Newsletter August 31st 2026
· All has gone very well so far in our return to school. If any parents need to make contact please ring the school on 045-401495 or send an email to snndunlavin@gmail.com.Contact can also be made with your child’s class teacher through the Aladdin Connect app
· Our Junior Infants have made a great start and have settled in very well. Junior Infants will go home at 12 noon each day until Friday September 11th. From Monday September 14th they will go home at 1:40pm. Senior Infants will finish at 1:40pm with all other classes finishing at 2:40pm. We start school at 9am.
· Parents from Junior Infants should accompany their child to the outside door. We would ask that from Monday August 31st that those parents drop their child at the outside door where the class teacher will meet them and bring their child to class.
· Parents from Senior Infants may also bring their children to the outside door of their classroom. Parents should drop children from all other classes at the front gate and allow them to walk to the back of the school to help to build independence.
· We need to update our school database and in particular need to add an email address for each family. Christine will contact any family that we don’t have an email address for. If you have changed your mobile phone number in the last few months please let us know the new number. It is vital that we are able to contact families at short notice during the year.
· We have a list of children with allergies and this information would have been included when you filled in the enrolment form. If there have been any recent diagnosis of allergies please inform Christine in the office on 045-401495.
· The main closures for the year ahead are available on our website under the calendar tab. A calendar will be attached to this newsletter but won’t include dates for Confirmation or Communion as we do not have them yet.
· Can we remind all parents about the importance of having their child in school each day unless they are sick? Once a child is absent for 20 days we are obliged to notify TUSLA who may follow up on the absences. It is also extremely important that children are in school at 9 o’ clock as being late means they miss out on vital morning activities.
· Uniforms should be worn each day except for PE days. Your child will be informed of their PE day in due course.
· All school payments must be paid online or in an envelope with the child’s name written on the outside and an indication of what the fees are covering also written on the outside of the envelope. Receipts will be issued for all payments. Online payments can be made at the following BIC and IBAN. Please reference your child’s name if you are paying by this method.
BIC AIBKIE2D
IBAN: IE56 AIBK 933244 65921015
Once Aladdin Connect has been linked with the bank, payments will be able to be made via the app also.
· County Photos will be in the school on Friday 25th September to photograph the children. Proofs of the photos will be distributed to each family who can then decide if they want to purchase them.
· A big thank you to Amy Mullen (@cartaileamy) for the fabulous murals she painted for us during the summer. See photos attached