Nov 9, 2017
Review of Homework in RETNS As part of our review of homework in RETNS we asked parents and guardians to take part in a survey to gauge views on current homework provision and to suggest how we could make homework tasks more relevant to children in our school. A total...
Oct 18, 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 to be educated in an Educate Together school and helped the rest of...
Oct 4, 2017
Many schools are discovering the value of using mindfulness to help create calm in classrooms, to increase children’s capacity to become still and notice what is around them and to help them feel good about themselves. Research has indicated that mindfulnesss...
Sep 28, 2017
Forest Learning is an educational initiative designed to offer pupils an opportunity to achieve through hands on learning experiences in a local woodland environment. Regular sessions take place in a woodland environment, where the landscape itself adds to the...
Sep 14, 2017
In this year which marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, there is no doubt that the ‘digital landscape’ has changed enormously in recent years, in particular for the younger members of our community for whom a world without smartphones is unimaginable....
Sep 4, 2017
Wellbeing Week 2017 Welcome back to all children and families for the 2017/2018 school year, and in particular we welcome our new class of Junior Infants. Hopefully they will all settle into the routines of RETNS very quickly. A very special welcome also to our...
May 31, 2017
Senior Infants were inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’. They also produced some wonderful Still Life paintings inspired by the work of Cezanne. ...
May 11, 2017
Click here to view our Blue Star Programme Final Report Blue Star report (Final) We marked the end of our participation in the Blue Star programme with an Open Morning on Tuesday, May 9th, (Europe Day) to which parents, guardians and members of the local...
May 3, 2017
On Friday, April 28th, we were delighted to welcome to our school Marian Harkin, one of our Irish MEPs. Marian told the children she was honoured to have been invited and she was very impressed with the work they were doing. Ciara Corcoran, chair of the...
May 2, 2017
Have a look at the PowerPoints created as part of the Leaf Hunt eTwinning project. The children really enjoyed taking part in the project and would love to do some more eTwinning in the future. Leaf Hunt by groups from 2nd and 3rd Rathfarnham Educate Together...
Mar 28, 2017
Blue Star Programme The 60th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome was marked in RETNS on Friday 24 March by a visit by the E.U. Ambassador, Mr. David Daly, his wife Aideen and their daughter Ceola. Mr. Daly is presently E.U. representative for South East Asia,...
Feb 16, 2017
As we mentioned last term, this year we are taking part in the Blue Star Programme, a programme designed to help students learn about the EU through fun, curriculum-friendly projects and earn a Blue Star Flag for our school at the same time!...
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