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2018
- 21.02.2018 Junior Cycle Info for Parents of Primary Students (School News)Junior Cycle Info for Parents of Primary...
- January 2018 (1st Class)January had us reading our novel "George's Marvellous medicine" We learned about capacity in maths and made our own medicines from materials found both inside and outside the school. We learned about...
2017
- 29.11.2017 Some up to date news from St Catherine’s (School News)Dear Parents and Carers, Christmas Fair : Thank you all for your support last Sunday for what was our best Christmas Fair - EVER!!! It was lovely to see so many people give of their time and...
- 21.11.2017 Only 5 more sleeps!!! (School News)Dear Parents & Carers, There are only 5 more sleeps to go before our Biggest Fundraiser of the Year. The Christmas Fair is a great day for everyone involved in St Catherine's to get to know each...
- 19.11.2017 PA: Winter Fair (Parents Association)Dear All. The Winter Fair is almost upon us. Thank-you to everyone who has signed up so far but there are a LOT of empty slots, especially for the day itself. We really must get these filled Just...
- 13.11.2017 November Newsletter (School News)Dear Parents and Carers, Attached please find attached November's Newsletter. There are many important dates that you should add to your calendar and...
- 11.11.2017 PA: Winter Fair Update (Parents Association)Hello All Just an update on a few things We are happy to announce the return of the Hairdressing section of the Winter Fair. Mark Doherty of Sitstil (www.sitstil.ie) will be kindly providing...
- 08.11.2017 new email addresses, raffle prizes and an electrical waste collection next week (School News)Dear Parents & Carers, Hopefully you will all have received emails from me over the past few weeks informing you of new class email address - please use these to communicate with the relevant...
- 06.11.2017 PA News: Winter Fair (Parents Association)Hello All The Fair is fast approaching (26th November) and we need to get organised As usual we'll be looking to get as many donations as we can from parents - we will be asking for these to be...
- 30.10.2017 Crafty bits and bobs for the Christmas Fair (School News)Dear Parents & Carers, Below is a list of crafty bits and bobs that our very crafty mums are looking for to complete crafts for the Avoca Stall at the Christmas Fair on November 26th. During...
- 26.10.2017 Book Club (School News)Dear Parents, Our book club is up and running again. This year it is going strictly online. I can't take cash payments in school anymore. Please feel free to browse on line following the link...
- 14.09.2017 PA News (Parents Association)Welcome to a new term of activities. Activities will commence week beginning 25th September and run until 15th December. There will be a mid term break from October 30th until November 3rd. There are...
- 02.09.2017 September Newsletter (School News)Dear Parents, Attached is a very long first newsletter - apologies for the length but there is a lot of to inform you of in September! Best wishes for the year...
- 31.08.2017 Chess programme (Chess)Dear Parents, A lot of you and your children have been asking about chess, so I put together a little document on how our chess programme runs. I'm attaching it here - it's mainly of interest for...
- 19-06-2017 Friday concert (School News)Dear Parents, As you all know, we are having our end-of-year concert on Friday of this week, June 23rd. It will take place at 6 pm in the Donore Avenue Community Centre. Please have your...
- 18-06-2017 PA: School Concert – Volunteers! (Parents Association)As you know the school concert is this coming Friday - 23rd June - in the Donore Community centre. Exact running times will be confirmed this week. The Parents Association will be providing...
- 15-06-2017 draft new enrolment policy (School News)Dear Parents, The Board of Management has spent a significant amount of time this year looking at our enrolment policy with a view to updating it and making sure it aligns with our vision for the...
- 08-06-2017 The New Principal (School News)Dear Parents and Children, I'm sure you'll all be delighted with the news that Karen Jordan is to be appointed the new principal of St Catherine's. I have every faith that Karen will do a...
- 08-06-2017 Sports Day (School News)Hello everyone, The weather forecast for tomorrow looks ok. So we are going to attempt Sports Day tomorrow - again, provided you don't get a cancellation text from me! Kind...
