The School Bell
Nuacht an Mhárta
Dear Parents, Guardians, Pupils and friends of our school,
I hope this message finds you all well and that you are all looking forward to St. Patrick’s Day. We have been very busy since our last School Bell update in February. The staff here and all of the girls continue to work very hard and continue to enjoy the different initiatives and celebrations.
Last week we celebrated World Book Day where many of the teachers and girls put in a big effort in dressing up as a character from their favourite book! Well done to everyone! A special word also to the girls in Mrs. Power’s 2nd class who made their First Penance last Tuesday. We look forward to their special day, First Holy Communion on Saturday, May 6th.
On Monday, I attended the launch of the North Quays Development which was attended by the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar among others. Having seen and heard of the huge plans that will become reality in time, it is a very exciting time to live in Ferrybank. Not only will the landscape of Ferrybank change for the better which will include a new bridge to link Ferrybank to the city centre, we will, over the next few years, see changes to our school and the roads surrounding it! Watch this space!
Finally, a useful resource for parents in Waterford City and County has been launched online. It is called Parent Hub and can be accessed here. Parent hub provides information regarding services available to parents in Waterford and details of events which may be of interest to you. Take the time to have a look – you might find something that interests you!
Wishing you all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day and Happy National Colours Day for next week!!
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Nagle
Principal
Diary Dates for Upcoming Events
School Closed: Friday March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day)
School Closed: Monday 3rd April – to Friday 14th April (Easter break)
School Closed: Monday 1st May and Tuesday 2nd May (Bank Holiday and School Closure)
Intercultural Week 2023
Along with Seachtain na Gaeilge, we will be celebrating our traditional Intercultural Week next week. We look forward to hearing a selection of different languages that our pupils speak and we will learn some of the greetings in the vast array of languages our pupils speak. There will be songs and music in the different languages and some of our pupils will entertain us with songs broadcast over the intercom. A big thank you, in advance, to the pupils in the Senior Classes who will read stories to the Junior Classes using our lovely dual language books during the week. We will have our National Colours Day on Thursday 16th of March, where all pupils and teachers are encouraged to dress in the colours of their country. Looking forward to seeing lots of colour in our school on Thursday 16th of March.
Ms. Kelly
Peace Proms
Last Sunday evening, March 5th, the Fifth and Sixth Class girls sang their hearts out and danced the night away at the Peace Proms Concert, in the SETU Arena. What an opportunity they experienced, singing with a full orchestra, enjoying entertainment from Irish Dancers from around the country, listening to a fantastic professional singer and enjoying listening to music from traditional Irish instruments. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves!
You can view the Peace Proms here.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Welcome to Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Week)! A fun filled busy ten days of Irish activities throughout the school, for the girls to enjoy.
This week the girls have been listening to and using the Seanfhocal an Lae (Irish saying of the day) and the Frása an Lae (Irish phrase of the day). The Nuacht an Lae (News of the Day) has been read to the girls daily by the Sixth Class girls, who also taught them a couple of Irish Dances. Everyone has been enjoying practising them in the yard at lunch time!
Next week, the Irish fun doesn’t stop! The Infants will be read Irish stories, both read and written by Fifth and Sixth Class and the Senior Classes will get involved in a Tráth na gCeist in the school hall. The Senior Infants will be leading a Special St. Patrick’s Day Assembly, at which the Sixth Class will be singing the Amhrán na bhFiann. We also have some other little surprises planned to wrap up the week! Bainigí Taitheamh as an Spraoi gach duine!
Ms. Burke
February News
Dear Parents, Guardians, Pupils and friends of our school,
Welcome to this week’s newsletter and my first newsletter as the new principal of Our Lady of Good Counsel. Firstly, I am delighted to be back in Ferrybank having spent almost ten happy years in Ferrybank BNS. Since I took up my new position over two weeks ago, I have been hugely impressed by the excellent work that takes place on a daily basis throughout the school. I am very thankful for the warm welcome I have received from both the staff and the children and look forward to working with the school community going forward.
I am very grateful to lead such a wonderful school and staff and I must pay tribute to Ms. O’ Reilly for her hard work and dedication to both her job and the school over many years. I would also like to wish her the very best and I hope that she enjoys many healthy and happy years in retirement.
