The whole school came together this week to learn more about Swaziland. We are linked to St. Francis' School there, and we knew very little about their country...so we took a day and learned some good facts! Please ask your children if you would like to learn some too!

Junior and Senior Infants presented information on the flag.
1st and 2nd explained the world of animals
3rd and 4th demonstrated a dance, and spoke about music, schools, history and landmarks.
5th and 6th presented facts on a variety of Swaziland topics. 

It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, and even the teachers learned something! Please enjoy some photos from the day in our gallery! 

We had a wonderful time at the parish fete, and thanks so much to all our volunteers! It was a lovely day, and our games tent was busy all day long! Please have a look in the gallery for the photos from the day - thank you for sharing your photos Blanca!

A quick reminder: hoodies for September 2017 are being ordered in June! Please send in your order on or before June 2nd (Friday) and if you'd like to check sizes, we have some samples! 

All families will receive a small bag, and we are asking that each pupil contributes some products that can be donated to Cross Care. They are a social support agency, and our former Deputy Principal, Thora Crooke, is involved with them. As a school, we can hopefully donate bags and bags of personal hygiene products and/or non-perishable goods, which Crosscare can distribute for us. Please let us know if you require more bags!!

Starting Monday 22nd May, we are having our Active Flag Week, which means we are going to focus on our health and fitness. Active homework will be more evident, and the pupils will enjoy a feast of activities. We have three different sportpeople booked, and hopefully we will continue to engage our pupils in their positive and healthy mindset regarding sport!! ASFW will finish with Sports Day on Friday 26th May, make sure to stick that in your diary!

Don't forget, our parish fete is this coming Saturday!! 10am is kick off time, and it wraps up at 3pm. You are very welcome to come along and bring all your friends! All the usual fun stalls will be there, and some proceeds from the games tent will be donated to the school. If you have any items lying about the house that you want gone, please donate them to the fete this week! Toys, clothes, DVDs, books, bric-a-brac and so on. Perhaps you'd like to bake or cook?! Please contact the parish office if you require any further information. 

Congratulations to our school drama group, who recently competed in a drama competition in Cabinteely Community College!

Alongside some individual prizes, the group won:

Best Producer (Sara Walsh) and Best Original Play for Murder at the Woods Inn. WOW!

The group came second overall, out of four competing schools that day. Photos will be posted soon!

It's the last term of their primary school life, and what better way to hang out in the yard than sporting a rather fetching school hoody!? Many thanks to the mammies for helping arrange a specially commissioned hoody, with the pupils' signatures printed on the back. The children are sooooo happy with them, and all of 6th can be spotted around Dalkey, wearing their hoody with pride!  Just look at these beaming faces, awwww!

The pupils and staff here in St. Patrick's would like to thank everyone for attending our cake sale, buying our Christmas raffle tickets, and supporting our Hallowe'en disco. The funds raised reached over €2000, and we are so grateful for this support. Subject resources are crazy expensive, and constantly need updating, or replacing!
                                                        (If teachers would only stop breaking things...!)

We have purchased a selection of Maths equipment for individual classrooms, and increased our shared resource collection significantly. Science resources also carry a hefty price tag, and having the opportunity to buy a wide variety of fun and interesting materials has given us such a boost! 

A special thanks must be given to the PTA for arranging the disco and the cake sale, and to St. Patrick's Parish for donating a raffle prize with a difference! We also extend our thanks to all other helpers, and all the local businesses who continually support our wonderful and amazing school! And of course....thanks to the pupils for their non-stop support and enthusiasm too!

We would like to thank everyone for supporting our annual cake sale! We raised €1169 and money will be spent on Math and Science equipment. An update on those purchases will come soon!