June
Dear Parents,
Dates for your Diary:
Friday 4th of June: Dance Day in school.
Wednesday 9th of June: Sports Day
Monday 14th of June: Report cards will be sent out.
Tuesday 15th of June: Open Evening for incoming infants.
Tuesday 15th of June: Hurling blitz involving senior classes (boys).
Tuesday 22nd of June: Camogie blitz involving senior classes (girls).
Thursday 24th of June: School closes at 12pm.
Well done! Pride of place this month goes to Joseph Breslin, Seán Breslin, Odette Bayliss and Fionn Nolan who were successful in winning a Robot Kit worth over €500 for the school. Odette and the boys entered a coding competition where they drew a castle. We were only one of two schools in the county to win such a prize. All credit for this goes to Darren Bayliss who worked with Odette and the boys in putting the project together. Well done all.
Dance Day; This Friday the 4th of June, Lisa Hogan (dance teacher) will visit the school to teach the children dance. All classes will engage in 2 lessons on the day. We thank our Board of Management and Parents Association for funding this activity.
Open Evening for Incoming Infants: In total we have fourteen infants starting in Seir Kieran’s NS in the next school year. We will be holding an Open Evening on Tuesday the 15th of June in two slots of seven. We will be in contact with all concerned in the coming week.
6th Class School Trip: Unfortunately, we were not in a position to organise school tours this year. We all look forward to this important activity returning to school life next year. As this is 6th class’ last year and considering they had no tour last year, we felt it was important to organise something for them. So, on Friday the 18th of June, 6th class will be going to the Shannon in Banagher to participate in fun water activities. The Board of Management and Parents Association are subsidising this treat, so each child has to contribute €20 to the cost of the trip. This can be paid online or you can simply send the money in, in a sealed envelope with details marked on it. We will furnish parents of 6th class children with further details via email in the coming week.
Sports Day: Sports Day will take place this Wednesday the 9th of June. Unfortunately, we cannot welcome parents in this year, due to the continued restrictions. On the day, classes will be kept within their bubbles and 3 stations involving fun athletics, football/soccer and fun tennis will operate. At the end of the day our Parents Association have organised the ice-cream van. We thank our Parents Association for their continued support in everything we do. Infants can stay until 2.35pm on this day. If you wish to take your infant home at 1.35pm, please indicate this via note to Ms. Murphy. Also, on the day if weather permits, children can wear shorts. Please also send your children in with sun screen applied on them, should the weather require this. We look forward to a fun, enjoyable day.
Hurling/Camogie Blitzs: These will take place for our senior classes and will comply with all Public Health regulations. The hurling blitz will take place in Birr GAA field on Tuesday the 15th of June and the camogie blitz will take place in Rath GAA field on Tuesday the 22nd of June. Again further details will be furnished to all involved in the coming days.
Seir Kieran’s GAA club is funding all costs for our children associated with the two days. We always enjoy wonderful support from the GAA club – let it be with equipment, gear or more recently the funding of a coaching officer, who does great work with our boys and girls. The support we receive from the club is much appreciated.
End of Year Mass: Fr. Reddan will lead in the celebrations of an outdoor school mass to celebrate the end of the school year on Thursday the 24th of June. Unfortunately, again we cannot invite parents in to this special occasion. It will, however, be nice to have our whole school together for the celebration of mass once more.
Building Works: We look forward to opening our ‘Le Chéile Class’ in August/September. The Board of Management has secured funding for reconfiguration works within the school to proceed to facilitate the class. The building consultant hired by the Board of Management has appointed Padraig McIntyre following a tendering process, to carry out the works. The board of Management has also set out plans with regard to the painting of the school and fence repairs over the summer months. It promises to be a busy summer, so here’s hoping we return to a clean, fresh school environment in August/September.
Report Cards: These will be sent out on Monday the 14th of June. Please send in a stamped addressed envelope at your convenience.
