Dear Parents/Guardians,

Dublin City Council have a School Zone initiative which aims to reduce congestion and increase safety at the front of schools.

The initiative would highlight the presence of the school, encourage traffic to slow down in a School Zone area, encourage drivers not to park on footpaths and encourage cars to make drop-offs outside the School Zone area and not to stop there.

If St. Gabriel’s N.S. applied for and was granted this initiative, it would entail line-markings stating ‘School Zone’, colourful red and yellow circles on the road on Cowper Street and pencil-shaped bollards on the footpath outside the school.

Please find further information HERE.

We would appreciate any opinions you may have on this intitative. Please send any comments to principal@stgabrielsns.ie or to 087 123 1750.

Our school has been working closely with St. Brendan’s GAA .  St. Brendan’s are launching a new Skills of The Week Series. This is aimed at younger children and videos are based on both football skills and hurling skills as well as some FMS (fundamental movement skills) that can be practiced at home. Subscribe/follow St Brendan’s GAA for videos that will be posted on a weekly basis. The first videos are here and here. Click here for the Dublin GAA Fitness Frolics programme; these are weekly online GAA skills, exercise and fitness sessions for U8, U10 and U12-aged children.

Dear Parents,

I hope you are all as well as you can be under the circumstances.

It has been confirmed today by the Department of Education that schools will remain closed for the moment.

I would like to commend all the children on their work and interaction with their teachers and SNAs.

We are all just trying to survive a pandemic!

We are all doing our best!

Please continue to stay in touch and contact us if we can help and support you in any way.

Thinking of you all and missing you all,

Suzanne Comerford

Principal

Below is information on a wonderful local collaborative art project that your child might be interested in. Stoneybatter Youth Service will provide you with instructions and some of the materials needed. Individual entries will be joined with others to form one big artwork that represents the community of Stoneybatter, and displayed in the National Museum in Collins Barracks. Contact Johanna @ SYS on 0863888466 or see the attached flyer for more details.

Little Houses Instructions

Dear parents/guardians

Due to the beginning of remote online learning, school food packages will again be delivered to those who need them. Please contact me if you wish to receive school food packages delivered to your home.

hsclstgabriels@gmail.com

0851871173

Thanks,

Mike

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Following the government’s announcement, schools will now remain closed until 1st of February.

Remote learning in St. Gabriel’s will begin on Seesaw on Monday 11th January. Teachers will be contacting parents through email or by phone in the coming days. If you have any queries you can email your child’s class teacher or principal@stgabrielsns.ie