Newsletter
Holy
Family National School
Rathmore,
Co. Kerry
Tel.
064/7758492 Mobile: 086/1806018
e-mail hfnsrathmorekerry@gmail.com
http://hfnsrathmorekerry.blogspot.ie/
16th October
2018
Dear Parents,
PARENTS’ COMMITTEE REPORT 2017/2018
The following
are the Members of the Parents’ Committee for the year 2018 – 2019:
Junior
Infants - Michael
O’Riordan
Senior Infants - Eileen Hartnett
First Class
- Michael O’Sullivan
Second Class - Tara Healy
Third Class - Caterina Cronin
Fourth Class - Catherine Daly
Fifth Class - Colin O’Leary
Sixth Class - Sinead Daly
B.O.M. - John Kennedy
B.O.M. - Carmel Healy
We thank Eileen
Hartnett, Tara Healy, Catherine Daly and Sinead Daly for agreeing to serve for
the coming year. We welcome Michael
O’Riordan, Michael O’Sullivan, Caterina Cronin and Colin O’Leary as new
representatives for Junior Infants, First, Third and Fifth classes for this
year. We also take this opportunity to
thank very sincerely Arthur Moynihan, Antoinette O’Leary, Nora McAuliffe and
Joanne Breen for their dedicated service to Holy Family N.S.
The function of the Parents Committee is to
support the activities of the school and also to represent the views of parents
and guardians on relevant matters. The
bulk of our activity is fundraising and, to date, the funds
raised have provided weekly music lessons for every child from 1st
through to 6th classes. Also
last year every class had drama and gymnastic classes. We also subsidised swimming lessons and the
Internet Talk in March. The fundraising
activities and funds raised for the year 2017-2018 are presented below. We
would like to thank everybody for their ongoing support of these activities,
and also the many sponsors that provide prizes and assistance.
|
Activity
|
Date
|
Amount Raised (€)
|
|
Bingo
|
October 2017
|
5932.50
|
|
Church Gate Collection
|
October 2017
|
564.00
|
|
Christmas Raffle
|
December 2017
|
648.50
|
|
Quiz
|
March 2018
|
705.60
|
|
Bag Packing Tesco
|
May 2018
|
783.48
|
|
Sponsored Walk
|
June 2018
|
2609.00
|
|
Tesco Community Fund
|
June 2018
|
272.73
|
|
Total
|
|
11,515.81
|
RATHMORE PARISH MISSION - Sat 20th
October to Sat. 27th October
Rathmore Parish
Mission begins NEXT WEEKEND. It is being given by the Redemptorist order. On
Monday 22nd Oct. we will have a Mission Service @11.30am for the
pupils in the school. There are
various celebrations throughout the week – Beginning with a ‘Walk’ from Shrone
Church to the ‘City’ on Saturday 20th and ‘Blessing of Babies’
Ceremony on Sunday 21st in Rathmore Church at 2.30pm. Mission
programmes are being delivered to all households to give more information on
times and events. Join with the family,
neighbours and friends in the various celebrations of the week.
PUPIL PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE
Reminder: if you wish to avail of the
personal accident insurance for your child/children please return the completed
forms together with payment as specified on the form, as soon as possible as we
need to process this before the
Halloween break. People
are free to avail of it if they wish.
CREDIT UNION ART
COMPETITION
Reminder the closing date for the Credit Union Art
Competition is this Friday 19th
October. If your child has taken
their art sheet home please ensure that they complete same and return to their
class teacher by Friday 19th
October with form signed by a Parent.
Thank You.
THANK YOU - CHURCH
GATE COLLECTION
Our annual Church Gate
Collection was held before the 6.00 p.m. and 11.30 a.m. Masses last weekend Sat. 13th/14th
October. The amount collected was
€754.00. We thank all who helped out and supported us.
BOOK FAIR
We have the great pleasure of inviting you to attend our exciting Book
Fair. We
feel that this is a wonderful opportunity to promote the love of reading.
Date: Mon. 22nd Oct.,
Tues. 23rd Oct., & Wed. 24th Oct. -
Time: 9.00am – 10.00am
Date:
Mon. 22nd Oct. & Tues. 23rd Oct. - Time:
1.50pm – 2.50pm
Place: G.P. Room, Holy Family N.S.
In addition to the above times, each class will have the opportunity to
attend the fair with their class teacher.
It will be possible for the children to purchase books during the
aforementioned visits. However, younger
children should be accompanied by their Parents if possible at the above times. Each family have received a book fair brochure which illustrates some of
the books in stock. However, parents
should not feel under pressure to spend a lot of money at the Book Fair. The commission from the fair allows us to buy books for the classroom and
library so every book you buy helps us to get new books for the school. Thank you for your support.
HALLOWEEN DRESS UP DAY
FOR BRÚ COLUMBANUS
Thursday 25th
October will be our last day at school before Halloween and will be a No
Uniform Day. We are inviting children to dress up in their Halloween costumes
or their favourite jersey for the occasion.
Brú Columbanus provides “home from home” accommodation for the relatives
of seriously ill patients in Cork Hospitals and Hospice, especially relatives
of sick children. Children can donate a
voluntary contribution on the day. No
need to buy costumes for this event.
IRISH DANCING CLASSES
Irish dancing classes commenced for Junior
Infants, Senior Infants, First and Second classes on Tuesday 25th
September for six weeks. Tríona Mangan
is the dancing teacher. The children
enjoy these classes and the parents committee are funding these classes.
MOBILE LIBRARY
The
Mobile Library have a new van and will visit our school and the Rathmore area
once a month. Children from First to
Sixth classes avail of this service and parents are encouraged to go to the
Library with younger children. Visiting
the Library will help in encouraging your children to read.