My aim as principal, in working with the Board of Management, is to continue to provide the safest possible school environment for all staff and children while ensuring that the highest quality teaching and learning occurs daily in our school. I look forward to working with the school community in ensuring this while maintaining and building on all of the great work done by Ms. O’Reilly.
Although I have had the pleasure to meet many of you recently at the parent-teacher meetings, I look forward to meeting you all in time.
Your sincerely,
Mr. Nagle
Opening Times
Please do your very best to ensure that your daughter arrives at school on time. The gates open at 9.10am and the school day starts at this time. The gates will remain open until 9.20am. Please try to have your daughter at the school for 9.10am. Many thanks.
Mid-term Break
The school will close tomorrow Thursday and Friday, February 16th and 17th for Mid-term break. The school will reopen on Monday, February 20th @ 9.10am.
Parent Teacher Meetings
Many thanks to all who attended their child’s parent-teacher meeting recently. If you have not attended your child’s parent teacher meeting, please make an appointment with the class teacher to do so. Parent teacher meetings are important in maintaining a strong link between school and home and it is vital that you take the time out to attend.
International Mother Language Day 2023
On Tuesday 21 st of February 2023 we will celebrate International Mother Language Day.
This year’s theme is ‘Multilingual Education – a necessity to transform education’. Some of
our incredible 6 th and 3 rd Class girls are going to share their language skills in reading books
in their first languages to the younger classes throughout the day. We will also look forward
to hearing a selection of greetings in different languages throughout the week. We are proud
of the many languages spoken in our school community and how the girls use their language
skills to help their learning. Our Dual-Language storybooks will be displayed for the girls to
browse and see their languages and the English language in print and in story. Remember,
multilingualism is a gift that lasts a lifetime.
Miss Kelly
St. Brigid’s Special Assembly
5th class did a wonderful job presenting their special assembly on Friday, to celebrate
St. Brigid’s day. To begin, we sang ‘a song to Brigid’ followed by playing the tune on our
recorders. Together as a class, we told the stories and traditions surrounding St.
Brigid.
St. Brigid was born in AD 450 in Faughart, near Dundalk in Co. Louth. Her father,
Dubhthach, was a pagan chieftain of Leinster and her mother, Broicsech, was a
Christian. Brigid’s father named her after one of the most powerful goddesses of the
pagan religion – the goddess of fire, whose manifestations were song, craftsmanship,
and poetry, which the Irish considered the flame of knowledge.
She lived during the time of St. Patrick and was inspired by his preachings and she
became a Christian. When Brigid turned eighteen, she stopped working for her father.
Brigid’s father wanted her to find a husband but Brigid had decided that she would
spend her life working for God by looking after poor, sick and elderly people.
Brigid founded many convents all over Ireland; the most famous one was in Co. Kildare.
It is said that this convent was built beside an oak tree where the town of Kildare now
stands. Around 470 she also founded a double monastery, for nuns and monks, in
Kildare. The Abbey of Kildare became one of the most prestigious monasteries in
Ireland, and was famous throughout Christian Europe.
St. Brigid’s Cross: Making a St. Brigid’s cross is one of the traditional rituals in Ireland
to celebrate the beginning of early spring, 1st February. The crosses are made of
rushes that are pulled rather than cut. They are hung by the door and in the rafters to
protect the house from fire and evil.
We created our very own unique St. Brigid’s crosses from coloured card, to hang on our
doors at home.
Miss Walsh
Wellbeing Survey
Thank you to all the Mums and Dads who filled in the Wellbeing survey during the Parent- Teacher meetings last week. The results will be a huge help to us planning our Wellbeing review. If anyone didn’t get a chance to fill out a survey, please ask your teacher or Tracey to sent you one. If you have one at home you completed, could you please send it back.
Mrs Shanahan
Safer Internet Day
We had a very enjoyable Safer Internet Day at our school on Tuesday 7th February. All classes took part in our competition and we were delighted with the response.
