A message from Mr. Murphy
Dear Parents/Guardians,
2020 has certainly been the most unusual teaching year of my working life. Living through a pandemic makes us all appreciate the loving families that we have and the precious time we have to spend with them and I hope that you and your children are all safe and well. We all hope that life will return to normal (new normal!) at the beginning of September as we have planned our opening to children for Tuesday September 1st. Of course, if government advice changes this I’ll contact you. We still have no definitive statement / guidelines from Government as to how the school will operate in September so I’ll keep you posted along with our national media!
Well done and a huge thank you to all our teachers , SNAs, and to you and your children for engaging so well in remote learning. I’m so proud of all our staff who engaged fully with the process and attempted to communicate/reach out to all our pupils.
However, we have missed out on so many important events over the past few months, notably the 1st Communion & Confirmation, but also the School tours, sporting events, Santry, Prizegiving Day and the 6th class Graduation.
We did manage to celebrate the end-of - year with an amazing Party for our 6th classes, organised by Karen & the PA with music provided by the one and only David Kinsella. It was a fabulous evening and great to see all of the children in such good form after months apart. We have scheduled the Confirmation ceremony for Tuesday August 11th (actual times etc TBC) and will have a Graduation ceremony at the school the following day August 12th. This will take the usual form of a celebratory Mass with our Chaplain Fr Peter Byrne followed by the customary Prizegiving Ceremony for our 6th class pupils. Hopefully this will make up in some way for the disappointment of missing so many milestones in June. We also are planning to celebrate First Communion in the Autumn (probably early October (TBC)
Well done also to all our children on your great school reports which are available to view on the Aladdin Connect app. Please contact us if you have any difficulty accessing the reports / using the App.
I hope that your children enjoy the summer and we, as a staff, look forward to starting a new, fruitful, educational, teaching year next term. Rest assured, if there is a change to the set-up and starting date for St. Olaf's I will contact you.
Best regards,
Ger Murphy & all at St. Olaf's
1968 - 2018
Celebrating 50 years of excellence in Education
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR MATHS QUIZ TEAM WHO RECENTLY WON THE ANNUAL MATHS QUIZ IN ST. ATTRACTA'S NS
St. Olaf's National School caters for boys & girls from the ages of 4 -12 and has a current enrolment of 510. The school is under the patronage of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and is situated on Balally Drive, just off the Sandyford Road, close to the Dundrum Town Centre and ideally situated to cater for pupils from a wide area including the districts of Balally, Sandyford, Dundrum and Kilmacud.
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