The Girls soccer team took part in the FAI Primary School 5 a side Soccer Tournament today. They played four games and were very happy with their performance.   Thanks to Mrs. Rogers for organising the teams. Thanks to Ailbhe Weldon for transporting the pupils to and from Cootehill. 

We had a wonderful experience when we witnessed Fluffy our guinea pig had five beautiful babies.You would have thought they would be bigger but their only the size of your palm.They dont eat yet only feed off their mother. It will be interesting to see what colours will develop and if their fur grows longer. We will fill you in on further news.

Jake and Jessica guinea pig owners.

School Uniform Questionnaire Results

Summary

Q1. Do you agree with a school uniform for our school?

Yes	61	92%
No	5	8%

Q2. Are you happy that our school uniform can be bought in a variety of different shops including our local clothes stores?

Yes	62	97%
No	2	3%

Q3. Are you content with the generic nature of our school uniform?

Yes	58	92%
No	5	8%

Q4. Would you rather change our school uniform to a more unique bespoke design with a mixture of colours?

Yes	5	8%
No	58	92%

Q5. Do you think our school should have a crest on our school jumper?

Yes	24	38%
No	39	62%

Q6. If you think we school should have a crest on our school jumper, what is your preference for the crest?

Iron-on:	16	48%
Sew-on	17	52%

Q7. Are you happy with our grey tracksuit bottoms for P.E. or would you rather branded or designer sportswear?

I’m happy with the grey tracksuit bottoms	55	86%
I would rather a branded or designer sportswear.	9	14%

Q8. Are you happy to pick your own footwear for your child or would you rather that the school would stipulate a particular type of shoe as part of our uniform?

I’m happy with the freedom to pick the footwear my child’s wears to school.	59	94%
I would rather a particular type of shoe was stipulated as part of the school uniform.	4	6%

Q9. How would you rate our school uniform?

I’m happy with it	53	85%
It needs to be changed	9	15%

Are there any comments you would like to add in relation to our school uniform

no School trancksuit should be navy grey is very hard got for girls. Everyone has navy ones and alot easier got. I think that if we had a chest on the uniform it would look better gray is a had colour to find anywhere else than in town. track suit bottoms very hard to find too expensive in town. make it more colourful our school uiform is too dull Everbody should be made wear the tie. I think the uniform needs to be enforced more, there are still too many children wearing unsuitable tracksuit bottoms which take away from the look of the uniform. I think a school crest is very important, and every other school has one. That the uniform is worn at all times & the tracksuit only worn on P.E days. It looks a lot better to see the kids in their proper uniform! Pupils should wearthe particular grey track suit bottoms. Alot of pupils wear various colours of grey and does not look good. Ib I am happy with the style of uniform, however the school should enforce that only the school colours and styles are worn. the uniform is fine theres only one thing i would change and thats the colour of the jumper from wine to navy Less bland colours with a school crest is the best way to create a sense of pride with the children. There’s no need for them to where a particular type of shoe until secondary school though, they’re only children. I would like a less formal uniform and perhaps black trousers as grey are not easy to find especially for tracksuit bottoms. No. I am happy with it.

Number of daily responses

The Student Council presented Fr. Gerry with a cheque for €375 euro collected by the school for Trócaire.

All those who returned their boxes or who offered a donation for Trócaire received tickets for a draw. Congratulations to the winners of this draw. Congratulations to Mrs. Smith’s First class who won a prize for the highest number  of Trócaire boxes. Fr. Gerry was delighted and very grateful for the support given to the Lenten Trócaire collection. He has guaranteed that all this money will go directly to helping provide fresh water for those in need in Africa.

The Junior, Senior and First class pupils enjoyed Easter Egg Bingo in the hall on Thursday. The 6th and 5 th class pupils helped to make sure that all numbers called were cancelled on the pupils cards. There were lots of full houses that earned the pupils Easter eggs. They all got a cream egg at the end of the Bingo.

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th 5th and 6th class pupils enjoyed Easter egg bingo on Friday. Our Bingo Mistress Ann Mac Donald presided over several excellent bingo games which absorbed all the pupils resulting in a very quiet hall full of concentrating children listening very carefully for their numbers to be called. Lots of eggs were won and everyone got a consolation prize of a cream egg.

The fox came last weekend and killed our hens. We got six new hens. James shows us the first egg laid by our new hens.

Today some of the girls from our school went to St. Louis   Secondary school in Carrickmacross.

There, we learned to play Gaelic organised by the T.Y  students. It was brilliant and we all had a good time.

Today is the day that our Student Council is first active

and today we are organizing games to play with the Junior infants.

Today we showed them how to play with hoola hoops and bouncy balls.

By Georgia Fox