*Talk for Parents - Articles referenced by Dr. Thornton in her Talk.
* Heather Cup – 10th - 21st May 2010
The Heather Cup finished up last night (May 19th) with a series of exciting semi-finals and finals.Congratulations to Real Madrid and Spain who won the boys and girls finals respectively. Both trophies are heading to Bishop Galvin this year. Congratulations to the winners and runners up.
Mark Ronayne would like to thank St. Pius Parents Association for all their support, Mark Burke for organising the entire competition with him, the secretaries and principals of all the participating schools for their co-operation and patience, the refs from transition year in Terenure College and Terenure College for making their fantastic facilities available to us again. The groundstaff had the pitches in fantastic shape each night and Mark would like to thank the parents who came out to support in large numbers, and ,lastly, a thank you to all of the children who participated in the long tradition of The Heather Cup.
* Saturday May 15th Communion Day Afters
The First Holy Communion Reception was a great success again this year, but we couldn't have done it without the volunteers. Aisling and Caroline, on behalf of the Parents Association, would like to thank the following people for all their help on the Friday evening and the Saturday morning.
Deirdre Bates
Pam O'Reilly
Carol Edwards
Ruth O'Toole
Briony Kells
Norita Murphy
Shirley Mc Dermott
Mary Carty
Deirdre O'Sullivan
Karen Fay
Aideen Darker
Helen Morrison
Mairead Kelly
Helen Mc Donagh
Tara Burke
Maria Ronayne
Fiona Moore
Helen Browne
Helen Ryan
Anna Miller
A big thank you to all who donated lots of buns, cakes and biscuits. They were greatly appreciated.
We would also like to thank Hillary and Pat from Seven Days who provided the bread and milk free of charge and were very supportive in providing anything extra we might have needed on the day. We really appreciate their support.
Finally, we would like to thank our fellow parents on the Parents Association for all the support, direction and enthusiasm.
Sarah, Donna, Lorraine, Shelley, Ger Leahy, Ger Hanley, Siobhan, Audrey, Catherine and Maura.
*School Yard Improvements Questionnaire
Thank-you to all who responded. The Parents Association have collated all the information and are meeting with the Principals and the Chairs of both Schools to discuss same and other items on Monday 26th April. The Parents Association will discuss the outcome at the Parents Association AGM in June.
*St Pius X Thursday & Saturday Classes Concert, Saturday 20th March 2010 - A Great Success
A Big Well done to all the children who participated in the Concert and a big 'Thank-you' to all those who helped make it happen.
**All Saturday and Thursday Parent Association Classes are now completed and will resume in September. Swimming continues until June.**
[View concert pictures here...]*Press release from South Dublin County Council...
All Aboard the Walking Bus.
| A Terenure National school is aiming to improve pupil fitness and cut traffic congestion at the school gates by starting its first Walking Bus.
St. Pius X National School on Fortfield Park started its Walking Bus from the Church car park on College Drive along College Park, Fortfield Avenue, and Fortfield Park on Tuesday last 16th September 2008 to coincide with the commencement of European Mobility Week. The Bus will run each morning at 8.30am under the guidance of volunteer adult supervisors from the Parents Association and will take the same route every day. The Walking Bus concept offers an alternative to the car for the school journey and it represents a sustainable mode of transport. As well as reducing traffic and congestion at the school gates there are many health, educational, and environmental benefits to the scheme; it provides opportunities to get exercise and fresh air at the start of the school day; opportunities for children to learn essential road safety skills that will be of benefit in later years when they become more independent; and of course it's environmentally friendly producing no air or noise pollution. The initiative is supported by South Dublin County Council. The Council's Road Safety Officer, Margaret Branyan, said that the Council receives quite a lot of correspondence regarding traffic congestion at school gates and she hoped that more schools across the County would consider introducing walking or cycling schemes to help alleviate the problem. |
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