The end of another school year has arrived. Thank you to all our school community for everything this year. Enjoy a well deserved break, look after yourselves and see you all on September 1st.

The school calendar and booklists for next year has been emailed out to parents this week. They are also available to see on the school website.

School calendar can be seen under: What’s happening or here.

Booklists are available under the booklists tab.

Sports day for 3rd- 6th class on Thursday 16th June will now take place in Lucan Sarsfields GAA club from 10.00 a.m to 1.50. p.m. Children will come to school as normal. Parents are invited to attend, there will be a coffee shop and seating area open on the grounds.

A huge thank you to Olag from Adamstown Cricket Club and Luke from Leinster Rugby who visited our school today and gave lessons as part of Active Week.

New members are always welcome in these clubs: https://adamstowncc.hitscricket.com/

Leinster rugby are hosting summer camps if your child enjoyed the session today: https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/camps/summer-camps/

Thanks also to Mags who visited on Monday and did boxercise with our junior classes.

Active Week takes place in ACETNS next week from 13th- 17th June. The timetable of events has been emailed out to parents. Junior Infants, Senior Infants, First and Second Class are hosting class walks. Please see the timetable for further details. Parents are encouraged also to participate in the dance on yard each morning and also to attend Sports Day. Please ensure runners and rain coats are with the children each day next week.

A reminder that the school will close at 12:00 on Thursday 2nd June. This is to facilitate a staff planning meeting as instructed by the Dept. of Education. We will reopen on Wednesday 8th June at 8.40.

Children in 3rd to 6th class are working with Sprite Lab in Code.org this week, learning how to code their own dance party.

We are inviting all children to code their own dance party and share the link to their project with their teacher by Wednesday 18th May. Their classmates will vote for the best dance party and prizes will be awarded to winners at each class level.

All children in the school are welcome to make an entry. For the children in the younger classes, they can work with siblings or parents to create their own dance party.

https://studio.code.org/s/dance/lessons/1/levels/1

Well done to our girls football team who participated in their first matches of the year yesterday. They represented our school really well and both teams reached the final of the mini tournament. Well done to all involved.

As part of Tech Week in ACETNS (9/5/22 – 13/5/22), the children will also be participating in online safety workshops facilitated by Barnardos. The SPHE programme in school and the school’s Digital Strategy both recognise the great importance of developing the children’s awareness and skills to become responsible and safe users of online technology, both in school and at home. We adults also need to raise our own awareness and skills in the area of Online Safety in order to protect and support our children. We encourage all parents to avail of this great opportunity and register for the webinar next week. 

An email has been sent out to parents with a link to the webinar. If you have not received this please contact the school.

Tech Week takes place in ACETNS next week (9th- 13th May).

The theme for this year is ‘Fun with Coding & Online Safety).

We have lots of activities taking place. Please visit the ‘Events Page >>Tech Week 2022 for full programme for the week or click here: https://acetns.ie/event-weeks/tech-week-2022/