Please see attached information regarding after school study for Transition Year students. 

Please see information from Monday's 6th Year CAO meeting:

Slides

Recording

A reminder that this will be held online for parents and students at 5.30pm today via the link below:

https://meet.google.com/tnr-bwqx-yzz

Students were given a hard copy of their schedule for Monday today. The schedule can also be accessed on-line on the platform through which appointments were requested.

Many thanks.

TY Update & What’s On Next Week

Stand Up Awareness Week

This week, the whole school celebrated ‘Stand Up Awareness Week’. There was a Pride-themed competition and a decorated board in the GPA to help spread the message to ‘Come in, not come out’! 

Everyone wore a coloured ribbon in their hair, based on their year group, to show their support

• 1st Years: Red

• 2nd Years: Orange

• 3rd Years: Yellow

• TY (aka the best year group): Green

• 5th Years: Blue

• 6th Years: Purple

• Staff: Rainbow

   

Lab Leaders

On Tuesday, the TY Lab Leaders had their first training day. During Science Week next week, these students will invite students from St Pius X GNS to Our Lady’s to show them what the Science programme has to offer in our school - and many more opportunities, too! 

Knovember Knitathon

The highly-anticipated Knitathon is back!!! Bring your knitting needles and wool to the GPA and start knitting for the month of (K)November! All items of clothing knitted will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul. You can purchase them in the GPA if you do not own any knitting equipment.

TY Reminders

Uniform Reminder

A reminder that a full school uniform must be worn except for the days that you have Recreational Studies, a Development Day, Musical or Sports Leadership. Uniform checks will happen next week.

Fighting Words

Every year, Fighting Words publishes a magazine of exciting new writing by young people from all over Ireland.They are delighted to announce that they are now inviting submissions from secondary school students to be included in the supplement in 2024. They are looking for short pieces of fictional writing on any theme. As well as prose pieces, they also welcome poems, scripts and songs.

Have a look on the TY Google Classroom for more info!

What’s On Next Week

Science Week

Everyone, get your lab coats on and prepare for Science Week! Check the Google Classroom to see which rooms and lab leaders will work with the Pius X GNS girls on Tuesday. We hope to see sparks flying and lots of learning around the experiments! We could end with a good science joke…but all the good ones ‘Argon’! 

TY Development Day 2

On the 16th of November, the TYs will be participating in their second TY Development Day of the year. Each class will take part in a different activity; these activities will be very beneficial to the students as they bond with their classmates as well as learn new skills. TY Development Days help to grow each student’s independence and broaden our minds. Be prepared! See below for your development day schedule.

TY 1: Zoo

TY 2: Self Defence

TY 3: Retreat

TY 4: Town Tour

TY 5: First Aid

Nuns’ Feast Day & Celebration of House

Next Friday, 17th November, the whole school will celebrate the annual Nuns’ Feast Day - this year is special as it is the 70th year since OLS began! We are extremely honoured and proud to be part of the amazing legacy built by the RCE Sisters in this time - they always support the school and each student in our community. We kindly ask that each TY class makes a card to acknowledge their Anam Cara - the cards should be signed by class members next Tuesday - and will be presented to the Sisters on Friday.   

‘Run in the Dark’

Many TY students will participate in “Run in the Dark” in aid of The Mark Pollock Trust on Tuesday, 14 November. The Trust's mission is to find and connect those people worldwide to fast-track a cure for paralysis. Everybody participating has donated 15 euros to this worthy cause, and we can’t wait to see everybody out and ready to run or walk on Tuesday evening at 5pm. Make sure to wear as much COLOUR and bright lights as possible. We hope you enjoy!

Gaisce - Overnight Glendalough Hike

The highly anticipated Glendalough Hike is here! Please see the attached details on how to book your spot.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading. 

Written by: Kate Smyth, Freya Lilly Eggen and Ciara Brereton TY5)

• Camogie
• Commiserations to our Junior team who narrowly lost out against an incredibly strong Dominican College team in a thrilling game. The girls ultimately fell short by a scoreline of 7-10 to 6-6. Their championship hopes are still very muchalive with one more group game to play
• Hockey
• Our Minor 1 side continued on their excellent form when they took on and beat St Raphaelas at home on Tuesday afternoon. The girls kept their fourth clean sheet of the league season and backed up a strong defensive display with four excellent goals at the opposite end. The girls have now scored 18 goals in their last three games without reply. Well done girls, super work!
• On Wednesday afternoon our Senior 1 side travelled to play Sandford park in the 1A league. The girls defended superbly which built the foundation for a win but unfortunately they just couldn't find a way through and were met by a resolute Sandford park defence. The points were shared and now the side look forward to their next tie in a couple of weeks time where they will hope to pick up three points.
• This weekends fixtures are as follows
• AWAY AT RATHDOWN SCHOOL
• Junior 2 -v- Rathdown @10am
• HOME AT OLS
• First year blitz @9am
• Have a super sporting weekend!

The next OLS parents book club meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd November at 7.30 pm in the Two Sisters pub, Terenure. The book is How to build a boat, by Elaine Feeney. All are welcome!

A reminder that school will finish at 3.15pm on Monday 13th November to facilitate the 5th Year Parent-Teacher Meeting. After school study will therefore begin and end 15 minutes earlier than usual. 

Students and staff have enjoyed a busy first week back after midterm, please find the link to the Newsletter from the first term here, in case you missed it.https://olschool.ie/our-school/school-newsletters/

Ballyroan Library will be running a Music/DJ Workshop for teens on Wednesday 15th November from 5.00-7.00pm. A great opportunity to discover the creative possibilities of music technology through beat matching, layering songs and adding effects. All are welcome, booking in advance isn't necessary.

Very proud to be wearing colours for OLS Stand Up Week!!

Please see letter attached regarding your daughter's SPHE class.