School Uniform: Since our return after the Easter break, it has been noticeable how many children have not been wearing the correct school uniform. This is understandable in the context of the restrictions which were in place for so long. While restrictions have been lifted in the last couple of weeks, I agree that it would not have made sense for parents to go purchasing parts of the uniform with so little time left in the school year and the fact that children grow so quickly and could indeed be grown out of what was bought and therefore families would not be getting value out of the uniform. The school fully expects that come August/September when we return to school, all children will then present in the proper school uniform. Your support and co-operation is much appreciated in this regard.
Standardised Testing: Standardised Testing took place for 1st - 6th class in the areas of Maths, English and Irish (in some cases) over the months of May and June. Please take note of the contents of the document ‘Standardised Testing 2020/21’ which you will find attached.
Child Safeguarding Survey:
Many thanks to all who took part in our child safeguarding survey 32 out of 39 families responded to the survey. See results on the next page.
While the answers to questions 3, 4 and 5 were more than satisfactory, I have to take responsibility for the answers to the first two questions. I clearly communicated who the DLP and Deputy DLP are, in a poor manner
The DLP in our school is Mr. Dunne and the Deputy DLP is Ms. Williams.
Every school/organisation has a DLP and Deputy DLP. The DLP is the Designated Liaison person and the Deputy DLP is the person who takes the role should the DLP be absent or not in a position to deal with a child protection manner. The following explains the role of the DLP.
Should anyone have a child protection concern, they notify the school DLP of this concern. The school DLP has responsibility for ensuring that the standard child protection reporting procedure is followed, so that suspected child protection concerns are referred promptly to the designated person in TUSLA the Child and Family Agency or in the event of an emergency and the unavailability of TUSLA, to An Garda Síochána.
Míle buíochas daoibh go léir: As we approach the end of the school year, I wish to thank everyone for their support and co-operation throughout the year. I do count myself fortunate with the staff we have, they make my job so much easier and I thank them. I also wish to acknowledge you the parents. I have said it before and I will say it again you are a decent bunch and your children are fortunate to have you as parents. To the Board of Management and the Parents Association, all you voluntarily give up of your time to support our school and I greatly appreciate your efforts. And finally, to the children, as per normal you have been brilliant in what has been a difficult year for you. We are all looking forward to returning on the 30th of August and hopefully at that stage we will be back to almost complete normality.
Dates for your Diary:
Friday 4th of June: Dance Day in school.
Wednesday 9th of June: Sports Day
Monday 14th of June: Report cards will be sent out.
Tuesday 15th of June: Open Evening for incoming infants.
Tuesday 15th of June: Hurling blitz involving senior classes (boys).
Tuesday 22nd of June: Camogie blitz involving senior classes (girls).
Thursday 24th of June: School closes at 12pm.
Well done! Pride of place this month goes to Joseph Breslin, Seán Breslin, Odette Bayliss and Fionn Nolan who were successful in winning a Robot Kit worth over €500 for the school. Odette and the boys entered a coding competition where they drew a castle. We were only one of two schools in the county to win such a prize. All credit for this goes to Darren Bayliss who worked with Odette and the boys in putting the project together. Well done all.
Dance Day; This Friday the 4th of June, Lisa Hogan (dance teacher) will visit the school to teach the children dance. All classes will engage in 2 lessons on the day. We thank our Board of Management and Parents Association for funding this activity.
Open Evening for Incoming Infants: In total we have fourteen infants starting in Seir Kieran’s NS in the next school year. We will be holding an Open Evening on Tuesday the 15th of June in two slots of seven. We will be in contact with all concerned in the coming week.
6th Class School Trip: Unfortunately, we were not in a position to organise school tours this year. We all look forward to this important activity returning to school life next year. As this is 6th class’ last year and considering they had no tour last year, we felt it was important to organise something for them. So, on Friday the 18th of June, 6th class will be going to the Shannon in Banagher to participate in fun water activities. The Board of Management and Parents Association are subsidising this treat, so each child has to contribute €20 to the cost of the trip. This can be paid online or you can simply send the money in, in a sealed envelope with details marked on it. We will furnish parents of 6th class children with further details via email in the coming week.
