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  Hallowe’en at St Anne’s: Children are invited to dress up this Friday, October 25th. As you know the PSG is organising a sponsored walk for the day and we will be leaving the school at approximately 9.30am walking along the canal. Any cards can be brought into the school on Friday.  We look forward to an exciting event!   Homework A reminder to all parents to please check each item of homework and sign your child’s journal each night. We value the support ...
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Standardised Testing Information

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Information for Parents on Standardised Tests from NCCA can be found at https://www.ncca.ie/media/1429/understanding-standardscores_eng.pdf   The Educational Research Centre has information at  http://www.erc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Letter-for-parents-New-Drumcondra-tests.pdf   For parents of First Class Children please note the following:  Criterion Referenced Reports - Adapted from "The New Drumcondra Primary Reading Test: Administration and Inter...
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Newsletter May 2019

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Paired Reading Many thanks to all the parent volunteers who supported us in the Paired Reading programme for Senior Infants. You set a great example to children and encourage in them a love of reading independently. Thank you!   Sports It is a very busy term for sport. Huge congratulations to our football team who beat Straffan school in the Cumann na mBunscoil final last week. They played extremely well and were a credit to their trainer, Mr O Leary, class teachers and to yo...
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Newsletter Easter 2019

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Term two has certainly been a busy term and I'm delighted to share some of the events with you in the newsletter and of course with photos in our gallery.  Easter Egg Hunts:  Well done to 6th class who arranged the hunts for the junior infants classes and the buddies who helped Ms Sheehy on their hunt today.  It was great to see such excitement and the Easter bunny left treats for everyone! (Some photos of these on the gallery page) Sacraments:  Congratulations...
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Autism Awareness Day 2019

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Well done to all our pupils on a great day today where we celebrated Autism Awareness day...........  in a slightly different way!  How wonderful it was to see everyone making such an effort to dress up and show their uniqueness and individuality  As one parent said:    Thanks to all the buddies and children in 6th class who prepared the food for the party.  Please have a look at our gallery pages to see some photos of this event We are also workin...
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Newsletter March 2019

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Dear parents and friends of St Anne’s, March may be the month of many weathers and we in St Anne’s have embraced the sun and the rain of the past weeks and certainly welcome the spring weather this week. It has been the month of many events here too. Central to March is of course our celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhí alán eachtraí ar siúl anseo – Céilí Mór, Lá Glas agus na daltái ag labhairt Gaeilge ar fud na scoile (Ticéidí glasa/Frása an Lae). The Banna Ceoil ‘Cairde trí Che...
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Safer Internet Day 2019

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Dear parents You might be interested in the following link and resource around internet safety. Children are working on some activities around this theme this week and we hope to organise some inputs for students and parents in the near future Keep safe! www.webwise.ie/parents Also the Zeeko INternet Guide -  
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Newsletter Feb 4th 2019

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Newsletter Feb 4th 2019 Congratulations: I am extremely proud of all who represented St Anne’s at the weekend. To our quiz team who took 3rd place in Naas on Friday night – well done!. Also to the boys and girls from Ms Mc Evoy’s and Mrs Kelly’s class who performed as part of the Dublin Peace Proms on Sunday night in the RDS. What a show! It was a wonderful event and we were all so delighted with the work that you put into getting ready for the performance and for your focused performance...
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