St. Eithne's GNS Newsletter

Huge congratulations to our GAA team and their manager Ms.Pidgeon for reaching the 2024 Fingal League final which will be taking place in Parnell Park at the end of the month!

We are so proud of how the girls played and the determination that they showed. We will let you all know when we have an exact date for the final.

We had some amazing entries from all the girls for our Attendance Poster Competition, with some brilliant slogans. The winners were announced at assembly last week. Thanks to Ms. Nolan for organising all the prizes!

Be an early bird for school for the month of May.

Starting on the 13th May, the girls will be given stickers on a bookmark if they are ‘In the Line at 10 to 9’.

We all know how important it is for the girls to be on time for school and in their line ready to start the day. The girls must be in their line to get the sticker on their bookmark.

There will be lots of prizes to be won for the girls and their families for making the effort to be on time!

Huge congrats to Elvie from our 6th class, who represented our school in the annual Spelling Bee competition in Sutton Park Secondary School.

Since we secured another Green Flag for the school last year, our classes are continuing to monitor the behaviour of our school community in terms of environmental care. Each class are running a checklist to make sure they are conserving energy and water and that they are recycling their waste correctly. Each class is also taking turn litter-picking to ensure that our school campus stays litter-free. We will be renewing our Green Flag during the 2024-2025 school year under the theme of Global Citizenship-Litter and Waste. Thanks to all the girls and their teachers for continuing the good work of all our previous Green School Committees in the school!

3rd class have had another super busy month! We been very busy learning about magnetism, New Zealand and working very hard on length, weight, capacity and area in Maths for Measures Month. In English, we have been learning about persuasive writing, we are a very persuasive bunch!!

We also had Padraig in for Animation, visited Raheny Library for story telling with Simone and have been enjoying Active Week this week by doing 10 at 10, Mile with a Smile and lots of Active Homework and tasks in school.

It has been a busy month filled with fun and learning for us all!

The girls in 4th class have had a wonderful time this past month. We have been learning all about the country of France and even made our own structures of the Eiffel Tower from recycled materials. In addition to this we completed some litter picking in our local area to honour Earth Day which took place on April 22nd. We encourage everyone to take small steps in helping our planet.

We really enjoyed our visit to Raheny library with our friends in 3rd class to listen to some wonderful stories by Simone Schummelfeder.

We have also been learning all about Time and Area in Maths and each of us have been making fantastic progress. We have been exploring the topic of An Aimsir in our Gaeilge lessons as we hope to see lots of sunshine as we approach the summer months. Well done ladies keep up your fantastic efforts!

April was filled with many fun activities for the girls in 6th class. Well done to all who received the Sacrament of Confirmation. I hope you enjoyed the beautiful ceremony and the celebrations that followed.

6th class also started buddy reading with 2nd class. They have spent the last 2 weeks getting to know their buddy and picking a book they will read over the next few weeks.

We are continuing to work hard on our JEP project and are finalising our product and we hope to sell our products in the coming weeks.

Most importantly, we are enjoying every day in the classroom with each other as we come into the last few weeks of 6th class.

Waiting on the bus! Ms. Reede's class had a lovely day out at the Plex. The class took the bus to the plex and had a lovely lunch in Burger King afterwards.

In Ms. Glavin's we have been doing lots of work on spring and painted beautiful cherry blossom paintings and planted up some flowers for our outside garden area.

Best of luck to all the girls from Ms. Kiely's & Ms. Glavin's classes, and boys from St. Malachy's BNS, who make their First Holy Communion tomorrow. They have prepared so well for the day and we know how special it will be.

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