Newsletter 23/03/10

Comenius: Welcome to Maja who will be with us, through the Comenius Programme, for the next few months. Maja is a teacher from Slovenia and she has a particular interest in special education. We also had a visit from a number of teachers representing a number of schools in Wales, Finland and Blanchardstown. This programme is a European funded programme which aims to foster a better understanding of the education systems and enhance integration within the European Union. We are fortunate to be a part of that programme. Thank you to Lara for organising this.
Ceili Night : This was, I believe, another great success. It was great to see so many families there on the night. I would like to especially thank all the teachers who did so much to make this night such a memorable one. Special thanks to Martin (St. John’s), Deirdre (Esker ETNS) and Dearmuid (ACETNS) for providing the music on the night.
Book Fair/Week: A great success! Between Esker ETNS and ourselves we raised approximately 1000euro towards the purchase of books for our class library. Thank you to all our families who supported our school by buying books at this fair.
Community Games: basketball training for the community games will take place in St. Johns on the 27th of April at 12pm, ages 8-16.
Cricket: Cricket is starting again in the school on Thursday the April 15th with 3rd & 4th classes at Adamstown Castle ETNS. This is run by the Leinster Cricket Union in conjunction with the Adamstown Cricket Club.
Archive: If you are like me and tend to take photos and never print them then I would ask you to check your hard drives and memory cards for any stills or movies you have of the school, copy them and send them in to us. It is our wish to build up an archive of this material before it will be lost to us. Some of this we would hope to put up on the web more of it is to put on a digital loop for display around the school. Please send in what you wish to Deirdre or to our email address: acetns@gmail.com
Green Flag: We are awaiting confirmation of our green flag inspections. To date the green flag committee has been very active in the school evaluating the progress of our classes in their attempts to: reduce, reuse and recycle. This has an added benefit to the school community as it reduces our waste costs. Next we will be concentrating on the reduction of our water consumption which will shortly cost us approximately 500 euro a month at our present rate of consumption. Similarly, we will be working at reducing our electricity consumption which is running at approximately 700euro a month. I would like to thank Martha for all her work with this group.
Student Council: Our student council has been a very active group within our school community. They have done much over the last few months to resolve issues and disputes which occur regularly, as in all schools, in the yard. I would like to thank Grainne for all her work with this group.

Second Level Educate Together: The Department of Education and Science is considering the option of having the first Educate Together Second Level School in Lucan. This is a great development for our sector and we wish those involved, in particu
Lost & Found: All lost items which have been left in the school the past few months will be displayed on the stage in the hall from this afternoon. Please feel free to come along and go through these items.

Family Learning Initiative: The Family Learning Initiative which is funded by the VEC and run by the LIFE Centre in Lucan. This course will help your children with their learning. Further information will be available in the coming weeks.
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