- 07-06-2017 Sports Day tomorrow – hopefully! (School News)Dear Parents, Our School Sports Day, weather permitting, will take place tomorrow, Thursday June 8th in Kevin’s Hurling Club, Dolphin’s Barn. If it is raining tomorrow morning, bring the...
- 06-06-2017 PA: Kevins Summer Camps (Parents Association)Please see the following from Patricia Halton regarding the Summer Camps in Kevin's this summer. Registration takes place on Saturday 10th June.17th June,and the 24th June in DP at 10.30am. Our...
- 05-06-2017 PA: Exhibition Opening Invitation: Into the gravelly ground by Janine Davidson (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Janine Davidson, mother to Usna and Mila, and talented artist (we were lucky enough to have her teach our after school art classes for several years), is having an exhibition...
- 01-06-2017 PA: Parent Volunteers Needed for Sports Day (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Sports Day is scheduled for next Thursday 8th of June. A team of parent volunteers are required to prepare and serve squash and fruit. We also need someone to do the Lidl...
- 01-06-2017 August summer camp with Gemma and Sharon (School News)Hi all, A few people have already been asking about this so here is all the information about our August summer camp. A perfect way to get the kids back into routine before school starts....
- 26-05-2017 PA News: Quiz Night (Parents Association)Hi Parents, Many many thanks to everyone who supported our Quiz Night last week which saw us raise a fantastic...
- 25-05-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, First of all, well done to all the 3rd and 4th Class students for playing and behaving so well in their exam today. And thanks to the 3rd Class parents for having your children...
- 23-05-2017 School Calendar (School News)Dear Parents, There seems to have been a few glitches with the mailing system recently as I've had a few mails bounce back from addresses that normally work fine. A couple for parents mentioned...
- 22-05-2017 Dates – corrections (School News)Dear Parents, The date for the taking of school photographs has been changed to Thursday. More time to get the hair done!! Sports Day is due (weather permitting) to take place on Thursday June...
- 21-05-2017 A few reminders and thank yous (School News)Dear Parents, Thank you all for supporting the Parents' Association Table Quiz; unfortunately I could not be there myself this year but I'm sure it was a great evening and I'm looking forward to...
- 18-05-2017 PA: Last Minute Quiz Stuff… (Parents Association)Just 1 day to go until the St Catherine's annual Quiz Night takes place this Friday May 19th @ 8pm in McGowan's. We will be starting the quiz at 8 o'clock sharp, you'll need to get your table...
- 18-05-2017 School News: Dates (School News)Dear Parents, Some dates coming up which you may need to...
- 18-05-2017 PA: Fwd: Draft Development Framework for St Teresa’s Gardens and Environs (Parents Association)I would like to invite you to a community consultation on the Draft Development Framework for St Teresa’s Gardens and Environs, please find attached. The purpose of this event is to explain...
- 18-05-2017 PA: St. Catherine’s Quiz Night 2017: Trivia Fact No.3 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Just 2 days to go until the St Catherine's annual Quiz Night takes place this Friday May 19th @ 8pm in McGowan's. Only 2 days to shake out the cobwebs and prepare to prove that you...
- 17-05-2017 School News (School News)Hello everyone, Just to let you know, Sports Day is now likely to be Thursday June 9th in Kevins Hurling Club. And thanks to those who have sent in PPS numbers...
- 17-05-2017 PA: St. Catherine’s Quiz Night 2017: Trivia Fact No.2 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Just 3 days to go until the St Catherine's annual Quiz Night takes place this coming Friday May 19th @ 8pm. To further reward our attentive email audience, we thought we would...
- 15-05-2017 St. Catherine’s Quiz Night 2017: Trivia Fact No.1 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Hopefully you are all aware that the St Catherine's annual Quiz Night takes place this coming Friday May 19th @ 8pm. To reward our attentive email audience, we thought we would...
