INTO Handwriting Competition ( April 2002)
Mental Health Quiz ( Nov 2001)
Competition Winner ( Nov. 2001)
Irish Independant Regional Winners ( Oct 2001)
Environmental school's Project
Latest News
( June 2002)
Thank you to everyone who helped us to reach our target in the Irish Independant
token collection. We received great help from a lot of people many of whom
did not have children in the school. A big Thank You to everyone.
We held our end of school mass on Thursday June 20th. This was a very
special mass as we remembered Sr. Philomena who died recently in Tralee.
Sr. Philomena taught in the convent school for many years and after her
retirement she taught tin whistle to the pupils of Portlaw N.S.
Well done to the under-11 club hurlers who won the city league final when they
defeated the favourites Tramore in an exciting final. All the team are
pupils in the school.
World cup fever hit the school when Ireland played Germany and Saudi
Arabia. Televisions appeared in classrooms and the pupils wore their
green.
INTO
Handwriting Competition ( April 2002)
Congratulations to four of our pupils who were prize winners in the INTO
handwriting competition. The standard in the school was very high and our
entries went on to the Waterford area. The following are the prize winners
Category 1: 3rd place Shannen Cullinane ( Senior Infants )
Category 2: 1st place Lauren Scanlon ( Second
Class )
Category 4: 1st place Ruth Kelleher ( Fifth Class )
2nd place Dervla Walsh ( Sixth Class )
Presentations were held in the Tower Hotel, Waterford.
Thanks to Miss McCarthy who organised the school handwriting competition.
School Newsletter
Well done to the pupils of sixth class who produced the school newsletter.
Catch up on all the news by clicking on the link Newsletter
Book
Fair ( Feb. 2002)
We held our annual Book Fair from February 1-8th. Once again it proved
very successful. This year €1152.25 worth of books were added to the
class libraries. Thanks to
Sinéad Fitzgerald who deputised for Martina for this years Book fair
Credit Union
Quiz ( Jan 2002)
We held the annual Credit Union quiz on Friday January 22nd. After some
very difficult questions we had U-11 winners and U-13 winners who will
represent Portlaw Credit Union in the regional final in Clonmel.
Mental
Health Quiz ( Nov 2001)
Congratulations to Patrick Kearns, Ruth Howley, Dervla Walsh and Dean Galvin who
finished second in the Mental health quiz. They were defeated in a tie
breaker but received a lovely cup. Well done to their teacher Miss Cotter.
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Congratulations to Miss Cotter who
recently made her stage debut as a member of Fr. O'Byrne's "Dawn
Players" in the production of "Shorten Curlies". She played
the part of an apprentice hair stylist.
The players participated in the Kilmockbridge drama Festival and despite stiff
opposition from as far afield as Cork and Dublin, the adjudicator Biddy White
Lennon awarded Bríd the Festival's best Actress award. Well done Bríd.
The following week the group participated in the Ferns festival and Bríd once
again won the Best Actress award to complete a memorable double.
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Competition Winner ( Nov. 2001)
Well done to Freya Little, second class who was a winner in the recent Waterford chamber of Commerce colouring competition. This competition was associated with the arrival of the hot air balloons to Waterford. Freya will receive her prize and one of the balloon teams came to the school to show the children their balloon.
Freya being lifted into the basket
Irish Independant Regional Winners ( Oct 2001)
The Irish Independant has notified the school that our project was the Waterford
Regional winner in this
national competition. We will receive a cheque for £2000 and our project
returned to be kept in the school on Monday October 1st. Congratulations to all involved,
especially to Mrs. Hally.
We will also receive a camcorder from the Independant which will be very useful
to record special events in the school.
A big Thank You to everyone who
helped us reach our target by collecting tokens for us.
Congratulations to the following
prize winners in the Sherkin Island Environmental competition. The
children submitted some really lovely and informative work to the competition.
Fishing rod: Walter Murphy
Camera: Ruth Howley
| Ireland's Marine Life (Book) | ||
| Nadine Cullen | Leanne Cullinane | Aaron Duggan |
| Kerrie Fitzek | Patrick Kearns | Thomas King |
| Craig Lennon | Emmet Long | Laura Morrissey |
| Julie O'Hara | Dervla Walsh | |
| Ireland's Birdlife (Book) | ||
| Stephanie Cowman | Denise Cuddihy | Eoin Fitzgerald |
| William Kelly | Aimee Nolan | |
| Seashore Guide (Book) | Dean Galvin |
New Appointments ( July 2001)
Congratulations to Mrs. Maureen Hally who
been appointed deputy principal of Portlaw N.S, following the retirement of Mrs.
Galvin. We wish Mrs. Hally every success in her new position in the school.