MATHS WEEK
Maths week is from 13th to 21st October.
Scoilnet will be
hosting a Problem of the Day with 5 junior and 5 senior challenges throughout
maths week. Lots of resources are available on ‘Maths Week 2018’ website which
will be used in 1st to 6th classes with particular focus
on Problem Solving and Target Boards. We would encourage everyone to go onto the
Maths site and to look at Maths section of our School blog. Hope you enjoy engaging with Maths week.
ACTIVE SCHOOLS
We are ready for another active year in
Holy Family N.S. and we are looking forward to another fun filled year. Look out for updates on the school blog.
FIRST COMMUNION AND CONFIRMATION – DATES FOR DIARY
Talk for parents of First Communion
children will be on
Wed. Nov. 7th at 8pm in Holy
Family N.S.
Talk
for Parents of Confirmation children will be on
Thurs. 15th Nov. in Holy Family
N.S. at 7.30pm.
First Mass of Communion Programme will be
on Sunday 18th Nov. at
11.30am in the church.
Confirmation – Tues Feb. 19th
at 11.00am in Rathmore
First
Confession -
Wed. 13th March at 8.00pm
First Communion – Sat. 4th
May at 11 am
Parents Committee - Fundraiser
BINGO
RATHMORE COMMUNITY CENTRE
SAT. NOV. 10th 2018
at 7.30pm
Fabulous Prizes
All welcome
Children attending Bingo must be accompanied by an adult
Bingo Books €10 each, Double Books €12, Jackpot Sheet €2
We hope that everyone will have an enjoyable night
Bring a biro or marker to mark your numbers – Best of luck
(We hope to organise a bingo session for pupils from 1st
to 6th classes before the event)
HEALTHY LUNCHES
We are encouraging a healthy lunch.
Chewing gum, fizzy drinks, crisps,
chocolate and sweets
are forbidden.
We also ask that children in Junior
Infants do not bring yogurts or yogurt products in their lunch boxes. Our aim is to continue with the good work of the Food Dudes Programme,
which began in our school, to increase and maintain children’s consumption of
fruit and vegetables. We
have two pupils in the school with severe nut allergies. It is very
important that pupils do not bring items to school that contain nuts. We ask parents and children to be vigilant as
some products contain traces of nuts. Thank you for your co-operation in this
matter.
PARENT/TEACHER MEETINGS
Parent-teacher
meetings (Senior Infants to Sixth Class) are planned for Tuesday 13th and Wednesday
14th November If you will not be able to attend on either
of these days, please contact the teacher as soon as possible and we
will make an alternative arrangement otherwise you will receive details of times
during the week before the meetings.
Parent – teacher meetings for Junior Infants will take place in January 2019.
LEE STRAND
Again this year
we received homework journals for all pupils in our school from Lee
Strand. We are very grateful to all
students who brought in Mighty Mike tokens from Lee Strand Milk milk cartons
and bottles and bar codes from Dawn Dairies and Ashgrove cartons and bottles
during the year. In order to provide
free homework journals next year for all pupils we are asking for your help
again this year to collect the tokens and you can send them to the school
office. Thank You
CUMANN NA mBUNSCOL
FOOTBALL
On Friday
21st September, our school football team had a great win over Fossa
N.S. The following Friday 28th September we played Nagle Rice,
Milltown and won. On Thursday 4th
October we qualified for the County Semi-Final with a win over Lissivigeen N.S.
The semi-final will be on Thursday 18th Oct. at 1.00 p.m. in Farranfore and we will be
playing Gaelscoil Aogáin, Castleisland. We thank
their trainer Paudie Dineen for his work with the team.
SCHOOL
BLOG REMINDER
This newsletter will be available to read on our blog. http://hfnsrathmorekerry.blogspot.ie/
or google holyfamilynsrathmorekerry blog
Please log on to blog where you will find very valuable
links to tips and advice for parents on Internet Safety.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS,
TEL. NO
If any of
your child/childrens’ details have changed e.g. address, contact details,
illness, etc. please contact the school as soon as possible. Thank You.
MOBILE PHONE
NUMBERS
We have a
facility for texting parents. If you
have not received any text message from Holy Family N.S. please let us
know. The text automatically goes to the
mother’s mobile phone unless we have been instructed otherwise. Thank you
DATES TO REMEMBER
Closing
Date for Credit Union Art Competition – Friday
19th October
Maths week -
13th to 21st October
Mission Service - Mon. 22nd Oct. at 11.30am
Book Fair – Mon., Tues. and Wed. 22nd,
23rd & 24th Oct.
Halloween
Dress up Day – Thursday 25th
October.
School
Closed - Friday
Oct. 26th - Presidential Election Day
Halloween Break:
Closed Monday
29th October to Friday 2nd November
Reopening: Monday 4th November
Drama Classes
commence Tues. Nov. 6th
Talk for parents of
First Communion children – Wed. Nov. 7th
at 8pm in Holy Family N.S.
Parents Committee
Bingo
- Sat. November 10th
at 7.30pm in Community Centre
Parent Teacher meetings - Tues.
13th and Wed. 14th
November
Talk for Parents of
Confirmation children – Thurs. 15th
Nov. at 7.30pm in Holy Family N.S.
First ‘Communion Programme Mass’ - Sunday
18th November at 11.30am in the church
Closed Friday
7th December
Christmas Pageant – Thursday 13th Dec. and Friday 14th Dec.
Christmas Prayer Service for pupils and
staff
- Wed. 19th Dec. 2018
Christmas Holidays:
Closing for Christmas holidays on Friday December 21st
Closed Monday
December 24th to Friday January 4th 2019
Re-opening Monday January 7th 2019