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Parents and the Community- Life of School
Parents are involved in the development of the school grounds. Over the past 12 months over thirty parents have worked with us during the school day as well as evenings and Saturday mornings. They worked as labourers, stone masons, painters, tilers, plasterers and garden designers. Parents have also volunteered to help in the cleaning of the school.
Parents are involved in the development of the school grounds. Over the past 12 months over thirty parents have worked with us during the school day as well as evenings and Saturday mornings. They worked as labourers, stone masons, painters, tilers, plasterers and garden designers. Parents have also volunteered to help in the cleaning of the school.
- Volunteer for clean ups
- Cookery classes
- Planting of trees
- St. Brigids Day – make crosses annually
- Fruit morning
- Games for Life Programme
- Tidy Towns
- Seat dedicated to parent Kathy O’Hagan RIP 2009
- Sponsored walk- Saturday- Family outing
- Newsletter – Copy of last number of issues
- Induction meeting for parents
- Afternoon Parent & child meeting
- Halloween Show- Junior /Senior Infants- Parents invited in, brack, grapes & tea
- Carol Service
- Jumble sale
- Bi-annual Book Fair
- Choir Activities - Hallelujah- Cross Border
- Old Folks Gathering Choir performance
- Christmas Concert
- January Parent/Teacher Meetings
- Fruit Morning
- School Physical Development
- Spring clean of school
Kathy O’Hagan
In the beautiful grounds of our school is a bench dedicated to the memory of Kathy O’Hagan, loving wife of David and beloved mother of Sophie, one of our students. Kathy sadly died on the 7th of June, 2009 after a long, bravely fought illness. She was a very creative person and loved gardening and performing on stage, which is a talent her daughter Sophie has inherited from her.
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The bench erected in her memory faces out onto the playground and the Cooley Mountains beyond and is a place where the children can sit and chat or play at lunchtime. It is inscribed with the words Remembered by the staff and pupils, Scoil Mhuire gan Smál, Forever in our thoughts. |
Patrick Lynch
A plaque accompanies this tree and it is inscribed with the words “Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven”- Tagore