St. Eithne's GNS Newsletter

At our February meeting, the Student Council discussed the possibility of getting hot lunches in our school next year. We spoke to Miss Nolan and we are going to send some Student Council reps over to St. Malachy’s after Easter to see their hot lunches first-hand to see if we think our girls would like them.

This month, our Student Council applied for the Túsla Child and Youth Participation Award. We have gotten past the screening process so far, so now the Student Council will have a visit from an Evaluations Officer after Easter to see if we make it to the next stage of the awards. We would be delighted to receive this award, we’ll let you know how we get on!

Bhí daltaí na scoile go hiontach ag labhairt na gaeilge le linn seachtain na gaeilge! Bhí go leor eachtraí ar siúl i ngach rang - damhsaí gaelacha, tráth na gceist, cluichí, amhrán agus rabhlóga. Bhí tionól agus céilí againn ar an Aoine nuair a bhí gach duine gléasta suas i nglas, bán agus oráiste.

Comhghairdeas dóibh siúd a bhuaigh gaelgóir na seachtaine!

Rang a Dó: Emily Ryan

Rang a Trí: Jessica Byrne

Rang a Ceathair: Ella Molloy

Rang a Cúig: Aoife Farrelly

Rang a Sé: Emily Jane Fallon-Gifford

We really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day on the 7th March. Everyone dressed up as characters from our favourite books. We also held a book swap event where each girl got to choose one book to bring home to read. Thanks to all who donated books for the book swap!

We all really enjoyed dressing up for world book day and for Lá Glás, we were excited when the whole school came together for a cheili, dancing and celebrating for St. Patrick's Day! We had a great time and really enjoyed it! The girls made a huge effort during Seachtain na Gaeilge, using Irish words and phrases and integrating them into their every day school routine! Well done girls!

3rd class have been very busy this term! We made parachutes as part of engineering week.

During seachtain na gaeilge we had a tráth na gceist and sent postcards home with ár nuacht. We really enjoyed it when Ms. Nolan invited our parents in to play Irish games with us.

For World Book day we all dressed up as characters from books we have read. We are reading the novel Sleepovers at the moment so the characters from the book were a popular choice of costume. We can’t forget our very keen Harry Potter fans too - Hermione and Ginny made an appearance too! We had a great World Book Day quiz with our friends in 4th class too!

As March is measures month in St Eithne’s, we’ve been busy learning about length and weight. We made meter sticks and used our estimating skills to help use order foods by their weight. We even had a competition to guess the weight of a jar of jellybeans!

4th class have been super busy this past month. We have been learning all about measures in Maths. We had great fun exploring the theme of weight and using different types of scales. The girls also dressed in amazing costumes to celebrate World Book Day. For Engineers Week we participated in a class egg drop which was such great fun. We really loved learning An Dreoilín agus Tóg mo lámh during Seachtain na Gaeilge. What an excellent month it’s been.

Our school GAA team played their first match and displayed some great skills and teamwork. Well done to all players! We are looking forward to playing more games in the coming weeks.

We have been lucky to have Ms. Macken in our class for the last few weeks. She has taught the girls all about the different musical instrument families and also conducted a class debate to focus on our persuasive writing skills.

6th class also attended St. Gabriel’s Nursing Home where they led a lovely art lesson for St. Patrick’s Day. They made wreaths with shamrocks which are now on display in each resident’s room.

Lastly, the girls had their Ceremony of Light recently. It was lovely to see everyone receive the lighting candle from their guardian in preparation for Confirmation.

Ms Reede's class have had a busy month this month creating lots of lovely art for Mothers day, St. Patrick's day and Easter! The children have also been enjoying the warmer weather with trips to the coffee shop and playground.

Ms. Glavin's class had a wonderful trip to the Botanic Gardens. They also went for a walk around Edenmore and looked for signs of spring. They used litter pickers and cleaned up the water garden as well and found frogs and frogspawn.

Glass Painting
Thank you to all the parents who attended the the Glass Painting workshops over the last 4 weeks. They created some beautiful pieces and had a lovely relaxing time being creative. If there are any other Parent Classes you would like in the school - please contact the HSCL teacher Adrienne with your ideas.

Parental involvement
Go Raibh Mile Maith Agat to all the parents in 3rd class who came to play Games as Gaeilge - we had a great time and even learnt cupla focail.

HSCL contact details for Adrienne:

email hscl.edenmore@gmail.com or text 086 8271559.

We also have a new instagram page called: HSCL_Edenmore.

There are currently only 49 followers so do give it a follow!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our Easter Raffle. The money raised will be going towards the cost of school tour buses in term 3. Thank you also to two of our wonderful snas, Ann and Paula, who organised and facilitated the raffle.

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