The newly elected Parents Association for 2016-17 can be found here: 2016-17 Parents Association. The new Green Schools Committee can be found: HERE

The Green Schools Committee will hold a “Fancy Dress Friday” (non uniform day) on Friday 28th October. On this day children are invited to dress up coming to school. Weather permitting a short walk around the school grounds will take place for each class. In keeping with our Green Schools Recycling Aims, children are encouraged to make some part of the costumes from homemade/recyclable materials and not buy them. Some simple suggestions may include: • Old clothes     • Old costumes.     • Recyclable materials.     • Cardboard boxes.  Please assist and encourage your child to take part in what we hope will be an enjoyable experience for all.

Coillte has asked the school if we would let you know about Compass Club – after school courses and camps in the woods. They are offering a free sampler on OCT 20th in Glending at 3:30pm. Please do not contact the school regarding this, full details are on the poster below (click image for more information). Bookings should be made directly with Coillte.

Please text ADELE RYAN on 087 377 9263 with your child’s name and age.

All last week on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on Today FM, they were giving listeners the chance to win €10,000 for their school. Last week was ‘Porridge Week’ so it was sponsored by the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, Keeling’s and Flahavans. To win you had write a story or poem in 250 words or less on what made your school special and also what you would spend the €10,000 on if you were to win. Each day 5 entries would be chosen so by Friday there would be 25 winners from during the week, these 25 schools would then go into an open draw and whatever school was picked out won the €10,000. They received over 5,000 entries from primary and secondary schools all over Ireland.

Rathmore NS took part and lots of poems and stories were sent in from different classes. On Thursday afternoon the school received a call from Today FM to say that one of the children in Rathmore NS had written an excellent poem and had made in through as one of the 5 winners for Friday.

The winning entry was from Josh Noone in 6th Class who wrote a wonderful poem about the school. So on Friday morning, both children and teachers gathered in Mr Walsh’s room to hear the draw, Josh’s name and Rathmore NS was called out as one of the 25 hopefuls to win the €10,000. Then at 8:40am they made the draw live on air but unfortunately we were unsuccessful. However, it was a great achievement by Josh to make it through to the last 25 out of over 5,000 entries.