St. Mary’s Newsletter

News this week - 12 April 2024

Dear parents, carers, staff and friends,

Change in Patronage - Monday, 15th April

It feels a little strange that this will be our last newsletter as 'St Mary's Primary School'. As you know, our school community took part in a consultation on changing patronage last year.

I am pleased to let you know that from Monday, 15th April 2024 we will officially move to Educate Together patronage and our school's new name will be Paradise Place Educate Together National School, or Paradise Place ETNS for short!

I have written to all families today - you will find the letter in your child's bag! - to let you know of the change. Apart from the name, most other things will stay exactly the same.

It is an exciting time for our school and we look forward to celebrating all that we love about St Mary's and welcoming our new school patronage at a big celebration event in June - more details to follow.

Attendance for April

We need a big focus on attendance this month! We are running our Attendance HERO competition this month, recognising the efforts of children who have full attendance, who show a good improvement in their attendance and for the best class each week. Please support your child to attend school every day. We are looking for 95%+ attendance from everyone.

Say Yes to Languages

We are delighted to be in our 3rd year of the 'Say Yes to Languages' programme. This year, our chosen language is Spanish! Over the next few weeks, all of our classes from 3rd to 6th will have a Spanish lesson each week with our tutor, Araceli, from Argentina.

The children made a great start on Thursday - well done! ¡Bien hecho!

Reader in Residence - Library Visit

Our two 2nd Classes visited the Central Library in the Ilac Centre on Monday for a storytelling session with their Reader in Residence.

Creative workshop

Ms Manifold's Senior Infants also visited the Central Library on Thursday this week. They joined dance artist Monica Munoz for a workshop called 'The Magic Blanket'. The children helped to create a magical, adventurous story through movement and dance to all kinds of brilliant music. They had so much fun!

Girls Football

Well done to our girls' football team who had a great game on Tuesday. The girls are growing in confidence at each match and are putting in lots of practice. Thanks to Páid Sadlier and Yasmin for accompanying them.

International Roma Day

zoom_out_map

International Roma Day was on Monday, 8th April. We celebrated at a special assembly today where we were joined by members of Pavee Point who shared music and stories with us.