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Newsletter: Wednesday 30th April 2025

  • Writer: hollyparkwebsite
    hollyparkwebsite
  • Apr 30
  • 6 min read

Updated: May 1

Welcome back! I hope that everyone enjoyed a great well-deserved Easter break. It is lovely to see the girls look so rested and well, and ready for the busy-ness of Term 3!



Key Dates Term Three

May Break School Closure

Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th May

All classes

National Children's Choir @ the NCH

Sunday 11th May

NCH girls

Sports Day

Tuesday 13th May

All classes

Santry Sports

Monday 19th May

Athletic Squad

Standardised Testing

Week beginning Monday 19th May

1st - 6th Classes

First Holy Communion

Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th May

2nd Class

School Closure for PMC Staff Inservice

Monday 26th May

All classes

Communion Photo

Tuesday 27th May

2nd Class

Visit by Marita Conlon McKenna

Wednesday 28th May

4th, 5th, 6th Classes

Choir Concert

Wednesday 28th May

School Choir

Welcome Day for incoming Junior Infants

Thursday 29th May

Incoming Junior Infants September 2025

Ceremony of Light

Thursday 29th May

6th Class

Cake Sale

Friday 30th May

All classes

June Break School Closure

Monday 2nd June Tuesday 3rd June Wednesday 4th June

All classes

Confirmation

Saturday 7th June

6th Class

Confirmation Photo

Tuesday 10th June

6th Class

Creative Schools Week

Week beginning Monday 9th June

All classes

6th Class Graduation

Wednesday 25th June

6th Class

Last day Term 3

Friday 27th June

All classes

School Tours May/June 2025

Junior Infants

Glenroe Farm

18th June

Senior Infants

Festina Lente

30th May

1st Class

Lullymore

20th June

2nd Class

Tallaght Astro Park

19th June

3rd Class

Fort Lucan

11th June

4th Class

Clara Lara

19th June

5th Class

CP Adventure Russborough House

13th June

6th Class

Alive Outside Kilruddery

13th June

Class teachers will contact classes in due course, via Aladdin, with all relevant details.



School Calendar 2024/2025


The 2024/2025 calendar is available on www.hollyparkgns.ie


Sports Day

We are looking forward to our annual Sports Day which will take place (weather permitting! ) on Tuesday 13th May. How lucky are we that Jacqui Hurley will give of her professional expertise and time to commentate on the day.


We are also delighted to welcome our local clubs and some of our After School Providers who will provide ongoing sports activities throughout our school day.


The spectator events will take place on our pitch - please see timetable below which facilitates the attendance of parents/ families. Please note no dogs are allowed on the school campus. There will be waste bins for coffee cups etc on entry to the astro as we must protect the all-weather membrane of the pitch. (For this reason also, stiletto heels should not be worn).


Class Levels

Pitch Time Slot

Junior & Senior Infants

09:00 - 10:00

1st & 2nd Class

10:15 - 11:15

3rd & 4th Class

11:30 - 12:30

5th & 6th Class

13:00 - 14:20


Active/Sports Day Fundraiser

Your girls will have the opportunity to cycle/skip the 600km to London to support the Women's Rugby World Cup Final 2025 from 7th - 9th May. We would like to thank MC Sport for allowing us to borrow stationary bikes for this event.


Our PA will be on-site on Sports Day so that parents will have the opportunity to participate in the fundraiser and help us cycle the distance! (No specific training required - just courage and a sense of fun!)


All classes recently received Sponsorship Cards for this fundraiser. All completed Sponsorship Cards will be entered into a draw to win one of 50 Ice Cream Vouchers - kindly donated to the school by Cafolla's! Thank you Paola & Ailbhe!




National Children's Choir @ the NCH



We are delighted that 25 of our girls have been selected to sing in the National Concert Hall as part of the National Children's Choir on Sunday 11th May. This is a wonderful opportunity for our girls and we are very proud of them!



Voluntary Contribution

Thank you to the 246 families who have already given a Voluntary Contribution to the school for 2024/25. Each and every contribution is very much appreciated and will be used to enhance your daughters' learning environment.

Your Voluntary Contribution makes a real difference

If you would like to help in any additional way with our school development,

(time, skillset, sponsorship) please let us know.

