Dear Fellow Parents,
As the summer holidays loom, I would like to take this opportunity to give you a brief update on the Parents' Association and its various activities this year.
Many thanks to all of you who have actively participated in and helped with the various activities during the year such as The Christmas Fair, The Junior Infant Evenings, 6th Class Graduations and The Confirmation & First Holy Communion Teas.
In particular, I would like to thank those of you who have volunteered to be the Class Representatives in your respective classes. Although still in its infancy, this new venture is proving to be a great success. Some classes still do not have Class Reps so if you are interested in getting involved, please contact me. If you are not a class rep please remember that you are more than welcome to attend the monthly meetings.
In an effort to raise the profile of the Parents' Association, we have decided to put the minutes of the monthly meetings up on the school websites for your perusal. We hope that this will keep everyone informed of what is happening, even if you can't make the meetings.
The Educational Committee have organised many varied and interesting talks over the years e.g. Secondary School information evenings, Healthy Lunch information and Internet Safety. While the attendance at these presentations has been good, we would expect that given the number of parents between both schools that the attendance should be better. This was discussed at a recent monthly meeting and it was decided to ask parents for their input and see what sort of talks they would be interested in attending and what day and time would suit best to stage these talks. We have set up an on-line survey and would appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to fill this out. The survey can be accessed from the Parents Association pages on both schools web sites.
To access the survey from the Boys School site
1. Log on to http://www.stbrigids.ie2. From the About menu, click Parents Association.
3. You will see a link to the survey on this page.
To access the survey from the Girls School site
1. Log on to http://www.stbrigidsgirlsschool.com2. From the menu on the left hand side of the screen, click on Parents Association.
3. You will see a link to the survey on this page.
The survey will be available until Friday June 3rd so please take the time to fill this in before then.
I would like to personally thank Pauline and Elaine, our school secretaries, for their huge help and constant cooperation with our on-going activities. I am very conscious that all they do for us is in addition to their own considerable workload. Many thanks also to Mr. O’Connell and Mrs. Sweeney for their continued support of the Association.
Finally, to those parents whose children are finishing in the schools this year, I hope you’ve found the Parents Association to be of use to you during your child’s time in the school. Remember, the Christmas Fair will be on Sunday November 27th and I look forward to see you all returning to support it:-). To the rest of the parents, I wish you all a happy, sunny and restful summer holiday and look forward to seeing you all in September.
Joanna Ross.
Chairperson Parents Association.
