There were a lot of activities to do during Active School’s week. We had Gymnastics, Gaelic Football, Sport’s Day and Family Fun Day. Have a look below at some photos and video clips of the week.
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We held our annual Family Fun Day and Sponsored Walk on June 14th and what a day it was. The weather played ball with us, particularly in the afternoon and we got to walk, eat and play together for the day. Thank you to all of our wonderful parents who helped out on the day- we could not have done it without you! The day kicked off with our Sponsored Walk followed up by refreshments for parents provided by Carambola. Our Bake Sale was bigger than ever and it was lovely to have the wonderful Mammy Johnston’s van back again this year for an ice cream treat. The queues were long! Thank you also to Feehily’s Travel and Mullins Spar Bundoran Road for their kind sponsorship. In the glorious sun of the afternoon both parents and children got to try out our novelty races, tug of war, penalty shoot outs, cube games, face painting, musical chairs and loads more. A day to remember!
We had our School Tour in Junior Infants on Monday 12th June. We went to Castle Adventure Open Farm in Ballyshannon along with Senior Infants and two boys from the Ark. We enjoyed the bus journey to Ballyshannon, we had great fun in the magnificent playground which had go-carts and a tunnel slide. We had a train ride in barrels and we got to see loads of wonderful animals. We even got to pet some of the animals. Have a look at our slide show below.
On Friday 16th June we had our Family Fun Day, which started off with a Sponsored Walk. A big thank you to all the parent’s who joined us for this walk. When we arrived back from our walk the Ice Cream van had arrived and we had some yummy ice-cream from Mammy Johnston’s. Thank you to Mammy Johnston’s for the delicious ice-cream. Then we had some fun activities such as musical spots. Have a look at the slide show below.
Our fantastic Parent Council met for the second time today in school. This group of enthusiastic Parents are helping to plan our Family Fun Day at the moment and the plans are coming along very nicely with lots of exciting activities in store.
Our Parent Council Chairperson for 2023-2024 is Niamh Scanlon, Secretary is Reyna Benas and Treasurer is Yullia Uskova. The other members of the Committee are Dympna Gallagher, Jimmy Sweeney, Susan Ward and Fiona Hanratty.
Every Parent in the school is part of the Parent Council working alongside the Committee to help with school activities and to get involved in St. Edward’s NS.
The next Parent Council meeting is Tuesday June 6th at 1:30pm in The Parents Room. We encourage as many parents as possible to come along and to get involved. It’s really a lot of fun and a great way to get to know others. Lots of tea/coffee and treats too from Ms. Browne !!!
Hope to see more of you there. You’ll be delighted you got involved. 
Aishling Kilkenny (SCP) Evert & Elsa (Roots of Empathy Teacher)
The Roots of Empathy Programme is currently running in 2nd class , with our wonderful Mom Evert & of course our Roots of Empathy Teacher, Baby Elsa.
Aishling from School Completion Programme, is delivering the Programme and works with 2nd Class & Ms Middleton each week. The Programme is a 27 week programme and aims to reduce levels of aggression among school children by raising social-emotional competence and increasing empathy.
At the heart of the programme is a baby (Elsa) and parent (Evert) who visit the classroom every three weeks during the school year. A trained Roots of Empathy instructor (Aishling) coaches the children to observe the baby’s development and to label the baby’s feelings. The baby is the ‘teacher’ in this experiential learning, while the instructor helps the children identify and reflect on their own feelings.
Well done to everyone involved and especially to Baby Elsa who is just a ‘superstar’!!
We have had a very busy few weeks in the Parents Room with 2 two very successful workshops.
Make Up Session:
Early in December, the wonderful Caroline Wimsey ran a Make Up Workshop for Parents. It was a lovely morning with Caroline sharing her make up skills and talents with us.
Doesn’t Emma look fabulous !!