  

Curriculum Evaluation: Music


Our girls shone during our recent Curriculum Evaluation in Music. We look forward to receiving our report which will be shared with parents and pupils. It is great to see the wonderful work of our staff and pupils affirmed and acknowledged.


School Choir

The School Choir are back at rehearsals as they prepare for some key school events. The girls will sing for the First Holy Communion on Saturday 24th May, Confirmation on Saturday 7th June and will perform their end of year School Choir Concert on Wednesday 28th May.



Dream Space Ambassadors

 


On May 15th, our Microsoft Dream Space Ambassadors will attend their Graduation Ceremony at One Microsoft Place, Sandyford.


The girls have completed their Dream Space Training Program and have been teaching other classes about what they have been learning. The Graduation Day is all about celebrating the achievements of the Dream Space Ambassadors and there will be activities for the ambassadors to take part in throughout the day. 

 

We are so proud of our Ambassadors and we hope they have a wonderful time at their Graduation!


Well done!



Well done to Lauren in Ms O'Shea's 4th Class who won highly commended in all of Ireland for her illustration of a poem (Speech and Drama: Paint a Poem).


Well done to Shauna in 6th Class whose illustration, based on the song 'Thankful', was selected for display during the recent run of nine National Children's Choir concerts in the National Basketball Arena.


Sacramental Celebration: 2nd & 6th Classes



 

Class

Date

Time

Wear

First Holy Communion

2nd Class

[Parents have already registered to attend one of the Masses as outlined.]

Saturday 24th May

Sunday 25th May

Sunday 25th May

10:00am

10:00am

11:30am

 

As per tradition





Class

Date

Time

Wear

Ceremony of Light

6th Class

Thursday 29th May

6:30pm

Uniform

Confirmation

6th Class

Saturday 7th June

12:00pm

Uniform



Trócaire Lenten Campaign 2025

Trócaire Boxes may be returned to the school office up to and including Friday 9th May 2025.



Mary's Meals



Well done to all on our recent Mary's Meals Collection! An amazing €1624.52 was donated. Apart from all the girls bringing in their donation some went above and beyond. One pupil held a family collection and some girls made bracelets donating the proceeds to the bucket collection day. What wonderful kindness and generosity!


73 children will be fed for a whole year, huge thanks to everyone who donated!




Don't forget!!! Tesco Community Fund


Our PA have secured a spot for our school on Tesco's Community Fund initiative!

If you are shopping in Tesco Stillorgan, please support our school by putting a Blue Token in our drop box!




DE Recommendation: Wear a Wide Brimmed Sun Hat!


Parents and guardians, please read the letter below from the Department of Education regarding the recommendation that wide-brimmed sunhats be worn by all primary school children. 



During the summer months, please ensure all children are wearing sun cream to school. 

Support Cabinteely Darkness into Light:

10th May 2025




Traffic Safety

Morning & afternoon one-way system:



Reminders:

  • The school has received many complaints of dangerous driving and parking in the vicinity of the school. Children and local residents are being put at risk.

  • Please use Foxrock Church car park at drop off and collection times and walk the last 6 minutes with your child. 

  • Deansgrange Cemetery has requested that our parent body do not park and stride from the Cemetery carpark.

  • 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 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.

  • Hollypark GNS & BNS understand and appreciate how busy the roads are each morning. We continue to engage with DLR & An Taisce, Safe Routes to School, for a safer school zone.

 


Birthdays this week and next in Hollypark!



Julia Mahon

Lucy Walkin

Amaira Nair

Sophia Vivienne Linehan

Edie Lynch

Amélie Defer

Zoe Doyle

Margot Wilson

Blaise Crowe

Kitty Cunningham

Willow Franklin

Victoria Linehan

Fiadh Quinn

Yeva Gudz

Hailey Collins

Emani Meagher



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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St. Patrick's GNS

Hollypark

Foxrock Avenue

Dublin 18.  

D18V659

Principal

Bernadette Gunning

Deputy Principal

Michaela Marnell

School Secretary

Suzanne O' Toole

Phone:

01 2893293

 

Email: 

hollyparkgns@gmail.com

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