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Christmas Fair Raffle Prizes

Christmas Fair Raffle Prizes

Many of you will be aware that we are holding our annual Christmas Fair on Sunday 4th December from 11am to 2.30pm. Each year our Parents’ Association host a huge bumper raffle on the day and this year is no different.  We have over 75 great prizes on offer, a flavour of which you can seen by clicking the link below. Tickets are €2 each or a book of six is €10. Two books of tickets were sent home previously with each family. If you require any more Yvonne has some in the office and there will also be an opportunity to purchase on the day of the fair.

Christmas Raffle Prizes

Christmas Shoebox Appeal

Christmas Shoebox Appeal

At Christmas time we try to emphasis the real meaning of Christmas and reflect on those who are not as fortunate as we are. This year the school were delighted to support two very worthy Christmas shoebox appeals, offering the choice between an old favourite ‘Teamhope’ and, this year, a more local cause – the ‘Dublin inner City helping Homeless’. Items such as hats, gloves, scarves, underwear, sweets, chocolate, Christmas cards, roll on deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shower gels etc were suggested as box fillers. We had a tremendous response resulting in 334 shoeboxes for ‘Teamhope’ and 165 for the ‘Dublin City Helping Homeless’. Thank you so much for your support. The volunteers collecting for both initiatives were astounded at the generosity shown!

Items from the Past!

Items from the Past!

This week in Junior Infants we opened our Treasure Chest and it brought us back in time!! We looked at some old items that our grandparents might have used and how they are very different to what we use today. We found out that there were no DVD’s or CD’s a long time ago. People used large records to play music and video tapes to watch movies. We all pretended to take pictures on the old camera. It was very bulky and heavy to hold and the pictures only printed in black and white.

Some boys and girls were wondering why there weren’t any mobile phones in the treasure chest…….can you think why there were no mobile phones? We all had lots of fun exploring things that were old and new! Have a look at our pictures to find out what was in our treasure chest today!

Blast off to a great year!!

Blast off to a great year!!

Junior Infants have started off their new school year with a blast! They enjoyed making their colourful rockets and counting back from 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!!!!