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Board of Management Agreed Report 30/06/2023
 

• The Board would like to thank Helen McMahon and Carmel Dunphy (with the assistance of some pupils) who marked out the lines in the basketball court. The Parents Council paid for the paint. The addition of fresh lines is very beneficial to the pupils and the school. 
• The Department of Education have pulled the proposed 2022/23 school ICT Grant for National Schools and reduced Ancillary Grants and other grants used to maintain the school. The school had to be run with around €14,500 less than was originally indicated. This proved very difficult, and many proposed refurbishments and plans had to be cancelled as a result. The board felt that this was very unsatisfactory in a time when Government Revenues were at an all time high.
• Ms. Jamie O Neill was appointed to the Fixed Term position vacated by Mr Kevin Hally, who has gone on a career break for a year.
• Emma Murphy will leave her position this Summer as BASC Leader. She will be sorely missed by all in the school and the Board paid tribute to her great work.
• The Board reviewed the progress of the School Self Evaluation and analysed the SSE Report. This year the school focused on P.E. for its evaluation.
• The Board praised the success of the Dunhill GAA/St. Annes GAA coaching initiative in Dunhill N.S. that saw qualified coaches (most of whom are parents) from these clubs come into the school to help coach GAA/PE. It was a resounding success and plans are a foot to continue it in September and again, next year.
• The Board discussed the draft Whole School Evaluation Report and were pleased with its findings. The Whole School Evaluation took place towards the end of May, 2023 and will be published in September.
• The Board paid tribute to all involved in the acquisition of our first Green Flag. The Green Schools Committee were thanked for their work but also the pupils, parents and staff in the school for playing their part also.
• The Board reviewed the following policies:

Child Safeguarding Statement
Anti-Bullying policy
The Administration of Medicines Policy

On Thursday June 1st the Junior and Senior Infants travelled along with their teacher Mrs Flynn and Ms McGovern to Ardmore Open Farm for their tour. A wonderful day was had by all, the sun shone and big smiles were in evidence all day long!

Last week 1st Class wrote letters to their grandparents, which they then posted in Dunhill. Grannies and Grandads all over Ireland (and further afield!) were delighted and surprised to receive these letters, a tradition we sadly don't often see much of anymore.

Last Thursday May 4th we headed into the RSC by bus for our annual trip to the Primary Schools Sports event. We entered pupils in every event and each child did their very best in their category. Some were lucky enough (and fast enough!) to take home a medal on the day.
Well done to every one who competed, we were so proud of all of you!
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We were delighted to find out after the Easter break that we have been successful in attaining our first Green Flag! The Litter and Waste Green Flag will be awarded to the school on Wednesday May 10th in Kilkenny at the 2023 Green Schools Awards. Four of our committee members will travel to the awards on the day. We are all thrilled!

Above you can see a graph of our Litter Audit done in early 2022. As you can clearly see, the amount of refuse we had at the time was very high. All that was going to landfill. We also weren't recycling very much. So, we took action!

What a difference a year makes!
As this graph show, the amount of Refuse we are producing has hugely reduced! We are also recycling far more. Huge thanks has to go to the children for making such a great effort. 

1st and 2nd Classes have been studying the solar system, outer space and beyond recently, so in our Art lesson we made some rockets. We also wrote diary entries about A Day in Space. 
Don't be too surprised if we have some future astronauts in Dunhill NS!!

All classes took part in a whole school Art day last week, each class worked on collage art with the work of Salvador Dali being inspirational to everyone.