Parking restrictions

Dear parents,

In spite of repeated requests, parking in front of the school, on the road and on the verges, continues to cause concern in relation to the safety of the children coming to school.

We are required to remind you that under the by-laws fo the City Council the area at the front of the school on Renmore Avenue is strictly a NO PARKING AREA and is marked with double lines.

The safety and welfare of the children must be our principal concern, therefore, we request you to abide by these by-laws at all times.

Parking for the school is available in the church car park.

A range of sanctions including clamping is being investigated by the Board of Management in order to deal with the issue.

Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

Yours sincerely
Malachy Thompson
Chairperson, Board of Management

Junior Achievement Awards

Children from Scoil Chaitríona Junior present certificates to the GMIT volunteers who took park in the Junior Achievement Enterprise and Life Skills Programme. 

Thanks to all involved. 

We really look forward to our involvement in the next year's Junior Achievement programme.

School Holidays 2010/2011

Oops, some mistakes in the original below:

There will be no early closing on Friday, 13th May or Friday 4th March 

June bank holiday:  We are off on Friday, Monday and Tuesday.  Back to school again on Wednesday 8th June.

Feedback from judges

Last term our school entered the Junior Spider awards.  We were not chosen as the school with the best blog website, however we did get some really positive feedback.  Here is what the judges said about us:

Plenty of information about the school on this blog site. Regular updates
keeps the site fresh and up to date.

Great use of links and other resources relevant to what the children are
learning (e.g. Sites to use with the Whiteboards). Very good website with
simple effective navigation and good use of photography too. Plenty of
information, all findable and browseable easily.

Health and Safety Notice

In the interest of child safety dogs are not allowed in the school grounds (even if on leads).

Great news

Big congratulations to Ms Tierney's senior infants who are through to the next round in the féile scoildrámaíochta with their play Taisteal. Another big congratulations to Darren in Ms Conneely's junior infant class who won "an aistoir is fearr" best actor.  Well done to all three classes for wonderful performances on Tuesday in Inverin, and for representing our school so well.  Maith sibh go léir!

Féile Scoildrámaíochta: Drama festival

Tuesday, 15th February 2011

Well done to Ms. Conneely's Junior Infants, to Ms. Tierney's Senior Infants and to Ms. McLoughlin's Senior Infants who represented our school and performed so well at today's Féile Scoildrámaíochta. It was a terrific day - our double decker bus left to go to Inverin at 10:30am (with all costumes on and make-up done before we left). We really enjoyed watching the Snow White and the 7 dwarfs that were on before us, and we really enjoyed watching each others plays.  All our plays went without a hitch. We are delighted.

Results for all the plays will be announced on Radio na Gaeltachta (an Irish Language radio station) on Friday at 6pm or 6:30pm. Teachers will know the results early next week. Well done to all our children, and to all the parents who provided the costumes, our fan club parents who came to support us, to Nessa, Maggie, Mrs. Phelan, Ms. Cunningham, Nora and Mrs. Carleton who did our make up and helped us so much on the day, and of course to Len for the fabulous sets and props.

Congratulations to all!

Happy New Year to our friends worldwide

Well done to all!

Well done to all who braved our freezing weather to come join us for our annual Carol Service. 

 What a special night!

Tonight's carol service was a huge success, thanks to all the parents, teachers, SNAs and most of all to the children who braved freezing conditions to come and sing for all of us.  You were superb, and really helped to bring the message of Christmas to us all.  May you all have a very happy and peaceful Christmas surrounded by those you love.  Thank you to all.

Scoil Chaitríona Junior carol service

Our carol service is on tonight!!!

Scoil Chaitríona Junior's

Carol Service

On: Tonight, December 21st

At: 7pm

In: Renmore church

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Getting closer to Christmas

We have a lovely school Advent Wreath.  We know which candles to light each week in Advent!

