Final preparations are underway for the next round of the Credit Union Quiz which takes place this Sunday in Tralee. We wish our U11 team members Ryan, Kayden, Matthew and Liam and our U13 team members Evan, Cormac, David and Cian the very best of luck. A special word of thanks to Ms. Anne Marie Murphy for preparing the teams so well.
Dear Parent,
Children can dress up as their favourite character from a book for World Book Day on Thursday 7th March.
REMINDER: School will close at1.40 pm for all children on Tuesday 5th March to facilitate a staff meeting. This is a slightly earlier time than previously advised, apologies for any confusion caused.
PH
Dear Parents
Last year the children really enjoyed engaging with the Read and Raise initiative in Holy Family N.S.
It was wonderful to see the daily active engagement with reading and the logging of minutes added to the excitement and challenge.
The initiative is returning for 2024 and we hope it stimulates an interest in reading once again.
There is no obligation to collect money but any donations would be much appreciated as this will run instead of our annual Easter Quiz fundraiser.
The funds raised will help pay for new microphones and speakers installed in the GP room as the old system had to be replaced.
The Read and Raise initiative is commencing on Monday March 4th.
Attached are information letter and how to register details.
Thanking you
Paul Horan
Holy Family Primary School Fundraiser
Welcome to all to our Read and Raise Fundraiser!
We are delighted to announce that we are holding a reading fundraiser in our school. It will be run on the readandraise.ie platform which is custom built to develop literacy levels in children while raising funds for the school.
The fundraiser will start on 04 March 2024. Children can read whatever material they like we just want to see them reading and enjoying it as much as they can. Before the fundraiser starts, we will send instructions on how to register on readandraise.ie.
Once registered your child will have their own profile page and their own donation link which is accessed through their parents profile page. On their profile page there are a number of custom-built links for reaching out to family and friends anywhere in the world for sponsorship. You will also be able to log reading sessions and track donations they have received. A reading session can be any length of time and donations are all taken online.
Life with a young family is busy and time is precious, this is why we choose the Read and Raise platform for our fundraiser. All we ask of you is to register your children and use the "send a text" option on your child's profile to send out the pre-populated text message to family and friends which tells them that your child is taking part in a fundraiser at school, asks them for a little support and includes their personal donation link, this can be sent to multiple recipients at one time, its that easy.
We hope everyone will sign up and take part, we are really looking forward to it!
Regards,
Paul Horan
Chess Results
Our two senior teams were placed first and third in a 7 team tournament.
Ultra Rooks came 1st 🙌 with Christopher, Aoife, Cormac, Cian L, Dominykas, Mason, Karl & Wojciech.
In 3rd place was Quirky Queens 🙌 with Ryan, Callum, Ethan, Jay, Evan, Doireann, Hubert & Arthur
Ryan, Aoife, Cormac and Callum were in the top 5 in this tournament out of 56 players.
In the 3rd & 4th Class tournament
Our two teams came first and second 🙌 in a 7 team tournament.
Conquering Castles in 1st place with Adam, Kayden, Thomas, Michael, Jack, Dylan, Matthew & Olivier
Rathmore Rooks in 2nd place 🙌 with Ronan. Diarmuid, Robert, Darragh, James, Zoya, Matthew & Cliodhna
Adam, Kayden, Michael and Thomas were in the top 5 out of 56 players in this tournament.
Well done to all the boys and girls 🙌🎉
33 of our pupils departed this morning at 8am to participate in our second annual Ficheall tournament in Tralee. Our four teams played against primary schools from Killorglin, Dingle, Tralee & Coolick.
Our pupils were top of the leaderboard in both the masters (5th & 6th) and the buds (3rd & 4th) throughout the tournament- a testament of all the work and practice you have all put in over the last few months 🙌
We had a few unexpected changes due to illnesses and a huge thank you to our subs who came today and played brilliantly.
Well done to all the boys and girls who took part in today’s tournament ♟️😄🙌
Team: Conquering Castles
Team: Rathmore Rooks
Team: Ultra Rooks
Team: Quirky Queens
The very best of luck to our four chess teams playing in the Ficheall Chess Tournament in Tralee on Friday. Two teams will play in the Masters Tournament and two will play in the Buds Tournament.
Here are some chess moves to practice!!
Our Team Members:
Ultra Rooks:
Christopher McN, Cian L, Cian C, Cormac O S, Wojciech, Karl, Aoife O D, Mason R
Quirky Queens:
Ryan T, Dominykas, Jay O D, Callum D, Arthur M, Caoimhe C, Ethan A, Evan B, Hubert
Conquering Castles
Adam C, Kayden O K, Jack O S, Thomas C, Jakub R, Michael D, Dylan M, Matthew C
Rathmore Rooks
Darragh O C, Zoya, James B, Ronan C, Robert D, Diarmuid H, Matthew, Olivier
Best of luck to you all
Dear Parent,
School is closed on Feb 22nd for Maths inservice training for teachers. The kids club will also be closed on that day.
School will finish early (1.50 pm) for the whole school on Tuesday 5th March 2024.
Regards,
PH
1st class learned lots about staying safe on the internet and enjoyed a Kahoot! quiz about the topic too!
Today is Safer Internet Day. Below are some lessons appropriate for 1st to 6th Class Pupils.
Also below is a Parent Guide Booklet:
This booklet will help parents to help their children have a positive experience when they are online. It provides information, advice and conversation starters about the benefits and risks they need to be aware of when using the internet. Topics explored in the guide include cyberbullying, screen time, sexting, social media and online pornography.
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