Ms Walshe’s Class featured on RTE’s News2Day on Tuesday. The class spoke about our school’s “Good Friends Week”.

Well done Ms Walshe’s Class!

Check out the whole news programme here

Look out for pupils from Miss Walshe’s 3rd and 4th classes on RTE’sNews2day this afternoon around 4:20pm.

A camera crew and news presenter visited the children from Miss Walshe’s class to find out all about what it is to be a good friend. They had heard about our Good Friend’s Week, and thought it was such a great way to start a new school year, they decided to share the idea on the children’s news!

Welcome to the new school year. Our focus this year is ‘We Include’.

Here in St. Gabriel’s N.S. we strive to promote respect for the diversity of abilities, values, beliefs, traditions, languages and ways of life in our school and in our wider society. This year we welcome, along with our new Junior Infant class, lots of new pupils throughout the class levels. We hope that they gain a sense of community and belonging from day one.

As part of Good Friends Week each class will draw up a class charter with guidelines that we feel are important to help each classroom to be happy, safe, inclusive and productive places to be this year.

 We will become mindful of the people around us and outside our circle. We want to reach out and invite all to join in and take part. We all belong to this community!

Ms. Sweetman’s 5^th and 6^th class will be wonderful role models to all pupils by becoming Playground Buddies to our new Junior Infant Class.

What a way to feel welcomed and included in our school!