News this week in RETNS

News this week in RETNS

Reminder A separate email was sent to all families giving dates for class meetings. Please check the date for your child’s class meeting as parents are often disappointed if they inadvertently miss this meeting. Please note that a second email highlighted a...
A word from Maeve

A word from Maeve

  In this, my first official week as Principal of Rathfarnham Educate Together National School, I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Maeve Mc Carthy and I have been working in education for more than 30 years. From 1988 to 2018, I was a member of...

Creative Schools Announcement

After a short embargo we are delighted to be able to announce that Rathfarnham Educate Together is one of 150 schools nationwide to have been awarded the opportunity to engage with Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative, an initiative which aims to ‘put the...

Building Resilience in Children

At this time of year many children are involved in competitions of all sorts. Team games are coming towards finals and there are competitive sports, gymnastics and athletics events, both local and national, for all age groups. Music and dance competitions take place...
Stay Safe Programme

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 of personal safety education for children and training for teachers, school...

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 competent learners. Aistear is planned and delivered according to...

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 society we celebrate diversity in a whole host of ways. We celebrate diversity of culture, race and ethnicity in...

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 incident involving the exploitation of young children online by a Dublin man. Parents and guardians,...

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 here on Principal’s Blog (November 2017). We have followed up with some gradual...

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 reasonable chastisement by parents. The result of this legislation is that the...

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 Ireland.  Initially Liliana made contact with the school to extend...

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 sixth class students put a great effort into preparing for the Science Fair, setting up...