Dangan NS Parent Newsletter

• Friday March 21st - Music Bingo at the Community Centre 6:30pm
• 31st - 4th April - Inclusion Week at Dangan
• Sunday 6th April - Communion Preparation Mass at Dangan Church at 11:30am
• Friday 11th April - School closes at 12pm for Easter Holidays (infants and siblings go home at 11:45am)

Date: Friday 21st March @ 6.30pm

Location: Summerhill Community Centre

How it works:

Hear the songs.

Mark them on your bingo card.

Be a winner every 5 minutes!

Tickets: 10euro per child, 25euro per 3 children or more. Adults go free! Tickets can be purchased via Aladdin. Cousins and friends are warmly invited to join in as well. Children who are not Dangan students can pay on the night to participate.

We will also have a raffle on the night and there are loads of prizes to be won including …

• James Allen Hair Voucher
• €120 voucher for Escape Boats
• 2 Family day passes to Belvedere House
• Midweek afternoon tea @ Johnstown Estate
• Awesome Walls Voucher worth €64
• 1 National Stud Pass
• Lilliput summer camp July €150
• Family Voyage around Howth
• Fort Lucan Adventure Centre Voucher worth €74
• Grainne Kennedy stage school – 1 Free Term
• Knightsbrook Hotel voucher
• McNallys garage voucher worth €100
• 1 month beginners training classes Fundamental body gym
• 1 Free week of Easter/ Summer camp at Bounce gymnastics
• Voucher for yoga/ pilates in Trim
• Crew Barber Summerhill voucher
• €100 Crinions Furniture Trim voucher

Please be mindful of where you are parking when dropping and collecting your child, please do not park up on our neighbours grass or in front of their entrance gates.

In the interest of being able to maximise the amount of collection points at the school for drop off and collection, we would kindly ask that you minimise large gaps when parking in front of or behind other cars as we have limited space available for collection and drop off.

We are delighted to be one of the recipients of Meta’s 2025 Data Centre Community Action Grants! We have been awarded just over €9,000 to spend on Pupil Chromebooks.

Class WhatsApp groups are a very useful and efficient way of communicating with the whole class.

The aim of using WhatsApp is to send messages to the entire group which are relevant to class/school.

The messages in the class WhatsApp groups come from parents in their personal capacity or are sent on behalf of the Parents’ Association.

The School neither sends nor monitors messages on WhatsApp. To ensure that these groups remain a positive space for all, the Parents Association will be updating the guidelines for each class group.

Brief guidelines will be added to each WhatsApp Group, and a full code of conduct will be uploaded to the school website in March.

WhatsApp GUIDELINES:

The messages in the class WhatsApp groups come from parents in their personal capacity or are sent on behalf of the Parents’ Association.

The school neither sends nor monitors messages on WhatsApp.

The Parents’ Association would appreciate it if parents would note the following guidelines when using class WhatsApp groups.

1. Comply with the PA Code of Conduct Policy (available at www.dangannationalschool.ie)

2. Always be respectful in language and tone.

3. The group should never be used as a platform to air views/grievances regarding a teacher,

child, or parent in the class or school.

4. The group should not be used for private conversations with anyone else using the group.

Just a quick note to remind everyone that, in line with our school’s digital devices policy, children are not allowed to bring smart watches to school. You can find the full policy on our school website here. Thanks for your support in keeping our school environment focused and distraction-free.

A big well done to all the boys and girls who made their First Holy Confession last Tuesday evening! Ms. Wall was so proud of how well you all did, and it was a lovely ceremony. The boys and girls had their traditional toast party to celebrate on Wednesday!

Over the past 2 weeks the students have been taking part in lots of extra Irish activities, such as: singing songs, learning poems, Irish quizzes, learning céilí dances and making an extra effort to speak Gaeilge. To mark the end of Seachtain na Gaeilge we had a Lá Glas, where students all wore something green.

We also combined this with our Crazy Hair Day, to raise money for Pieta House.A huge thank you to all the boys and girls—and of course, to you, the parents—for supporting this wonderful cause. Thanks to your generosity, we raised a fantastic total of €285.10!

Photos from this special day can be viewed on the school website here.

Tough luck to our boys and girls who took to the court against Moynalvey in basketball last Friday. While the results didn’t go their way, it was a great effort, and we know they enjoyed the experience. Next up, they’ll face Coole this Friday at Coole School, with their final match away to Kildalkey in two weeks. Best of luck in the remaining games!

With spring well and truly upon us as part of green schools we have been getting ready to sow our vegetables in our beds. 5th class are being very helpful in getting the beds cleaned out so they are fresh and ready for planting to take place in the coming weeks. We decided to take advantage of the sunshine last week and all the class have painted the sides of the beds in beautiful colourful designs. We will be sowing our seeds in the coming weeks and hopefully we will have yummy vegetables to eat soon!