General information
Arrival at school
The school gates open at 8.30 a.m. each morning. Children go straight into their classrooms when they arrive at school. Pupils will be supervised in their classrooms by teachers and SNAs. Class will begin at the normal time of 8.40 a.m. (Coiscéim classes) and 8.50 a.m. (Junior Infants to Sixth).
Dismissal Times:
Coiscéim Classes = 1.20 p.m. (Junior Day) & 2.20 p.m. (Senior Day)
Junior Infants = 1.20 p.m.
Senior Infants = 1.30 p.m.
First Classes= 2.30 p.m.
Second Classes = 2.30 p.m.
Third Classes = 2.30 p.m.
Fourth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Fifth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Sixth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Children remain the responsibility of their parents/guardians, and not the Board of Management of the school, prior to their entry into their classrooms and immediately upon their exit from the classrooms at dismissal times.
Children are deemed too young to leave the school during school hours unless accompanied by an adult or older responsible sibling. If a child has to be withdrawn from school early, parents/guardians are requested to avoid doing so during break times, when the class teacher may not be present. If a parent/guardian wishes to collect a child during the course of the school day, the following arrangements will apply:
School grounds
Parents/Guardians and others visitors are requested to wear a face covering while on the school grounds.
Parents/Guardians are requested to stand at 2 metres away from the external doors of the classrooms when collecting children at home time, and to maintain at least 2 metres physical distance form other parents/guardians.
Parents/guardians are requested to leave the school grounds promptly after bringing a child to school or collecting a child from school.
School access
No adult, other than a staff member, should enter the school building, unless invited to do so.
Face to face meetings with school staff will be by appointment only. There will be a system in place for all visitors who need to come to the school to make appointment, arrange to contact a central point and to record their visit using the Contact Tracing Log.
Messages for teachers from parents/guardians can be sent via Aladdin Connect.
Messages for school management or school secretary can be sent by email to [email protected] or by phoning the school office at (01) 8216400.
Absences from School
If a child is absent from school, please inform the class teacher of the reason for the absence via the Aladdin Connect school communication platform. The school requires a doctor’s certificate for significant absences due to illness. Children’s attendance is closely monitored and records are submitted to the Department of Education and Skills and also to the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) in accordance with the relevant legislation. If a child is absent for 20 or more days over the school year or if the school is concerned about a child’s attendance, then the school is obliged to inform the National Educational Welfare Board.
School uniform
Pupils in our Infant classes wear their school PE uniform. Pupils in our Coiscéim classes and in First to Sixth can alternate between wearing the formal school uniform and the school PE uniform each day.
Healthy lunch
All children will need a healthy lunch, which may include one small treat on Fridays only, e.g. two biscuits, a fun-size bar. Re-usable lunch boxes and drinks bottles should be used. The children will bring lunch waste and any uneaten lunch home, which should help parents/guardians monitor their eating habits.
The children will Reduce, Reuse and Recycle waste. All classrooms will be equipped with a much smaller pedal-operated bin (with a bin liner) to facilitate the regular collection of used waste disposal bags from classrooms and other areas within the school facility.
Hygiene bag
Pupils should have a personal hygiene bag with them in school each day with tissues, a small face cloth for drying their hands and a small bottle of hand sanitiser (preferably non-alcohol based sanitiser) for personal use only. The face cloth should be changed on a daily basis for hygiene purposes.
Personal items
In so far as possible, all pupils should bring their own pens, pencils, colours, rubbers, etc., to school in their own pencil case or ‘ziplock’ bag (labelled with their name) to avoid the sharing of equipment. All items should have the child’s name (or a mark) on them for ease of identification. These items will remain in school.
Copies and books
Each pupil should bring to school just 1 writing copy, 1 mathematics copy and their scool books (as per the class Book List issued in June) covered with plastic (wipeable) covers. These items will remain in school.
Hand washing
All pupils will wash hands:
During indoor breaks:
Kind Words, Kind Hands, Kind Feet.
When the playground siren/whistle sounds the children are expected to ‘freeze’. On the second signal they should walk to their line and line-up quietly
The school gates open at 8.30 a.m. each morning. Children go straight into their classrooms when they arrive at school. Pupils will be supervised in their classrooms by teachers and SNAs. Class will begin at the normal time of 8.40 a.m. (Coiscéim classes) and 8.50 a.m. (Junior Infants to Sixth).
Dismissal Times:
Coiscéim Classes = 1.20 p.m. (Junior Day) & 2.20 p.m. (Senior Day)
Junior Infants = 1.20 p.m.
