World Book Day is this Thursday 4th of March!
We will be celebrating it in school by doing a book trail in our bubbles and extra reading activities. We will also have book tokens for all!
World Book Day is a long-running successful reading initiative. You can find out more here. The World Book Day website is excellent and is worth browsing. You can also find great activities here.
UK-based charity Read for Good also have some fun reading activities.
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You can download the Return to School Questionnaire here. Children should bring it with them to school when they return or you can email it to secretary@stgabrielsns.ie or to your child’s class teacher.
Please go the Return to School Building 2021 page above to read more information.
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.
