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SCOIL CHAITRÍONA
​LATEST NEWS
​2022-2023

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We wish the whole Scoil Chaitríona community a very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful and Healthy New Year. We will see you back in school on Thursday 5th January 2023.

CHRISTMAS DRAW
Congratulations to our prize winners at today's Parent's Association Christmas draw.
Our thanks to O' Dwyers and our local Centra for sponsoring our prizes.
1st Prize: €150  - Sandra Healy
2nd Prize: Voucher for Centra €100  - Lisa Corbett
3rd Prize: Voucher for O' Dwyers - Fr. Browne
4th Prize: Voucher for Hayes's Restaurant - Granny Luke

We also had the children's draw and our thanks to all the staff who donated all the prizes for the children. It was a great end to the school year. 

SANTA CLAUS CAME TO SCOIL CHAITRIONA
We got a big surprise when Santa arrived on his sleigh to deliver selection boxes to all the boys and girls. He said he would see them soon and they were all on the "NICE" List. Our thanks to our local Centra, Mary Coffey and our Parent's Association for supplying the selection boxes. 

PAST PUPIL IS A CHRISTMAS STAR
Over the Christmas, you might get a chance to see the panto Jack and the Beanstalk in the Limetree Theatre in Limerick. It stars our own past pupil Eleanor O' Brien who is playing the leading role. 

PANTO IN UL
We had a great day in UL when we went to see the pantomime "Peter Pan" - Oh YES WE DID!! The children got to enjoy a wonderful Christmas tradition with their friends. 

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CHRISTMAS 2022
What an amazing few weeks we have had in Scoil Chaitríona preparing for Christmas. We have been taking part in the Advent Ceremonies every Saturday night at mass and singing in the choir. 
We had our Parent's Association Carol Singing Fundraiser on Saturday 10th and we were thrilled with the children and parents who turned up on a cold Winter's night to spread the spirit of Christmas with the parishioners of Cappamore. Our thanks to Michael O' Brien who accompanied the children on the guitar and added so much to the festive atmosphere
Our highlight this year was our Christmas Pageant - "It's a Miracle" which we performed in St. Michael's Church on Tuesday 13th of December. The children were at their very best and the church was thronged with family and friends who were entertained from the very start. Well done to all involved. A special thanks goes to Brian Sullivan, Aidan's dad, who provided sound and lights on the night and to Josephine Blackwell who took all the lovely photos as well. 

New entrants for September 2023.
Please note Scoil Chaitríona will be accepting enrolments for the Junior Infant class of 2023 from the 9th of January 2023.  Admissions information and forms are available on the school website in the HOME tab under the POLICIES section. 

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES
Dates for your diary
Advent ceremonies: 
Saturday night masses of Advent at 7.30pm 
Please be in the balcony by 7.20pm. 
 Saturday 26th Nov
Saturday 3rd Dec
Saturday 10th Dec
Saturday 17th Dec

Carol Singing 
Our Parent's Association have organised a carol singing fundraiser for children, parents and staff before mass on Saturday the 10th of December at 7pm. 

Christmas Pageant
Our Christmas Pageant is back this year. The pageant will be performed on Tuesday the 13th of December at 7.30pm in St. Michael's Church. 


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CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX APPEAL
18/11/'22 Thank you to all our families and friends for supporting the Annual Shoebox Appeal. 

SCOIL CHAITRIONA PARENTS ASSOCIATION TABLE QUIZ
11/11/'22 A huge thank you to our Parents Association and all their helpers for a brilliant night in O 'Dwyers in aid of Scoil Chaitríona. It was so good to see so many familiar faces of present and past parents all out enjoying themselves and supporting our school. Thank you so much to Clodagh, Elaine, Sheila and Liz Meacham for all the work they put into the event. It was a great success and raised over €2,000. Thank you to all the people who donated to the quiz and to O' Dwyers for hosting the event.

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Some of the staff from Scoil Chaitríona enjoying the table quiz

Story Telling in the Library
9/11/'22 The children really enjoyed the story telling session in our local library. Many thanks to Mark for organising this enjoyable gathering

Heritage in the School Visit
8/11/'22 We had a brilliant visit from Fiona who worked with the senior classes on songwriting using local stories and the junior classes had a sound exploration workshop on the theme of nature.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2022
We had a very busy end to our first term with our Halloween dress up, a cake sale and our Halloween games. One of our parents Emma O'Connor created this magnificent cake for our cake sale. We are very grateful for all the donations made on the day.

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Halloween Dress Up Fun

Halloween Cake Sale

Halloween Games
The children had a brilliant time with the break time Monster Mash disco, Pumpkin Toss, Make a Mummy, What time is it Mr. Wolf, Musical Ghostly Statues, Marshmallow Toss, the Spider's Web Obstacle and Ghoulish Eyeball and Spoon races. We hope the children enjoyed all the fun and games. 

