Newsletter

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Reminder: St. Thomas’ Parents Association Annual Subscription of €10 per family is now overdue. Please return your subscription to class teacher in the envelope provided as soon as possible. Thank you to all the parents who have already paid this subscription as funds collected greatly assist the resources available to the school.

We are currently updating our musical instrument sets in both halls and replenishing our sports equipment for the whole school. This is made possible through your support and is much appreciated.

Book Week 2018 starts next Monday 12^th Nov. Lots of activities will be happening in school e.g.

Book Fair: 12^th to 16^th, D.E.A.R. Time, Buddy Reading, Library Visits (Sen. Inf. -2^nd class)

Please consider joining Lucan Library if you’re not already a member. (southdublinlibraries.ie)

Niall de Búrca storyteller will also visit the school on Monday and work with all classes for the day.

One activity for parents to be involved with is our Bedtime StoryChallenge for infants-1^st class.

The challenge is to read your child a bedtime story, every night, next week. You need to record the name of the book etc. on the form. Your child will be entered into a class raffle to win a book from the book fair on completion of this challenge.

2^nd classes will do the MS Readathon for the month of November. Please send in €2 to the class teacher by Friday 23^rd November. Reading a bedtime story/reading daily at home is a proven enjoyable way to help develop your child’s reading skills.

A Book Fair, facilitated by our Parents Association, will be held in the school from Monday12^th to Friday 16^th November. Our school benefits by getting 60% of the value of the book sales in free books for the school, and this assists the development of our class libraries and resource materials.

Monday 12^th November 1.30pm-3.15pm

Tuesday 13^th November 9.15am- 10.15am 1.30pm-3.15pm

Wednesday 14^th November 9.15am- 10.15am 1.30pm-3.15pm

Thursday 15^th November 9.15am- 10.15am 1.30pm-3.15pm______7pm-8pm

Friday 16^th November 9.15am- 10.15am 1.30pm-3.15pm

Baptism for older children: This takes place on Sunday 2^nd December 2018 if you wish to have your older child baptised please contact the parish centre. (Ph.6281018)

There will also be a preliminary meeting in November.

S.D.C.C. Art Competition: Robin Glynn, Charbel Packham, Morgan Onwuka and Lucy Mae Farrell (1^st class – Ms.Nolan / Ms.Lawlor)) won cycling helmets in the S.D.C.C. Road Cycle Safety art competition, which also included an additional 16 helmets for the school. Well done to all!

Car Park: If you have a permit for the car park arising from your child’s or your own disability please ensure it is displayed on your dash as those without permits will be clamped by APCOA.

Yours sincerely,

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Michael Maher

Principal