Scoil Ghráinne

Community National School

Safer Internet Day 2019

Mar 4, 2019 | News

The children in Scoil Ghráinne celebrated Safer Internet Day (SID) on Tuesday the 5th of February. SID is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise.

The Theme for Safer Internet Day was “Together for a Better Internet“. This year almost 145,000 people in Ireland celebrated Safer Internet Day 2019.

The children of Scoil Ghráinne participated in lots of different activities such as

Colouring competition
Poster competition
Internet safety lessons, wordsearches and quizzes
Wrote Internet safety poems

There were even special wrist bands given out to some of the children!

Here are the winning entries from the Poster and Colouring Competition that have been sent on to the Webwise Committee in Dublin headquarters. Fingers crossed one of our selections will win! Well done to everyone.

Notice Board

April 2021

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We have had a busy few weeks since our Spring break. 3 classes were grounded due to positive COVID tests. Thank you again for adhering to our protocols because it’s really important that we don’t get complaisant at this stage. Children should say at home if they have fever, sore throat or a new cough and advice sought from GP or HSE website. Remind them to sanitise as often as possible and to keep social distancing.

We would encourage you to keep a very close eye on your children’s interaction with social media. This has caused a number of problems in the last few weeks and the dangers cannot be underestimated. Remember mobile phones are not permitted in school and they will be confiscated if found.

There are lots of coats etc. unclaimed in our lost property department if you are missing anything. School life continues as normal as possible Intercultural Day is scheduled for Friday May 28th, details to follow. School tours will be on site this year or virtual (details to follow). We are planning for 6th class graduation at the moment, so if you wish to share ideas please let us know. It is a very important milestone for our 6th classes and students in Croí who are all going on to Post Primary. We are still looking for volunteers to help with gardening and painting, if you have time to spare. Creative Week is planned for the end of the month so we can indulge in developing our ”creative brains”. Active Week is also planned for June. Our return to school date for next year will be Thursday August 26th.

Stacey McAuley