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Newsletter: 20th November 2024

Admission to Junior Infants September 2025


The process for admission to Junior Infants 2025 has now closed.


All applicants have been notified of the decision on their application.


Applicants who are offered a place on the first round 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

Graffiti Classics

Friday 22nd November

All classes

Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale Collection

Friday 22nd November

All classes

NCC Cluster Rehearsal

Thursday 28th November

5th & 6th Classes

PA Preloved Occasion Wear Night

Thursday 28th November

Adults Only

Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale

Friday 29th November

All classes

Christmas Play

Wednesday 11th December

Junior Infants

Christmas Play

Thursday 12th December

Senior Infants

Movie Night

Friday 13th December

6th Class

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 delighted to be meeting with our Senior Infant to 6th Class parents this week at the annual Parent Teacher Meetings.


PT Meetings for Junior Infants will take place in January/February.


 

Fiona Forman Parent Talk: Monday 18th November

Despite the poor weather on Monday evening, we had a good turn out for our Fiona Forman Parent Talk: Raising Resilient Children. Feedback from those in attendance was excellent.


Thank you to our PA for organising tea/coffee and biscuits on the evening.


Fiona very kindly shared her slideshow with us, which has been shared with all families via Aladdin.


 

Voluntary Contribution

Thank you to the 127 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

Click here to see the new Hollypark PA section on our website.

Thank you to Adrian for his work in putting this together.


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.


 

Coin Collection 18th-22nd November

Our Coin Drop Fundraiser, which started in classes on Monday is going very well. Thank you for your support.


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 group who raises the most money and a few spot prizes throughout the week. Already spot prizes have been awarded to Ms Sweeney's Junior Infants, Ms Codd's 1st Class, Ms O'Shea's 4th Class and Ms Conlon's 5th Class! Well done ladies!


Looking forward to seeing our new equipment throughout the school. Best of luck to everyone and lets get counting!


 

Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale


 

 

  

Frásaí na Seachtaine

"Tá an ghrian ag taitneamh!"

Labhair Gaeilge linn!

 

 

Inter-School Maths Quiz


Next week, four of our sixth-class girls will be representing our school in the annual Inter-Schools Maths Quiz.

 

The ‘Maths Masters’ quiz will be hosted by St. Attracta’s Senior National School, Meadowbrook on Wednesday 27th November 2024 @ 11:00am.

 

Ava Conlan, Alice Earle, Isla Maher and Lingxi Sun have been busy practising their problem-solving skills and preparing for the quiz over the past few weeks.

 


Best of luck to our amazing mathematicians!

 

 

Camile de Rís meets Olympic Swimmers

My teammates and I in Trojan swim club were so excited to welcome Olympic swimmers to Newpark on Sunday. Ellen Walsh and Darragh Greene came to visit. They talked us through how to warm up like an Olympian! they told us all about their recent Olympic experiences in Paris. They shared their Olympic journey with us, from training and preparations to competition day at the pool. I was inspired to train even harder so I can achieve my dream of becoming a Team Ireland swimmer in future Olympic games.

By Camile de Rís 
 

STEAM Academy Workshop: Hollypark Winners

Our names are Aibhlínn Doherty Heaney, Elena Clinch and Aoibhinn O' Herlihy in Ms Conlon’s 5th class and Lingxi Sun in Ms Coll’s 6th class.  
Last Saturday, we competed in a ‘Steam Academy’ competition. The competition took place in Guardian Angels NS in Blackrock from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Approximately fifteen schools took part in the competition with two teams from each school competing.  
The teams were made up of two competitors and our challenge was as follows:
We had 40 minutes to build a robot and 15 minutes to test it. The challenge was that our robot collect as many table tennis balls as possible and put them in to our goal. 
Aibhlínn and Elena were on one team and Aoibhinn and Lingxi were on another. Our two teams ended up playing each other in the final. Aoibhinn and Lingxi won first place and Aibhlínn and Elena won second place! 
We thoroughly enjoyed the ‘Steam Academy’ competition.

 

Gymnastics medal winners!



 

Music Workshops

We are looking forward to welcoming 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 next 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.

 

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!

Eva Flanagan

Aisling O'Callaghan

Isabella Mulvee

Nessa Houlihan

Grace O'Leary

Sadie Twomey

Beth Drury Byrne

Torah Devlin

Holly Hyland

Nina Byrne

May Hanrahan

Millie O'Malley

Adeline O'Donovan



 

 

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.


 

HPGNS

United in Friendship, Together We Strive!



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