St. Canice's Co-Ed. Newsletter

Information Sheet: April 08

Dates to Remember:
Wed. 2nd: Ceremony of Light: 8pm in church
Friday April 11th: Staff Meeting School closes 12 noon for children
Saturday April 12th: Confirmation

Enrolment Sept.08: Apart from new Junior Infants coming in there are waiting lists for most other classes in the school. If you know for any reason that you will not be returning in Sept. please let me know as soon as possible.

ESRI Survey

Our school has been selected to participate in the Growing up in Ireland- the national longitudinal study of children. 40 randomly selected children, age 9, have been invited to participate in this survey. The majority are in 3rd class. If your child is 9 and hasn’t given you an envelope please ask if they have one in their school bag. Envelopes to be returned by Wed. 9th. Contact the school if you have any queries about the information.

Quiz
.Best of luck to our Senior Quiz team, William Oakes, Cathal Boland, Catherine O’Dwyer and Ruth Carey, who will be representing us in the All-Ireland Final of the Credit Union Quiz. next Sunday in the RDS in Dublin. Thanks to St. Canice’s Credit Union for their sponsorship and to Ms Sheehan for all her work with these teams.

Seachtain na Gaeilge
Bhí an sport againn ag an gCéilí Mór. This year the dancing was supplemented by renditions of amhráin Gaeilge éagsúla ó gach rang. Thanks to the generosity of Eilis Bn. Uí Shé, we were delighted to be able to offer two half scholarships worth €180 to the popular Campa Saoire Cois Fheoire held during the summer for the winners of the 6th class “Agallamh” competition. Míle bhuíochas le Ms Ní Dhubhluachra who returned to interview the children. Our winners this year were Anna Ní Shíocháin agus Padraig ó Ríada. Comhghairdeas leo agus tá súl againn go nbainfidh sibh taitneamh as.
Music
Every two years the Instrumental Music Programme presents a concert-Maytime Melodies -in the Watergate |Theatre. There will be rehearsals all day Monday, 26th May and the concerts will take place on Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th May. Every child participating in the concert will perform on both nights.
This is a major undertaking and help will be required for the rehearsals and the concert nights.
If you are available to help please fill in your name, number and suitable time on the timetable on the Music Notice board outside Mrs O’Leary’s room.
Sports
Camogie:Training for 2nd to 6th classes has resumed at big lunch time. After victory in the opening round of the mini-sevens tournament the school team now goes forward to the second round.
There will be two teams entered in the county Primary Schools’ league. Both teams will be action next week.
Girls’ Football: The girls hope to continue their winning ways with their final league match v The Rower Inistioge today.
Mini-sevens first round to take place here in James’ Park on Friday afternoon.
Hurling:Two teams will also be entered in the Schools’ Hurling Championship. “A” panel started with a good win over the Gaelscoil yesterday. “B” panel get into action this afternoon with a home match v Johnstown.
Class leagues will be starting in two weeks’ time.
Handball

Kirsty Maher 5th Class has had great success in the Schools’ Handball Competition once again. Kirsty won out the Kilkenny section of the under 13 girls’ singles having won the U11 last year. Today, she competed in the Leinster Championship and beat all comers to become the Leinster Champion. Well done Kirsty on this marvellous achievement!