- 15-05-2017 School News (School News)Hello everyone, The Department of Education is looking for every child's PPS number for their data base. Could you all email me with your chiild's PPSN someday this week? Available from the...
- 11-05-2017 PA: Quiz Night Tickets and Prizes (Parents Association)One week to go! We will be selling tickets in the school yard from now until next Friday, starting tomorrow morning (Friday) at 8.40am. Tickets are priced at €10 per person or €40 per table of...
- 09-05-2017 PA News – Clothes Recycling Tomorrow! (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Just a quick reminder to get your clothes recycling in to school this afternoon or tomorrow morning - they plan to collect at around 10AM...
- 08-05-2017 The Sensational Sci-Fi Magazine (Parents Association, School News)Dear Parents, You may have heard, we're doing it again... another St. Catherine's Creative Writing Club magazine is coming out! It's the last one this year, so it's going to be a bumper...
- 05-04-2017 St Catherine’s Got Talent this Friday (School News)Dear Parents, Thanks so much to those of you who have already contributed to our collection for the Galway Hospice in honour of Gemma's brother. No pressure - every family has their own charity...
- 09-03-2017 Staff Meeting Decisions (School News)Dear parents, At our staff meeting yesterday it was decided that in future, all mobile phones brought to school must be handed up to the teacher who will store them for the day in a secure place....
- 08-03-2017 Our Tunes – Saturday, 8 April 2017 (School News)Hello everyone, I think this might be of interest to some of you. As it's on a Saturday we won't organise a group from school, but if any of you wanted your child to attend, I think you could...
- 22-02-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Hope you are all enjoying the mid-term break. Just a couple of notices: We will be holding auditions for our "St Catherine's Got Talent" show during the week of the 20th-24th...
- 15-02-2017 New Book Club (School News)Dear Parents Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.ie/st-catherines-west-n to browse the latest books and order online. For every €1 you spend on this...
- 15-02-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, First of all, thanks to the many people who emailed, called or dropped in to say kind things to me arising out of my last letter. I have really appreciated the good wishes and...
- 25-01-2017 PA News – Supervision (Parents Association)We seem to have created some confusion over supervision and, in hindsight, should have been clearer on the forms. When we asked for supervision dates these were dates where parents would be...
- 24-01-2017 Cor na nOg (School News)Just one more thing...Cor na nOg, the RTE youth choir, has contacted me to say they are holding auditions for the choir (10-16-year-olds) on the last weekend in February. It's a fantastic opportunity...
- 24-01-2017 School News – EARLY CLOSING FRIDAY 2 pm (School News)Dear Parents, Apologies if I haven't mentioned this before: School will close slightly early on Friday to enable the teachers to set up for the Parent-Teacher meetings.Please collect your child...
- 22-01-2017 PA: After school activity – EXTRA – Ukulele Classes – Tuesdays (Parents Association)Dear Parents FURTHER AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITY - UKULELE CLASS TUESDAY 2.20pm - 3.10pm Open to 1st Class- 6th Class pupils. Nora Artola and Shane Mc Grath, experienced Ukulele teachers will...
- 18-01-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Sorry about the late arrival of the Parent-Teacher Meeting roster this morning! We have had internet and printer issues...hopefully now resolved. Tracy and Karen (Junior and...
- 16-01-2017 Enrolment 2017 Junior Infants (School News)Dear Parents, We are going through our enrolment procedure at the moment for next year's Junior Infants. If you have a child who should be starting Junior Infants this year (don't forget they must...
- 15-01-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Welcome back to a new term at St Catherine's. Just reminding you once again that school is CLOSED this Tuesday for staff training. After-school activities forms are to be back...
- 15-01-2017 Hurling News (Hurling)Dear Parents, Happy New Year to you all. Just to remind you all that After School Hurling will not return until FEBRUARY. There was an email sent out at the end of last term stating...
