After a week of canvassing, electioneering and voting, we can now announce that the newly elected School Council for 2022/23 is as follows:

P1 - Jessica and Caolán

P2 - Penelope and Shea

P3 - Eilish and Seth

P4 - Darlene and Cahal

P5 - April and Paudie

P6 - Aoife and Charlie

P7 - Effie and Max

Congratulations to you all on your new appointments!

P2 had a lovely fresh walk to Dundrum Castle to collect leaves for their Autumn display. We are very lucky to have such beautiful surroundings to take our learning outside!

Miss Crozier’s P6/P7 class took on a variation of different activities today, all focussing on Spanish. Kahoot quizzes and filming using the ‘Green Screen’ kept everyone entertained and learning vital Spanish along the way!

As a school with a strong focus on ICT, we were enthused to take part in National Coding Week.

Our Foundation Stage classes were engaged with programming BeeBots, whilst KS1 were busy operating as programmers with the Sphero Balls.

P3 to P7 also took part in the online Nerve Centre workshops that were hosted on Wednesday and Thursday. Scratch Jnr was the coding app utilised here as the boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed the interactive nature of the tasks and challenges.

#NationalCodingWeek

Ryan - P3

The Principal’s Award this week goes to P3 student Ryan. Ryan has been working exceptionally hard so far in class and has made huge improvements in his handwriting during sentence writing. 

Ryan shows excellent manners every day and always puts his hand up to ask a question. 

Ryan loves participating in class and shows excellent skills during PE. PE is one of Ryan’s favourite subjects and he really enjoys all the different games we’ve been playing. 

Ryan is a great friend to everyone and is always ready for work. 

He also enjoys numeracy and has lots of fun during some of the starter games we have been playing before we begin classwork. 

He has made a fantastic start to P3!

Each teacher on a weekly basis provides their reasoning for selecting a specific child for this award. It was very interesting today to listen to the different talents, skills and positive attributes that our students possess.

Well done to our Pupil of the Week winners namely:

P1: Kiannah-Mae, P2: Niamh, P3: Scarlett, P4: Aoibhe, P5: Darragh, P6: Beth and P7: Gerard.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is a very important day in the history of Dundrum GAC as the club recognises two deceased members who made an 'outstanding contribution to the club in their lifetime' namely Paddy Cunningham Snr. and Aloysius Rooney.

There will be a parade of all club members (juvenile, senior and families) which will be setting off from the entrance of Church Avenue, led by the St Joseph's Pipe Band, Longstone, at 1:30pm. All those in attendance are encouraged to wear club gear and club colours.

The memorial plaque unveiling will take place at 2pm at the clubhouse with exhibition football matches for all juvenile boys and girls along with tea, coffee and refreshments to follow.

Come out and support the club in what is set to be a great day!

The first POSH (Parents of Sacred Heart) meeting of the new school year will take place tomorrow evening (Tuesday) in the school hall at 6:30pm. New faces are most welcome!

The hustle and bustle of school life is well and truly back in Sacred Heart P.S. as we completed our second full week of term since our return.

At assembly this afternoon we acknowledged our Pupil of the Week winners who were all very deserving of their personal accolades.

Well done to Liam (P1), Lochlan (P2), Eoin (P3), Cahal (P4), Meabh (P5), Caleb (P6) and Sofia (P7)!