The competition winners are:
Junior Infants – Ava
Senior Infants – Eliza
1st Class – Anna
2nd Class – Zoey
3rd Class – Tina
4th Class – Sofia
5th Class – Nicola
6th Class – Julia M
Each winner received a voucher and a Safer Internet Day Wristband. In 3rd Class we discussed our Scenario Cards in our groups in the GP room. Lots of discussion took place.
Remember how to stay safe online using the slogan.
STOP
SCREESHOT
BLOCK
TELL
Mrs Ryan & Mrs Shanahan
World Book Day
World Book Day is on 2nd March 2023, children of all ages will come together to share the joy of reading for pleasure.
World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. It is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
We will be celebrating World Book Day here at Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS in many ways, library visits, story time, creative writing challenges and of course dressing up!
Maybe you would like to start thinking about what character you would like to dress up as for World Book Day. It could be a character from one of the books you have read or a story you have heard. By using your imagination and all your creativity we know that you will all be amazing as always.
Try to use things that you already have at home to make your costume or maybe recycle something you have used before. We look forward to seeing all the wonderful costumes and reading lots of books!
January News
Dear Mams, Dads, Staff, Pupils and friends of Our School,
Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Next week marks the beginning of Catholic Schools Week 2023. The theme this year is ‘Walking Together in Faith and Love’. Each of us are on a journey in life. Every Catholic school seeks to help their pupils along their journey, nurturing their gifts and talents. This Catholic Schools Week, we celebrate the unique contribution our schools make to the lives of our pupils, community and Church. To help celebrate it, our pupils will attend mass in the local parish church. As we journey together, may we always be inspired by the Holy Spirit. May we talk together in faith and love.
I hope that you all have a lovely weekend.
God Bless
Miss M. Kelly
Parent Teacher Meetings
We are looking forward to meeting all of you, Mams and Dads, at our parent teacher meetings beginning the week of the 30th of January. You will receive an invitation to meet with your daughter’s teacher on Monday 23rd – if you have not received your invitation, please contact the school office immediately. To be fair to other parents, and to staff, please let the teachers know in advance if for some reason you cannot attend. While we try to accommodate everyone, we would like, as far as possible to keep the meetings to the times on your invitation.
Winter Season
With Winter weather here, please ensure your daughter has a nutritious warm breakfast in the morning and plenty of warm clothing to wear.
Attendance & Punctuality
The school gates open at 9.10am in the morning. School lessons, group sessions and individual support programmes begin promptly at the start of the school day.
If your child is absent, please contact the school on the first day of absence by email to the class teacher or by calling the school office on 051 – 832984 otherwise the absence will be entered as “no explanation received for the absence”.
Lateness impacts negatively on your child’s education and children find it upsetting and embarrassing, as they get older, to arrive late when lessons have already begun.
Wellbeing Survey
The Department of Education and Skills launched the revised Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice in October 2019. To implement this policy, every school is required to initiate a wellbeing promotion and development cycle by 2025. It is a six-step process. As a school staff, we have identified Relationships and Partnerships as an area we would like to focus on. The next step is to gather information and this is where we need your help. We need some data and information which will help us see where we can make improvements. We have parent-teacher meetings at the end of the month so we will leave the surveys outside each classroom. You can fill in the survey as you wait and pop it into the box outside each classroom. You are not required to put down your name.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Shanahan
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is celebrated on Sunday, January 22nd. It is the Year of the Rabbit. Then the Lantern Festival will follow in 2 weeks. Happy Chinese New Year
Safer internet Day
Safer internet Day takes place on Tuesday 7th of February. On this day we will be joining people in more than 150 countries around the world in celebrating Safer Internet Day 2023. It is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people.
The website www.webwise.ie/saferinternetday has lots of information for parents, activities and videos. We would also like to highlight the child friendly search engines that we use in our school.
Theses are:
Our school will be engaging in class activities and we will be running a competition for each class to celebrate Safer Internet Day on Tuesday February 7th. We look forward to celebrating Safer Internet Day in our school. Mrs Ryan & Mrs Shanahan
Little Red Kettle
It was no surprise that Little Red Kettle put on a wonderful show for the girls on Friday 13th of January. There is always a high level of audience participation and as you see from these photos, great fun was had by all.
