Stay Safe Programme
The Stay Safe programme is “a personal safety skills programme for primary schools. The aim of the programme is to reduce vulnerability to child abuse and bullying through the provision…
Aistear in Junior Infants
Aistear is the curriculum framework for children up to six years of age in Ireland. It is a discovery based model of learning that can help children grow and develop as confident and…
Different Families, Same Love
There is no doubt that over the last number of years our country has becoming more and more diverse and is indeed all the richer for that. Today as a…
Safer Internet Day 2018
There has been much media coverage over the past few weeks on the topic of internet safety for children, chiefly as a result of the recent serious and very disturbing…
Homework Review – the next steps
During the autumn term we held a review of homework , seeking the views of pupils, parents and staff on current homework provision. Results of the parents’ survey were published…
New Child Protection Procedures
Children First Act 2015 The Children First Act was enacted in November 2015. However, it was only partially commenced by means of a statutory instrument resulting in the abolition of…
eTwinning in RETNS
On Tuesday, December 5th, we had a visit from the eTwinning coordinator at Léargas, Liliana O’Reilly, and her colleague Anna D'Arcy. Léargas is the National Support Service for eTwinning in…
RETNS Science Fair 2017
Our third annual Science Fair was held on Friday, November 24th. This year's event was bigger than ever, with a record number of visitors from our parent body. Fifth and…
Homework Survey
Review of Homework in RETNS We are taking all views into account. As part of our review of homework in RETNS we asked parents and guardians to take part in…
One Day Together 2017
On Friday, October 6th, we celebrated One Day Together, to highlight Educate Together’s National Fund-raising efforts. At our assembly, 5th class gave an excellent presentation on what it means…