Newsletter
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