January 2017 Newsletter

Dear Parent/Guardian,
I hope you had a nice Christmas and I wish you all a happy and peaceful new year. I want to bring the following
items to your attention in this January Newsletter:
Enrolment for Junior Infants 2017
Scoil Chrost R is accepting applications for enrolment of junior infants for September 2017. You can call into the
school and you will be most welcome to receive an application form for enrolment. If you know anybody looking
to enrol their child in the school, please tell them to contact the school office for an application form. The closing
date for receipt of applications is Thursday, February 9th at 3pm. Please return application forms before this
date.
Christmas Plays
The children gave fantastic performances in the plays in Juniors, Seniors, 1st and 2nd classes and many thanks to the
teachers and teacher assistants who prepared the children for the plays. I hope you enjoyed the plays and Ms
Murphy has uploaded the plays onto our school website and you view them there on www.criostri.weebly.com

Split the Pot Fundraiser

Our Parents Association are running this exciting draw each week starting this Thursday January 19th. Envelopes
are sent home every week and for 2 a week everyone has a chance to win half the pot taken in each week if your
name is pulled out of the hat. If youre not in you cant win! All monies raised is for our new school fund.
Place 2 in the envelope and write your name & number on it.
Draw EVERY THURSDAY in Scoil Chrost R.
RECEIVE half the weeks takings.
IT COULD BE YOU!

Clothes Collection
We are holding our annual clothes collection fundraiser again for the month of January. Bags of clothes will be
accepted until Friday February 3rd. If you are throwing out old clothes or know of anybody throwing out old
clothes after Christmas, we will accept them here at school.

Thank you for Fundraising

Our recent bag packing in Dunnes Stores and music in Tesco fundraisers were a fantastic success. Thanks to
everyone who helped out for your support on both days. The money raised in our fundraising is for our new school
development. Extra costs that we need to fundraise for in our new school include: - All weather/astro turf pitch -
extra play areas and yard space - classroom furniture laptop and tablet computers for the children - Wi-Fi system
- perimeter fencing. We want to have the best new school that we can possibly have for your children and thank
you for your help with fundraising so far.

Attendance and arriving at school on time

Pupil attendance is monitored on a daily basis on our school computer system. Since we returned to school
on the 31st of August, we have had an excellent average attendance of 94.2%. The Educational Welfare
Officer has to be contacted if any child misses more than 20 days.
Children must be in school on time for the 9.00 a.m. bell. Also the children in Junior and Senior Infants
must be collected at 1.40 p.m. and please make sure your child is collected at 1.40 p.m. sharp. Please
come to school on time. If your child is late they are missing out on school time and interrupting the class.

HSCL News
Happy New Year to you all and welcome back after the lovely Christmas break. As always our Parents Room is
very busy for the coming term with lots of exciting new courses on offer FREE OF CHARGE!
 English language classes for speakers of other languages will resume again on Friday January 20th. We
welcome new members to our classes all the time. So if you would like to learn English please contact Ms
OConnor on 087-6461836 to reserve a place!
Cookery classes will start back again on Tuesday January 17th. Noelle has been cooking with parents since
November. Bread, cakes & desserts have all been on the menu and we look forward to starting back
cooking with Noelle again.
We are very excited about having Grandparents Day at school on February 1st for grandparents of children
in 6th class. Invitations to this very special event will be available in the coming days!
We will be starting Maths for Fun & Helping your child with Maths & Irish Homework Tips classes this
term also. Dates have yet to be confirmed so please keep a close eye on our Facebook Page Scoil Chrost
R HSCL Activities & our Parents Noticeboard inside our Front Door for further updates!!
Ms. OConnor

School Website
You can keep up to date with school news on our excellent website criostri.weebly.com
You can follow us on our Twitter page twitter.com/criostri or @criostri
Also you can see our new Facebook page for parents, Scoil Chrost R HSCL Activities

Important Dates for your Diary

Friday February 3rd: Final day for clothes collection bags.
Thursday February 9th: Closing date for Junior Infants 2017 enrolment application forms.

Best wishes to you all for 2017 and lets hope its a great year for our school.

Yours sincerely

Gearid Roughan
Principal