WELCOME BACK AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
A very warm welcome back to our school community. I hope you all had a happy and peaceful Christmas. It was great to see our wonderful students bounce in the doors once again. The boys were straight back to work and looking forward to the challenges that 2023 may bring them!
PARENT TEACHER MEETINGS
Parent teacher meetings will begin next week. Teachers will release time and date slots available through our Aladdin system from today. Follow the infographic below on how to book your time slot.
CAPUCHIN DAY CENTRE
Our fabulous Pupils Voice Committee raised the amazing amount of €4135 in vouchers for the Capuchin Day Centre in our Christmas collection. The vouchers were delivered to the centre before Christmas and will be used to provide much needed food and supplies for homeless families over the winter season. A special word of thanks must go to Matthew Rourke and Tom Burton from 5th class for all their hard work with the collection. They made numerous motivational speeches and called to each class every day to encourage us all to donate to this worthy cause.
Well done boys. We are so proud of you all.
SCHOOL CLOSURES
January 25th and 26th, school will close @ 2.15pm to facilitate parent teacher meetings
March 16th, school will be closed to facilitate staff in-service training on the new Primary Language Curriculum.
AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
After school activities will re-commence in February once parent teacher meetings have been completed.
On offer in 2023 will be animation, Lego, golf, French, multi- sports, chess and Glee (music and dance). A new booking system through the Easypayments app will be launched in February.
STAR OF THE FUTURE
Congratulations to Rhys Brennan, 6th class, who performed brilliantly in the Sound of Music in the National Concert Hall. Rhys is a muliti-talented singer and actor and we are all very proud of him in Hollypark. A Broadway star of the future!
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
Catholic Schools will take place from Sunday 22 to Sunday 29 January 2023 on the theme of the process of synodality, with three features of synodality being identified as helpful to exploring ‘Walking Together in Faith & Love’:
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE HSE
Please read the letter below from the HSE to all parents and guardians.
KILMACUD CROKES
Congratulations to Kilmacud Crokes who are back in the All Ireland club football final. The final will take place in Croke Park on Sunday, January 22nd @ 3.30pm against Watty Grahams, Glen from Derry. It is a super achievement once again for Kilmacud. On Friday, January 20th, we will once again turn our school purple and gold. Boys can wear Kilmacud Crokes gear head- to -toe!
Well done to past pupil Hugh Kenny (pictured) for his vital goal and man of the match performance against Kerins O' Rahillys. Commiserations to Kerins O' Rahilly's and in particular to our wonderful SNA, Lucy Grennan who is the sister of the Kernins O' Rahillys manager, William Harmon.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
This week is a special week for these boys.
Ruairí Brennan, Darragh Geraghty, Oliver Cunniffe, Andrei Geyger, Cole De Rís, Killian Doherty Heaney, Jake Marston, Christoph Thomas agus Renzo Marino
We wish you a happy birthday boys!
Beir bua agus beannacht,
Principal
11.1.'23