Holy Family N.S. Rathmore Co.Kerry P51 N290

Dear Parents 

Please find attached note from Parents Committee re Night at the Dogs Fundraiser and June dates for your diary......

The fundraising effort is a great success so far and a big thank you to all for selling ads and tickets and sourcing race sponsors and prizes.   

I also wish to acknowledge and sincerely thank our Parents Committee for all their time and effort and the trojan work they have put in to organising the upcoming 'Night at the Dogs'  fundraiser.

This is their one major fundraiser of the year and all funds go to the development of a playground within the school grounds.  Their fundraising efforts have also gone  towards so many other activities which the children partake in during the year such as Music, Gymnastics, Athletics - they also subsidise transport costs to swimming and matches and the purchase of books  and resources  for our school and they never forget the children at Christmas and Easter.

So come one, Come all to Support the Parents Committee and their Fundraiser Night at the Dogs!!

Kind Regards

Paul Horan

Principal

Dear Parents

Only 10 days to go to the social event of our school year - Holy Family N.S. fundraiser ‘Night at the Dogs’ Saturday June 8th Kingdom Greyhound Stadium, Tralee – Doors open at 6.30pm.

As well as 9 Doggie races we have a fun-filled night planned with lots of great activities for the kids – Bouncing Castle, Face Painting andRunning races for each class and a trophy for the 1st boy and girl winner.

The grown-ups can also have fun with a little flutter on the dog races, a delicious bite to eat and ‘caintagus craic!

Lots of prizes to be won on the night  ---

1. The winning art entries will be on the front and back cover of the Race booklet and will be announced on the night. The winner from Juniors-2nd class and the winner from 3rd-6th class will receive a €25 voucher for Blaze Pizza to enjoy.

2. The seller's prize will also be announced and the prize is a €100 One4all voucher

3. The door prize is a 2 night stay in the GleneagleHotel.

4. Raffle tickets will be sold and lots of spot prizes to be won.

Each family received 5 tickets - Please return any cash and stubs of sold tickets to the class teachers as soon as possible and if you require extra tickets, these are available at the school.

Money can also be paid by card and epaymentlinks have been sent to all families.  The stubs will be entered for the door Prize on the night.  

All unsold tickets must be returned to the class teacher as well.  

It's going to be a great night and remember all tickets sold prior to the night go directly to the school to fund a new playground for all the children to enjoy.  All tickets sold at the door goes to the Stadium.

 

FAMILY NIGHT OUT

PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT

Dates to Remember

Mon June 2nd -   Public Holiday  - School closed

Wed. June 5th – School Tour to Mallow GAA Sports Complex – 

                         First, Second and Third Classes

Thurs. June 6th -  School Tour to Crag Caves – Junior and Senior Infants

Friday June 7th -  School Closed -  European and Council Elections Polling Day

SAT. JUNE 8th  -   HOLY FAMILY N.S. NIGHT AT THE DOGS FUNDRAISER

                              TRALEE GREYHOUND STADIUM – 

                                       DOORS OPEN AT 6.30pm

Wed. June 12th -  School closes at 1.40pm for all classes – to facilitate a Staff     Meeting.

                           Bus will also run at this time – 

                           Kids Club will be opened until 5pm

Thurs. June 13th – End of year Graduation Mass at 12.30pm  in GP Hall.

Wed. June 19th   -  School Tour to Ballyhass Adventure Centre, Coachford –

                            Fourth, Fifth and Sixth classes.

Friday June 21st – Closing at 12 noon for Summerholidays.

Huge excitement in Rathmore as the Rás Tailteann cyclists zoomed passed on Friday. Over 230 of our pupils waved and cheered on the cyclists. 

Huge congratulations to our camogie team who played in the Pat Sheahan tournament in Spa pitch today. Our girls played in six games before playing Knocknagree in the final. An impressive win and score line of 4:1 to 2:3.

Green Schools Flag 8 Global Citizenship- Marine Environment.

