Today at our Wednesday afternoon assembly we celebrated the accomplishments of our fabulous boys and girls.  Pupils received pupil of the week awards and good citizen awards.  I was in the process of uploading  a photograph of today’s recipients when I realised that quite a few pictures have not been posted and this included pictures of pupils who have achieved success out of school. Apologies children here you are!

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This week is as busy week as ever at St.Augustine’s with several  classes leaving school this week and plans well underway for our end of term summer show performed by Pr.6 and Pr.7 pupils

Mon – New staff members for August to visit the school for a walkaround

Tues – Pr. 7 pupils to see St.Ambrose Show – Grease – am

Mrs.Docherty – nursery visits

Wed. – Pr.6 Retreat at St.Augustine’s Parish Centre.  A huge thank you to Father Kane for working in partnership with the school and St.Ambrose to organise this event.

Mrs.Docherty – nursery visits

Thurs. – Childline workshop for Pr.7 – am

Mrs.Docherty – nursery visits

Frid. – Pr.7 Retreat at St.Augustine’s Parish Centre.

The school community got together today for a fabulous sports day in the sunshine.  Many thanks to everyone who came along to either our Room 1 – 8 or Room 9 – 16 sports events and for cheering everyone along.  Below we have a slideshow of pictures from this afternoons event.  A slideshow of our Room 1 – 8 morning event will be posted tomorrow!! Mr.O’Dowd features but I don’t recall seeing him race or win so he has clearly pinched someone’s medals!!

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Reminder our sports day takes place tomorrow for the whole school.  Please note amended times to the previously advertised times on the school newsletter.

Room 1 – 8 – 10.00am (Pr.4 children in Room 8 can run with their class or run with the Pr.4 pupil in the afternoon).  Apologies for any confusionand change to plans.

Room 9 – 16 – 1.00pm

Children to wear their own sports wear.

An early lunch will take place at 12.00 to accommodate times.

Our PTA would like me to inform you that the final sum raised on Saturday was an astonishing £1,970.  An astonishing figure.  A huge big thank you to everyone for their hard work and to all who came along and supported our summer fair.  Another very successful fundraising event by our wonderful PTA.  Thank you ladies.

Saturday was a fabulous day that saw the school community come together for our annual summer fair.  It was great to see our Summer Fair take place in brilliant sunshine with everyone enjoying themselves.  Our fabulous PTA really did us proud and raised the astonishing sum of £1,850 for PTA funds. That was an amazing sum and we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the PTA, to school staff and to all the parents, grandparents and children who came along to support the school.  Our slideshow below captures the great day that was had by all!!

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We hope you enjoy the holiday weekend.  Our fingers are crossed that the sun shines for everyone!

School re-opens Tuesday 31st May at 9.00am.

Our Summer Fair on Saturday 4th June, is fast approaching.  The PTA and school will be delighted to accept donations for our tombola and bottle stall, groceries, toys and books.  Please send any donations to the school.  Thank you in advance  of your great support.

A huge big thank you to the Parent Council and all the contributors who gave up their time to attend our Careers Fair this afternoon.  It was a huge success and truly inspired many children to consider what interests them, what skills they have and what careers they may consider for the future.  It was great to see the event so well received by both parents, pupils and staff.  Well done everyone and thank you for making the event such a success.

Our hard working Parent Council have worked extremely hard over the last few weeks to organise a Careers Fair for the children of the school.  You are never too young to give consideration to what career options are out there and this fair will give the children opportunities to talk to a wide array of people in regard of their career, the skills they developed the jobs they carry out.  I am sure the children will have plenty of questions and the event will hopefully get them thinking about the future.  It is sure to be both highly informative and inspirational!!! Doors open at 3.00pm.  Please come along and support this great event.