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Happy Halloween 2020

Here are a few photographs from our Halloween dress up day.

To celebrate maths week we went on two maths walks looking for maths in the environment. This included spotting numbers, shapes, angles and lines as well as counting. We had so much fun. Maths is all around us.

First Holy Communion 2020

Congratulations to our third class students who received their First Holy Communion on 26th of September. It was a special day for all involved. Thank you aswell to our students from 5th and 6th who provided beautiful singing and music on the day.

INTO Campaign to Reduce Class sizes in Budget 2020

The INTO has launched our Budget 2021 campaign ahead of the budget on 13 October. We are calling on all members to support and share our key priorities to ensure we can keep our schools open.

The pandemic has highlighted the severe lack of funding for primary schools, the need to support school leaders, and in particular the supersized classes (of 30 pupils and more) across many schools which make social distancing practically impossible. We need your help to raise our key Budget 2021 issues with the Minister for Education and across all parties in Leinster House. Our key priorities are:

We need to secure a reduction in 2021 in the size of our primary school classes which are, shamefully, the largest in the EU;
We must retain supports for teaching principals of one day per week for administrative work, and restart the restoration of assistant principal posts in schools which were cut severely in the last recession; and
We must ensure that at a minimum the Covid-19 level of capitation funding (€208 per pupil) is maintained in the 2021 Budget.

We must also take the final steps to end the scandal of pay inequality in teaching, and of payment of the award made to principal teachers more than 10 years ago.

Add your voice to our campaign by emailing your local TD and Senator today and share with peers in your community.

Here is a link for parents to have your say: https://www.into.ie/campaign/budget2021/

Colourful Garden

Well done to the girls in 5th and 6th Class who painted the garden wall with beautiful colours with the help of their teacher Ms Kelliher. It looks fantastic!