Congratulations to our fifteen UCD Entrance Scholars who were recognised at an award ceremony in UCD this week. The students from the LC Class of 2022 are: 

Emily Aasen, Aisling Cahill, Laura Dunne, Catherine Galvin,

Sarah Howard, Roisin McDaid, Aoife McCarthy, Niamh Murray,

Roisin O’Neill, Aislinn O’Shea, Orla O’Toole,

Lorna Sheehan, Julie Vaughan, Ellen Ward, June Polgolla 

The 6th Year Mock Examination reports are now available on VSware. 

Please read the attached letter regarding an upcoming 1st Year trip.

Parents and students attending the musical over the coming evenings are reminded that, due to construction, parking will be limited. Where possible, please walk or take public transport to school or, alternatively, park nearby rather than on-site.

Many thanks.

The Annette Halpin Award is for young musicians, composers, singers, producers living in South Dublin County Council’s Administrative Area.

The award is funded by South Dublin County Council and the Halpin Family. It was established to celebrate the legacy of Annette Halpin, a singer / songwriter from Tallaght widely known for her role in community activism and community development who passed away in 2009.

Brief Criteria

• You must be between 12 and 25 years of age to apply.
• You can apply for a maximum of €1000.
• You must be living in South Dublin County Council’s Administrative area

You can apply for this award to cover the costs of the following (you may apply to cover more than one of these):

-       Music lessons

-       Instruments

-       Masterclasses

-       Music equipment

-       Rehearsal costs

-       Recording costs

Applications are made via the link below:

https://submit.link/1E2

Closing date is Friday 14th of April

The award is administered by the Arts Office, South Dublin County Council.

Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),

As part of our guidance programme for Transition and 5th Year students, the Guidance Department and the Parents’ Council are planning on holding a Careers Expo on Wednesday 26th April 2023 from 6.30-9pm. 

The purpose of this event is to allow our students the opportunity to meet and talk to people from a number of different professions in order to assist them with their career research. We are asking for the assistance of parents to help facilitate this event. Participation in this event would involve discussing your career with a number of individual students during the evening. Further details will be provided to parents who volunteer to take part.

In particular we are seeking parents who work in the following careers areas to take part in the event; Business/Marketing/Human Resource Management/Accounting, Engineering, Computing & Technology, Social Work, Food Science/Nutrition/Dietetics, Health Sciences(Pharmacy, Speech & Language Therapy, Dentist etc), Hair & Beauty. Early Childhood Care & Education, Secondary School Teaching.       

If you are interested in being involved in our careers evening on 26th April 2023  or in being included in a database for possible future career events in Our Lady’s School, please reply, by email, to <28>parentscouncil@olschool.ie providing your name, telephone number, email address and career area.

Many thanks for your support and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.

Fionnuala Bannan & Lesley Porter(OLS Guidance Department)Claire Byrne (OLS Parents Council)

Congratulations to the OLS Swimming team who won gold medals in both the freestyle and medley relays at Irish Schools Swimming Gala at the weekend. They swam 2 fantastic races to fight off stiff competition from all 4 provinces. The team was made up of Laura Potts P2, Ruby Marley B3, Eva Walshe TY2 and Zoe Browne TY4. Laura also had success in the individual events, winning silver in both the 100m and 400m freestyle events.

Best of luck to Ruby Marley, Zoe Browne, Eva Walshe and Laura Potts who are swimming for OLS, representing Leinster in the Medley and Freestyle relays, in the Irish Schools' Gala tomorrow.