Admission to Junior Infants September 2025
The process for admission to Junior Infants 2025 has now closed.
All applicants have been notified of the decision on their application.
Applicants who are offered a place on the first round have until Friday 29th November to confirm acceptance of an offer.
Key Dates: Term One & Two
PT Meetings | Week beginning Monday 18th November | Senior Infants - 6th Class |
Graffiti Classics | Friday 22nd November | All classes |
Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale Collection | Friday 22nd November | All classes |
NCC Cluster Rehearsal | Thursday 28th November | 5th & 6th Classes |
PA Preloved Occasion Wear Night | Thursday 28th November | Adults Only |
Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale | Friday 29th November | All classes |
Christmas Play | Wednesday 11th December | Junior Infants |
Christmas Play | Thursday 12th December | Senior Infants |
Movie Night | Friday 13th December | 6th Class |
Moon & Sixpence Puppet Theatre | Monday 16th December | All classes |
Niall de Burca Story Teller | Wednesday 18th December | All classes |
Last day of Term One (early finish) | Friday 20th December | All classes |
First day of Term Two | Monday 6th January | All classes |
PT Meetings | Week beginning 27th January 2025 | Junior Infants |
St Brigid's Day closure | Monday 3rd February | All classes |
Cyber Safety Talk | Monday 17th February | Parents |
Midterm break | Thursday 20th February & Friday 21st February | All classes |
School Calendar 2024/2025
The 2024/2025 calendar is available on www.hollyparkgns.ie
PT Meetings: Senior Infants to 6th Class
We are delighted to be meeting with our Senior Infant to 6th Class parents this week at the annual Parent Teacher Meetings.
PT Meetings for Junior Infants will take place in January/February.
Fiona Forman Parent Talk: Monday 18th November
Despite the poor weather on Monday evening, we had a good turn out for our Fiona Forman Parent Talk: Raising Resilient Children. Feedback from those in attendance was excellent.
Thank you to our PA for organising tea/coffee and biscuits on the evening.
Fiona very kindly shared her slideshow with us, which has been shared with all families via Aladdin.
Voluntary Contribution
Thank you to the 127 families who have already made a Voluntary Contribution for 2024/25! Every week this number increases - thank you most sincerely.
Your Voluntary Contribution makes a real difference to your girls' learning environment. Thank You. |
If you would like to help in any additional way with our school development, (time, skillset, sponsorship) please let us know.
Hollypark GNS PA Update
Click here to see the new Hollypark PA section on our website.
Thank you to Adrian for his work in putting this together.
Ladies' and Girls' Preloved Occasion Wear Night
The PA will be hosting a ‘Ladies' and Girls’ Preloved Occasion Wear Night' on Thursday 28th November to give parents an opportunity to purchase high-quality ladies and girls' occasion wear at a reduced cost while socialising with other parents.
Entry is €10 which includes a glass of bubbles and a €5 discount off a purchase. Please note that this is an adults only event.
A raffle to win family photo shoots plus many exciting sustainable prizes will also be held on the night.
We hope you can join us for what should be a fun event.
Coin Collection 18th-22nd November
Our Coin Drop Fundraiser, which started in classes on Monday is going very well. Thank you for your support.
This fundraiser will raise funds for resources to benefit each of the classes from Junior Infants to 6th class as shown below.
What we are asking of you is to empty out your pockets, raid your old coin jars and check behind your sofas for any change you can find around the house (euro only) and drop the coins into the coin jar designated for your class year.
To add a bit of incentive, we have prizes for the year group who raises the most money and a few spot prizes throughout the week. Already spot prizes have been awarded to Ms Sweeney's Junior Infants, Ms Codd's 1st Class, Ms O'Shea's 4th Class and Ms Conlon's 5th Class! Well done ladies!
Looking forward to seeing our new equipment throughout the school. Best of luck to everyone and lets get counting!
Pre-Loved Christmas Jumper Sale
Frásaí na Seachtaine
"Tá an ghrian ag taitneamh!" |
Labhair Gaeilge linn!
