Admission to Junior Infants September 2025
The process for admission to Junior Infants 2025 has now closed.
All applicants will be notified of the decision on their application by this Friday 15th November.
Applicants who are offered a place on the first round will have until Friday 29th November to confirm acceptance of an offer.
Key Dates: Term One & Two
PT Meetings | Week beginning Monday 18th November | Senior Infants - 6th Class |
Weaving Wellbeing Fiona Forman: Talk for parents | Monday 18th November @ 7:30pm in the school hall | All parents (GNS & BNS) welcome |
Graffiti Classics | Friday 22nd November | All classes |
NCC Cluster Rehearsal | Thursday 28th November | 5th & 6th Classes |
PA Preloved Occasion Wear Night | Thursday 28th November | Adults Only |
Christmas Play | Wednesday 11th December | Junior Infants |
Christmas Play | Thursday 12th December | Senior Infants |
Moon & Sixpence Puppet Theatre | Monday 16th December | All classes |
Niall de Burca Story Teller | Wednesday 18th December | All classes |
Last day of Term One (early finish) | Friday 20th December | All classes |
First day of Term Two | Monday 6th January | All classes |
PT Meetings | Week beginning 27th January 2025 | Junior Infants |
St Brigid's Day closure | Monday 3rd February | All classes |
Cyber Safety Talk | Monday 17th February | Parents |
Midterm break | Thursday 20th February & Friday 21st February | All classes |
School Calendar 2024/2025
The 2024/2025 calendar is available on www.hollyparkgns.ie
PT Meetings: Senior Infants to 6th Class
We are looking forward to meeting you at your annual Parent Teacher Meeting which will take place for Senior Infants to 6th Classes next week.
The Aladdin PT Scheduler is now closed. Parents/guardians who have not yet booked a slot should contact the class teacher directly.
Please note, parents who have already met with their daughter’s teacher and support team do not need to schedule a meeting at this time.
PT Meetings for Junior Infants will take place in January/February.
Fiona Forman Parent Talk: Monday 18th November
Thank you to our PA who have kindly organised a team to serve teas/coffees on the evening.
Voluntary Contribution
Thank you to the 116 families who have already made a Voluntary Contribution for 2024/25! Every week this number increases - thank you most sincerely.
Your Voluntary Contribution makes a real difference to your girls' learning environment. Thank You. |
If you would like to help in any additional way with our school development, (time, skillset, sponsorship) please let us know.
Hollypark GNS PA Update
Ladies' and Girls' Preloved Occasion Wear Night
The PA will be hosting a ‘Ladies' and Girls’ Preloved Occasion Wear Night' on Thursday 28th November to give parents an opportunity to purchase high-quality ladies and girls' occasion wear at a reduced cost while socialising with other parents.
Entry is €10 which includes a glass of bubbles and a €5 discount off a purchase. Please note that this is an adults only event.
A raffle to win family photo shoots plus many exciting sustainable prizes will also be held on the night.
We hope you can join us for what should be a fun event.
We are kindly requesting parents to donate their unwanted, preloved items for the event on Thursday, 14th November at the tunnel between 8.15 a.m. - 8.50 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Coin Collection 18th-22nd November
Hollypark GNS PA is holding a Coin Drop Fundraiser, to take place the week of 18th-22nd of November.
This fundraiser will raise funds for resources to benefit each of the classes from Junior Infants to 6th class as shown below.
What we are asking of you is to empty out your pockets, raid your old coin jars and check behind your sofas for any change you can find around the house (euro only) and drop the coins into the coin jar designated for your class year.
To add a bit of incentive, we have prizes for the year who raises the most money and a few spot prizes through the week. Looking forward to seeing our new equipment throughout the school. Best of luck to everyone and lets get counting!
Frásaí na Seachtaine
"Tá sé ag cur báistí agus tá sé scamallach!" |
Labhair Gaeilge linn!
Music Workshops
We are delighted to welcome Graffiti Classics Music Workshop to our school on Friday, 22nd November.
Graffiti Classics are a comedy string quartet and deliver a classical workshop performance lasting one hour. The performance is engaging, interactive and educational, introducing us to a wide range of music and playing styles.
In June 2025 we will welcome Neil Dowling back to our school again for our Drum Nature Percussion Music Workshop. Again this workshop is engaging and interactive and all classes will attend workshops.
The cost for the workshops is €10 per child. Payment for the workshops will be facilitated via Aladdin.
Foxrock Parish Christmas Concert
We are delighted that once again our School Choir has been invited to sing at the forthcoming Foxrock Parish Christmas Concert in aid of First Light and Critical Emergency Medical Response. The concert will take place at 6pm on Sunday 1st December and all funds raised through ticket sales and raffle will be shared between these two worthy charities.
Our School Choir has also been invited to sing at the Light Up LauraLynn event on Sunday 24th November. Our girls are delighted to support this wonderful children's charity.
National Children's Choir
Our 5th and 6th Classes have been working hard on the National Children's Choir repertoire. We are now looking forward to our first 'cluster rehearsal' which takes place on Thursday 28th November. We will welcome pupils from Guardian Angels NS to our school to practise the first eight songs of this wide-ranging repertoire.
There will be a further 'cluster rehearsal' in the spring before our school's performance in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght in April 2025.
Medal winners!
Congratulations to these girls on their recent awards.
Traffic Safety
Morning & evening one-way system:
Reminders:
Please use the church car park at drop off and collection times and walk the last 6 minutes with your child.
80% of our pupils live within 2 kilometres of our school. Please encourage your older children to walk with their pals to and from school.
Please work with our PA to action the Walking Bus initiative as soon as possible
Please ensure that younger children are held by the hand when walking with them to and from school.
Please do not block the driveways of local residents when parking. Many of our residents – often elderly - are virtual prisoners in their own homes at drop off and collection times. And when they speak up are often subject to abuse.
In the event of an emergency, when cars are parked illegally, it is unlikely that a fire tender or ambulance would be able to access the schools, or any homes in the vicinity.
Birthdays this week in Hollypark
Eniemelen Eborson
Lingxi Sun
Isabelle Shields
Arabella McGuinness
Kaitlyn Ribbens
Ava Cahill
Emily Hasson
Eliana Tzialli
Matilda Doran
Advertising on our school newsletter
If you would like to place an ad on our school newsletter, please email Suzanne at the office hollyparkgns@gmail.com for further details.
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