Parents' Voluntary Contribution.

A sincere thanks to all families who have returned Voluntary contributions. To date, over 50% have paid and we encourage those, who may have forgotten, to send in their contribution as soon as possible. Reminders were distributed to all families recently and may be 'rotting' in schoolbags awaiting rescue!
With your support, we will try to ensure that our school environment is well maintained and pleasant for our pupils, parents, staff and visitors.

Parking!
May we take this opportunity to remind those of you who drive your children to school to please respect the privacy of local residents and particularly to refrain from parking at the Beeches. This can be extremely frustrating for residents who often find it impossible to enter / leave their homes.
A survey will be carried out in the near future in relation to the possible closure of the entrance at the Beeches. All parents will be consulted.
Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.

Some Dates for your Diary
First Communion:
· First Communion, April 24th at 10.00
Confirmation:
· Service of Light: May 9th at 10.00am Mass
· Confirmation: Friday, May 14th at 11.00
Enrolment of New Pupils.
Applications for the enrolment of new pupils in St. Olaf's for Sept. 2005 and onwards are currently being taken at the Office. We would encourage anybody who has not applied, to do so as soon as possible.
A meeting for Parents of New Pupils for the 2004 school year will be held in the school Hall on Thursday, June 3rd at 1.15pm.

Standardisation of the School year.

The following closures will apply in all primary schools for the 2004 - 05 school year:
· October 2004 mid-term - closed from 25th - 29th October inclusive
· Christmas 2004 - closing on Dec 22 & re-opening on Jan 10
· Feb. 05 mid-term - closed from Feb 17 - 18 inclusive.
· Easter 2005 - closing on March 23 & re-opening on April 4
Each school also has a number of discretionary days provided that the minimum 183 day requirement is fulfilled.
A full list of school closures will issue in Sept. 2004.

Tesco Tokens!

Any remaining tokens should be dropped in to the school immediately. Thanks for your support!
Trócaire boxes
Boxes should be handed in to the Oifig before Friday April 23rd .

Healthy Lunches

We would like to remind parents (& children) of our Healthy Lunch policy which forbids crisps, popcorn & gum and which promotes the taking of fruit / yoghurt at 1st break.
Children should not be given packets of sweets as part of their lunch and biscuits / bars may only be taken at 2nd break along with a sandwich or other nourishing alternative.
The full policy may be viewed on our website.

Easter Website
Competition Winner

Congratulations to all who participated in the recent Website Easter Competition and in particular to our winner;
Harrison Brewer - Rang 3 - Ms Mulvihill's class

Well done to everyone who participated.
Why not check out our Summer Quiz at http://homepage.eircom.net/~olaf
and be in with a chance of winning a fabulous prize!
Extra-curricular activities

Chess: Congrats to Our Senior A Chess team ( Mark Smyth, Conor Murphy, Darragh Byrne & Keith Begley) who have qualified yet again for the All-Ireland Finals in Limerick. Best of luck to all.

Lúthcleasa - Santry.

Trials were held before Easter to select the Athletes who will represent our school in Santry in Early June. Well done to all who participated and best of luck to the winners in Santry.

Iomáint / Camogie 2004

Our Junior Hurlers are poised for a semi- final position with 3 wins from their 4 games to date. A win over Synge St on Tuesday will guarantee the semi-final place. Go néirí libh!

Our Camogie team have only played two games and have a 50% success rate. Upcoming games against Kilternan & the Gaelscoil will determine our prospects of advancing in this competition.

Siopa

· Hurleys from €10
· Helmets @ €40
Recycling!
Every class in our school has been actively involved in gathering up recyclable material (paper, cardboard, milk cartons etc) for the month of March. We transported 45 lge bagfuls to Dun Laoighre Rathdown Co. Council as our project for Eco Week 2004. The purpose of our project was to highlight the fact that schools are not currently given green bins and as a result we end up dumping an enormous amount of recyclable material!
St. Olaf's were awarded a prize for our project and we intend to continue our efforts in this area into the future.

Write a Book

Well done to all who took part in the 2004 Write a Book project. The number participating really took off this year and the following children were all awarded prizes:
· Mrs. Keegan's Junior Infant class,
· Eoin Murphy
· Stephen Moles
· Shona Flaherty
· Áine Doyle
· Lisa Kelly
· Éilis Murphy
· Ciannaith Khan O'Donnell

Web Site. Our homepage can be viewed at http://homepage.eircom.net/~olaf

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