Diary Dates for Upcoming Events
Week Beginning 23rd of January Catholic Schools Week
Week Beginning 30th of January Parent Teacher Meetings
6th February: Bank Holiday – School Closed
16th February: Mid-Term Break. School Closed
17th February: Mid-Term Break. School Closed
20th February: Return to School.
Healthy Eating
A reminder that it is important that your daughter brings a healthy lunch to school. Please think of the type and the amount of food in the lunchbox. The amount of sugar consumed at lunch will effect a child’s ability to concentrate and learn in the afternoons. Please make sure absolutely no item containing nuts or traces of nuts is brought into school due to possible allergic reactions. Thank you for your support.
In The Event….
In the event of a school closure due to poor weather conditions, parents will be contacted via textaparent messaging service. PLEASE ensure that the office have any new or revised contact numbers for you. If you haven’t already done so, you can download the free textaparent app available on https://apptextaparent.ie/get/app. This will ensure we can contact you and you can also see what events are comping up on the app’s calendar.
Welcome Back
Dear Mams, Dads, Staff, Pupils and Friends of Our School,
Happy New Year! I do hope that you had a relaxing and peaceful Christmas holiday with your families. Today we celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany marking the day the Three Wise Men visited baby Jesus, bearing gifts for the newborn King. We pray for the grace to recognise that which leads to our own encounter with Christ, as the Three Wise Men did when they followed the star*. As the new term begins, I hope the year ahead will be a happy and healthy one for you and your family members. I wish you all a lovely weekend.
Nollaig na mBan!
God Bless.
Miss M. Kelly – Acting Principal
A New Year Prayer
Thank you Lord for giving me,
The brand-New Year ahead.
Help me live the way I should,
As each new day I tread.
Give me gentle wisdom,
That I may help a friend,
Give me the strength and courage,
So a shoulder I may lend.
The year ahead is empty,
Help me fill it with good things,
Each new day is filled with joy,
And the happiness it brings.
Amen.
Applications for September 2023
Applications for Junior Infants for September 2023 need to be received by the school before the closing date on Friday, 13th of January 2023. See our school website www.goodcounselgns.ie on the policies tab and download 2023 GCGNS-Enrolment-and-Admission-Form.
Contact Details
Please ensure that we have any new or revised contact numbers for you in the office, especially if you have had a new phone over Christmas.
Absence – Contacting the School
If your daughter is too ill to attend school then we would ask that you please inform your daughter’s teacher by email on the first day of illness. All absences from school have to be recorded.
Online Safety – Keeping Safe!
The internet and digital technologies are becoming a bigger part of children’s lives and provide them with many benefits and opportunities. As parents it is important to keep our children safe online and this not only means getting involved and engaging with them about what they are doing but also developing and understanding of how the internet works.
For Christmas, Santa may have brought new phones, tablets, Ipads and consoles. www.webwise.ie have helpful advice for parents to ensure that children have a positive experience online.
Mrs. Ryan – Acting Deputy Principal.
Dates for your Diary
Friday 13th of January – Little Red Kettle visit to the school.
Monday 23rd of January – Catholic School Week begins.
Monday 30th of January – Parent Teacher Meetings begin this week. More Information to follow.
Monday 6th of February – Bank Holiday. School Closed.
Thursday 16th of February – Mid-Term Break. School Closed
Friday 17th of February – Mid-Term Break. School Closed.
Monday 20th of February – Return to School.
Monday 13th of March – Intercultural Week agus Seachtain na Gaeilge 2023
Friday 17th of March – St. Patrick’s Day Bank Holiday. School Closed.
Friday 31st of March – Last day of Term before Easter Holidays.
Easter Holidays – Monday 3rd of April to Friday 14th of April. School Closed.
Monday 17th of April – Return to School.
