Thursday Newsletter 26/02/2026

Dear Parents and Guardians/A Thuismitheoirí agus a Chaomhnóirí,

Health & Safety Notice

For parents who may need to collect their children early for appointments in the afternoon we would request that you do so either before children come out to yard or at earliest 5 minutes after they go back into classrooms. This helps us to keep everyone safe within the school grounds and reduces gate openings when children are outside.

First yard is 10:45 to 11:00 (so collect before 10:40 or after 11:05) and second yard is 12:20 to 12:45 (so collect before 12:15 or after 12:50).

We appreciate your support with this.

Support our SNAs

Petition to prevent the government reducing SNA numbers in mainstream: https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-cull-of-special-needs-assistants-protect-ireland-s-most-vulnerable-pupils

Although we are not curently one of the schools effected, and the government is pausing the cutting of SNAs it is still timely to sign the above petition and show support for SNA's role in mainstream classrooms.

The IPPN response is here: https://mailchi.mp/df350f8f7ae6/responsetosnacuts?e=e1d4c8903d and they are recommending that the current circular (which is 12 years old) needs to be reviewed and that the care needs described are too narrow "and do not reflect the increased complexity of need that schools are trying to support or the invaluable work that SNAs do in relation to assisting regulation and responding appropriately and effectively to behaviours of concern." Worth a read.

Convention on Education

The deadline for engaging with the National Conversation on Education is this Saturday 28^th February. You can complete this short survey (click here to access) or submit your ideas here before Saturday: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/publications/the-national-conversation-on-education/ 

Adequate support for inclusion, including SNAs, teacher burnout, over reliance on good quality volunteerism should be high on the agenda, i mo thuairim

féin. There are some good changes happening like NCSE Relate.

Assembly – Value of the month is Love

We had two beautiful assemblies, the Junior one was led by Dee’s class who sang “These are a few of my favourite things”. The Senior one was led by Sinéad’s class, treating us to puppetry, poetry, ideas for showing love and they sang “Reach for the Stars”. Both assemblies were fantastic.

GET Together Newspaper – Photos for Pet Competition

For the next edition of the GET Together newspaper, we're running a pet photo competition. Please share photos of your pets directly to [email protected] and we'll include these in the next edition!

Thank you Ailbhe & Luna

Annual School Walk Fundraiser

A reminder that Annual School Sponsored walk will take place on Sunday the 8th March starting and finishing at the school with some refreshments and chats. We welcome all of our school community to join us and get moving for this fantastic annual fundraising event. Click here to acces the Gofundme page.

Table Quiz

And the biggest night out of the year, our Table Quiz will take place in Na Fianna on Saturday the 18th April! Last year was a huge success and great craic. We hope to see you all there again this year!! If you or someone you know owns a business and want to sponsor a round or donate some raffle prizes please contact us at [email protected] 

And More!

We celebrated Chinese New Year with the help of Zack’s mam and sister Emily who explained all the traditions related to the New Year, we even got some red envelopes and chocolate coins to take home. 

Sophie and her mam were busy cooking some smiley face pancakes for the whole class, along with yummy toppings.

 A huge THANK YOU to both families   Dee

32 students from 1st-6th class represented Glasnevin Educate Together in the Féile Fichille Inter-Schools chess tournament in Finglas on 13 February. The children all represented the school exceptionally, showing great respect to their opponents and demonstrating skilful chess. - Grace (extra-curricular chess teacher)

GAA with Mark as fun as ever. Dee

Lots of fun and great work happening in ALC Green this week  Daniel

2nd class have been learning all about space this month. As part of this, Lisa's class made fact cards for each planet, which they presented to the class and had lots of fun doing salt art to make their own planets! Lisa

Realtín's 2^nd class enjoyed a day out to Griffith Park and Drumcondra Library. Along the way they spotted signs of spring. Liz, the resident storyteller, entertained them with exciting tales such as 'The Wild Robot' and 'Lifesize'.

The boys and girls in Alison's Senior Infants have been busy this week designing and building their own toy, using push and pull to make it move. They all worked together in teams, showing great teamwork and respect for each other.

Play Therapist

Click here to listen to the clip from Oliver Callan on Tuesday about ‘supporting children’s friendships’ .

There is one space on our Playful Parenting workshop this Saturday, please email [email protected] for booking/more details. Regina Igoe, Play Therapist

Reminders

• School Closed on 27^th February for Primary Curriculum Day 1 training
• School Calendar for Academic Year 2025-2026

Frása na Seachtaine:

“Cad atá agat i gcoir do lón inniu? Inniu tá __________ agam i gcoir mo lón."

"What do you have for lunch today? today I have __________ for lunch today."

Le meas,

Róisín Conlon

Príomh Oide

Healthy Habits for Children - New HSE Resource for Parents

The HSE are delighted to launch Healthy Habits for Children, a new e-booklet to support families in North Dublin to live healthy lives.   



The e-booklet contains: 

• Trusted information on healthy eating, physical activity, sleep, screen-time, parenting supports, breastfeeding and weaning 
• Local support services for families 

How can you help spread the word? 

• Share the e-booklet link with your colleagues, families and service users. 
• Display the attached poster in your service. 

Click here to view the e-booklet  

https://publuu.com/flip-book/265768/1058296

Tara Curran

Oifigeach um Chothú agus Feabhsú Sláinte

Health Promotion & Improvement Officer, Kilbarrack Community Healthcare Area, IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner