyone a very happy Christmas from all of us in 5th class.

An important responsibility we were given as the eldest class in the school was to decorate some Christmas doors for the Christmas door competition. We worked together in teams, communicating and collaborating in a creative way. We had a pizza party as a ‘thank you’ for our hard work creating the Christmas doors! We want to say a massive thank you to Ann for organising this fantastic treat for us!

This month, we also got to visit the Donahies to watch a performance of their Christmas show ‘High School Musical’. It was brilliant performance and some of the 6th Class girls can’t wait to be up on that stage next year. We also watched St.Monica’s perform their Christmas play and they were amazing!

We have also been practicing ahead of our Christmas Carol service on Wednesday, and even had the opportunity to visit a local nursing home to sing some songs for them & hand out our handmade Christmas cards. We had a fantastic time singing for the staff & residents and it certainly put us in the Christmas spirit!

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and see you all in the New Year when we will be welcoming the children back on Monday, the 6th of January 2025. Thank you for all your support throughout the year!

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