Author: Ita Connolly

Travel Survey Please click on the link to answer two simple questions about how you travel to school. We have almost finished our application for the travel flag! The survey is very important and we appreciate your help.  

Mindfulness Workshop for Children starts Wednesday, September 25th, 3.15pm to 4.15pm for 8 weeks. If your child attends the workshops you will be invited to a mindful parenting workshop, free of charge (date TBC). Suitable for children of all ages up to 6th Class, they will learn how to apply these skills to daily life at home, at school, in their hobbies and  sport. Workshops will include: ▪️...

http://davidstownps.ie/parents/policies/ Please take some time to read the policies on our website. The Anti-Bullying, Child Protection and Code of Behaviour are currently under review. Please forward any questions or feedback to iconnolly@davidstownps.ie before the 4th of October 2019.

Dear Parents/Guardians,   Bricks 4 Kidz will be starting their After-School programme on Tuesday 24th of September. This programme will begin on Tuesday September 24th and will run for one day per week, for 12 weeks up to December 17th. The cost is €5 per session. This can be paid upfront or weekly. The Bricks team will be using our school as a base and children from other schools...

Breda Murphy has very kindly agreed to do photographs early in October. Order forms and a full price list will be sent home with a date for return. Individual portraits and portraits with siblings will be taken. Requests for photos with extended family, for example, cousins may also be made but must be made known in advance on the order form.  

Thank you for getting the swim responses back to us so quickly. We are currently pricing the lessons and the bus and will be back to you with a final total for the 8 week block of lessons in the Waterfront. There had been a few questions regarding the infants class attending lessons. Staff members are not permitted to help children in getting dressed. For that reason, any children going swim...

We are delighted to welcome Mr Richard O'Shea to our staff this year. Mr O'Shea will be covering Ms Crean's maternity leave and will be working with 4th to 6th class. We hope that you are all having a wonderful summer.

There has been a case of Chicken Pox reported to our school. Please note that children should be kept home until they are well enough to be in school. There are no active lesions - All vesicles are crusted over - They have had no systemic symptoms (e.g. fever or malaise) for 72 hours - There have been no new lesions for 72 hours If your child has not had chickenpox before it is quite like...

Congratulations to Anna on winning a prize in the Biodiversity Art Competition which was run by Wexford Co.Council. Anna was presented her prize by artist and author Don Conroy. Anna also won a beautiful bird box for the school. Well done, Anna!

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