Titans of Tae Kwon Do
Congratulations to our own Liam and Seanie for their achievements in Tae Kwon Do over the weekend. We are very proud of you both - well done!

Our Annual School Dinner
13/10/'22 - Today we had our annual school dinner. The children were ready with their bowls and spoons and came back for seconds and thirds of our home cooked pasta bolognese and jelly and ice cream. Many thanks to all our parents who helped out on the day, cooking and serving the food to the children. We hope everyone enjoyed it.

Storytime with Róisín Meaney in the Library

11/10/'22 We had a wonderful time in our local library listening to the well established author Róisín Meaney.
The children were hanging on her every word! 
Thank you Róisín & Mark (our librarian)!

 National Tree Day

6/10'22 - What a great day we had in Curraghchase with our Infant Classes, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th celebrating National Tree Day. We spent the day learning about trees and enjoying being outside in a beautiful forest. We are very grateful to our wonderful guides from Coillte who shared their expertise with us and every family received a lovely holly tree to grow at home.  

Cumann na mBunscoil
​Gaelic Football 2022

6/10/'22- Well done to all our players who bravely played today  against Cloverfield, Bearna, Bohermore and Garrydoolis and showed great teamwork and respect on the playing field. Many thanks to Ms. Sheehy and Ms. Power for training them and to Ms. Power and Simone for bring them to the match today.  

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European Schools Sports Day 2022 in Scoil Chaitríona
September 30th 2022

We dedicated this day to having fun, playing together and promoting physical activity and health for everyone!! 

Well done to our Community Games participants, Aoibheann, Doireann and Riain O' Dwyer in the running and Liam O' Connor in the swimming. Well done on representing Cappamore.  

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A Fabulous Friday in Scoil Chaitríona
23/9/'22 Last Friday Scoil Chaitríona celebrated it's Opening of the Year Mass and Mercy Day, to honour the contribution the Mercy Sisters have made to Cappamore and to our school since it was established 123 years ago. Our children sang  their hearts out and filled the church with song and joy. All our boys and girls did us so proud at mass and were accompanied on the organ by our talented teacher - Ms. Armitage.
As a special treat for the children, Ger's Mobile Farm came to visit the school and all the children were thrilled to be petting the rabbits and chickens, feeding the pig and sheep and taking the donkey and dog for a walk around the yard. It certainly was a Fabulous Friday.

Ms. O' Brien's Class

Ms. Cregan and Ms. Sheehy's Class

Ms. O' Dwyer's Class

Ms. Armitage's Class

Mrs. Smith's Class

Ms. Sadlier's Class

Roald Dahl Day September 13th​

We had so much fun celebrating Roald Dahl day again this year. We were amazed at the level of detail parents and children and even teachers put into their costumes. What a glorious day we had celebrating with Matilda, Miss Honey, Ms Trunchbull, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, Willy Wonka, The BFG and Sophie, the Fantastic Mr and Mrs. Fox and all the farmers. Well done to one and all - it was Whoopsy Whiffling Frothbuggling day!!!!!


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Next Tuesday the 13th of September is Roald Dahl Day and we will be immersing ourselves in activities based on the books of Roald Dahl. We encourage you make home made costumes to add to the day. Check out this website for ideas: https://www.theschoolrun.com/roald-dahl-dressing-up-costumes

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A warm welcome back to our children and staff for the new school year and a special welcome to all our new students in Ms. O' Brien and Mrs. Smith's classes. Just a reminder that the school will close next Tuesday 6th September at 12pm for a staff meeting. 

Back to school 2022
We are approaching the end of our summer holidays and we hope you are all refreshed and ready to return to school on Wednesday 31st of August. In advance of this we would like to share some important news with you. During the summer we appointed some new staff members. 

Natasha O' Brien - Jnr and Snr Infants
Laura O' Dwyer - 3rd and 4th Class
Marie Armitage - 5th and 6th Class
Marie Power  - Special Education Teacher
Síle Kilbane - Shared Special Education Teacher
Sharon Fetton - SNA
Laura Holmes - SNA 
We are delighted to welcome our new staff members to our growing team and look forward to them sharing their talents with us and building relationships in the school community.

​Just a reminder that all Junior Infant children will be collected at 12pm from Wednesday the 31st August until Friday 17th September. Also the children in Mrs. Smith's class will be going home at 12pm for the month of September. 
Please make sure you have all your children's school books and that they are covered in plastic and labelled. Booklists are on the school website on the HOME page. Uniforms are available from Fennessy's on William St.    

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