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                                                                                           Holy Family National School, 
                                                                                             Rathmore, Co. Kerry.
                                                                                                Tel. 064/7758492                                                            
                                                                                     e-mail hfnsrathmorekerry@gmail.com
24th April, 2018

Dear Parents,
W.O.W.  (Walk on Wednesday)
Walk to school on tomorrow Wednesday April 25th weather permitting.  Assemble at entrance to graveyard at
9 am.

PARENTS COMMITTEE UPDATE:
A big thank you to our Parents Committee who have organised Bag Packing at Dunnes Stores, Killarney on  Friday April 27th & Saturday April  28th.    We ask you the parents to support the wonderful work of our Parents Committee by volunteering to be on the bag packing rota for those days.  There are 4 x 2 hour periods on Friday and Saturday.  Please contact Eileen Hartnett 087 2474544 or any member of the Parents Committee.  Dunnes allow over 16’s only helping at the checkouts so unfortunately children in our school cannot be involved. 
Remember it is because of the fundraising efforts of our Parents Committee that we have been able to fund:
1)  Instrumental music for two terms
2)  Drama for 6 weeks up to Christmas
3)  Gymnastics for five weeks
4)  Contributing about €1000 to our swimming lessons.  As a result of Parents Committee subvention we will be able to maintain a price of €35 for 6 weeks swimming lessons i.e. for transport and swimming lessons.

2 to 4pm                                 
                                    4 to 6pm                                  Please contact Eileen Hartnett 087 -2474544
                                     
Sat. 28th Apr.             10am to 12 MD                       or any Parent Committee member
                                    12MD to 2pm            
2 to 4pm                                 
                                    4 to 6pm

Our annual Table Quiz  was held on Thurs Mar 22nd and the total proceeds came to €705.60.  It was very well attended and a great success. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the night. 

NO UNIFORM DAY
We held a no uniform day fundraiser for Killarney Camogie Club on last Friday 20th April.  It raised €295.  Thank you to all who supported it.

PHOTOGRAPHS
All photographs have been given out to families.  Class photos are €12 each and parents may view class photos in each of the classrooms if they so wish before they purchase.   Please return money in the envelope provided and/or photographs which you do not wish to purchase before next Thursday 26th April. There is no obligation to purchase any of the photographs. 
SWIMMING LESSONS (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Classes)
Swimming lessons continue on Thurs. April 26th, May 10th, 17th and 24th.


PRIMARY SCHOOLS FOOTBALL SKILLS COMPETITION
Fionn Murphy, Darragh Nagle and Conor O’Donoghue will take part in the Boys Divisional Final on Mon. 30th April.  Laura Phelan, chloe Breen and Yasmin O’Brien will take part in the Divisional final on Mon. 14th May.  We wish them all the best of luck.

LIBRARY
The Library will come to our school on this Thursday 26th April.  The library service visits our school once a month and unfortunately we have missed the last two months visits due to closures.

NATIONAL FINAL OF CREDIT UNION SCHOOLS QUIZ
We are very proud of our school U-11 quiz team who qualified for the National Credit Union finals which took place at the R.D.S. in Dublin on Sunday April 8th.  This is our fifth year in a row getting to the National Final. Getting to the R.D.S. is a huge achievement and our U-11 team did very well in their category on the day.  Our U-11 team were Liam O’Keeffe, Ross Moriarty, Eoin Cashman and Grace Murphy.  We congratulate them and their mentor Ms. Anne Marie Murphy for preparing the team so well.  The school wishes to acknowledge with gratitude the generous support the Credit Union gave us for this event.

LEE STRAND
We will be sending off tokens for free homework diaries for all the students in May to Lee Strand.  Again this year every boy and girl will receive a free homework diary.  A big thank you to all the boys and girls who brought in tokens from milk cartons and plastic bottles over the year.  Well done

CREDIT UNION SAVING STAMPS
A number of children are availing of saving stamps in the school.  It is important to encourage children to save, and buying saving stamps is a very good way of developing the habit of saving.  Stamps are €1 each.  Stamp cards are available from the school and when they have been filled they can bring them to the Credit Union and lodge €20 to their Savings account.  Super Savers week will be coming up in May.  Children will get details nearer the time.

SCOIL LAITIARAIN
Scoil Laitiarain in Cullen will run an Irish language summer course from 2nd July to 20th July 2018. Forms available from our school.  For more information please contact Mary O’Keeffe 086 3021503.

SCHOOL MEDICAL SERVICES
Please note that eye care, hearing and dental services are available free of charge to all primary school children.  If you need any information please contact the school.

SCHOOL BLOG
Please log in to school blog frequently where you will find links and information on Internet Safety, homework etc.  http://hfnsrathmorekerry.blogspot.ie/

DATES TO REMEMBER
W.O.W. -  Tomorrow Wed. 25th April
Library – Thursday April 26th 
Bag Packing in Dunnes Stores Killarney – Fri. 27th & Sat. 28th April
First Communion - Sat. 5th May at 11am
Closed Monday 7th (Public Holiday) & 8th  May
Closed Friday 25th May – Referendum Day
Closed Monday 4th (Public Holiday)
Closing Wednesday 27th June 2018