- 12-01-2017 PA News: After-School Activities Term 2 (Parents Association)Welcome to a new term of activities. Please find attached a copy of the sign-up form along with the weekly timetable Activities will commence week beginning Monday 23rd January and run until...
- 06-01-2017 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Happy New Year to all. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Thank you for turning up in such numbers to our Carol Service and for co-operating with all the arrangements. I'm sure...
2016
- 19-12-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, On Wednesday, we will be having a big practice for our Carol Service in the Cathedral. Please make sure your child is in school in good time that day, as we will all be leaving to go...
- 13-12-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Our internet was down all day today at the school, so I wasn't able to reply today to all those of you who came back to me about tickets for Christchurch. Hopefully back to normal...
- 09-12-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Please could we all, once again, check and treat for HEADLICE. Let's make this the "Nit Nightmare" weekend where every single child's head is cleared for Christmas. In fact I have...
- 07-12-2016 PA – The Winter Fair raised a total of… (Parents Association)Hi Parents, First let me say a huge thank you to everyone involved in a hugely successful Winter Fair 2016. And in particular thank you to those who donated goods or, importantly, their time to...
- 02-12-2016 PA – More than just bric-à-brac… (Parents Association)Hi Parents, The Winter Fair 2016 looks set the biggest and best yet. As well as the standard fare at the fair, this year we've got.... Come in your best (we mean worst) Christmas jumper and you...
- 01-12-2016 PA – Don’t miss your chance to donate this week (Parents Association)Hi Parents, There's only today and tomorrow left to drop your saleable goods to the school. We need your... Bric-à-brac, toys, games, clothes & books Bows, baskets & tissue paper suitable for...
- 30-11-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Please support the Winter Fair which is taking place this Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm in the school. It's not just a Sale... there's fun for everyone with loads of activities for the...
- 28-11-2016 PA – This is the week for your donations! (Parents Association)Hi Parents, The Winter Fair is this Sunday 4th December at 1pm! So just a quick note on two things – This week you can drop your donations of bric-à-brac, clothes, books, toys etc. to the...
- 24-11-2016 tomorrow evening – 1st to 6th class (Orchestra, School News)Dear Parents, Just a quick note about tomorrow evening: Children need to be at the CHURCH (the Church of St Catherine and St James, the red-brick church on Donore Ave), not the school, by 6:15...
- 21-11-2016 PA News – 2 weeks to go… (Parents Association)Hi Parents, There's just under 2 weeks to go until the Winter Fair, 1-4pm on Sunday 4th of December. Here's a reminder of what you can do to help...
- 16-11-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, First of all, can I remind you that we have an orchestra concert next Friday, November 25th? It will take place in the Church of St Catherine and St James on Donore Avenue, starting...
- 09-11-2016 Electrical goods disposal collection (Green News)Dear All, Just a reminder that the Green Committee have organised a collection for used electrical goods. If you would like to dispose of any electrical goods (no large items), please bring...
- 08-11-2016 PA News: Important Date for Your Diary (Parents Association)Hi All, The Parents' Association is delighted to announce our hugely popular annual Winter Fair will be held Sunday 4th of December in the school (we'll confirm the exact time...
- 08-11-2016 Book Club – Online Ordering (School News)Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.ie/st-catherines-west-n to browse the latest books and order online. For every €1 you spend on this month’s Book...
- 27-10-2016 Church service this Saturday (School News)Dear Parents, Because of the marathon on Sunday morning 30 October, the Church service will move to 6.30 on Saturday evening 29...
- 27-10-2016 PA Reminder: Tonight 8pm, Headline Bar, Clanbrassil Street (Parents Association)Hi all, Just a quick reminder about the Parents' Association meet-up tonight, 8pm at the Headline Bar, Clanbrassil Street. As mentioned we have several parents stepping down from the committee...
