Welcome

Firstly, welcome to our new families who will be joining our school community this autumn.  This is an approximately weekly newsletter sent to everyone.  If you’d like the newsletters sent to another address, please reply to this email.

 

Summer Holidays and First Day of School

For the next week, there will be no one regularly at the school office.  If you need to make contact, please email.  From the 21st August onwards, the school will be open from 10.00-12.00 and 9.00-16.00 from the 25th August onwards, though if you are dropping by, you might phone first to confirm.  Please phone or email if we can be of assistance.  A reminder that the first day of the new school year will be on Wednesday, 30th August.  A reminder that the Junior Infants will finish at 12.00 until Monday, 11th September when they will begin finishing at the usual time of 13.30.  All the other classes finish at the ordinary time from the very start, 13.30 for Senior Infants and 14.30 for First and Second Classes.  The Afterschool @ KETNS will be in operation from the first day, from dismissal time until 18.00  The calendar with all holidays is available on the website at www.ketns.ie/about/calendar-2017-2018.

 

Breakfast Club

Are you interested in having a Breakfast Club set up in the school?  For some parents, the 8.30 opening time is not sufficient and would prefer an earlier option.  We are investigating the possibility of how we might achieve this.  If you are interested in such an option, would you please kindly reply to the email?  We are looking at an 8.00 start time and a nominal fee for those who attend.

 

 

New Staff Members

At the end of July, interviews were held for new positions in our school.  Two new teachers will be joining our staff and Margaret has been appointed on a permanent basis.  Ciara Jordan will be joining the staff.  She worked previously at Galway Educate Together NS as well as other local schools.  Eileen Duffy will also join our staff.  She previously worked at Scoil Bhríde in Menlo as well as other schools in Ireland.  We are delighted to welcome these new staff members.

For the 2017-2018 school year, the staff will be as follows:

Junior Infants – Áine Ní Chuinneagáin

Senior Infants – Matt Wallen

First Class – Margaret Wright

Second Class – Ciara Jordan

Learning Support Teachers – Vivienne Kelly and Eileen Duffy

Special Needs Assistants – Ann Courtney and Clare Conry

Secretary – Claudia Ní Chúlain

 

Classrooms for Next Year

For this Autumn, Junior Infants will be in the same room.  Senior Infants will be in the room next to the Juniors, the former First Class room.  First Class will be upstairs.  Second Class will be in the former Senior Infants room.