St Patrick's Girls National School Hollypark
Archive School Year 2008/2009
Sports Stars
Sport Star Awards have been posted on the Pupils Page. Well done to: Aisling Cullen, Alex Lynch, Alice O'Flynn, Alison Howett, Anne Marie Gallagher, Aoife Kane, Ciara Somers, Emma Keating, Evonne O'Farrell, Isabelle Banks, Minami Kennedy, Muireann Spain and Rachel McAuley.
Summer
Newsletter
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International Day
16th June
Mrs Kennedy taught the girls in Ms Cahill's class origami, everyone looks very happy with the results!
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Senior classes warming
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Junior classes obstacle course
"cooling down"
Green School Flag May
St.Patricks GNS Hollypark are delighted to announce that our Green flag has been renewed, please see the Green School Code page for more .....
First Communion 16th of May
On the 16th of May, the 2nd class girls made their Fist Communion in Foxrock Chruch. The girls had a lovely day and really enjoyed themselves.
Photos from Ms Cahill's class
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Active Fun Day
7th of May
Organised by the hard-working Parents’ Association, the Active Fun Day was a great day. The girls showed great camaraderie amongst themselves on the day and funds raised have allowed the school to purchase four new interactive whiteboards which are currently being installed in the school. Many thanks to everyone who helped organise the events on the day. |
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Confirmation
1st April
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Onthe
1st of April the 6th class girls made
their Confirmation in Foxrock Church. Bishop Eamonn Walsh
performed the ceremony. The 6th class girls
really enjoyed themselves and had a lovely day. They were
accompanied by the 5th class choir who did lovely
singing. Ms O Donohue's class |
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Pioneer Quiz 8th March
On the 8th of March two teams participated in the Bray Deaney Pioneer Quiz in Greystones. The first team was Aoife Kane, Alison Aherne, Clodagh Prior, and Muireann Spain. The second team was Minami Kennedy, Sarah-Kate O'Connor, Alice O'Flynn, and Delphi Mac White-Begg. The first team finished on 40 points out of 60 and the second team a point behind on 39.
Planting Sunflowers May
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Every year we have a team of enthusiastic parents lead by
Pat Paeria to help the children plant sunflowers. Each child
in the school takes their sunflower home and watches it grow
taller and taller. Some pictures of Pat with her helpers
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New Web Site Launch April
Our new and updated School Website was launched at the end of April. Some of the seniors students in our school designed and decorated posters to advertise the launch.
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The Parents Association have purchased a defibrillator (AED) for our school. It is located in the school foyer - on the left hand wall as you enter the foyer. A group of staff have been trained in its use. Hopefully we will never have to use it.
A big thank you to the P.A.
who fundraised for this purchase.
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INTO Handwriting Competition April
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had 2 wins in the annual INTO Handwriting Competition this
year. Ciara Mahon in Junior Infants (Mrs Bracken's) and
Lauren Murray in 4th class (Ms Dinneen's) both won in their
age groups. Well done to the two girls. We hope to have
their wonderful handwriting on display soon so everyone can
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Celebrating 125yrs of GAA
April 24th
We had a very colourful
celebration for 125 years of GAA with the girls donning
their favourite team colours on ‘GAA Jersey Day’. We had a
very colourful parade in addition to guest GAA players
visiting the school and Gaelic and Camogie matches.
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Ms Casey supporting the kingdom |
| Some Foxrock Cabinteely GAA players that came in to speak to us. Some of the girls have even played for Dublin. |
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 The French school joined our parade |
Support your County! artwork by 3rd Class and Jersey colours by 2nd
Class
National Children's Choir April 24th
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The girls in
5th and 6th class have been rehearsing all
year for the National children’s Choir. Many parents and
family members got to hear a selection of the songs from the
National Children’s Choir repertoire. They were very impressed. |
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Junior School Project Awards April 22nd
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Congratulations to our sixth class girls and their
teachers on being winning finalists and overall
runners - up in the Junior Schools Project awards
yesterday evening in the Bank of Ireland,
Cabinteely.
The
girls did a wonderful project on The Egyptians -
which was on display in the bank and we will have it
on display in the foyer shortly.
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Easter Newsletter
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Write a Book
Congratulations to all
the 6th class girls who took part in the Write a book
Project 2009 in conjunction with Blackrock Education Centre.
All of the girls worked so hard and the standard of their
final stories and books was very high. We had 3 winners from
Hollypark GNS Brid Nolan (Ms O Donoghue) Ceara Belton (Ms
Coughlan) and Kate Grennan ( Ms Burns Dooley)
Brid Nolan with her Write a Book Certificate |
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Healthy Lunches provided by Carambola Kidz We have a policy of healthy eating in our school. We ask that parents provide the girls with nourishing, tasty healthy lunches. At the beginning of March a Healthy Lunch company called Carabolakidz provided a sample lunch to the girls in our school . Here is the Senior Infants enjoying their ‘carambola lunch’ Parents who wish to order can log on their website and get a pre-ordered healthy lunch delivered to the school for their daughter. |
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Hockey News March 24th
Hollypark -v- Whitechurch
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On Tuesday 24th March Hollypark Division 2 team gallantly took on a very strong Whitechurch team. Hollypark went toe to toe with them for the majority of the 1st half but the writing was on the wall as Whitechurch forced saved after save out of keeper Aoife Kane, who had an outstanding game and kept Hollypark in the match. An injury to key defender Sarah Collins forced Hollypark to make positional changes. Whitechurch broke the deadlock with a well taken goal and led at half time by a goal to nil.
