Scoil Mhuire Parents Association
Welcome to the Parents Association of Scoil Mhuire. All parents of girls in Scoil Mhuire are automatically members of the Parents Association (PA) and we also welcome all new parents to the school.
The PA Committee is made up of members from each year to represent the classes plus the Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer. Our role is to support the work of the school, fundraise and to provide a channel of communication between the parents, Principal and the Board of Management.
Reps are on the committee for a 2 year period and there are annual nominations made for new reps every year.
Committee meetings are usually held monthly on a Tuesday evening, from 7.30 – 8.30pm in the Staff Room of the school.
The election of our new committee will take place at our AGM (12th September) via a zoom call that all parents were invited to join. If you can't commit to being part of the PA Committee there are plenty of other ways to get involved, like helping out in the redesign of our website, classroom planning, suggestions for educational speakers, helping at one of our social events (hopefully), sponsoring our annual Christmas Calendar or donating a prize at our Garden Fete. No contribution is too small, many hands make light work and the school is central to our community.
Finally, we would like to thank all the parents who have generously donated their time, skills and funds to have made 2023/24 such a successful year, despite the challenging circumstances. It could not have been done without you!
PA email address: [email protected]
Annual PA Events and Activities
Calendar
Each year the Parents’ Association, along with the teachers and students, work together to produce the Scoil Mhuire Calendar. Donations from our sponsors and calendar sales have seen us raise over €10,500 for the 2023 calendar! A massive thank you to parents and their companies for their very generous support. Special thanks also to Grace Keely for her hard work putting it all together for us. The theme was “Sandymount, Our Village” and the winning entry was Ms Brett’s Junior Infants class who did a great picture of the playground over on Sean Moore Park.
Visit from Santa Friday
Many children were unable to go and meet Santa these past 2 years so Mr Cleary asked us to facilitate a visit from a very authentic Santa on the last Friday of term. We created a grotto in the Junior Infants Courtyard for him to sit, all the girls all had a chat with the big man and were given a small treat. It was a lovely morning of festivities.
Communion
Father John, Star of the Sea Church, the PA reps and helpers from the 1st Class help to make the communion a special day for the girls. From decorating the church to putting on a fabulous spread on afterwards in the school hall, the 1st PA Reps knocked it out the park for them. We hoped that it helped make the event memorable for the girls.
Chrome books, Ipads and microphones
The school has a good stock of Chrome books and Ipads but with the current COVID restrictions/cleaning requirements they were not servicing enough of the school during the week. The PA purchased a second set of Chrome books and more ipads so that even the largest class is able to work with one ipad each, as well as microphones to help the teachers better communicate with their classes.
Golf Classic
The Scoil Mhuire Golf Classic, which takes place in Elm Park, usually raises over €2,500. These funds have been used to help purchase a new set of chrome books and bolster our amount of ipads to 32 so that even in the largest class each child has one. Our thanks to Peter O'Leary and Hugh Keily for organising such a successful event.
6th Class Year Book and Hoodies and graduation
As a special treat for the 6th Class girls, the school organise and fund the purchase of branded Graduation hoodies. We also pay for the publication of the Year Book. 5th Class reps help organise the refreshments at the graduation, usually funded by the PA as well.
Library Books
The PA annually allocates funds to bolster books supply and management of the incredible library the girls have access to in the school.
Confirmation
The 6th Class girls mark their special ceremony with family and friends who came from all over Ireland and around the world, even from as far away as Australia. A big thank you to 5th Class Rep and 5th Class parents from Scoil Mhuire and Star of the Sea who provided refreshments after the church service.
Parents’ Talks
We organise a number of talks throughout the year to help parents and children, most recently we organised a course around internet safety where the girls had in class coaching and the parents had access to an webinar 2 evenings a week.
Welcome to the Parents Association of Scoil Mhuire. All parents of girls in Scoil Mhuire are automatically members of the Parents Association (PA) and we also welcome all new parents to the school.
The PA Committee is made up of members from each year to represent the classes plus the Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer. Our role is to support the work of the school, fundraise and to provide a channel of communication between the parents, Principal and the Board of Management.
Reps are on the committee for a 2 year period and there are annual nominations made for new reps every year.
Committee meetings are usually held monthly on a Tuesday evening, from 7.30 – 8.30pm in the Staff Room of the school.
The election of our new committee will take place at our AGM (12th September) via a zoom call that all parents were invited to join. If you can't commit to being part of the PA Committee there are plenty of other ways to get involved, like helping out in the redesign of our website, classroom planning, suggestions for educational speakers, helping at one of our social events (hopefully), sponsoring our annual Christmas Calendar or donating a prize at our Garden Fete. No contribution is too small, many hands make light work and the school is central to our community.
Finally, we would like to thank all the parents who have generously donated their time, skills and funds to have made 2023/24 such a successful year, despite the challenging circumstances. It could not have been done without you!
PA email address: [email protected]
Annual PA Events and Activities
Calendar
Each year the Parents’ Association, along with the teachers and students, work together to produce the Scoil Mhuire Calendar. Donations from our sponsors and calendar sales have seen us raise over €10,500 for the 2023 calendar! A massive thank you to parents and their companies for their very generous support. Special thanks also to Grace Keely for her hard work putting it all together for us. The theme was “Sandymount, Our Village” and the winning entry was Ms Brett’s Junior Infants class who did a great picture of the playground over on Sean Moore Park.
Visit from Santa Friday
Many children were unable to go and meet Santa these past 2 years so Mr Cleary asked us to facilitate a visit from a very authentic Santa on the last Friday of term. We created a grotto in the Junior Infants Courtyard for him to sit, all the girls all had a chat with the big man and were given a small treat. It was a lovely morning of festivities.
Communion
Father John, Star of the Sea Church, the PA reps and helpers from the 1st Class help to make the communion a special day for the girls. From decorating the church to putting on a fabulous spread on afterwards in the school hall, the 1st PA Reps knocked it out the park for them. We hoped that it helped make the event memorable for the girls.
Chrome books, Ipads and microphones
The school has a good stock of Chrome books and Ipads but with the current COVID restrictions/cleaning requirements they were not servicing enough of the school during the week. The PA purchased a second set of Chrome books and more ipads so that even the largest class is able to work with one ipad each, as well as microphones to help the teachers better communicate with their classes.
Golf Classic
The Scoil Mhuire Golf Classic, which takes place in Elm Park, usually raises over €2,500. These funds have been used to help purchase a new set of chrome books and bolster our amount of ipads to 32 so that even in the largest class each child has one. Our thanks to Peter O'Leary and Hugh Keily for organising such a successful event.
6th Class Year Book and Hoodies and graduation
As a special treat for the 6th Class girls, the school organise and fund the purchase of branded Graduation hoodies. We also pay for the publication of the Year Book. 5th Class reps help organise the refreshments at the graduation, usually funded by the PA as well.
Library Books
The PA annually allocates funds to bolster books supply and management of the incredible library the girls have access to in the school.
Confirmation
The 6th Class girls mark their special ceremony with family and friends who came from all over Ireland and around the world, even from as far away as Australia. A big thank you to 5th Class Rep and 5th Class parents from Scoil Mhuire and Star of the Sea who provided refreshments after the church service.
Parents’ Talks
We organise a number of talks throughout the year to help parents and children, most recently we organised a course around internet safety where the girls had in class coaching and the parents had access to an webinar 2 evenings a week.
