Author: Lucan East ET

Soccer Stars! We start this week with the wonderful news of our senior soccer teams. On Wednesday the girls team progressed to the next round of their FAI tournament with a great win in Ballyowen. The girls have a great team ethic and are very supportive of everyone on the panel. On Thursday morning the…

Welcome Back It was great to see all of the children back in school this week after the 2-week break. Thankfully, the weather is improving and the children are getting out more for yard time and physical education lessons. The brighter weather affords us a lot more opportunities for fun and engaging activities over the…

Seachtain na Gaeilge Last week we celebrated Irish Week (Seachtain na Gaeilge) throughout the school. We had a wonderful array of activities throughout the week and the children really enjoyed the week. Monday kicked off with Céilí dancing in the hall for most of the day. Many of the classes got to experience Irish dances…

Cycling Cycling is continuing with our two fifth classes at the moment. The course starts with theory in the classroom followed by the practical lessons in the yard. These are really engaging lessons for the children and the instructors use simulated road experiences in the yard to teach all of the children about the importance…

Health and Wellbeing Week What a week it has been in Lucan East ETNS with the arrival of Health and Wellbeing week on Monday. We had lots of nice activities, which the children and staff thoroughly enjoyed. Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd classes enjoyed yoga sessions in the hall on Monday.  On Tuesday,…

School Library The school library is back open for business and it is proving to be very popular with some of its visitors. Many students helped with sorting and labelling the books. We have enlisted the help of our parent body to assist with some of the librarian duties. Some of the children who have…

Assembly In the last week we had junior and senior assembly in the hall. We spoke about the new year and how different people and cultures celebrate the beginning of the new year. We talked about what families like to do around new year and shared some of our hopes and plans for the year…

Welcome Back It was great to welcome everyone back last Thursday and Friday and we have enjoyed our first full week back. We hope that all of our families enjoyed the break and got to spend time with family and friends. I would like to thank all of the members of our school community who…

I would like to start this week by thanking everyone for their cooperation each morning and afternoon as we completed the essential maintenance on the fencing in the basketball courts. Winter Concerts Rehearsals are in full swing for the winter concerts, which are on next Monday and Tuesday. The children and their teachers and SNAs…

Science Competition Following on from the success of Science Week, the school’s STEM committee organised a fun Science competition. Some children have been working on their projects at home and are using paper, card and slides presentations to put them together. Just a reminder that we are encouraging the children to do it under the…