The second half saw more of the same pressure for Hollypark but Ms.Candon's team never gave up and worked together until the final whistle. Hollypark's defence came under severe pressure throughout the match resulting in a fine display from Alice O'Flynn and Keeper Aoife Kane once again. Whitechurch profited from their pressure netting three more well taken goals. Hollypark were committed right to the end and were convincingly beaten by a much physically stronger and more experienced Whitechurch team. This was an unfortunate end to and almost flawless league campaign. The team and Ms.Candon would like to thank all the parents for their support during the league campaign.
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Hollypark Team: Aoife Kane, Evonne Farrell (capt), Alice O'Flynn, Sarah Collins, Emma Keating, Aisling Cullen, Rachel McAuley, Kate Grennan, Yasmin Mackey and Isabelle Banks. |
Second Class School Tour March 20th
On Friday 20th of March the two second classes went to Airfield. It was a gorgeous sunny day. They had lots of fun at Airfield. They saw some of the new baby lambs, This Spring 29 lambs have been born so far in Airfield. They also went on a Bug Hunt around Airfield. Lauren Tracey found 2 centipedes as well as lots of woodlice. Aoife saw a frog too. Both classes enjoyed their trip.
Our St Patrick’s Day Celebrations
March 13th
| We celebrated St Patrick’s Day in style this year. The girls were allowed wear in green, white and orange clothes on Friday 13th of March. Some even brought in green, white and orange lunches. Each year group had a Ceilí in the Hall where we practiced our Irish Dancing. Here are the infants classes doing Damhsa Ciorcal lead by Ms Carey. | |
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Seachtain na Gaeilge is a 2 week event in the lead up to St. Patrick's Day promoting the Irish language and culture. Some of the lovely art work 'as Gaeilge' |
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First
Confession
March 12th
It was a very big night for the children in second class. Ms McCahill and Ms Finan’s classes went to Foxrock Church along with some children from the French school to make their First Confession. They had been practising all week for the big occasion and it was a great success. Well done second class. During their preparation the girls have learnt all about the story 'The Lost Sheep'.
5th class presented with prize: March 11th
| On Wednesday 11th of March Gina McQuaid from the Modern Language Primary schools Initiative came to the school to present a lap-top which was won by Ms Candon’s 5th class. The girls along with their French teacher, Rachel Coppinger did a project for a competition entitled ‘The language and Cultural Diversity in our class’ The girls presented their project to the school and also did a power point presentation for the competition. Well done to all concerned |
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Mrs Glennon is presented with the Certificate and Laptop |
Senior
Infants School Tour:
March 11th
The senior infants went on a tour on Wednesday March 11th to Number 29 Fitzwilliam Street, the Dublin Georgian House Museum. All 3 senior infant classes travelled into town together on a double decker bus. We were taken around the house in small groups by guides. The girls saw a kitchen, dining room, drawing room, bedroom, nursery and pantry from the Georgian era.
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After the tour of the house we went to Merrion Square for a
picnic and enjoyed the first nice, sunny spring day we have
had this year. We also had a bit of time to play in the
playground.
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Our School Concert March
This year Hollypark girls treated friends and family to an amazing concert. Second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth class students of our school performed an amazing variety of entertaining plays, songs, poems and dances. The tickets sold out very quickly and an extra performance was arranged to cope with the huge demand. The positive response from parents has been tremendous and the efforts from both the children and staff of Hollypark has to be acknowledged. Well Done!
4th Class perform ABBA
3rd Class performance 5th and Class class performance
Spring has arrived !!!
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Our foyer was brightly decorated by our talented and creative team of Special Needs Assistants. The artwork was done by Ms Carey’s, Ms McHale’s and Ms Foy’s Senior Infant classes. The foyer is now bright and cheery! Thanks to all involved! |
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The paintings
Paul Francis is the artist we have to thank for brightening up the tunnel area at the top of the school. The theme of the 3 paintings is the History of Education. He has done a great job and we are thrilled with his creations. He also designed and created our new backdrop in our hall. It is a Dublin street scene and it really adds to the stage. Many parents saw the new backdrop in use at our school concert at the beginning of March and were all very impressed with it. A Christmas scene is also being designed at the moment and we look forward to using it for our nativity concerts.
Arianna helping her Dad
World Book Day: 10th February
| Liam Farrell who writes children’s stories came to our school to talk about his books. Liam has written books based on traditional tales with a twist. The infants were treated to a rendition of ‘The true story of the 3 little pigs’ where we learnt that the wolf wasn’t really ‘the baddie’ the pigs made him out to be. Liam spoke to us in costume as the wolf and really made his stories come alive. All classes in the school from junior to senior end watched Liam in action and were thoroughly entertained. |
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Chinese New Year: 26th January
Thanks to the efforts of Mrs Doran and Mrs Carthy we got to celebrate the Chinese New Year in style. Both teachers transformed our foyer area into a sea of Chinese lanterns, fans and dragons. The infants were enlisted to help out and the results were amazing.
