Dear Parents,

Please see link below to "Leadership in an Intercultural Community" training course.

https://www.facebook.com/1408961406048045/posts/2191796257764552/

Dear Parents,

A child was nearly knocked down in the school car park today. The child left the footpath and cycled his tricycle on the road in the school car park..  A car reversed and almost knocked him down. Please talk to your child.The children and adults should walk on the footpaths only.

The internet is becoming a bigger part of our children’s lives; it is important that we get involved with what they are doing online. This means not just talking to our children about what they do online but also listening. It is important that we talk openly and regularly about our concerns and agree boundaries around internet use in our homes. While the internet undoubtedly presents fantastic opportunities for children, it is equally clear that there are valid concerns about children spending too much time online, accessing inappropriate content, and communicating with people with intent to harm or exploit them. As parents anatural desire is to keep the children safe. The best online safety strategy, regardless of age, is to talk with your child and to engage with them about what they are doing and who they are doing it with.

Please see link below to further advice on how to keep our children safe.

https://www.webwise.ie/category/parents/advice/

 Please see pics below of our new Junior Infant Classes 2018/2019 

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmhJD6mY 

The updated booklists for 2018/2019 are now available on this website.

Please see link to the Annual School Newsletter 2017-2018 below. Many thanks to Ms Murray and Claire Clifford for their time & expertiese in publishing the Newsletter.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u2ybQ_6XdNdGPPFvKj7cUJNvEL-imy05

The school year finishes tomorrow Friday 29/6/2019.

Junior & Senior Infant classes will finish at 1150 tomorrow  morning Friday 29/6/2019.

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th classes will finish at 1150 tomorrow morning Friday 29/6/2019.

The school will reopen on Monday 27/9/2019 at 0900.

Have a lovely Summer Holiday.

Many thanks to Claire Clifford who put this collage of our sports day together !

https://vimeo.com/276900819

Please see link to pics of our 6th class Graduation ceremony 

https://flic.kr/s/aHskDu2fnU

 Ms Kilcommins' Class Museum was open to the public last week! Please see gallery of pics at this link !

https://flic.kr/s/aHskA381kc 

Many thanks to all the teachers & SNAs & staff for assisting in producing a beautiful school garden again this year ! I think it is even better than last year ! Particular thanks goes to Kate, Ms Butler, Mr McKeown, Ms Callalay, Fiona Griffin, Ann Rice, John Griffin & Ms Barrett.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/131823121@N07/90D42Y

Ms Hardiman organised a litter collection on the GAA pitch ! Look at how many bags of litter we found!!!!

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmd6W59C

There will be a Family Fun Day in St Luke The Evangelist Church Grounds on

Saturday 16th of June 2018 from 2pm - 4pm 

Face Painting

Bouncy Castles

Music & Dancing

Family Races

Bingo

Food & Refreshments

Prizes Galore

A Family event for young & old

Here is a picture of the 8 children from Ms Hardiman's 3rd class who are doing a six week block of French with Ms Sturzel on Thursdays. They have learnt the alphabet, numbers, days of the week, how to greet and introduce themselves. Today they were learning colours.

Please see link to pic below.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmj1rs5n

Inspired by the book ONLY ONE YOU which teaches that we are all different and special, every child and member of staff will be painting a stone. Each stone will be set in a path at the front of the school with the guidance of the school garden committee. Some classes have already got off to a great start!

Thank You Ms Sturzel for organising this ! Pleass see link below to pics of project !

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmj1rwHa

Boxing Training

 Ms. Brennan’s 5th class started boxing on Monday 30^th April for four weeks finishing on Monday 21^st May. We learned skills like the jab, hook and more. We also learned how to double skip. Our three coaches were Peter, Raj and Niall. They were well experienced coaches and were really fun. We liked how Peter showed all the brilliant medals, trophies and the belt he had won over the years for boxing. The belt felt quite heavy. We were very grateful to be picked to experience the world of boxing and most of all were really happy to miss English!

Our favourite time was when we did a forward tumble and punched the pads, then ran back to the end of the line. We also played Ship, Sea, Shore and more fun activities.

Peter would do a warm up at the start of every session.  We would start out in a light jog and we would then go into a sprint and many other running games. Peter would also help with our strength.

Niall would help to increase our running speed and also our skipping speed and height.

Raj would help with our punch speed.

Thanks to all our coaches from the children in Ms Brennan’s 5^th Class.

By Martin, Ayisha & Isabella

 May 25th was the GDPR deadline. At St. Luke's we use two IT systems called Aladdin and POD. Both systems are GDPR compliant. We will continue to train staff and update policies over the coming weeks and months. We will notify parents of changes at every stage. Thank you.

 Saint Luke's NS has decided to adopt the "Weaving Well-Being" programme from 2nd to 6th classes in the 2018/2019 Academic year to promote Emotional Literacy and resillience in our school.

Saint Luke's NS has decided to adopt the "Weaving Well-Being" programme from 2nd to 6th classes in the 2018/2019 Academic year to promote Emotional Literacy and resillience in our school.

This affordable Positive Education programme consists of 10 lessons for each class level and is grounded in evidence based interventions from the rapidly expanding field of Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology is the science of well-being.

It is underpinned by the concept that a state of well-being is not simply the absence of the negative, but the presence of the positive.

The Weaving Well-Being programme gives children the opportunity to weave positivity into their daily lives through a range of activities in a variety of areas.

These areas include identifying and using their authentic character strengths, boosting positive emotions, developing and nurturing positive relationships and connections, building practical resilience skills (including mindfulness) and developing self-efficacy through empowering beliefs.

The lessons are designed to be implemented within the framework of the SPHE curriculum. Each lesson plan includes the relevant strands and strand units for ease of planning.

Please see link to some pictures from Confirmation April 2018 

https://www.flickr.com/gp/131823121@N07/z3HZc3