Senior Infants = 1.30 p.m.
First Classes= 2.30 p.m.
Second Classes = 2.30 p.m.
Third Classes = 2.30 p.m.
Fourth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Fifth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Sixth Classes = 2.20 p.m.
Children remain the responsibility of their parents/guardians, and not the Board of Management of the school, prior to their entry into their classrooms and immediately upon their exit from the classrooms at dismissal times.
Children are deemed too young to leave the school during school hours unless accompanied by an adult or older responsible sibling. If a child has to be withdrawn from school early, parents/guardians are requested to avoid doing so during break times, when the class teacher may not be present. If a parent/guardian wishes to collect a child during the course of the school day, the following arrangements will apply:
- Inform the class teacher via Aladdin message or by email to the school email address or by written note that you wish your son/daughter to be collected early from school by a parent/guardian or older responsible sibling.
- Upon arrival at the school, the parent/guardian should either phone the school office or use the intercom at the front door of the school to alert the office that they have arrived.
- The child will be brought from their class to the parent/guardian by a member of staff.
- The parent/guardian who is collecting the child will be asked to ‘sign the child out’.
School grounds
Parents/Guardians and others visitors are requested to wear a face covering while on the school grounds.
Parents/Guardians are requested to stand at 2 metres away from the external doors of the classrooms when collecting children at home time, and to maintain at least 2 metres physical distance form other parents/guardians.
Parents/guardians are requested to leave the school grounds promptly after bringing a child to school or collecting a child from school.
School access
No adult, other than a staff member, should enter the school building, unless invited to do so.
Face to face meetings with school staff will be by appointment only. There will be a system in place for all visitors who need to come to the school to make appointment, arrange to contact a central point and to record their visit using the Contact Tracing Log.
Messages for teachers from parents/guardians can be sent via Aladdin Connect.
Messages for school management or school secretary can be sent by email to [email protected] or by phoning the school office at (01) 8216400.
Absences from School
If a child is absent from school, please inform the class teacher of the reason for the absence via the Aladdin Connect school communication platform. The school requires a doctor’s certificate for significant absences due to illness. Children’s attendance is closely monitored and records are submitted to the Department of Education and Skills and also to the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) in accordance with the relevant legislation. If a child is absent for 20 or more days over the school year or if the school is concerned about a child’s attendance, then the school is obliged to inform the National Educational Welfare Board.
School uniform
Pupils in our Infant classes wear their school PE uniform. Pupils in our Coiscéim classes and in First to Sixth can alternate between wearing the formal school uniform and the school PE uniform each day.
Healthy lunch
All children will need a healthy lunch, which may include one small treat on Fridays only, e.g. two biscuits, a fun-size bar. Re-usable lunch boxes and drinks bottles should be used. The children will bring lunch waste and any uneaten lunch home, which should help parents/guardians monitor their eating habits.
The children will Reduce, Reuse and Recycle waste. All classrooms will be equipped with a much smaller pedal-operated bin (with a bin liner) to facilitate the regular collection of used waste disposal bags from classrooms and other areas within the school facility.
Hygiene bag
Pupils should have a personal hygiene bag with them in school each day with tissues, a small face cloth for drying their hands and a small bottle of hand sanitiser (preferably non-alcohol based sanitiser) for personal use only. The face cloth should be changed on a daily basis for hygiene purposes.
Personal items
In so far as possible, all pupils should bring their own pens, pencils, colours, rubbers, etc., to school in their own pencil case or ‘ziplock’ bag (labelled with their name) to avoid the sharing of equipment. All items should have the child’s name (or a mark) on them for ease of identification. These items will remain in school.
Copies and books
Each pupil should bring to school just 1 writing copy, 1 mathematics copy and their scool books (as per the class Book List issued in June) covered with plastic (wipeable) covers. These items will remain in school.
Hand washing
All pupils will wash hands:
- on their arrival in the classroom;
- before eating;
- after going to the toilet;
- after coming in from the yard;
- before going home;
- at other times throughout the day as appropriate.
During indoor breaks:
- children must remain seated at all times.
- requests to use the toilets must be made to the teacher on supervision duty or a Special Need Assistant (SNA).
- positive and negative incidents are recorded in a notebook by the teacher and/or the SNA on supervision duty.
Kind Words, Kind Hands, Kind Feet.
When the playground siren/whistle sounds the children are expected to ‘freeze’. On the second signal they should walk to their line and line-up quietly