Peace Proms 2015

This year for the first time RETNS took part in the Cross Border Peace Proms. Our fourth class students joined other choirs, a full orchestra, soloists and dancers in what was a wonderful evening of entertainment. The Peace Proms is a programme of the Cross Border...

RETNS Keeping Fit!

In RETNS we recognise the value of physical exercise for children and as a school we strive to promote physical education and to be an active school community. All of our teachers adhere to DES guidelines regarding PE timetable provision for all students and teach a...

Winterfest Theme-Diversity

In September 2015 Rathfarnham Educate Together NS will be 25 years old. Started in Crumlin in 1990, under the name South City School Project, the school was set up under what was then a relatively new model of school provision in Ireland, the Educate Together model....

The Voice of the Child

‘The Voice of the Child’ is a term that is frequently used in educational terms today. Long gone are the days when children were to be “seen and not heard”. Today it is widely recognised that children and young people have a voice and that this voice has to be...

RETNS Student Committees 2014-2015

Student Council 6th class John MacAvin (Chairperson) Rebecca McConnell Daire Begley Maedbh Duff-Hogan (Junior Infant and Senior Infant rep) Alex Cunningham (1st and 2nd class rep)   5th class Sorcha Collins O’Regan Holly Bond Oscar Loftus   4th class Billy...

Internet Safety Workshops

e-Safety It is almost inconceivable to children today that there was once a world without internet and mobile technology. Today this technology is all around us and is even used by very young children. While we may have begun to take children’s access to the internet...

Development Education

Over the next six weeks we will be delivering a Development Education programme to all classes. This programme has been developed for and piloted in Educate Together schools by ChildFund Ireland, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs through Irish Aid.  One of...

Opening Maths Eyes

Maths Week 2014 takes place from October 11th-19th. Maths week is celebrated all over Ireland, with over 200,000 participants last year. Already this year almost 50,000 participants have signed up on www.mathsweek.ie to take part in special maths activities and join...

Learn Together

Learn Together You may have heard your children talking about EEP and wondered what it was. Or maybe it was confused in children’s minds with SPHE or SESE. To clarify, EEP is our school’s Ethical Education Programme, a programme which is common to all Educate Together...

Positive Behaviour Week

This week, September 8th-12th, is Positive Behaviour Week in RETNS. Our school behaviour policy states that in RETNS we believe that in order to create and maintain a happy, safe and effective learning environment for all, there must be high standards of student...

“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” — Ken Robinson

Outdoor Learning

During the early part of my teaching career I taught in a small rural school in Co.Fermanagh. When we went from a four to a five teacher school I became the proud inhabitant of a brand new pre-fab classroom. It was state-of-the-art at the time but there was one major...