- 12-10-2016 Chess News (Chess)October Chess News Lots happening on the chess front in St Catherine’s! In the Friday afternoon chess club, we’ve just been through our first rounds of promotions from one division to the next...
- 25-09-2016-PA-Reminder (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Just a quick email to remind you all tomorrow - Monday 26th - is the deadline to get your pupil accident insurance forms...
- 21-09-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, The Department of Education has informed us that we must close on Tuesday, January 17th for staff training in the new Primary Language Curriculum. This is s new approach to the...
- 09-09-2016 After School Activities (Parents Association)Dear parents, Welcome to a new term of activities. Activities will commence week beginning 19th September and run until 9th December. There will be a mid term break from October 31st until...
- 08-09-2016 After School Hurling (Hurling)Dear Parents, Last year was a great year in St Catherine's for our hurlers. We trained in all sorts of weather, we won, lost and drew, we entered our first league and the senior team finished off...
- 04-09-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Best of luck for the first full week back, hope all goes swimmingly for you. Just a few...
- 21-06-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Everything almost wrapped up for another school year! I'm sure everyone is just about ready for the "summer" holidays by now.... Just a few notes on the last few...
- 15-06-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Don't forget our concert is next Friday, June 24th in the Donore Ave Community Centre at 6 pm. Children will need to be dropped to the school by 5:40 pm at the latest. Tickets at the...
- 14-06-2016 PA-News – A few important reminders (Parents Association)Dear Parents, A few things...1) Clothes Recycling - Collection tomorrow 2) Afterschool Activities - Supervision chaos 3) Extra Junior Yoga and Junior Drama...
- 02-06-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Thanks so much to those of you who have returned the garda vetting forms as I asked. I'm appealing to everyone else to do so as soon as...
- 31-05-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Many of you have been extremely generous with your time in volunteering to help out in the school over the years. Parents have accompanied children on field trips, have organised...
- 20-05-2016 Second-Level School (School News)Dear Parents, Many of you will be aware that there is a campaign being organised to set up a new second-level school in Dublin 8 that would be under the umbrella of "Educate Together" i.e....
- 20-05-2016 PA – Quiz Night – Raffle Prizes (Parents Association)A HUGE 'Thank You' to all the businesses and individuals who donated...
- 19-05-2016 PA – Quiz- The wise woman was right, not tight! Plus – Trivia Fact No.4 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, In our excitement, we issued our previous email with some typos. We would like to clarify that the wise woman was not tight. Quite the contrary, she was generous to a fault....
- 19-05-2016 PA – St. Catherine’s Quiz Night Tomorrow; Wonderful Raffle Prizes; Trivia Fact No.3 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, Hopefully you are all aware that the St Catherine's annual Quiz Night takes place Tomorrow at 8pm. To reward our attentive email audience even further, we would like to share...
- 19-05-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Last reminder to please come to the Table Quiz tomorrow if you possibly can. Also, don't forget to donate raffle prizes - vouchers, edibles, drinkables, gift items of all sorts. It...
- Sports Day – Wednesday, May 25th (School News, Sports)Dear Parents, Our School Sports Day, weather permitting, will take place next Wednesday, May 25th, in Kevin’s Hurling Club, Dolphin’s Barn. If it is raining that morning, bring the children...
- 16-05-2016 PA – St. Catherine’s Quiz Night; Trivia Fact No.2 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, We hope you've been enjoying the sunny weather this weekend! There are now only 5 days to go before St Catherine's holds its annual Quiz Night on Friday next. To further advance the...
- 12-05-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Hope you are all enjoying the "summer at last" weather, let's hope it's here to stay! Don't forget, if it's sunny, please pack a bottle of sunscreen in your child's bag as they...
- 12-05-2016 PA – Registration Kevin’s Summer Camps (Parents Association)Dear Parents Is interested in signing up for the Kevins Summer Camps please note the registration dates...
