Dear Parents/guardians,

We hope you are keeping well this week. Our news is as follows

• Catholic Schools week has been celebrated this week.  The theme this year is “Live life to the full”. As part of this week we held a service on Zoom yesterday to give thanks for the gift of grandparents for all pupils. The theme for this was “Celebrating being back together again”.  We remembered that for some pupils they see their grandparents every day, for some they don’t get to see their grandparents very often as they live far away and we also remembered those grandparents who are no longer with us. Every class performed a poem or a song in honour of grandparents. We also had lovely artwork displayed in the school hall. The service can be viewed on the following you tube link which you may share this with grandparents but please do not share on social media thank you. https://youtu.be/3wUDi3jUaPM
• All classes will cover the Stay Safe programme as part of Social, Personal and    Health Education this term. This personal safety programme aims to give children
• the skills necessary to enable them to recognise and resist abuse/victimisation
• teach children they should always tell an adult about any situation they find unsafe, upsetting, threatening, dangerous or abusive
• develop children’s self-esteem, assertiveness and self-protective skills. Further information and lesson plans for all class levels may be accessed at www.staysafe.ie.  Alternatively, if you have any queries please contact your child’s teacher or the principal.

• First Confession will take place for pupils in 2^nd class who are participating in sacraments this year on Wednesday 2^nd Feb in Mary Immaculate Church at 7p.m. Pupils wear their school uniform for this ceremony. We wish our pupils who are making First Confession well.
• We have been informed by Shannon Parish that the date for First Communion this year is Saturday 30^th April at 10.30a.m. in Mary Immaculate Church. The date for Confirmation is Friday 6^th May at 11a.m.
• Our parent/teacher meetings took place this via a phone call. If you need to speak to your child’s teacher at any other stage this year please contact the school office where we will organise this for you.

Kind regards,

Mary Dunlea Fitzgerald, Principal