Huge congratulations to Elaine Zhang in 3rd year who represented our school during the weekend in the Leinster Senior School Swimming Gala and received a silver medal in the 100fly.

Dear Parents / Guardians,

Tuesday 6th February marks this year’s Safer Internet Day 2024. The impact of the rapidly changing landscape of the digital world on the lives of young is a real cause for concern. The theme for our school’s SID 2024 is Every Day should be a Safer Internet Day. The Anti-Bullying Ambassador led SID focus in our school this year is on practical steps for protecting online safety and on taking personal responsibility for our online presence and behaviour.

Two of our 5th year student ABAs, Ciara Redden and Dharini Rajkumar, were selected to train as SID Ambassadors with Webwise* as part of the Webwise National Programme. 4th year student ABA, Alannah McCarthy and 3rd Year student ABAs, Eve Byrne, Laura O’Connell and Aryana Kearns were also chosen to form a SID Support Group and participated in Webwise training in leading an online safety campaign. The Anti-Bullying Ambassadors are delighted to launch our online safety and responsibility campaign on Safer Internet Day 2024.

While our students will continue to address a broad spectrum of cyber safety issues in school, parents and guardians also face the challenge of helping our young people to manage their social media safety, privacy and behaviour. The national SID 2024** theme Tech in our World acknowledges how overwhelming it can be to keep up with new digital challenges such as AI, deepfake news, privacy issues etc.

The webwise.ie website offers loads of current information / video clips etc.to help parents / guardians support their child in this ever-changing online world, including suggestions on how to communicate with teenagers on different aspects of social media that you may feel are a specific concern.

Please find here a direct link to the parents and guardians’ section which you may find helpful. www.webwise.ie/parents/

Happy Safer Internet Day 2024.

Edel Browne

*Webwise is the Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre which is co-funded by the Department of Education and Skills and is co-financed by the European Union’s Digital Europe programme

**SID 24 is promoted in Ireland by Oide Technology in Education and Webwise.

Last Thursday 25th January, all our Senior Cycle students attended a College Fair in the Concert Hall. Students were able to visit, engage and ask questions with lectuters from 15 institutions. Many thanks for Ms O'Malley for organising the event which was of great benefit to all our students as they navigate through their options for possible career opportunities. 

Dear parents/ guardians, 

We are 3 Babthorpe and as part of our CSPE action project, we wish to raise awareness and funding for the Irish charity called ALONE. This charity supports vulnerable and elderly people in our society with their services.  

We have organised a Movie night open to all 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students for this coming Monday 11th March. It will take place in the Concert Hall from 4.15pm-approx 6pm. Tickets are €4 and this includes a goodie bag of treats you can enjoy.The link to pay for your ticket or make a donation is in the shop section of the school app. 

We will be showing a surprise movie. All money raised from this event will go directly to the charity ALONE. We would also like to mention that "donations are appreciated". Looking forward to seeing many of you on Monday. 

Thank you so much for your time.

Sincerely,

3 Babthorpe.

Please find attached the Save the Date for our Fundraising Ladies' Lunch