Flower Arranging:
On Friday 16th, Martina Kilian joined us to help us to create floral center pieces for Christmas. We used materials that can be easily found in our homes- ribbons, old decorations and recyclable containers. The 6th Class pupils helped Ms Browne to gather greenery from around the school grounds.
It was a great morning and these Parents are so creative yet didn’t think so at the start of the workshop. Their pieces are beautiful!
Lots of creativity, chocolate, coffee and Christmas music- a morning to remember!
Plenty more activities for Parents to get involved in 2023. Keep in touch with HSCL and remember that it is so important to take time out for yourself !
Such a lovely relaxing walk this morning with this group of Parents /Guardians. It is so lovely to just take time for ourselves and enjoy a walk while chatting to others.
All are welcome- looking forward to seeing more of you next week!!!Depending on the weather, we might go on Thursday morning. I will send a message.
Aisling, HSCL
As we turn our thoughts to return to school, a few tips and reminders about getting ready:
SCHOOL UNIFORM
The school sweatshirts with the logo are available from Jako, Mullaney’s and Moffitts of Sligo. Grey trousers/ pinafores and red polo shirts are all available from Dunnes/ Pennys etc. Plain navy tracksuit bottoms only please- no logos or stripes!
SCHOOL BOOKS
We run a rental system for school books and all stationery and copies etc are bought centrally through the school so that they have everything ready here for them when we reopen. The cost of this Book Scheme was covered by the Department of Education last year as we were chosen to be part of a pilot scheme in 2021/2021. In June we were unable to confirm if this scheme would be running again this year. Unfortunately, we are still in the same position, as the Department are yet to confirm whether or not they will cover the costs this year.
This means that the only items you will need to get will be:
1) A stationery pack which will be kept at home for homework.
2) A stationery pack which will be kept at school for school work.
This will lessen the amount of movement of items between home and school as per our Covid Response Plan. This pack should include:
A couple of pencils, blue and red pens for 4th to 6th classes, rubbers, a ruler and a sharpener. A pack of Twistables or similar colouring pencils. Please send in your child’s school pack with them on the first day.
START TIMES
This remains the same as last year. Children may enter from the car park between 8:40 and 8:50 AM. Finishing times will be at 2:20 and 2:30 PM again for 1st to 6th. You will get a text reminder about which group your child is in later this week.
Senior Infants school day is 8:50 to 1:30PM.
Junior Infants will be at school until 12pm for 1 week only August 30th to September 3rd. A text msg re staggered start times will be sent to parents of Junior Infants.
LUNCHES
The hot meals will restart for Senior Infants to 6th and The Ark from Monday August 30th. Children’s menus will remain the same as what they were ordering before the holidays. Menus will go home next week if they wish to change anything for the 2nd week.
If your child does not avail of the hot meals, please send a healthy lunch with them. Please see our Healthy Eating Policy on this website.
You should have received a school calendar with school reports back in June and you can also access the school calendar online at any time on this website.
We are really looking forward to seeing you all again soon!
Dear Parents
The Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools 2017 require that the Board of Management must undertake a review of its Child Safeguarding Statement on a yearly basis. This statement and the Risk Assessment in published on our website here. Please take the time to read this statement. We would appreciate any feedback that you have on our Child Protection Policy by Tuesday next May 25th at 12PM. You can contact the school via email at info@stedwards.ie or call us on 0719143480.
We hope you are all safe and well. Just a few reminders to ensure we continue to keep each other as safe as we can.
PARENTS – please remember you must wear masks in the car park and avoid congregating at cars, at the wall and in the car park so we can continue to work together to keep our Community safe.
Symptoms/Illness : If your child has any Covid symptoms (cough, shortness of breath ,loss of taste or smell, high temperature ) please keep them at home and contact your GP.
If your child is sick in any other way – vomiting, sore throat etc please contact the school at 9143480 or Aisling HSCL 086 7769756 as there are Guidelines surrounding all of these to ensure we are all as safe as we can be.
Let’s continue to work together to keep each other safe