Significant Increase in Viral Infections
Please see below an important notice from the HSE
Nollaig Shona
15th of December 2022
Dear Mams, Dads, Staff, Pupils and Friends of Our School,
As we approach the Christmas break, we have had a very busy first term here in Our Lady of Good Counsel School. On Friday 2nd of December, we bade a fond farewell to our Principal Teacher, Miss O’Reilly. Catriona gave 36 ½ years of service to the teaching profession. A native of Co. Longford, when Miss o’ Reilly first came to Waterford, she joined the staff of the Presentation girls’ school on September 1st 1998. A few months later, she crossed the bridge and joined the teaching staff of Our Lady of Good Counsel, GNS on November 16th 1998 and here she spent many years as a classroom teacher and also as a teaching principal. Miss O’ Reilly has been the Principal in Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS for 17 years. The Pupils, Staff and Board of Management in Our Lady of Good Counsel, GNS would like to express their thanks to Miss O’ Reilly for her dedication, kindness and patience and for making a real difference in the lives of all she encountered. We will all miss her and we wish Miss O’Reilly great happiness and health in her well-deserved retirement.
Save The Date! We are delighted that we will be able to come together for our Carol Service in the Sacred Heart Parish Church on Monday 19th of December at 1.30pm. All families, friends and Parish are warmly invited to join with us. Please remember, that all pupils will be returning to the school with their teachers after the Carol Service. Junior and Senior Infants are to be collected from the school at 2.15pm and the rest of the classes at their usual home time.
Cold Weather Alert! Brrrrrrrrr! As the days have been getting colder with the temperature dropping, don’t forget to dress warmly for this cold weather.
Christmas Holidays – Our school will close early on Wednesday 21st of December 2022 for Christmas Holidays and will reopen at 9.10a.m. on Thursday 5th of January 2023.
Last Day of Term – Early Finish on Wednesday, 21st of December, please note times for collection:
- Junior and Senior Infants collection at 12.15p.m.
- First and Second Classes collection at 12.20 p.m.
- All remaining Classes from Third to Sixth Classes collection at 12.30p.m.
I would like to sincerely thank all members of our school community for the incredible support you have given your children and our school this term. It has been a time of change for us all and we have kept the good ship Our Lady of Good Counsel School afloat. Thank you all! On a closing note, I would like to wish all our families and everyone in our school community a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas and I look forward to welcoming everyone back in the New Year. Nollaig shona agus Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go lèir.
Wesołych Świąt, sretan Božić, Feliz Natal, счастливого Рождества, Joyeux Noel, Vesel božič, สุขสันต์วันคริสมาส, Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus, Nadolig Llawen, sretan Božić, щасливого Різдва, ბედნიერი შობა, E ku odun keresimesi, E ku odun keresimesi, срећан Божић, Boldog Karácsonyt, Linksmų Kalėdų, ക്രിസ്മസ് ആശംസകൾ, veselé Vánoce, y Feliz Navidad!
Stay safe and take care.
Miss M. Kelly – Acting Principal
News from the Wellbeing Warriors
Litter Monitors
Our litter monitors will check the top and bottom yard for litter after big lunch every day.
Each class selects children to pick up litter with the litter pickers provided. Some of the committee members are helping the Junior Classes. The monitors will then count how many pieces of litter on each yard. There are two classes on every yard section. Each section will start on twenty points every Monday.
A point is lost for every piece of litter found. The results are recorded read aloud every week at assembly.
Tips to Reduce Wrappers
Put crisps, sweets and popcorn into a container on Treat Days. Fridays are our only Treat Day!
Do not use tin foil, tissue and cling film in your lunch box.
Do not drop uneaten lunch on the yard. Put it back in your lunchbox.
New Litter Pickers
We recently wrote a letter to the Board of Management requesting new litter pickers. They replied to our request stating we could get six litter pickers. We are waiting for their delivery, and we will put them to good use.
Anti- Bullying Week
We also led a special assembly to mark Anti- Bullying Week
A Message from Miss O’Reilly
To Everyone in the Good Counsel School Community,
Thank you for the kind messages and thoughtful gifts,
Thank you for trusting me with the care of your children,
Thank you for inspiring me, encouraging me and enabling me to lead,
Thank you for advising me and guiding me,
Thank you for challenging my thinking and for working with me to make things better,
Thank you sharing your sad times and happy times with me,
Thank you for smiling faces every morning and little kindnesses every day,
Thank you for being my colleagues and friends,
Thank you for sharing your talents, gifts and time,
Thank you for lots of laughter,
Thank you for twenty-four years of happy memories that I will always treasure.
