The PA has gone green!!! And your newsletter will now come via email thus less for the kids to lose on the way home !!!!
Annual Christmas Bazaar
The Bazaar was held at Raffeen Creek Sports Club on Sunday 29thNovember. It is always the highlight of the school social calendar and this year was no exception. The addition of Christmas craft exhibition was a great success with over 140 entries between the 4 categories. It was wonderful to see such creativity and imagination. The children’s school crafts were also exemplary. Thank you to the parent helpers and their family for setting up and tidying up over the course of the weekend; we couldn’t have done it without you!. The committee of Raffeen Sports Club donated use of the hall free of charge and we are extremely grateful for this. Thank you to Mrs. Barry, Fr Sean & Mrs Howard for judging the Christmas Craft competition. We are delighted to announce that the Bazaar generated €3000 to fund new iPads. We appreciate your continued support.
National Council of the Blind Ireland – Bagathon
The school collected 80 bags of clothes all of which will be recycled by the NCBI through their network of stores, thus avoiding landfill. In acknowledgement of this the NCBI will issue the school with a certificate of thanks noting the number of bags received. Accreditation will also be given towards the Green Flag award. We are delighted with the support for this event and special thanks to Deirdre & Jason Orchard for their donation of 50 bags. This event raised €480 to go towards funding new school iPads.
Santa visit to Shanbally NS
Santa will arrive to Shanbally NS on Monday 21st December. He is very excited to meet and greet all the children and will have an early Christmas gift for all his Shanbally pals.
Christmas Raffle
The Parents Association will host their annual Christmas raffle, this year with a twist. TICKETS are FREE to all school children, with a fabulous chocolate hamper for the winner and runners up prizes of smaller chocolate treats!! The draw will be held on Monday 21st December with the winning tickets drawn by none other than Santa himself.
Reindeer Food
Reindeer will be especially hungry when Christmas Eve arrives, stock up on some Reindeer friendly food. 100% approved by Rudolph!!!. Available at school for €1.
50th Anniversary Posters
A Limited number of 50th Anniversary Posters are available, with every child present in the school at the time featuring on the poster together with their teachers. A great gift for relatives this Christmas. Available for just €3. (see Ruth in the office or a member of the PA)
2016 Projects
We are looking at some new events for 2016 as part of our fundraising calendar (Old mobile phone collection & a people powered cinema night to name just a couple)!! We will look at doing our money snake again as it was a great day at school. We collected over €900 that day but the girls and boys had great fun designing the school crest in coins. Could we ask that you keep your unwanted change especially the soon to be redundant 1 & 2cent coins in pringles tubs as we are going to come up with an even more spectacular design for 2016?
The Parents Association would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family
a very Merry Christmas & Peaceful New Year.