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...