Duleek Boys National School

We learned how to write acrostic poems in Ms. Ward’s class. In groups of three we wrote poems on “FRIENDS”. We choose to write poems about friends because we read the story “Rainbow Fish” which is all about friendship. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Check out our lovely winter jumpers! Ms. Ward’s class are great fashion designers!! They’re sure to bewarm these chilly days!! Great art boys, well done!

Well done to Ciarán Mc Keown who won Student of the Week this week for a big improvement in behaviour and for working well. Maith Thú Ciarán.

Well done to Cillian Ratchford who won Student of the Week this week for lovely manners and behaviour in class. Maith Thú 🙂

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This week we have been learning all about symmetry in maths. We discovered that the wings on a butterfly are symmetrical. We made our own busy butterflies by painting half of a page and folding it over to print the design on the opposite side,the glittery body shows the line of symmetry

Best of luck to Chess Team who play St. Peters’ on Wed.30th and to Quiz Teams in Credit Union Quiz on Sun. Feb. 3rd.

What a handsome bunch!!

Parent/Teacher meetings will be held on Mon. Feb.4th and Tues. Feb. 5th. Each teacher will send out a time-table . Thank You.

Congratulations to Matthew and Riley who received student of the week awards. Matthew received his award for excellent behaviour and super poetry, Riley received his award for great behaviour and getting all his spellings correct!! What a great start to the year!!

Newsletter Duleek B.N.S.     January 2013

Parent Teacher Meetings: Parents/Teacher Meetings will be held in the school on Monday 4^th & Tuesday 5^th February. Your child’s teacher will send home your time to come in. Each parent will be allocated ten minutes and we ask you not to over stay this time. If your child goes to Mrs.Tiernan, Mrs.Ferris or Mrs. Levins it is very important that you see these teachers also.

First Confession: First Confession for 2^nd Class (Ms.Clinton & Mr. Raftery) will be held in the school on Thursday February 21^st at 7pm. All pupils with their parents are asked to be there at 6.50pm.

Mid-Term Break: The school will close for Mid-term Break on Thursday & Friday 14^th & 15^th February.

Quiz: Best of luck to the Quiz Teams from the school who will take part in the Credit Union Quiz on Sunday 3^rd February at 2pm. This event will be held in Duleek G.N.S. Thanks to Ms. Mulvey for all her work. Senior Team: Darragh Barnes, Cormac Canning, Darren O Brien, Aaron Reilly.Junior Team: Calum Agnew, Harry Caffrey,Seb Lennon & Rónán McGee.

Chess Team:  Congratulations to the School Chess Team who won their first game this week. Thanks to Mrs. Tiernan for her work with them.

Pantomime: Thanks to all the parents and pupils who supported the Pantomime last night and a big thank you to the Parents’ Association who put a lot of work into selling tickets etc. The Parents Association have recently given us €759.30 towards the cost of a new sound system/microphone etc. for which we are very grateful. Go raibh miath agaibh.

Junior Infants: All Junior Infants for September 2013 should be enrolled by now.

Entrance Tests: Entrance Tests for boys going to Secondary School this year will take place on Saturday February 2^nd and we wish all our pupils the best of luck. Thank you to Mr.McDonald for all his efforts.

School Website: The School Website (www.duleekboys.scoilnet.ie) is frequently updated and contains postings etc. regarding events in classes and the school in general.

Road Safety: Again we ask you to remind your son(s) frequently about road safety etc. and we ask drivers not to park in the space between our school gate and the road.

Yours Sincerely.

G. Conroy

etter January 2013