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The picture has the words be kind in decorative lettering on it

February 2026

Our Value of the Month for February is Love and Nurture. Of course this gives our wonderful Cinneáltas Committee a time to shine as Kindness is an essential ingredient within our value of the month.

This week is Seachtain Grá, and the Cinneáltas Committee were out on yard looking out for acts of kindness. They gave stickers out during play time, and at the end of break when classes were lined up, they gave some pencils to children who really stood out. We have had quite a lot of rain at the end of last month and up to now but in the midst of it all our children have outdone themselves in the wonderful colourful Art gracing our building.

Louise

Cake sale before mid-term

The children really enjoyed the lovely cakes that were baked before midterm. Thank you all so much for your incredible generosity in baking for our cake sale and in supporting My Canine Companion. The selection of cakes and bakes on offer was immense - standard was noted to be exceptionally high this year. Well done to Katie, the Student Council and Rang 6 for setting up the sale, manning the cake stands and working so hard to sell all of the delicious wares. We raised €1621 for the charity. It will go a very long way. Well done to all 19 of our raffle prizes winners. We hope you enjoyed your prizes! Louise

A picture of a paper chain made with different coloured paper

Value for February is Love and Nurture

This week, as part of our Core Value of Love and Nurture, the Cinneáltas Committee have a few nice whole school events planned.

1. Random Acts of Kindness Our lovely Cinneáltas Committee members will be out on all 3 yards keeping an eye out for kind acts and words, and will be giving out stickers and pencils to children who are seen to be making a special effort.

2. Kindness Chain Every class is being asked to make a kindness chain in their classroom. This is a simple paper chain like the one pictured above. Teachers can add links to the chain for kind acts that they witness in their classes, and at the end of the month we will join all of the chains together. In older classes, children may write the acts of kindness on the links, and younger classes can draw them. Alternatively, teachers may just use the links as symbols of kind acts they've seen - whatever is easiest and most manageable in your classroom. I'll send around some paper for these tomorrow. Katie

School Closures in March

School will be closed for St Patrick's Day on Tuesday 17th March 2026. School will close for Spring Break on Friday 27th March 2026 and reopen on Monday 13th April 2026.

Admissions to RETNS 2026-2027

The school’s Admission Policy and Annual Admission Notice are available on the school website.

Parents and guardians who wish to enrol their children into Junior Infants for the school year 2026-2027 are asked to complete the online Junior Infants Admissions Form .

The school will commence accepting applications for admission on 1st October 2025.

Applications received after 18th December 2025 will be processed as late applications.

The Admissions Form Senior Infants to Sixth Class will be available from 5th January 2026.

European Union Support through NextGenerationEU

This school now has high speed broadband connectivity through the Department of Education School Broadband Programme, delivered as part of the Irish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU.