Please read the attached letter regarding this meeting which is on Thursday, October 19th. It contains important instructions for you to follow in order to book appointment slots with your daughter's teachers.

Many thanks.

Wear a Sports Jersey on Friday and donate. Please see the link below to donate.

https://jerseyday.raisely.com/our-ladys

Thank you to the Amber Flag committee for getting our much loved Friday Feeling sessions up and running last week - a great, active way to start the day on a positive note @Pietahouse @MentalHelthIrl @ActiveFlag

Another busy week at OLS! 

On Wednesday Miraj Ranpura from the Amazon Web Services Dublin office came to give a presentation to the 1st year students about the Amazon Get IT programme and competition. AWS GetIT is a fully-funded education program and competition that works with students in schools—across 13 countries and 14 languages in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Australia—to inspire the next generation, especially girls, to consider a future in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The programme helps schools bring tech role models to their classrooms and gives them a curriculum designed to help students build foundational skills, learn about cloud technology, and design app ideas to solve problems in their communities. The students gave Miraj a great welcome to OLS. They enjoyed hearing about working in the world of technology and about the AWS Get IT programme. Thanks to Miraj for visiting and sharing his expertise with the students. Any first year students who are interested in joining the programme which runs on Thursdays from 3.30pm to 4.15pm in room 32 should complete the form shared with them in their first year google classroom. This extracurricular activity will start on Thursday 11 January.

TY’s have had an action packed few days in Carlingford. They immersed themselves wholeheartedly into the various activities available to them. As soon as we landed a group of students headed to the harbour to build their very own life raft, they didn’t quite make it to Co. Down before capsizing, however they embraced the challenge and enjoyed the splash around. An amazing start to the trip.

Over the course of the few days student’s completed high intensity laser combat in the forest, perfecting the Bear Grylls survivor skills, they spent time wall climbing, axe throwing, and a trip to the Skypark where they channelled their inner spiderwoman Ziplining and climbing up the high ropes! 

In the evenings they enjoyed the Carlingford challenge and an evening campfire. They toasted their s’mores and had a sing song all together. The outdoors proved tiring and all have slept well! Students will make the most of the last day and will bid farewell to Carlingford at approx 5pm. We should arrive back to OLS at 6:30/7pm approximately. 

We would kindly ask that you park in the staff car park beside reception. Alternatively you can park near the Le Chéile Trust building. Please avoid parking just inside the gate outside St. Joseph’s Hall as this is where the three buses will pull in and allow students disembark safely. 

It was a very successful Study Skills Week! Students recapped what they had learned in their Study Skills seminars in September. All students received their study planners to help them get organised for their November exams.

Congratulations to L3 for running a fantastic bake sale for focus Ireland, they raised €500!!

Our TY students have been enjoying a fun bonding experience in Carlingford this week. 

Please see attached two fliers from ISPCC regarding their upcoming free webinar series 'With great power comes great responsibility’. These webinars aim to tackle one overall arching skill that will help parents/carers and their young person to be safe online. This two-part series will focus on online safety and critical thinking. 

Congratulations to our senior camogie team who won their opening game of the season against St Wolstans. Well done to all involved!

Our U19 basketball side continued their good start to the season on Tuesday with a win over St Colmcilles. Well done girls!

A busy week for our hockey teams with the Senior 1 side opening their league campaign against Skerries Community College on Monday. The girls fought hard and came away with a point. Our Minor 3 team had back to back games on Tuesday and Wednesday. They lost narrowly to Templecarrig on Tuesday in Our Lady's and then drew with Newbridge College on Wednesday. Well done girls, keep training hard!

This weekend's sporting fixtures are as follows:

AWAY AT NEWPARK COMPREHENSIVE

Junior 1 -v- Newpark at 10am

HOME AT OUR LADY'S SCHOOL

Junior 2 -v- Muckross Park at 9am

Junior 3 -v Muckross Park at 10am

Minor 4 -v- Loreto Foxrock at 11am

Have a great sporting weekend!

Please see the attached note from the Dept. of Education. The purpose of this note is to provide parents with some useful information regarding the changes made to the Junior Cycle Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting since the implementation of the Framework for Junior Cycle.

Many thanks.

The next OLS Parents Book club will meet on Monday 23rd October at 7.30  pm in the Two Sisters pub in Terenure, the book is The Glorious Guinness Girls, by Emily Hourican.