Date for Your Diary
Dear Dads, Mums, Pupils and Staff,
It’s that time of year again and teachers are busy preparing for the General Information Evening for parents/guardians. On Thursday October 5th, you will be invited to a meeting with your child’s teacher. The teacher will talk to you about the curriculum for the year and give you some ideas about how we can all work together to help the children progress. You will receive more information about the meeting before then, but for now, please save the date!
This year, at our meetings, we will be launching our new school website, which has lots of exciting features. We will also launch a fantastic ‘Shape and Space Dictionary’ developed by our school’s Action Team and the staff. It is very impressive and you will receive your free copy at the meeting. We look forward to meeting you.
Yours sincerely,
CO’Reilly – Principal
Good News!
Congratulations to Mrs. Shanahan and her husband Liam on the safe arrival of their baby boy on Wednesday last. We were all delighted to hear the good news.
St. Dominic’s Credit Union
During the last school year, we promised to set up a Savings Scheme for the children, so that they could save towards the cost of a school tour later in the year. St. Dominic’s Credit Union (SDCU) has offered to work with us and your child brought home a letter from SDCU earlier this week.
We would like to get the school Credit Union up and running as soon as possible so please return the forms to your child’s teacher. Each child who opens an account will have €10 (FREE) lodged to the account and she will receive a piggy bank to help with saving at home. The Credit Union will visit the school every fortnight to take lodgements from the children. This is a great way to encourage the girls to save and hopefully it will make it easier for everyone to manage the cost of a school tour.
Abbey C. C. Open Night
Abbey Community College is having an Open Night on Tuesday October 3rd at 7.30p.m. All pupils in Fifth and Sixth Class are invited along with their parents/guardians to see the wonderful facilities that are available right on our doorstep.
If your child will be going to Abbey C.C. this is a good opportunity to visit the school. It is important to note that even though Our Lady of Good Counsel GNS is a feeder school for Abbey C.C., your child still needs to be enrolled. If you haven’t already done so and your child is in Fifth or Sixth Class, it might be a good idea to contact the Office at Abbey C.C. as soon as possible.
Good Counsel Girls in the News.
Our lovely Junior Infants looked wonderful in this week’s News and Star. We’re delighted that you have settled in well into school girls. Well done to your Mums and Dads for preparing you so well for school.
School Attendance
If your child is absent from school for any reason, you are required to send a note to her teacher when she returns to school. All absences and reasons for absence are recorded electronically. If we do not receive a note, the absence is recorded as ‘unexplained’.
If your child has an appointment with a doctor or a dentist early in the morning and she will be coming to school afterwards, please let her teacher know the previous day so that your child is not marked absent.
If you need to collect your child early from school for a doctor’s/dental appointment, please send a note to the teacher in advance.
An Crann Comhrá
Tá crann nua ag fás sa scoil. A new tree is growing in our school.
An Crann Comhrá ata ann. It is The Conversation Tree.
Cuirfimíd frása nua ar an gcrann gach coicís. We will put a new phrase on the tree each fortnight.
Bainfaimíd go léir úsáid as an bhfrása i rith an lae. We will all use the phrase during the day.
Congratulations
At Assembly today, the girls who took part in the Summer Reading Challenge at Ferry bank Library were presented with their certificates. Congrautlations to everyone who took part and we are happy to welcome Karyn, the new librarian in Ferrybank, to our school. Ferrybank Library is a fantastic resource to have on our doorstep and we are very grateful to all the staff there who are so good to us.
Did you know that it is FREE to join the Library?
Beat the Street
We hope that all the girls are out and about with their families and taking on the Beat the Street challenge. Beat the Street is a fun, free, real life walking and cycling game. You earn points and prizes by tapping special cards onto sensors known as Beat Boxes. The Beat Boxes are all over Waterford (there are 3 in Ferrybank – have you found them yet?) This challenge is for everyone – children and adults – so why not join in the fun?
Check out beatthestreet.me/waterford to see how our school is doing.
