Planning is underway for pre-season hockey to commence in August. All hockey players (including anyone who wishes to start playing next year) are asked to fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Gf7enC28tQctD6jU8

The State Exams Commission has released a short video containing key messages for candidates including:

• how they should provide key information on the front cover of their answer books that is essential to ensure their scripts are processed accurately and effectively;
• and the correct writing instruments that they should use in the examinations to ensure examiners can read their complete scripts. 

This video can be found under the heading “Information for Candidates” at https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=ex&sc=e23

Please also note that the SEC today announced that Leaving Certificate results will be issued on Friday 25th August.

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We have been experimenting with a student and staff school instagram page this year, which is proving very successful! Teacher moderated, it is a platform to share student voice, achievements, school events, etc. If any student has requested access but has not yet been admitted, please let Ms Beamish know your name & handle. We are proceeding slowly with this experiment and therefore keeping our community closed for the moment to those in school each day! We’ll update you further if and when we open up to parents and the broader community! Parents are very welcome to have a look at the page through their daughter’s account!

Best of luck to students starting examinations this week. A reminder to parents that optional supervised study is available to all students until 3:28pm every day in St Joseph's Hall. 1st and 2nd Year students who do not have an afternoon examination may leave school at 12pm on examination days. 

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Please see attached for reference.

Please see attached for reference.

Congratulations to our 6th Years who graduated on Thursday! They began their day with a guard of honour (the entire student body mobilised by the 5th Years - well done!!) and a graduation breakfast prepared by the 6th Year team. It was a wonderful day of both reminiscence and looking ahead to the bright future. We welcomed the 6th Years, their parents, the Sisters, Le Chéile, the Parents' Council and the Board of Management to the Graduation Mass with Fr Éanna last evening which was followed by a decadent reception hosted by the Parents' Council - thank you! The OLS community is proud to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements to date of our superb group of 6th Years and to wish them the very best as they prepare for their exams over the coming weeks.

Good luck to our first group of Leaving Cert Physical Education students as they prepare to sit their exam in this new Leaving Certificate subject in June!

Congratulations to our 1st Year students Aoibhe Tunney, Iman Niazi and Jamilla Saidi who were selected to attend the national finalists of the AWS Get IT  app design competition. They traveled to the AWS Dublin office today and pitched their app idea 'Plant IT' to a group of 100 Amazon staff and invited guests. The team did an excellent job presenting their app and were awarded the runners up prize. Well done to them.

A huge well done and thank you to the Camogie players for their fantastic bake sale on Friday. The girls are raising money to buy a new set of jerseys for next season. Between baking, organising, selling and cleaning up, the girls did a fantastic job. They managed to raise a massive €750 which brings them that bit closer to their target. 

Congratulations to the After-school Drama class who excelled in their Grade 3 Acting exams from the Royal Irish Academy.

A big congraulations to Caoimhe Mooney who secured one of 15 places for the Edna O'Brien Young Writer's Bursary. The Bursary is a week long intensive programme for talented young writers and Caoimhe will be mentored by acclaimed writer Jessica Traynor.

Today we welcomed parents of our incoming Head Girl (Ella McCabe), Deputy Head Girl (Megan Clancy), Sports Captain (Jenny Power) and House Captains - B (Ali Dougan), C (Katelyn Hallows), L (Rachel Vaughan), M (Iris Muldoon) and P (Rachel Byrne). We wish the girls the very best in their leadership journeys!

Finally, the 6th Years surprised the staff today with rapturous applause at breaktime and the presentation of a much appreciated Nespresso coffee machine for the staffroom! So thoughtful! Thank you, 6th Years, and we are all looking forward to celebrating Graduation with you tomorrow!

Please see the attached letter from the Principal.

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