Tooth Day

It is tooth day today.  Have a look at this presentation for Junior and Senior infants http://www.dentalhealth.ie/download/pdf/toothday_2010_teachers_presentation_final_221110.pdf 

or other publications on http://www.dentalhealth.ie/publications/list/toothday/

Here's another great link.  This one is to the video story: Dr. Rabbit and the Legend of Tooth Kingdom http://www.colgate.com/app/BrightSmilesBrightFutures/US/EN/Kids/LegendVideoChapters/Chapter_01.cvsp

Here's another programme about looking after your teeth; http://www.irishhealth.com/clin/documents/mighty_mouth.pdf

Dick Whittington pantomime

Ugandan display

A day in the life of a Ugandan Child

We went to see Miss Tierney's Senior Infant class perform a play today in the halla. It was about a day in the life of a child from Uganda. It was very interesting. We saw how the children there begin the day with getting water from the well and collecting firewood to cook breakfast. The children then made their way to school and sang a lovely Good Morning song to the teacher. At break time the children had lots of fun playing together and they played with a ball made out of banana skins. We heard lions roaring and monkeys going wild. The children finished the play by singing and dancing to a lovely song about Africa. Well done to all the children in Miss Tierney's class. We really enjoyed your play.

Science and Technology Festival Event at our school!

We had a visit from Armagh Planetarium Stardome to our school today, Friday, November 19th, during Science Week.  Some of the classes got to visit the stardome, and the other classes did magnetism or electricity workshops.  It was a fantastic event.  Thanks so much to the planetarium, and to the Galway Science and Technology festival for this wonderful event.

Have you time to spare this coming Sunday?  If so, be sure to visit UCG (Bailey Allen Hall) between 11am and 6pm on Sunday November 21st, for the Galway Science and Technology Exhibition.  Fun for all the family, and it's all FREE!!!!

Our Halloween Walk

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

We had a wonderful sponsored walk.  A huge Well Done and Thank You to all who dressed up, collected money, made or bought costumes, came out to see us walking and were part of our very exciting event.  Check out individual classes for tons of photos of our walk.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Jane Mc Loughlin who won Teacher of Primary Science Award 2010.  http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/ Jane is the only person to win this years award in Ireland or England (and the first Irish primary school teacher). Presentation of the awards was at the Institute of Physics Awards event in London in September. We are all so proud of Jane, it couldn't be awarded to a more dedicated and deservering teacher. Well done from Eileen and all the staff and children in Scoil Chaitriona Junior.

Visit the Institute of Physics (UK) site on http://www.iop.org/
View Award winners on http://www.iop.org/about/awards/index.html
View Teacher of Primary Science awards on http://www.iop.org/about/awards/additional/primary/page_38692.html
Visit the Institute of Physics of Ireland site on www.iopireland.org
Photo shows Jane being presented with her award by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the president of the Institute of Physics.
Video to be seen at http://www.blip.tv/file/4215837  or   at   http://www.iop.org/resources/videos/people-and-events/page_45063.html
News article from the Institue of Physics in Ireland at http://www.iopireland.org/news/2010/page_48862.html
See the account of the event on the Discover Primary Science newsletter  http://www.primaryscience.ie/resources_enewsletter_edition21_art5.php
Other information from IOP is at http://www.scienceday.org/about/awards/additional/primary/winners/page_45060.html
Article from Galway Advertiser 21/10/10 http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/32364
From the Galway Science and Technology festival 2010 brochure http://www.galwayscience.ie/news/jane-mcloughlin-awarded-teacher-primary-science-award-2010
From St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra http://www.spd.dcu.ie/main/news/JaneMcLoughlin.shtml

Galway Science and Technology Festival 2010 http://www.galwayscience.ie/2010-galway-science-technology-festival-person-of-the-year/

Last note of term

"Hi" to our friends from all round the world

Congratulations

To all the teachers and pupils of Scoil Chaitríona Junior who were awarded our Award of Science and Maths Excellence. A big THANK YOU to Dr. Malachy Thompson who presented us with our award, and who gave 2 amazing "Flashes and Bangs" demonstrations today.

For more photos see our science page article on
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2010/06/award-of-science-and-maths-excellence.html