- 10-05-2016 PA – St. Catherine’s Quiz Night; 10 Days To Go; Trivia Fact No.1 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, There are only 10 days to go before St Catherine's holds its annual Quiz Night. To reward our attentive email audience, we thought we would share a few little-known facts about St....
- 29-04-2016 Kevin’s Summer Camp details (Hurling)Dear Parents, Attached please find dates and details regarding Kevin's Hurling and Camogie Club's summer camps. Have a great week off. Best...
- 21-04-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Here are a few important dates for your diary - events coming up this term. There will probably be additions to the list depending on what class your child is in, but the following...
- 20-04-2016 Latest Book Club Order (School News)Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.ie/st-catherines-west-n to browse the latest books and order online. For every €1 you spend on this month’s Book...
- 18-04-2016 Weeding day tomorrow! (Green News)Hi all, We will be weeding around the school grounds and beds tomorrow afternoon from 1.30pm. If you have gardening gloves and/or a trowel, we would be grateful if your child(ren) could bring...
- 18-04-2016 School News (School News)Dear Parents, Hope the Nits had a total Nightmare. Minibeast Mondays are a thing of the past... Some of you have been asking about who will be teaching classes for next year. This is not quite...
- 08-04-2016 Parents’ Association – Activities Term 3 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, After school activities for this term will commence on the week beginning April 18th. Copies of the activities timetable and sign-up forms are being distributed in the children's...
- School News 05-04-2016 (School News)Welcome back to a new term at St Catherine's. I hope you all had lovely Easter holidays. Thank you for your support of our Proclamation Day events, it was great to see so many parents there...
- 17-03-2016 Soccer-Sisters Easter Football Camp (School News)Hello everyone, hope you are having a lovely St Patrick's Day. A flyer went home recently in children's bags about an Easter football camp. Some vital info was apparently missing from the flyer,...
- 12-03-2016 Parents’ Association (Parents Association)Please find attached forms for Pupil Personal Accident Insurance with Allianz. Students took forms home in their school bags yesterday, but unfortunately they were not the correct ones. So please can...
- School News 10-03-2016 (School News)Dear Parents, Just getting to the end of a relatively short but extremely busy term! Well done, first of all, to our Senior Orchestra for coming second in the prestigious Wesley College...
- 07-03-2016 Parents’ Association – Clothes Recycling Tuesday 15th March (Parents Association)The Liberties Recycling Project will be collecting old, clean clothes, sheets, towels, pairs of shoes etc from the school on Tuesday 15th March (next week), so now is an excellent time for a big...
- 07-03-2016 Parents’ Association – After-School-Activities (Parents Association)All afterschool activities are finishing up this week. They will of course start up again a few weeks after the Easter Hols. We are very keen to get gymnastics back on the schedule, but securing...
- School News 24-02-2016 (School News)Lots of exciting things coming up... But first, thanks so much for your support of Biodiversity Day. The children looked amazing! Our Green Schools Committee children are off to the Green Expo...
- School News 12-02-2016 (School News)Dear Parents, On Monday we will be having a one-off "football activity day" with FAI coaches, kindly organised by Leigh Hamilton and Aaron Shearer. Each class from 1st up to 6th will be brought...
- 09-02-2016 Biodiversity Day: Wed 17th February (Green News)Dear Parents, As you know, we in St Catherine's are hoping to be awarded our 4th Green Flag in June 2016. The theme for this 2-year programme (2014-16) is biodiversity. This term we have two...
- School closed on February 26th 2016 (School News)Dear Parents, Just letting you know that the school will be closed for the election on February 26th, as we are used as a polling...
- 04-02-2016 Public meeting about sports facilities – Christchurch Girls’ Choir (School News)St Kevin's Hurling Club has called a public meeting over the lack of decent sports facilities and green space in our area. The club is pressing Dublin City Council to designate a significant part of...
- School News 03-02-2016 (School News)I hope the term is going well for all of you so far. Just a few items of interest: We have a collection box for old mobile phones, so if you have any to recycle, please send them in. Both the...
