On June 6th, Elizabeth Kavanagh and two colleagues came to Talbot SNS to talk to some classes about being bucket fillers, emotional regulation AND…. to
present Talbot SNS with our Certificate for achieving Shield Status.
What does this mean? This is recognition for all the hard work boys and girls do in our school around Anti-Bullying.
Well done to everyone involved!
On the 23rd May Talbot SNS were delighted to invite the Grandparents of our children in for a breakfast morning.
Every year we say thank you to our Grandparents for all the amazing things they do in the lives of their grandkids and our pupils!
We had some teas, coffee, pastries and some light entertainment provided by our choir and extremely talented pupils!
Thank you to everyone for making it such a special day!
In April, Ms McEvoy’s class and some other lucky 6th class pupils visited Belgard Fire Station.
They saw a demonstration of extracting an injured party from a crashed car, the children all used water hoses and they inspected the fire engines.
Thanks to Ger in Belgard and Alan from Dublin Bus for organizing the trip!
Please see some photos of our recent monthly Pupil of the Month and Gaelgóir na Míosa award winners. Congratulations to all!
The Board of Management wishes to inform you of the annual review of the Child Safeguarding Statement:
Click here: Notification of Review
Well done to our school choir who took part in this years Córfhéile na Scoileanna, Áth Cliath in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght on Wednesday 6th March! They received some excellent feedback on their 3 songs, Unwritten, Nothing Compares to You and Zombie (as Gaeilge). A special thanks to Ms McEvoy and Mr O’Donnell for all their work they have done with our choir, they sound amazing!
Talbot SNS entered two teams into a recent table quiz competition in North Clondalkin Library. They were picked from internal quizzes that Mr Gordon and Mr Byrne organised. We would like to congratulate our Talbot Team (1) for winning their heat in the inter schools quiz yesterday. 9 teams from local schools took part in the quiz. Our Team 2 narrowly missed out on the final by only one point. It is a great achievement and testament to all the bright pupils we have in Talbot SNS. The winning team now go on to a larger South Dublin schools final in April. Well done from all in Talbot SNS!
The Talbot Teams are as follows:
Dear Parents and School Community, we have just completed a 7 week intervention focusing on building skills in mental computation between 1 and 100. The children have learned many strategies to help their addition and subtraction. See the photos of their shared strategies and three students who designed their own +/- board game based on their learning. Have fun with at home too with mental addition/ subtraction and try these 64 +32, 58-25, 40+25, 90-27, 57+26, 84-36, 75+29, 94-17, 53-27, 49+21.
We are nearing the end of our Intercultural Week from February 26th – March 1st. Ms Nasalciuc (5th class teacher) created the event and she taught her own pupils about her own Moldovan heritage!
We celebrated and learned about all the wonderful backgrounds the families of our pupils come from, including our own country Ireland.
Lessons and events in class were taught highlighting the many cultures represented in Talbot during the week.
For the food fair parents and guardians were invited to make and bring in Foods from all Around the World, which our children sampled on the day. It was a huge success with parents making foods from all over the world including Poland, Vietnam, Albania, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ireland, Moldova, Romania, Estonia, Pakistan, Algeria, Scotland, China, Australia, the Channel Islands to name but a few!
We all tasted so many new and interesting foods, and children have a better appreciation for the cultures and backgrounds of their classmates.
On Thursday the children could wear in clothes representing their culture and background.
Thanks to all for taking part and making it such a special day!
Joey Byrne
Home School Community Liaision Coordinator
