Parents' Association

Amy Graham, past pupil of Hollypark since last June and sister of Lauren in third class is representing her new school Holychild Killiney in the final of a Doodle for
Google art competition. Although the overall winner is chosen by Google, the
category winners can only win their grouping through public votes. This is where Amy needs your help! To vote now, just click this link and cast your vote:

http://bit.ly/voteamygraham

Nestle are doing a voucher exchange for books -  a box or bag will be made available to collect the vouchers in the school foyer starting on Monday January 30th. The last date for collection is March  31st. Even if we collect 100 tokens we will still be able to get some  books.  Please refer to the following website

http://www.boxtops4education.co.uk

The girls are loving sampling lots of different fruits and veg with the Food Dudes campaign which commenced on Monday 16 January, supported by Bord Bía, each child will be encouraged to experience different fruits and vegetables in class over the next 16 days.  If your child is allergic to a certain type of fruit or vegetable, be sure to make the teacher aware.

Be sure to say farewell to Hazel, the school secretary is retiring on February 10th. . Hazels replacement, Susan O’Toole started on the 16th January and will work alongside Hazel until February 10th.  We welcome Susan to the school and wish Hazel all the very best!

The school has asked for our help in relation to donating children’s costumes that can be used for school plays. If you have any children’s costumes at home that you no longer need, can you please bring them into your daughter’s class teacher. We are particularly looking for costumes suited to role play (doctors, nurses, teachers etc) as well as the usual nativity and animal costumes.

This scheme will end on Friday 27 January, please be sure to bring any old phones  into the boxes which are now provided in your daugthers class!  Not only will you be reducing carbon waste but also helping to raise some funds for your school!

Please note, you MUST pre-register for these talks - Simply call Robert on 086 7709134

Below please find some information regarding some upcoming talks that you may find beneficial and they are all free! taking place in Scoil Columbanus, Loughlinstown Drive, Loughlinstown at 7.30pm til 9pm.

Homework and Organisation Skills – When Wednesday 18th January 2012 – Facilitators Dr. Louise Kinsella, Clinical Psychologist/ Niamh Garavin & Sara Governey, Occupational Therapists

Dealing with Worries and Fears – When Wednesday 22nd February 2012 – Facilitators Dr. Louise Kinsella, Clinical Psychologist

Good Behaviour – When Wednesday 21 March 2012 – Facilitators Dr. Louise Kinsella, Clinical Psychologist and Aisling White, Principal Clinical Psychologist

The school are always trying to think of new ways of raising funds for our school, some fundraising events that will be held this year include the following; 

‘Mobile Phone Recycling’ – no idea what to do with your old mobile phones lying around the house?  Or you may have just got a new one for Christmas… We do… look out for details regarding this scheme where we will be asking the girls to bring old mobile phones into the school, where we can then sell them on for much needed school funds!

 ‘Scrap Saturday’ – yes that’s right, we want your scrap!  Broken tools, wheel barrows, bikes, prams, trampolines, gas heaters, bbqs, washing machines… if it’s metal we want it!  Date and details of this event to be confirmed.

 ‘Clothes Recycling’ Staying with the recycling theme, we will be asking you to declutter your home of old clothes, shoes etc and bring them to school, similar to the boys school scheme at the moment.

Any other ideas are always welcome!  Please discuss with your class rep.

The Hollypark Parents Association have adopted a new format with a view to keeping all parents informed and actively involved in the work of the Association. Each class in the school is represented on the committee by a class rep  who will keep you in touch with the Association and facilitate communication among the parents in the class.

Below please find a list of each individual Class Rep (please consult your class contact list for contact details), who will be;

• Attending Association committee meetings on your behalf and feeding back on issues of interest to you
• Coordinating help from the class parents for different events
• Organising nights out for the class parents
• Organising a class communications list
• Liaising between the committee and our class