SCHOOL CLOSURE
Please note that we are closed on Monday 29th September next.
JACKPOT WINNER
A huge congratulations to Karl Websdale, winner of the €2000 Jackpot last week in our school Lottery fundraiser! Thanks Karl for supporting us, enjoy every cent! 
Also, thank you to Melanie Uhlig & Annemarie Farrington, winners of the Spot Prize in the last couple of weeks!
We are so grateful to everyone in the community who buys a ticket to help us raise funds for school, and if you haven’t had the chance to do so yet, you can get all the information and sign up here: Kildare Town ETNS – Home – Our Fundraiser
OUR NEW WEBSITE
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our new-look school website: www.ktet.ie, thanks to Brian at Eclipse, we hope everyone finds it clear & informative, and gives a flavour of what we’re all about.
CURRICULUM MEETINGS
We will hold all our class curriculum meetings next week, at 8:30 am each morning. These are short meetings for parents & guardians, and will take place in the classroom. Please come to the front door at 8:30 and we’ll direct you to the room:
Monday: Junior and Senior Infants
Tuesday: 1st & 2nd classes
Wednesday: 3rd & 4th classes
Thursday: 5th & 6th classes
JUNIOR INFANT PARENT COFFEE MORNING
All our new Junior Infant parents are invited in on Monday morning to have tea & coffee & get together after the curriculum meeting – we’re looking forward to seeing you after you’ve dropped the children in.
AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES
This term’s afterschool activities for children from 1st – 6th class will begin the week of 29th September, and finish on Friday 12th December. They will cost €50 for ten weeks.
There are no afterschool activities for Junior & Senior Infants. We will send you the menu of activities in the next couple of days, and booking links will follow later in the week.
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Aideen & Ross want to thank all members of the school community for their invaluable support during last week’s Strike action, it made a difficult situation much easier. Talks are in progress at the Workplace Relations Commission, and we hope they will end soon, and favourably.
GREEN SCHOOL
We are very proud to call ourselves a green school, and have earned a Green Flag for three themes so far – Recycling & Waste, Energy, and Water. Each flag takes two years to earn and is a whole school initiative. It involves students on a committee making an action plan, and encouraging their peers and the school community to participate.
The students have meetings, present information to the school at school assemblies, and maintain awareness within the school of our three themes. We try to link the themes with our school curriculum as much as possible, and update our green schools display board with information and ideas for students and teachers. Classrooms have waste and recycling bins and students take responsibility for being energy and water monitors.
We would not have achieved these flags without the support of the whole school community, school, staff and parents – Thank you!
CHOIR
St. Brigid’s Community Choir is going from strength to strength, and new members are welcome – it’s a great way to meet more people in the area and have some fun. Rehearsals take place in St. Brigid’s Primary School – R51 XY30 at 8pm on Tuesday evenings.