Our Lady's School received an award Tuesday for its engagement with Jigsaw's One Good School initiative. Jigsaw is a youth mental health organisation and its One Good School initiative urges schools to adopt a "whole-school approach to promoting and supporting youth mental health and wellbeing."

You can learn more about Jigsaw's One Good School Initiative here: https://jigsaw.ie/one-good-school/

Thank you to Jigsaw for talking to students about youth mental health and presenting the award. Congratulations to all who participated in projects for the One Good School initiative.

Students in religion classes gave handmade thank you cards to members of staff Tuesday. Thank you so much for the artwork and kind words!

Monday was Development Day for TYs. TY5 were involved in self defence, TY4 went on a Religious retreat to various churches and cathedrals around the city. TY1 went to the city centre on a historical tour which included a Dublin castle visit and a visit to the Little Museum of Dublin. TY2 went to the Zoo, and TY3 took part in a First Aid course. 

A huge congratulations to Sarah Prendergast in 2nd Year who was presented with a sports award at the weekend in the Mansion House. Sarah received the award for "The most improved female cricket player." Sarah is the youngest recipient of the award. This is an outstanding achievement. Well done Sarah.

Molly Mullally 6th year is the National Indoor  u20 Triple Jump champion. Molly jumped 11.45m yesterday in Athlone. A huge congratulations Molly, the entire OLS community are very proud of you. 

Our Lady’s School Parents' Council invites you to a Quiz Night on the evening of March 21st.

Commiserations to our Senior Camogie Team who lost their All Ireland Quarter Final against Mercy Roscommon. The girls fought valiantly against a strong opposition but ultimately the better team won.
A special thank you to our 6th Years who have played their last game for OLS. Their commitment to camogie over their time in the school has been fantastic.

Please check the Google Classroom with all the information needed for the upcoming Development Day on Monday. PE kit may be worn on Monday.

• TY1 - Town with G Parsons

• TY2 - Zoo with Ms McGinley

• TY3 -1st aid course all day Lourdes Hall

• TY4 - Retreat in town with S O’Rourke and J Maher

• TY5 - Self Defence St Joseph's Hall 

In 2021, the State Examinations Commission (SEC) as part of its digital strategy, introduced a facility to allow Leaving Certificate candidates to confirm their subject and level entry details online (including adding or withdrawing from subjects), replacing the previous system of using individual Leaving Certificate candidate (E7) entry forms.  The use of the online system, the Candidate Self Service Portal (CSSP) will continue for the 2024 Leaving Certificate.

The portal opened on Wednesday 17th of January 2024 for candidates to register and activate their account and confirm their subject entries and levels. It will remain open for this purpose until 5pm Friday 02 February 2024.

It is essential that you register through the Portal as this Portal will provide candidates with the opportunity to confirm their subject choice and levels, to also allow future access to their results and for the later stages of the process such as the appeals application process.

 The candidate portal can be accessed on www.examinations.ie  from 1pm on Wednesday 17th of January 2024

 There is helpdesk support available at 1800-111135 or 1800-111136 between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday until Tuesday 02 February 2024. Outside of these hours you can email candidateportal@examinations.ie

Your sincerely

Grace Fitzgerald

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Athlone

• Camogie
• Congratulations to the senior camogie team who won the leinster final on Monday afternoon by a scoreline of 7-6 to 1-1 against Castle knock community college. The girls dominated the game throughout and deservedly ended the game winning by such a convincing margin. They will know move on to the All Ireland quarter finals. Well done girls and good luck for the next game!
• Hockey
• A quiet week this week due to the low temperatures. We will be back in action on Saturday morning with fixtures both home and away.
• A fixture of note next Thursday sees the Junior A side take on High School in the next round of the Junior Cup. After their shoot out win against Newpark in the last round, the girls are looking forward to the game. If you can, please come and support next Thursday at 4pm in OLS!
• Saturday Sports fixtures
• HOME at OLS
• Minor hockey 9am
• First year friendly 10am
• Senior 2 -v- Wesley 11am
• AWAY at St Andrews college
• First year league 11am