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Santry School Races

Today we had the school races to find our Santry Team for 2017. Well done to all the girls who ran today. Check out the Santry photo album to see some more photos.

 

A BIG SURPRISE!!

 

We had a big surprise for the Junior and Senior Infants this week. Our new AISTEAR ROOM is ready!

We have a Role Play area, Small World area, Construction area, Sand Pit, Water pit and Junk art area. 

This month we are focussing on the theme "At the Hairdresser" and by the looks of things we have a lot of budding hairstylists here in St. John of God NS!

 

 

 

 

 

A huge THANK YOU to the May Dempsey Family for donating these beautiful Buddy Benches for our school yard. 

Caoimhe Dempsey is in Senior Infants, and as you can see, they are a huge hit already.

 

Easter Raffle

The parents association organised a lovely Easter Raffle. One child from each class won a beautiful Easter hamper. There was also one overall winner who won a VIP family pass to aquazone. Enjoy your prizes girls.
HAPPY EASTER

Attendance

Another wonderful attendance assembly today. We had lots of girls with full attendance for the month of March. These girls got a beautiful certificate. Keep up the good work. The girls who have not missed a day in 3 months got a lovely prize and a certificate. A special well done to those girls.
 

Outdoor Games

Lunchtime in our school is super fun these days. The 5th and 6th girls(wearing bibs) are teaching playground games to the younger girls in the school. As you can see from the photos everybody is having lots of fun and really involved.

Playground games we are working on this week:

Junior Infants: Sleeping Pirates, What time is it Mr. Wolf and Simon says.

Senior Infants: Sleeping Pirates and Crocky, Crocky.

1st class: Sleeping Pirates, Sly Fox and Crocky Crocky.

2nd class: Bulldog, Murder winks and Spiders and flies.

We also got some fabulous new outdoor games- Jenga, Noughts and crosses and Dominoes. Every class will have a chance to play with these over the next few months. 4th class are currently playing with the outdoor games.

    

 

Next Week is Catholic Schools Week. During the week the children will take part in activities to reflect on what it means to be a Catholic School. On Friday 3rd February, to finish Catholic Schools Week, we will have our annual Grandparents Day. On this day, Grandparents will be invited into the school for a special prayer service and to visit their granddaughter's classroom. 

 

We are looking forward to welcoming as many of you as posssible.

Christmas Attendance Assembly

We had a fabulous day today. We all look and feel so festive.

We started the day with an attendance assembly, Well done to all the girls who had full attendance in December. A special well done to the girls who had full attendance for the last three months(October, November and December). Enjoy your prizes and certificates.

We had a special treat from the parents- A christmas disco. Thank you to all the parents who helped organise and run the disco. It was super fun. Check out the christmas album for more photos.

 

 

Christmas Holidays 2016

Thank you to all who came to see our Nativity Play today. Once again, you came in great numbers. A special well done to the children in 4th class who told the story of Christmas so well. They were beautifully accompanied by the choir and other classes singing Christmas hymns. A lot of hard work went into preparing for today, we really hope you enjoyed the show.

 

We will close tomorrow (22nd December) for the Christmas holidays. The infants will go home @ 12:05pm and 1st-6th @ 12:15pm. 

 

Well done to all of the children and their teachers for a great term's work. A special 'thank you' to you, the parents & guardians, who supported us along the way. We are looking forward to picking up where we left off in January. 

 

Wishing you and yours a very happy and peaceful Christmas with every good wish for 2017.

 

Our 5th Class girls impressed us all on Near FM chatting with author of

 "The Easter Rising 1916 Molly's Diary",

Patricia Murphy.

Listen to the podcast by following the link below!

 

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Today the girls from 5th and 6th class were on Near Fm. They were discussing the novel Molly's Diary which they studied last year with the author Patricia Murphy. 

They did the school very proud. Well Done Girls! 

 

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Here is the link to the podcast:    www.nearfm.ie/podcast/?p=20386.html

 

Ceílí na Samhna 2016

Ceílí na Samhna was another great success. Well done to each class on their dance performance. Also well done to all classes on their beautiful artwork which really brightened up our hall. Our girls put huge effort into their costumes this year and I think we can all say they looked amazing.Happy Halloween.

 

 

 

 

Thank you to the Parents Association for organising the Easter raffle. Well done to the lucky winner from each class.

 

World book day

Winners of the art competition 

Children designed posters/pictures on their favourite book. We had three winners in each class. 
Artane Credit Union art competition

Full attendance 

Well done to all the girls who had full attendance in January, February and March.

 

Parnells GAA Club

Parnells GAA club are running Easter camps in St Davids Secondary School this year. 
Dates: Monday 21st March-Thursday 24th March
        Monday 29th March- Friday 1st March
Nursery camp: 4-5 years old  Time: 10-12
Go Games Camp 6-11 years old   Time: 10-2
 
Contact LISA for more information 0872849091
 

Well done to all the girls who had full in December, January and February.

 

 

We had a great day on Grandparents day. A big thank you to all the Grandparents who attended and thanks for all the photos we recieved.

 

 

 

Well done to the girls who had full attendance for the months November, December and January!

 

We are having a Book Fair!

 

 

We love to read here in St. John of God GNS, it's one of our favourite past times. On May 29th, we will hold the Book Fair in our school Hall - on this day the girls will have the opportunity to buy some books at a really reasonable price - most of our books will be priced at €1 or less. 

 

We would really appreciate it if you would donate any books that you are no longer using to this worthy cause. All funds raised will go towards providing resources for the girls in our school.

 

We have already received some very generous donations from bookshops locally, both The Book Haven in Artane Shopping Centre and Book Value in Northside Shopping Centre have been really helpful. We'd like to thank both businesses for supporting us.

 

 

 

 

Christmas Nativity and Carol singing!

 
Our girls have just started practicing for the school Nativity. 
 
Check back soon for updates!
 
 
 

Today we had a special visit from author Liam Farrell. He performed and told many of his stories for the children. We had a great day!

 

Take a look at some of the photos from the day! 

 

 

We had a wonderful day last week when the Midland's Theatre Group came to our school to perform 'The Sorceror's Apprentice'.

The girls from Junior Infants to 2nd Class loved the show. There was great excitement when Abbie Hanlon from Senior Infants was called up on stage to be the Sorceror's Apprentice. Meghan, Swarna and Ella from 1st Class were thrilled when they were called up to help. Mary and Tanesha from 2nd Class and Abigail from Senior Infants also played a part in the show. It was a wonderful morning! 

Check out the photo gallery on this page to see more photos!!

CONGRATULATIONS 

to all the girls who never missed a day all term! 

 

 

A big THANK YOU to all who helped out at our Christmas Fair on Sunday 30th November. It was a great success and your hard work and participation was greatly appreciated by all at St. John of God N.S.