- 28-01-2016 Junior Yard Playground Initiative (School News)Dear Parents, We have been experiencing a few problems in the Junior yard at lunchtime. Children have been feeling unsafe and some children’s behaviour has been less than...
- School News 26-01-2016 (School News)Dear Parents, There have been a couple of cases of "slapped cheek" syndrome in the school recently. This is a mild viral illness in children but it can be problematic for pregnant women. Please...
- School News 19-01-2016 (School News)Dear Parents, Just reminding you again about tomorrow’s early closing. We are having a staff meeting so school will close at 1:20 pm for all classes...
- PA News 18-01-2016 (Parents Association)Dear Parents, We have decided to go ahead with the Arts & Crafts afterschool activity this Wednesday, despite the school closing at 1:20pm. We have arranged for the activity to run from 1:20pm to...
- PA News 11-01-2016 (Parents Association)Hi all , welcome back to the new term. As this term is so short we are sending activity sheets home today Monday 11th. Please have them returned with full payment by Wednesday...
- School News 11-01-2016 (School News)The children have been given a schedule for after-school activities and a sign-up form. As the Parents’ Association would like Activities to start next week, please have the forms back with the...
- School News 07-01-2016 (School News)Welcome back to a new term in St Catherine's! A special welcome to our two new pupils, Dexter Darcy in 2nd Class and Devlin Murphy in 3rd Class. We wish all the best to Victor Pires from 5th Class...
2015
- School News 16-12-2015 (School News)Dear Parents, Tomorrow we have the Katch-22 Theatre Company visiting and they will be presenting the pantomime “Snow White” in the school hall. As the performance will begin at 1 pm, we have...
- School News 30-11-2015 (School News)Clothes recycling collection tomorrow! Towels and sheets welcome as well as clothes and shoes. No duvets or pillows though. Thank you so much for your wonderful support of our concert last Friday....
- School News 26-11-2015 (School News)Slight change from my last letter: could all students from 1st to 6th Class be at the church tomorrow at 6:10 pm? We will have the violins already so the teachers will have them tuned. Recorder...
- Liberties Recycling Project 26-11-2015 (Parents Association)The Liberties Recycling Project will be collecting used, clean clothes, sheets, towels, pairs of shoes etc from the school on Tuesday 1st December. The school receives a donation for every kilo...
- School News 24-11-2015 (School News)Also want to remind you about our orchestra concert on Friday. Please have your children in the church by 6 pm at the latest if they play violin, as the instruments all need to be tuned! Other...
- Winter Fair – Sunday, 22nd November (Parents Association)A reminder that the Winter Fair is happening next weekend, so in this wet weather, please take the opportunity to clear out your attics and find those hidden gems! We're attaching a list of the...
- Winter Fair 2015 (Parents Association)We shall be holding a meeting at the school on Thursday 12 November next week at 8.00pm to finalise details of the Winter Fair and to organise the delegation of work amongst volunteers. Everyone is...
- Frightening Writing Magazine 21-10-2015 (Parents Association, School News)As I'm sure most of you have heard by now, the children in the after-school writing club (aka. "The Right Write Club") have pooled their creatives juices and produced their first magazine as a...
- Parent Nominees to Board of Management (Parents Association, School News)It is intended to hold the election of two parents to the new Board of Management at the Annual General Meeting of the Parents’ Association, which will be held on Monday, October 19th 2015 at 8 pm...
- PA – Welcome to the New Term (Parents Association)Dear All Parents of St Catherine's National School, We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of you back for the new term, especially those of you who are new to the school, and...
- Thank you to all the 5th Class parents (School News)Thank you to all the 5th Class parents who have generously responded to my plea from yesterday to provide some nice edibles for the graduation lunch....
- Chessossity (Chess)Best of luck to our chess team at the Chessossity finals on Monday next. There will be no chess coaching that day as I will be in Galway with the...