I will miss you all.
Slán agus beannacht.
Invitation to Retirement Mass for Miss O’Reilly
Dear Parents, Guardians and Pupils,
On the occasion of her retirement, we, would like to invite all the members of our school community, past and present, to a Mass celebrating the wonderful contribution our principal Miss O’Reilly has made to our school. The Mass will take place in The Sacred Heart Church, Ferrybank on Wednesday November 30th 2022, at 11.30am. We look forward to seeing you all there.
The Board of Management and Staff of Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS
Our Trip to Grow HQ
On Thursday 27th of October, the Senior Garden Gladiators visited the Dunmore Road with Miss Kelly and Miss Harney.
It was a dull and damp morning as we set off but that didn’t dampen our spirits. The girls were treated to a tour of the wonderful vegetable gardens by Head Grower, Richard Mee. Richard showed us how to cut lettuce from the garden and he gave us some to bring home. He also showed us how they compost in GIY. We didn’t like the smell! We took turns in spinning the wheel of the composter. We got to see the wormery. Richard told us some of the names of the tiger worms. After our Guided Tour we visited the Sensory Garden and got to smell and taste some herbs. After all the walking and touring we then went to the Café and had a tasty treat. All the food served in the Café goes full circle at Grow HQ from the ground to the plate and back to the ground again. As we were leaving the rain started again – but as gardeners say “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing”. We had a lovely day and we brought back a thank you card to Miss O’ Reilly.
Miss Kelly and Garden Gladiators
Basketball Blitz News
Last Tuesday, November 8th, Mrs. Burke was invited to bring a team of girls to a Girls Basketball School Blitz, organised by The Mercy Secondary School, Fourth Year girls.
She decided to bring the girls who joined The Wildcats Basketball Team in recent years. To her amazement, she could not get over how much they had improved! Not only did they win three out of four of their matches, but to witness their teamwork, and encouragement and praise to each other, was fantastic. Each girl acknowledged her own basketball strengths, put them into action, creating a superb team of players.
Mrs. Burke was so, so proud of each of the girls. She really enjoyed her day out with them and they also had a great day too. It just goes to show, with a little dedication, determination, practice and patience, you can go a long way.
If you would like to be a Wildcat like these amazing girls, please talk to Mrs. Burke who will give you a free pass to a training session with the Wildcats! Why not go along and see if you like it?
Mission Week News
What a fantastic Mission Week we had! As you will see from our Latest News tab, the girls raised a large sum of money which has now been donated to Opportunity Knox. Opportunity Knox is a local charity that works in Uganda. Every cent will be used to provide education supports to children who would otherwise not be able to afford to go to school.
As well as raising money, here are some of the things that the girls learned during Mission Week. In their own words:
‘We learned that when we work together, we get better’.
‘I learned how to count money’.
‘I learned more about my friends’.
‘We learned to have fun, to share and to be grateful’.
‘I learned that selling things is hard work’.
Girls, during Mission Week, you demonstrated all the qualities of Good Counsel Good Citizens – patience, courage, respect, care, loyalty, trust and fairness. Well done!
Covid-19
Unfortunately, Covid-19 is still with us. Please remember that if your child has tested positive for Covid-19, she needs to remain at home for 7 days. We have a pupil in our school who is very vulnerable due to an organ transplant, so we rely on you to take particular care.
Special Assembly
As we begin the month of November, we remember all our loved ones who have died, and we also pray for those who have no-one to pray for them. Mrs. Ryan’s Third Class has prepared a Special Assembly for today and they will lead us in prayer and song.
At this time, we extend our sincere sympathy to Sr. Mary Gough on the recent death of her twin sister, Sr. Catherine. May Catherine rest in peace with all the Saints and Holy Souls.
Remember those this special time,
Who live with God above.
All Saints and Souls, and all our own,
Who live with God in love.
Congratulations
Everyone at Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS sends congratulations to Mr. Jamie Nagle who has been appointed as the next Principal. We look forward to welcoming him to our school in January.
Congratulations also to Mrs. Clare Burke who has recently been appointed to the In-School Management Team as an Assistant Principal. Good luck in your new role Mrs. Burke.
