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FRIDAY NOTE WEEK 23 FRIDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2012

Friday 3 February 2012

Parents are advised to talk to their children about the importance of wearing seatbelts whilst travellin on the school buses.

Important Notice for Parents:

The bus drivers are reporting that a number of children are not wearing their seatbelts whilst travelling to and from school on the buses. We have also received reports that some children are taking their belts off and walking up and down the bus whilst it is moving. When putting your child on the bus in the morning make sure they are seated and have their seat belt on - Mrs Devlin, Eugene and myself will be checking the children who travel on the buses in the afternoon. It is important that you talk to your child about wearing seatbelts and being safe on the bus - especially in light of the incident we had on Tuesday.

Mid Term Break:
School will be closed on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Monday 20th February for mid term. School will reopen as normal on Tuesday 21st February.

The Time Out Project
The next committee meeting is to take place on Wednesday 8th February 2012 at 8.00 pm in the Beechlawn Hotel (reception). All committee members to attend

What's new on our website;
Have a look on the website to see pictures and information on Primary 3 bringing their Grandaparents to school and to find out which class won the line up cup and who won our movie review competition. You can also view recent footage of the BBC news report of St Colman's hosting the Five Star Sports Challenge with Olympic Gold Medalist, Jonathan Edwards and much more!

Dates for your diary:

First Confession meeting for P3 Parents: Wednesday 29th February at 7.00pm in the school hall
P3 First Confession: Wednesday 14th March at 1.15pm in St Colman's church
St Patrick's Day Holiday: Friday 16th March and Monday 19th March
First Communion meeting for P4 parents: Wednesday 18th April at 3.00pm in the school hall
First Holy Communion Date: Saturday 26th May 2012

After School Clubs:
Drama: classes will now be on TUESDAY from 3-4pm
French Club: classes every Wednesday from 3-4pm. New members welcome
Rosary club: every Tuesday from 3-3.30pm
Irish Dancing: every Thursday from 2-3pm and 3-4pm
Traditional + School Choir- Every Thursday from 3-4pm in the school hall.
Fit 'n' Fun Gymnastix: The advanced group will continue every Friday from 3-4pm.

Sporting Notices:
Soccer: training continues on Monday from 3-4pm - for P4 + P5 in sports hall with Mr Burns and P6/7 on pitch with Mr Crouch. Please bring your boots and shin guards. Congratulations to the P7 soccer team who beat Moira 3-1 yesterday. Well done boys.
Hurling: training every Tuesday from 3-4pm
Netball: Match training for P6/7 girls only until after mid term break. No training for P4/5.
Judo: every Friday from 3-4pm
Girls Gaelic: every Friday from 3-4pm

FRUITY FRIDAYS.
'Fruity Fridays'...... will return next week with PEARS. Please have your 25p in with your teacher by Wednesday. Fruit will be delivered to your child's class at Breaktime on Friday.

Healthy Eating Policy: St Colman's has a healthy eating policy for break and lunchtime. Children must only bring a plain biscuit or a piece of fruit and water for breaktime - NO CHOCOLATE BISCUITS, BARS OR CRISPS. Lunches should be healthy with no fizzy drinks.

Can you help? As St Colman's prepares for life in a new school building the Parents' Association is currently compiling information to produce a book on life in the old school building. We are looking for any information, cuttings, booklets, photos anecdotal stories, etc. Any documents, photos received can be scanned and returned. For further information please contact Paul Brogan on 07775421377 or email stcolmansps@hotmail.co.uk

School Meals: Week beginning Monday 6th February-£2.20 (£11.00 for this week)
Just to remind parents that dinner money must be paid on a Monday using the school dinner money envelopes.

Monday
chicken bites or savoury mince with garden peas sweetcorn & creamed potato creamed rice & fruit
Tuesday oven baked sausages or vegetable lasagne with French beans, baked beans & creamed potato yoghurt & fruit
Wednesday
ITALIAN THEME DAY
Beef or vegetarian lasagne or spaghetti bolognaise or choice of pizza Neapolitan ice cream Thursday
baked salmon with sweetcorn & homemade wedges & chips or filled baguette with choice of filling flakemeal biscuit & fruit & milkshake
Friday
chicken curry & rice with pitta bread or omelette with choice of filling, coleslaw & homemade potato wedges ice cream & chocolate sauce with glass of milk

Pupil of the Week

Miss O'Prey P1 Kacper Gawliczek
Mrs Robinson P1 Amy McConnell
Mrs Monaghan P2 Chano Pryce McClure
Miss McAreavey P2 Leo Carabine & Harry Hughes
Mrs Phoenix P3 Owen Coyle
Mrs McDonnell P3 Luke Napier
Mr Kernan P4 Ben McCauley & Sarah McConville
Miss McAllister P4 Kelly Reilly
Mr Crouch P5 Bronagh Foster
Mrs McClements Callum Stanley
Mrs Tandy P6 Matthew Early
Miss Gallen P6 Conor O'Neill
Mrs Toland P7 Tom Ghee
Mrs McGrath P7 Matthew Biggs
Mrs Devlin Niall Cunningham
Mr O'Faogain Rachel Alexander

And Finally...The new school build is progressing at a rapid rate and we are delighted with the progress. Thankfully the weather has been on our side since the builders moved on site and we hope that continues. Its all systems go for the handover at the end of July and starting our new school term in September 2012 in our new building.

G McVeigh
Principal