MONEYSTOWN N.S.
MARCH 2014
PREFECTS: KYLE GRAHAM & TARLA FANNING
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
ANNUAL SCHOOL
SCHOOL CLOSES FOR EASTER
FUNDRAISER
Coffee Morning & Cake Sale
HOLIDAYS
Friday April 11
SCHOOL REOPENS FOR TERM 3
Féach ar liosta na n-imeachtaí a bheidh ar siúl ón 4 - 17 Márta
agus glacaigí páirt sa spraoi! Tá alán imeachtaí sa cheanntar!
www.snag.ie
in the Community Centre
FRIDAY 11TH APRIL
Monday April 28
02
03
04
NO AIKIDO
UNTIL MONDAY
24TH MARCH
09
10
16
Parents Association
Meeting @ 7pm
06
MASS @ 12
OF
ME MASS'
@ 10AM
24
25
13
19
20
Aikido 2.30 – 3.30
Beginners always
welcome
Final Session for
Confirmation Candidates
Roundwood NS
Every Wed. until Easter
21
22
The hugely successful
literacy programme CAPER,
CONTINUES
EVERY
'Children
THURSDAY
27
15
WHOLE SCHOOL
ASSEMBLY
EVERY FRIDAY
SCHOOL
SAVINGS
SCHEME
Final
CRAFT CLASSES
2.30 - 3.30
Rugby Club
10.30 - 12.00
14
Mobile County Library
Visit to Moneystown
Community
26
Rugby Coaching
continues every Sat.
Rathdrum
St Laurence O’Toole’s
Church, Roundwood
12
GAA BlitZ
for Senior
Classes
Wed 5th &
12th in Bray
Emmetts
WEEK 10
08
CONFIRMATION
@ 11 AM
session
for all Classes
23
'DO THIS IN
MEMORY
07
SCHOOL
Roundwood Church for
Confirmation Candidates
18
SCHOOL
CLOSED
ASH WEDNESDAY
Service of Light @ 7pm
11
17
05
28
and
Parents
Enjoying
Reading', continues every morning
throughout March. If more parents
have fifteen minutes29to spare any
morning, please pop in and give your
name to Ms Thank you to all our
volunteers to date.
30
31
7.30 - 8.30 pm
FIRST
CONFESSION FOR
FIRST HOLY
COMMUNION
CANDIDATES IN
MONEYSTOWN
CHURCH @ 7PM
MARCH
The
children
Junior
NEWSLETTER
Infants
from
to
Second Class visited
Moneystown
many of our pupils. We have added
Thursday 6th March all children will
opportunity to participate in workshops
many greatl photographs to the Green
receive special World Book Day tokens.
for Engineers Week. The Infants applied
wave blog which you can access via the
Until 30th March, children can go into
a range of scientific skills as they made
school website.
nearly every bookshop in Ireland and
box monsters whilst 1st and 2nd class
your
exchange their token for a 9 fantastic new
made catapults. A big thank you to the
www.greeewave.ie and photograph the
children’s titles, completely FREE and
parents who accompanied us on the trip.
first signs of spring.
specifically written to celebrate World Book
The
will be entered in our competition
Day. The children's imaginations will run
important step towards our application
wild with the exciting line up of nine new
for the Discover Primary Science and
books to choose from. Tokens can also be
Maths Awards. There are 5 steps in
Over 20 families visited our school
used to get a discount of off full price titles.
applying for the award and the trip to
during our recent Open Day and were
Imaginosity is one step of the process.
hugely impressed by our school; and its
So far Moneystown has 8 awards of
facilities but most importantly by the
Science and Maths Excellence and we
pupils they met & chatted to on the
hope to get another award in May this
day. It was wonderful to meet our new
year. Watch this space
pupils. Thank you to our pupils who
Book
Day
on
Have you seen the Setanta Book Club
teachers
in
had the
World
their
arriving
and has been caught on camera by
celebrate
with
is
on
To
Imaginosity
Spring
February 6th. All children
trip
to
Imaginosity
is
an
website? They have great offers for books
The Board of Management
on World Book Day and all year round.
await the decision of the
You can purchase your books online with
Department for funding for
delivery to home or school and for every
an
€1 you spend the school will receive 20c.
application
www.setantabookclubs.ie
additional
has
classroom.
been
Wicklow County Council.
A
planning
submitted
to
spotters
Don’t forget to use
guide
or
log
onto
All photographs
'Spring in Action!
GREEN SCHOOLS NEWS
On Monday 17th February the PE hall was
transformed into a science lab as Fifth &
Sixth Class
worked on
experiments
with
Carol
range of
Byrne
to
investigate the properties of various
biofuels. Our budding scientists believe
rapeseed oil may be the fuel of the
future.
As part of the Green School Committee’s
action plan to promote cycling among
our pupils, 5th & 6th class participated in
a one day safe cycling skills workshop
with Biking.ie. on Friday 28th February. It
was a challenging course and all pupils
made
significant
progress.
Congratulations to Marcus Fagan, 6th
Class who was awarded ‘Cyclist of the
Day’!
came to school on Sunday!
TURN OLD CLOTHES & SHOES INTO CASH FOR
OUR SCHOOL!
We are organising another textiles collection this month. Cookstown Textile
Recyclers will pay 60c/kilo to the school so, get collecting now! – The rules
couldn’t be simpler: clothing and shoes (pairs only please), household textiles
and handbags (no duvets or pillows). All bags will be collected on Wednesday
2nd April and bags can be left in the PE Hall during that week .