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Summer 2003 NEWSLETTER

Dear Parents

The staff of the school would like to thank you all for your support and co-operation throughout the year.

Do enjoy the summer holidays and we look forward to seeing you in September. Please do try to encourage your children to keep reading throughout the summer. Libraries have organised events and activities to

FOOTBALL/NETBALL: Congratulations to the football and netball teams who played very well in the recent St Columban's and St Colman's tournament. THe girls were extremely unlucky not to reach the final

We recently had a fun football tournament amongst the P7 children of Attical,Moneydarragh, Ballymartin and Glasdrumman schools. The children were split into three mixed school teams. There were medals for everyone and the children all enjoyed themselves. Many thanks to Glasdrumman GAC for sponsoring the medals and allowing the use of their facilities and also to Dan McCartan for his impartial refereeing

TRIPS: P4/5 enjoyed an interesting trip to Exploris in Portaferry to investigate fish and sea life.

TEETH: We are very pleased to say that this years annual Dental report confirms that there has been an improvement and that we have moved off the bottom of the league of 12 local schools. Thank you for your support in this.

REPORTS: The childrens' annual Record of Achievement will be handed out on Wednesday. Please contact the school if you have any queries regarding your child's progress.

CYCLING PROFICIENCY: Our P7 children recently completed their cycling proficiency exam. In addition a number of the children competed in the local heat of the NI cycling proficiency exam. The children acquitted themselves well.

BALLOON RACE: Thank you for your support in this recent event. The children really enjoyed the day and we raised some money which will help pay for some extra redecorating within the school. Thank you to " Diamond Pat's" for its sponsorship of the event.

BASKETBALL: THe school recently had a visit from John Leahy an Irish international basketballer. He led an enjoyable training session for our chiildren and some children from Annalong PS.

SPORTS DAY: Thank you to everyone for the large turnout of parents and visitors last week The children all enjoyed themselves and will receive their prizes on Thursday.

BAR B Q: A good night was had at the Bar B Q recently organised by the Friends. Although the turn out was disappointing the patrons enjoyed a good meal and boogie. Many thanks to the Friends and to the AOH for their hospitality. Thank you to the Friends for their purchase of the Sports day medals and their generous donation for the P7 trip.

CLASSES FOR SEPTEMBER:
Reception and P1 Mrs. McEvoy
P2 and P3 Miss Walsh
P4 and P5 Mr. Cunningham
P6 and P7 Mr. Madine.

A reminder that P3 finish school at 2pm during the autumn and spring terms. They will leave at 2.45pm after Easter.

MILK: This is a reminder that the school receives milk subsidized by the EEC. The milk costs 8p a day and has to be ordered in advance.

GUITAR:Guitars will recommence again in September for P5-P7. Could any outstanding payments be given to the school and they will be passed on to Lynda.

PANTOMIME: Following on the success of last years trip the panto has been booked again in the Waterfront.
Monday 17th December.

MINIBUS: A sincere thank you to all of the minibus drivers and Glasdrumman GAC who provide such an unique service to the school. A special thank you to Rosemary McCavery who is "retiring " from minibus duty after several years of service. If anyone is interested in driving the bus as part of the morning run rota please contact the school.

SUN TAN: The school received £30 as commission from the sun tan lotion that was offered to parents at school. Many thanks to Mairin.

SCHOOL EXTENSION: As you can see the extension is almost complete. We are all looking forward to using the new facilities in September.

GOODBYE: It's that time of the year again and we say goodbye to our Primary 7's. We hope that they leave St. Mary's with lots of happy memories and they take away with them the values that we have tried to share with them.

We also say goodbye to some families as their youngest child is in P7. We wish you well and hope that you keep your association with the school.

Best wishes in the future to :
Jonathan
Coralann
Orla
Stefan
Colleen
Catherine
Ciara
Ryan
Tara
Martin
Mary Rose
Clare
Alanna
Conor

From everyone at St Mary's

UNIFORMS: Most of the uniforms should be here by Wednesday/ Thursday and will be given out. As the children do not start until Tuesday uniforms can also be picked up on Monday 1st September. If there any problems please contact the school

REMINDERS
Wednesday P6/7 have a final swimming session at 2pm.
Thursday is prize giving day. It begins at 10.15am.
Friday is a half day. There will be no dinners. The SELB bus will pick children up around 11.30am. It is a non -uniform day.
School begins on Monday 1st September with a training day for all staff. All children return to school on Tuesday 2nd September.

Have a good summer

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