Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well. I am wondering how you are all feeling at the moment and if you are finding it hard to keep doing similar things each day. I know that I am! I just try to do something different if I can and then I think that each day we are getting closer to being finished with the lockdown and we will be happy that we have all played a part in helping others. So we have two weeks to go until Mid-term. And here are a few ideas that you might like to be i...

Good morning everyone. What a beautiful morning, bright sunshine and blue skies. I hope you are all keeping well.   I am delighted to see continued work on SeeSaw across the classes. Well done to you all. It is important that we keep up this work and it will really stand to you when we come back to school. Of course if it puts any pressure on families do let us know and we will do our best to support you.  We are awaiting confirmation from DES and Government re date...

The Sky this Morning! Hello to everyone on this lovely day.   Please see a short video attached which I hope you enjoy. Also a reminder that our enrolment process for new junior infants in September 2021 has opened. Full information is available on the website under the Information for Parents tab-Admissions 2021. Have a nice weekend! Kind regards, Mary Manley

Dear parents and students,  It has lovely to see such excitement here in St Anne's over the past days as everyone looks forward to Christmas Day. A lot of beautiful Christmas art has been made, Christmas prayers said, visits to Santa in the village, watching the panto online and so on.  The children have put great effort into sending you their Christmas performance (see Class News section on the website for videos) which I know you and your wider family will enjoy.  As we...

Dear parents and students, Christmas is certainly in the air these days and there is a lot of preparation going on in classes, with decorations being made, Christmas poems being recited and who knows we might even have snow soon! We have started putting up the school decorations. Our Christmas tree will arrive at the weekend, thanks to a kind donation. The PSG have been busy arranging the tree sale and I wish them all the best with that- thanks to all who have supported this initiative. Ou...

Dear parents, I hope this finds you well and enjoying the lovely sunshine. We are now over a fortnight back at school and new systems are up-and-running. Well done to all our students for their adherence to safe hygiene practices and new play and work routines. We will continue to remind everyone, as I am sure you will also, of the importance of keeping safe distances and observing proper hygiene etiquette. Thank you to you the parents, for your co-operation in the new practices around ...

Dear parents, I wish to update you on a few matters as we come towards the end of the school year and prepare for a new year: Preparation for re-opening: Please note that while preparations are going on in the background, we still need to wait for Department of Education guidelines, before finalising arrangements for the return to school. Current discussions on maintaining 1 or 2 m distance will affect numbers in classrooms and there are education-specific requirements that will have t...

Dear parents and students, I hope that you and your wider family and friends are well. What great weather! I hope you are getting out-and-about in the sunshine, as well as doing schoolwork, and enjoying it all. In advance of the weekend, I would like to update you on some matters: Online work: Well done to you all for your continued work on See Saw. I appreciate that it may be difficult to keep the work going, but it is important that everyone is trying his/her best in order to be r...