The school will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday the 2nd of March. As part of this, we are inviting a parent, guardian or family member to the school to participate in a shared-reading session in your child’s class. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend some reading time with your child in school.
Books are a fantastic way for you to spend quality time with your child. They are also essential in developing literacy, creativity and imagination. We promote this through our year-long weekly library for all classes, among other initiatives.
After some light refreshments in the hall, you will be invited to your child’s classroom where you can read a book, listen to a story or take part in some fun book-related activities. The hall will be open from 8.50am and we can bring you to your child’s class at 9.15am.
We continue to celebrate diversity in St. Gabriel’s N.S. this week. A number of events took place within the school such as our famous One World Week World Cup soccer tournament, Jersey Design art competition and whole school song singing of WAKA WAKA.
Congratulations to Carter, Melissa, Hannah, Victor, Igor, Beau, Twyla, Yousef, Zach, Misiko and Ruhee on winning the Jersey Design art competition.
Well done to all who participated in our World Cup soccer tournament and thank you to Aughrim St. Sports Centre and the FAI’s very own Harry McCue for their support. This year’s winners were Romania, beating Somalia in a close contest 3-2. Third place went to the Philippines and Estonia. Some incredible skills were displayed by all teams.
Thank you to all the supporters from Junior Infants to Sixth class. The chants were AMAZING and really added to the electric atmosphere!
To celebrate LOVE BOMB Week in St. Gabriel’s N.S. from February 7th to 14th we are holding a February Fundraising Raffle on Valentine’s Day, 14th February.
Wednesday the 25th of January was a very busy day in our school. As part of our Catholic Schools Week celebrations, we invited grandparents to visit our school. Everyone was delighted so many of you turned up, and after having tea and a chat in our hall, our grandparents visited the children’s classes. Here we played games, read stories, asked questions and had conversations together. It was a wonderful sharing experience, particularly as our students can learn so much from the older generations. We even had some past pupils return; an extra special welcome to them, and a huge thank you to all who participated in this wonderful event.
As part of our journey using Restorative Practices, the first ever Love Bomb Week is happening in St. Gabriel’s N.S. from Tuesday 7th to Tuesday 14th February. This initiative is intended to promote Restorative Practices and kindness among everyone in our school community. The week will feature designated circle time, compliment games and activities, random acts of kindness, art activities and a whole-school assembly celebration. This is also another wonderful initiative to promote attendance during the month of February.
A lovely display for the week by Ms Delaney. Thank you!
Restorative Practices is a values-based philosophy that promotes positive relationship building and conflict resolution. We have been using it in the school for many years but we have recently renewed our journey along with the School Completion Programme and Connect RP. Have a look at https://www.connectrp.ie or download the attached PDFs for parents for more information. Thanks!