Sixth Class made their Confirmation on 2nd of March 2014 in Kilmessan Church, along with their neighbours and friends from sixth class in Kilmessan N.S. The ceremony celebrated by the Bishop of Meath, Bishop Michael Smith was concelebrated by our PP Fr Toner.The choir comprised 3rd-5th classes from both schools. It was a lovely ceremony in which the pupils partook ably and reverently.
Congratulations to all our sixth class pupils.
Sixth Class girls present a cheque for €795 to Peg, Maurice & Rosemary Lynch, Dunsany for the Louth/Meath Branch of the Spina Bifida Association. Rosemary is a past pupil of the school. The money was raised through carol singing by the senior pupils in Navan Shopping Centre @ Christmas and by all the pupils themselves through their Bob-a-Week held in December. Many thanks to all who contributed to this worthy cause. Also pictured is parish priest Fr. T. Toner.
Open Night Dunsany N.S.
Wednesday 12 March 2014
from 7pm
Please join the pupils and staff to celebrate the work of the children in the school.
This will be an opportunity for parents, family and friends to see the children at work in their school environment.
This evening is open to all ~ including prospective parents & members of the general community.
Fáilte romhaibh go léir!
All welcome!
Morgan Byrne (6th class) was chosen to represent our school at the National Football League Exhibition Match between Meath & Galway on 2 February 2014. Congratulations Morgan on this great opportunity. We hope you really enjoyed this experience amongst the ‘chosen few’ from Meath.
Christmas Arrangements @ Dunsany N.S.
We will mark Christmas this year by taking each class on a Christmas theatre outing. We will also hold our annual charity fundraiser which will incorporate carol-singing in Shopping Centre and our Bob-a-Job Week, hold our Christmas Concert and our end-of-term Carol Service.
Our Christmas Concert:Wednesday 18 December @ 7.00pm @ the school.
All performances will be held in the Junior Room. All pupils to be present by 6.30pm please. Parents are asked to enter by side gate and to use back door entrance to Junior Room. Parents are very welcome to attend for an individual class performance or to attend for all three. Refreshments afterwards in GP Room. The PA will hold their annual bumper hamper raffle on the night – all proceeds directly to the school.
Our grateful thanks to our Parents’ Association who have subsidised the cost of our Christmas outings and to you all for supporting the work of the PA throughout the year which makes this sponsorship possible.
Christmas Choir 2013
It has been tradition that the children of Dunsany NS provide the choir at the vigil Mass on Christmas Eve. We are aware that a small number of children will be away for Christmas, but we appeal to all those ‘home’ for Christmas to please encourage their children to attend the choir on this night and to take them along so as they can take part. Above any year, there is great interest in the choir this year and we hope to have a choir one Saturday in the month from January onwards. We will be asking the pupils to give us an idea of numbers for Christmas Eve over the coming days. The arrangements are as follows…
Here’s one of my favourite poems from memory–received from a doctor in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda–author unknown–which I enjoy reciting
Love of Mankind
Love of humanity is not enough
Are you prepared to love the living stuff
In man or woman that you meet
In shops or houses, cafe’s and the street
Are you prepared to put warm intimacy
into chance contacts between you and me
Are you prepared to love the noble and base
The raging snarl and smile transfigured face
Ugly and beautiful, old and young
The tender phrase and adder-darting tongue
Can you say truthfully that you’d be kind
To the perverse and diseased in mind
The sick in body wrecked by poverty
and doomed by struggles never to be free
Will you join a new crusade and
dare the soul destroying dragon of despair
Will you defend the cause of sweet delight
Against the dark battalions of the night
Will you give homage to each unique mind
Foolish or wise
Then go and love mankind
The Big Match screening took place Friday 22 November @ 1.30pm. Parents were invited to come along and watch the dvd of our recent Cumann na mBunscol win. Mr Donnelly organised a little celebration for all present. The afternoon will ended with the presentation of the medals to the team members. ‘Betty’ attend the screening. [Betty is the nickname the boys have given the perpetual cup they won. Mrs Bockett reckons that if they fondle and rub it any more, they’ll wear off the names of all the previous winners!!]