Welcome to Ms. Bríd
Cotter who has been appointed as a permanent assistant teacher. Bríd is a
native of West Cork and has completed her studies at Mary Immaculate College in
Limerick. Ms. Cotter will teach sixth class
Mrs. Siobhán Boylan has also been appointed to the staff this Summer. She
replaces Mr. Cashin who has joined the staff of Butlerstown N.S.. Siobhán
is a native of Portlaw and has been teaching in Curraghbaha N.S.. Mrs.
Boylan will teach first class.
A very warm welcome to both new teachers and I'm certain they will be excellent
additions to the staff.
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A special thanks to all the people who contributed to our token appeal. We reached our target for Irish Independent tokens so we will have a camcorder in the school next year.
We had enough Tesco tokens to get another PC this year and we have now received possession of our new PC. The new PC is now in Miss McCarthy's classroom.
Extra library books were got from the Walker Crisps
promotion. the books arrived in September and were distributed to the
classes.
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A very special word of thanks to Ms. Sinéad Fitzgerald
and Mrs. Orin Little for all their work in the school yard. Helped by the sixth
class pupils the ladies painted beautiful games in the yard. Hopscotch, snakes
and ladders, and basketball markings have been added for the benefit of the
pupils. Be warned footprints have appeared in strange places in the school.
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On the 14th of October 2001 our Green School Committee had the honour
of winning the Tidy Schools competition which was
organised by Waterford County Council. We also got a cash prize and a
plaque. We went to receive the prize in the Park Hotel Dungarvan. Special
mention to Mr. John Murphy for all the work he put into our school grounds.
This plaque is now proudly on display in the school underneath our Tidiest
School award which we won in 1999 and our Environmental project award from last
year
Green School News ( Jan 2000)
We applied for the Green Flag. Inspectors came and inspected the school to
see if the school should win the Green Flag. Soon after they came we got a
letter to say that we won the Green Flag. We did many things to achieve this
award such as: improving the appearance of the school gardens, we also did many
recycling projects such as: paper pressing, cans, hi-cone rings and compost
heap. We wrote to the Credit Union to ask for sponsorship for the flag poles and
they are going to sponsor us. We are also going to get a bird-table sponsored
for the school garden. We have started a new recycling project with Boots
Chemist collecting old Christmas cards and Boots Chemist recycle them. We are
going to plant more bedding-plants in the gardens.
(Dec.1999)
Tidy Schools Award (Oct. '99)
On the 14th of October 1999 our first Green School Committee got the honour
of winning the tidiest School in East Waterford. We also got a cash prize and a
plaque. We went to receive the prize in the Park Hotel Dungarvan. We also have a
girl from Sixth class who has recently come to our school and is now a new
member of the new Green School Committee. Our plaque is now hung in the school
for viewing. We are proud of our school and we hope to keep the school tidy for
years to come.
(Oct. '99)
Aiste Gaeilge (May 2000)
Congratulations to Jenny Larkin, fifth class who was a winner in the Cúpla
focail essay competition
(May 2000)
Iverk Show (Sept. '2000)
Well done to the following pupils who won
prizes in the Poetry section of the Iverk show
Jenny Larkin...........Sounds
Darren Loftus.........The Man from Leeds
Leanne Fogarty.........Mr Tom Narrow
Gary Riordan.........Sense of Sounds
(Sept. '2000)
Retirement of Mrs. Galvin (Oct. 2000)
Mrs. Esther Galvin our Deputy Principal retired from
teaching on October 6th 2000 after 29 years teaching in Portlaw. She previously taught in Clonea N.S. and came to Portlaw
Convent school in 1971. Mrs. Galvin was vice-principal in the girls school
when the boys and girls schools amalgamated in 1991, and she became
vice-principal in the new school.
Mrs. Galvin was a very
dedicated teacher and was very involved in all aspects of school life.
She was responsible for the girls football and camogie teams and spent many
lunchtimes and evenings with her teams. Mrs. Galvin was a member of the
Green school committee and oversaw the implementation of the green school
project.
To mark her retirement a special mass was concelebrated in the Premier hall
following which presentations were made to Mrs. Galvin by the staff, Board of
management, Parents council, Parish council and camogie club.
We wish Mrs. Galvin every
happiness in her retirement and thank her for her contribution to the education
of the children of Portlaw. She will be greatly missed in the
school.
(Oct. 2000)
Sherkin Island ( Nov. 2001)
The following pupils were prize winners in the Sherkin Island Local
Environmental Awareness Project.
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Ciara Curran........Air |
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Emma Larkin..........The Robin |
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Lesley-Ann Power..........Sea Life |
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Ailish Dunphy........Recycling |
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Donna O' Neill........ The Cuckoo |
Environmental school's Project
On the 4th of October
2000 our Green School Committee had the honour
of winning the Environmental school Project in County Waterford which was
organised by Waterford County Council. We also got a cash prize and a
plaque. We went to receive the prize in the Park Hotel Dungarvan.
This plaque is now proudly on display in the school underneath our Tidiest
School award which we won last year.
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