Our parents association are running a movie night here in Glasheen BNS on Friday Evening from 6:30pm – 8:15pm. Why not enjoy a fun time with your friends watching a Friday night film! Tickets are available from Sheila at the office for €5 each. We will be showing three different movies – Screen 1: Incredibles 2, Screen2: Mitchells vs Machines, Screen 3: Captain America. We look forward to seeing you there!

Glasheen BNS will be closed on the following dates in February:

Monday 6th February for the bank holiday.

Thursday 16th and Friday 17th February for Mid-Term Break.

School will reopen on Thursday January 5th. Gates will open at the usual time of 8:30am, with classes beginning at 8:50am. We look forward to seeing you all then.

All afterschool clubs will finish up on Friday 16th December. Clubs will resume in the new year. Details will be published at a later date.

Our Glasheen Christmas Market will take place on Tuesday 20th December from 10am to 12pm. The market stalls will be set up in the senior classes corridor of our new building. The boys of 4th to 6th class have been making fantastic christmas crafts and treats which will all be for sale on the day. This has always been a fantastic feel-good fundraiser for our school and we are delighted to be bringing it back. Please feel free to drop by and have a walk through. All are welcome.

Glasheen BNS will close for Christmas Holidays on Wednesday 21st December at 12pm.

We will be using staggered closing times on that day to ease congestion at our gates and on our footpaths. Class times are as follows:

Junior and Senior Infants will leave at 11:45am.

First and Second Classes will leave at 11:55am

Third to Sixth Classes will leave at 12:00pm

School will reopen on January 5th 2023. Have a lovely Christmas all.

The pupils of Glasheen BNS will come together to perform a Nativity on Thursday 15th December at 6pm in the Lough Church. All parents are welcome to attend. The boys have been practicing their songs and are looking forward to the evening. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

For those of you who might have missed the deadline for ordering your sons Christmas Card, the deadline has been further extended to Sunday 27th November at 8pm. Absolutely no orders will be accepted after this date. The school cannot facilitate any order after this date.

Glasheen BNS will close at a slightly earlier time on Friday 9th December to facilitate a Primary Language Curriculum Training Day for all staff. Junior and Senior Infant classes will be dismissed at 1:20pm, and all other classes will be dismissed at 1:30pm.

A Communion Enrolment Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, December 6th at 7pm for all second class pupils making their communion. This will be a joint ceremony with Glasheen Girls NS and Greenmount NS also taking part. We look forward to seeing you there.