Letter at Hallowe'en

22^nd October 2020

Hallowe’en 2020

Dear Parents,

As we draw to the midterm break there are a few messages we would like to send.

Firstly, a big thank you to all who have helped in getting our school open and running for the first half term. It has been a serious team effort from all; children, parents, staff, Board of Management. We have had great support from everyone. The children have been great.

• Hallowe’en: We are having Trick or Treat for Temple Street tomorrow. Children can dress up and come to schools in their costumes. However, with Covid restrictions, it is not possible to have accessories with costumes as these are all touch points. Therefore, no hats (sorry witches!), swords, wands etc. Children can have their faces painted coming into school as part of their costume!
• Morning and Evening: Entering and leaving the school has been going well so far. With the move to Level 5 restrictions we would suggest that people dropping and collecting children might wear masks or visors to protect each other. We would also remind everyone to continue to keep good social distancing and to drop/pick and go as quickly as possible. We would also remind that 8.45 am is the time from which we provide supervision for the children and this is the earliest time we ask people to drop children at school.
• The weather has definitely turned in the last fortnight, so please ensure every child has a coat at school each day. We will strive to ensure children get fresh air during the school day so it is important children have their coats in school.
• With a ten day break at Hallowe’en, teachers are planning to use the break to have a shuffle of the pods in their classes. We will inform you of the new pods before November 2^nd.
• Parent-Teacher Meetings would normally take place within three weeks of the return from Hallowe’en break. However, they will not take place before the end of this year and we will review this in January.

Again, thanks for all your co-operation and have an enjoyable and safe midterm break.

Yours sincerely,

Dermot Dunphy

Principal

View the letter original here

Trick or Treat for Temple Street

Hallowe'en 2020

As part of the celebration of Hallowe'en 2020, the school has signed up for Trick or Treat for Temple Street. Organised by Ms Horan's Sixth Class, on Friday 23rd October children will be dressing up in their favourite Hallowe'en characters and, added to this, there will be lots of Hallowe'en activities from colouring to quiz to Gaeilge to maths to acrostics! As usual, the classes in the school will be decorated for Hallowe'en and Ms Horan's class will work on the corridor!

All in all, it should be a fun time. However there are sick children who will not be enjoying Hallowe'en in the same way. We are hoping to use this fun time to think of them and to try help sick children by raising some funds for Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin. We are suggesting that children who dress up would donate €2 on Friday (to a maximum of €5 per family) and that all funds raised will be forwarded to the Temple Street Children's Health Foundation Trick or Treat campaign.

With the present restrictions children can come to school that morning in their costumes. (In other years children would have brought costumes in and changed in school!)

We are looking forward to having lots of fun next week and hope to have a gallery of photos of the great costumes we will see!

Thank you for your continued support of our activities in school.

You can view an explanatory letter from Temple Street here. 

Enrolment 2021

Under our new Admissions Policy, Scoil an Chroí Ró-Naofa opened for Enrolment 2021 on October 1st 2020. All information is available under our Admissions section. Closing date for applications is March 31st 2021.

Any further information is available from the school office on 056 8831512