Feb 25th
The bag packing effort over the mid-term in Dunnes Stores in the Pavilions raised a grand total of €2450.
A BIG thanks to all parents who gave up their free time to support the fundraising.
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 will run from 22 February – 7 March and this year’s theme is ‘THE BIG SWAP’.
We’re asking people to swap even one of their usual purchases for a Fairtrade equivalent. Each and every swap will prove that we want producers from developing countries to get a better deal.
A list of Fairtrade products can be found […]
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Well done everyone who made the effort to leave their car at home on our WOW launch day. After seeing everyone walking this morning, the lollipop ladies were AMAZED that so many people drive to school other days.
Well done everyone and remember the next WOW day is only 2 weeks away.
But if you can please make […]
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Congratulations to the winners of our WOW launch competition. As can be seen below the standard was extremely high and a lot of effort was made by all competition entrants.
Well done everyone!
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When blogging or doing any activity with pupils on the internet one thinks about web safety. The best place to go for up to date information about this is the National Centre for Technology Education website [NCTE]. Check out the NCTE WEBWISE website for safety tips and loads of valuable information.
NCTE webwise Acceptable Usage Policy […]
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Our international students will soon be participating in two eTwinning projects:
1. Handmade Easter Card Exchange
We will be exchanging handmade easter cards with children in the school “C.E.I.P. BILINGÜE EL ÁLAMO” in EL ÁLAMO which is situated near Madrid in Spain.
For more informatio on our partner school, please go to http://www.educa.madrid.org/portal/c/pub/webfactory/ver?webName=cp.elalamo.elalamo.
2. An Eco Project
We will be […]
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WALK ON WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 24th
DPETNS is going for its fourth Green Flag! We have been awarded flags for our hard work in previous years for Litter and Waste, Energy and Water.
We’re hoping that we will be awarded a flag for TRAVEL in the 2010-2011 school year which means we’ve to work together as a school community to […]
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Children and staff returning after the midterm break were welcomed by a new sight – a bike shelter:
This shelter can accomodate up to 30 bikes and has the major benefit of keeping the bikes dry :).
Many thanks to “An Taisce” for sponsoring the shelter.
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For the past few years parents have run a savings scheme in our school. Every Tuesday morning two parents collect the children’s savings and lodge them in the local Credit Union. The scheme is open to all pupils from 1st class upwards.
Pat McCann, the volunteer youth officer from our local Credit Union, came in to […]
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Ger’s class planted sweetpea seeds from last years sweetpea plants on the 9th February, 2010.
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