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• Our Active Schools Committee has been elected, and they will promote healthy living and encourage the school community to stay active. The members of our Active Schools Committee are Aoife Maguire, Ruby Reilly, Philip Maguire, Josh Reilly, Annabelle Smith, Michael King, Luke Reilly and Paige Garry. The committee have been busy for the past three weeks promoting skipping through The Skip around the World Initiative. They were busy organising the Hallowe’en disco this week.

• Camogie: Our camogie team reached the final of the Cumann na mBunscol Division 3 competition after defeating 4 other schools in a blitz on Monday 13th of October. They will play Crosskeys in Breffni 3G on Tuesday, 4th November. We wish them and their coaches, Mrs Clarke and Geraldine, the best of luck in the final.

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Cross-Country: We had a fantastic day at the County School’s Cross-Country event in Killinkere on Wednesday, 15th October. Congratulations to Katie Hannon who was placed 3rd in the Intermediate Girls 800m, Jessica Hannon, who placed 9th  in the Junior Girls 600m race, and Charlie Reilly, who placed 2nd  in the Senior Boys 1000m race. We won gold in the Junior girls and boys category and gold in the Intermediate boys and girls categories. Our school was placed 3rd  overall. Our pupils showed great sportsmanship and were a pleasure to bring to the competition
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​Dates for your Diaries
Tues, May 13th: Heritage in Schools
Wed, May 14th: Croke Park Hour
Thurs, May 15th: PA meeting
Mon, 19th May: Fyffes Fittest Schools, Athlone
Thurs, 22nd May: Track & Field Event Shercock
Fri, 23rd May: Confirmation at 6 o clock
Tues, 27th May: Drumcondra Maths
Wed, 28th May: Drumcondra Literacy
Thurs, 29th May: Boys football blitz, kilnaleck
Mon,2nd June: School closed for bank holiday
Wed, 11th June: Junior School Tour
Thurs, 12th June: Parents of new pupils meet
Fri, 13th June: Senior School Tour
Mon, 16th to 20th  June: Active School’s Week
Thurs, 19th June: Sports Day
Thurs, 19th June: Graduation (to be confirmed by Fr. Peter)
Fri, 20th: Football league  finals
Mon, 23rd June: soccer workshop
Tues, 24th June: summer holidays; school closes at 12 o clock
 

​Hot Lunches
The next order window for school lunches will open today Tuesday 13th May at 3:00pm and will close on Tuesday 20th May at 11:59pm.
 

School Policies- 
All school policies are on the school website under the tab for policies and some are reviewed annually. The Anti-bullying policy will be replaced by the Bí Cineálta Policy which is drafted and ready to be circulated to parents to read and review. Our school secretary will send a copy of the draft to all families. The policy will be ready to be adopted at the June Board of Management Meeting. It will be implemented in September. We would urge parents to read through the policy and familiarise themselves with the definition and steps that will be taken by the school to deal with any form of bullying that may occur in the future.  The school’s designated Liaison Person for Child Protection is Mrs Teresa Galligan, and Mrs Siobhan Clarke is the Deputy Designated Liaison Person.

Congratulations to all the boys and girls who made their  First Holy Communion on Saturday, 3rd of May in St. Mary's Church, Crosserlough.The First Holy Communion was a very happy occasion for all our families and we wish to thank the PA for organising the refreshments in the Old school afterwards. It was lovely to meet with Grandparents and parents and have a chat over a cup of tea. Confirmation is on Friday, 23rd of May at 6 o clock. We have 6 pupils from our school getting confirmed. There are 23 pupils in the parish getting confirmed altogether.