Sports Day: Sports Day will take place this Wednesday the 9th of June. Unfortunately, we cannot welcome parents in this year, due to the continued restrictions. On the day, classes will be kept within their bubbles and 3 stations involving fun athletics, football/soccer and fun tennis will operate. At the end of the day our Parents Association have organised the ice-cream van. We thank our Parents Association for their continued support in everything we do. Infants can stay until 2.35pm on this day. If you wish to take your infant home at 1.35pm, please indicate this via note to Ms. Murphy. Also, on the day if weather permits, children can wear shorts. Please also send your children in with sun screen applied on them, should the weather require this. We look forward to a fun, enjoyable day.
Hurling/Camogie Blitzs: These will take place for our senior classes and will comply with all Public Health regulations. The hurling blitz will take place in Birr GAA field on Tuesday the 15th of June and the camogie blitz will take place in Rath GAA field on Tuesday the 22nd of June. Again further details will be furnished to all involved in the coming days.
Seir Kieran’s GAA club is funding all costs for our children associated with the two days. We always enjoy wonderful support from the GAA club – let it be with equipment, gear or more recently the funding of a coaching officer, who does great work with our boys and girls. The support we receive from the club is much appreciated.
End of Year Mass: Fr. Reddan will lead in the celebrations of an outdoor school mass to celebrate the end of the school year on Thursday the 24th of June. Unfortunately, again we cannot invite parents in to this special occasion. It will, however, be nice to have our whole school together for the celebration of mass once more.
Building Works: We look forward to opening our ‘Le Chéile Class’ in August/September. The Board of Management has secured funding for reconfiguration works within the school to proceed to facilitate the class. The building consultant hired by the Board of Management has appointed Padraig McIntyre following a tendering process, to carry out the works. The board of Management has also set out plans with regard to the painting of the school and fence repairs over the summer months. It promises to be a busy summer, so here’s hoping we return to a clean, fresh school environment in August/September.
Report Cards: These will be sent out on Monday the 14th of June. Please send in a stamped addressed envelope at your convenience.
School Uniform: Since our return after the Easter break, it has been noticeable how many children have not been wearing the correct school uniform. This is understandable in the context of the restrictions which were in place for so long. While restrictions have been lifted in the last couple of weeks, I agree that it would not have made sense for parents to go purchasing parts of the uniform with so little time left in the school year and the fact that children grow so quickly and could indeed be grown out of what was bought and therefore families would not be getting value out of the uniform. The school fully expects that come August/September when we return to school, all children will then present in the proper school uniform. Your support and co-operation is much appreciated in this regard.
Standardised Testing: Standardised Testing took place for 1st - 6th class in the areas of Maths, English and Irish (in some cases) over the months of May and June. Please take note of the contents of the document ‘Standardised Testing 2020/21’ which you will find attached.
Child Safeguarding Survey:
Many thanks to all who took part in our child safeguarding survey 32 out of 39 families responded to the survey. See results on the next page.
While the answers to questions 3, 4 and 5 were more than satisfactory, I have to take responsibility for the answers to the first two questions. I clearly communicated who the DLP and Deputy DLP are, in a poor manner
The DLP in our school is Mr. Dunne and the Deputy DLP is Ms. Williams.
Every school/organisation has a DLP and Deputy DLP. The DLP is the Designated Liaison person and the Deputy DLP is the person who takes the role should the DLP be absent or not in a position to deal with a child protection manner. The following explains the role of the DLP.
Should anyone have a child protection concern, they notify the school DLP of this concern. The school DLP has responsibility for ensuring that the standard child protection reporting procedure is followed, so that suspected child protection concerns are referred promptly to the designated person in TUSLA the Child and Family Agency or in the event of an emergency and the unavailability of TUSLA, to An Garda Síochána.
Míle buíochas daoibh go léir: As we approach the end of the school year, I wish to thank everyone for their support and co-operation throughout the year. I do count myself fortunate with the staff we have, they make my job so much easier and I thank them. I also wish to acknowledge you the parents. I have said it before and I will say it again you are a decent bunch and your children are fortunate to have you as parents. To the Board of Management and the Parents Association, all you voluntarily give up of your time to support our school and I greatly appreciate your efforts. And finally, to the children, as per normal you have been brilliant in what has been a difficult year for you. We are all looking forward to returning on the 30th of August and hopefully at that stage we will be back to almost complete normality.