Camile de Rís meets Olympic Swimmers
My teammates and I in Trojan swim club were so excited to welcome Olympic swimmers to Newpark on Sunday. Ellen Walsh and Darragh Greene came to visit. They talked us through how to warm up like an Olympian! they told us all about their recent Olympic experiences in Paris. They shared their Olympic journey with us, from training and preparations to competition day at the pool. I was inspired to train even harder so I can achieve my dream of becoming a Team Ireland swimmer in future Olympic games.
By Camile de Rís STEAM Academy Workshop: Hollypark Winners
Our names are Aibhlínn Doherty Heaney, Elena Clinch and Aoibhinn O' Herlihy in Ms Conlon’s 5th class and Lingxi Sun in Ms Coll’s 6th class. Last Saturday, we competed in a ‘Steam Academy’ competition. The competition took place in Guardian Angels NS in Blackrock from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Approximately fifteen schools took part in the competition with two teams from each school competing. The teams were made up of two competitors and our challenge was as follows:We had 40 minutes to build a robot and 15 minutes to test it. The challenge was that our robot collect as many table tennis balls as possible and put them in to our goal. Aibhlínn and Elena were on one team and Aoibhinn and Lingxi were on another. Our two teams ended up playing each other in the final. Aoibhinn and Lingxi won first place and Aibhlínn and Elena won second place! We thoroughly enjoyed the ‘Steam Academy’ competition.
Gymnastics medal winners!
Music Workshops
We are looking forward to welcoming Graffiti Classics Music Workshop to our school on Friday, 22nd November.
Graffiti Classics are a comedy string quartet and deliver a classical workshop performance lasting one hour. The performance is engaging, interactive and educational, introducing us to a wide range of music and playing styles.
In June 2025 we will welcome Neil Dowling back to our school again for our Drum Nature Percussion Music Workshop. Again this workshop is engaging and interactive and all classes will attend workshops.
The cost for the workshops is €10 per child. Payment for the workshops will be facilitated via Aladdin.
Foxrock Parish Christmas Concert
We are delighted that once again our School Choir has been invited to sing at the forthcoming Foxrock Parish Christmas Concert in aid of First Light and Critical Emergency Medical Response. The concert will take place at 6pm on Sunday 1st December and all funds raised through ticket sales and raffle will be shared between these two worthy charities.
Our School Choir has also been invited to sing at the Light Up LauraLynn event next Sunday 24th November. Our girls are delighted to support this wonderful children's charity.
National Children's Choir
Our 5th and 6th Classes have been working hard on the National Children's Choir repertoire. We are now looking forward to our first 'cluster rehearsal' which takes place on Thursday 28th November. We will welcome pupils from Guardian Angels NS to our school to practise the first eight songs of this wide-ranging repertoire.
There will be a further 'cluster rehearsal' in the spring before our school's performance in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght in April 2025.
Traffic Safety
Morning & evening one-way system:
Reminders:
Please use the church car park at drop off and collection times and walk the last 6 minutes with your child.
80% of our pupils live within 2 kilometres of our school. Please encourage your older children to walk with their pals to and from school.
Please work with our PA to action the Walking Bus initiative as soon as possible
Please ensure that younger children are held by the hand when walking with them to and from school.
Please do not block the driveways of local residents when parking. Many of our residents – often elderly - are virtual prisoners in their own homes at drop off and collection times. And when they speak up are often subject to abuse.
In the event of an emergency, when cars are parked illegally, it is unlikely that a fire tender or ambulance would be able to access the schools, or any homes in the vicinity.
Birthdays this week in Hollypark!
Eva Flanagan
Aisling O'Callaghan
Isabella Mulvee
Nessa Houlihan
Grace O'Leary
Sadie Twomey
Beth Drury Byrne
Torah Devlin
Holly Hyland
Nina Byrne
May Hanrahan
Millie O'Malley
Adeline O'Donovan
Advertising on our school newsletter
If you would like to place an ad on our school newsletter, please email Suzanne at the office hollyparkgns@gmail.com for further details.