 Holy Family School has been participating in the Green Schools Programme since the school opened in 2007. To date the school has achieved 7 flags. We are currently working towards our 8^th flag- Global Citizenship- Marine Environment.

Our Green Schools Committee is made up of 2 members from each class from 1^st to 6^th We have Green Schools meetings where we discuss our plans to keep our school green.

Our code for flag 8 Global Citizenship- Marine Environment is “Protectors of the sea is what we need to be” The current 2^nd class came up with this code and we think it is very catchy. Our codes for our other flags are displayed on our Green School Notice board.

Our Green Schools Notice Board is outside Mr. Dineen’s 6^th class room.  Our principal Mr. Horan also fills the classes in with any information about the Green Schools through the school intercom. We really enjoy litter picking. Different classes take part in litter picking in our school. We have litter pickers and gloves for picking up the litter.

We also have class Litter and Energy wardens in each class. The Litter wardens job is to remind everyone in the classes to use the correct bins. Every bin in each class is labelled to make this as easy as possible for everyone. We also encourage all classes to take home their own waste and recycle at home. The Energy warden is in charge of turning off the lights, whiteboard and any other electrical appliance when they are not in use. There is a ‘LOLO’ poster under each light switch in each classroom. It stands for ‘Last Out Lights Off’. We also make sure to close the doors at break times to keep the heat in. We remind everyone to turn off the taps when finished and not let them running. We learned about the Nasty nine and Think Before you Flush campaign this year.

Last year, the Green Schools Committee did an environmental review. Classes did the ‘Marine Awareness Survey’ Classes. We repeated this survey and were happy to learn that there was a good improvement in all areas. We also did a plastic survey bottle survey in our school and we are proud to learn that there has been a great improvement in our school and more people are using reusable bottles now. 98% of pupils surveyed use a reusable bottle. The results of both of these surveys are on our Green Schools noticeboard.

After we did the review we made our Action Plan which is available on our Green Schools Notice Board. There are also some interesting facts about marine litter and wildlife on our board, as well as pictures of some of the activities that we have completed in the last 2 years. 5^th class completed projects based on the marine environment this year such as marine litter, climate change, microplastics and overfishing.

3^rd to 6^th class had a guest speaker in October from IRD Duhallow who spoke about our local River, the River Blackwater. We also got to examine various wildlife found in the river.

On January the 26^th we had our Action Day. We all wore blue clothing. Each class completed lessons on the marine environment. Juniors and seniors learned about sea creatures and coloured in pictures. 1^st class coloured chalk drew marine animals on the school yard and 2^nd learned about marine litter and created posters to encourage others to protect our marine environments. 3rd class learned about the Mariana Trench and drew some marine animals. 4^th class learned about the Great Garbage Patch and wrote some acrostic poems. 5^th and 6^th class learned about climate change. 5^th class went around to each class to tell them facts about the breakdown of marine litter. Each class also made an environmental pledge. In the evening the Green Schools Committee went litter picking. We had a great day.

 We also used our Action Day as an opportunity to have a Single Use Plastic Free Day. Students and staff were encouraged to make an effort to ditch the disposables that day. Well done everyone!

Holy Family school have done a lot of work in class based on the theme of marine environment over the last two years. Last year our current 2^nd class took part in the Seakeepers Project. They learned about different sea creatures such as the bask shark .5^th class are also taking part in this project this year. They have learned about the moon jellyfish so far. They were shocked to learn that it had no brain. All classes watched lots of videos and did marine lessons during marine week last April. 5^th class also took part in a zoom webinar with a marine zoologist in November.

Last year’s Green Schools Committee planted bulbs last March. A whole school recycling art competition was held in December. The decorations were fabulous. Some classes took part in a recycling webinar by Kerry County Council. They learned about the website www.waste.ie.

On the 7^th of February our Green Schools Committee met with Angela Wall, from an Taisce. We prepared a speech on all the fantastic work being done in our School. She was very impressed. Well done to our Green Schools Committee.

Well done to members of the Green Schools Committee who travelled to Killarney to collect our 8^th Green Schools flag. It was a fantastic day.