School Gallery - Reált Na Mara Girls National School
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Mid-
term Break.
School will be closed the week of Monday 30th and will reopen on Monday 6th November.
Parents' Association Minutes
Click on link below for October Minutes.
October Minutes
Introducing our new Green Schools Committee.
The new committee has been elected and they are looking forward to maintaining green practices in the school this year. 
Football team
The last few week our Gaelic Football team have been taking part in the East Meath football tournament. They have played against Duleek and St. Declans Ashbourne. Unfortunately the results haven't gone our way but the girls are enjoying it and doing their school proud. Well done girls.
Important Date for Diaries.
Please note the school will be closed March 5th 2018 for teacher training for the new Primary Language Curriculum. For more information on the new curriculum click here.
Parents' Association
For minutes of September meeting click below:
September minutes
Playground Markings
During the summer, workmen from “Carpark Linings” came in to school and laid out our new playground games. They worked diligently for two whole days, supervised by Mrs McCloughan so that the games would be just perfect for the children coming back to school. We have hopscotch, twister, dance class, a football pitch and a large activity trail, all chosen by the children. Already we see the children being more active in the playground and along with our lovely garden and bench, it’s a delightful environment for all children. We send a huge thank you to the Parents' Association, who, through their hard work fundraising, were able to finance this new venture.
Sponsored School Walk
This year's school walk took place on Sunday 15th October. Thank you for your continued support.
Introducing our new Student Council.
Meet our new Student Council:
2nd Class Ms. Colgan: Darcey
2nd Class Ms. McGuinness: Aoife
3rd Class Mrs. Roulstone: Rebecca
3rd Class Ms. Kelly: Katie
4th Class Ms. Linden: Julia
4th Class Ms. Byrne: Emma
5th Class Ms. McManus: Cara
5th Class Ms. Kirwan: Sophie
6th Class Mrs. McCartan: Clara
6th Class Ms. Brodigan: Grace
Traffic Management Notice.
Please click on link below to access latest notice.
Traffic plan
September's Assembly.
School Milk Scheme
School Calendar
Please click on the link below for the 2017-
School Calendar.
Healthy Lunches
Please remember we are a school with a healthy lunch policy. We also operate a NUT FREE Zone within the school grounds.
Nut Free Zone
Please remember that Réalt na Mara G.N.S is a nut free zone.
Blessing of our Buddy Bench and Raising our newest Green Flag
Bio-
diversity Project 2017
The 3rd and 4th class worked this year on a project based on bio-
Down below are pictures of our display and Prince Albert looking at it.
Aladdin 2017
Congratulations to all the fifth class girls who, this week, put on a brilliant production of the musical Aladdin. It was an excellent show and the singing and dancing were of a very high standard. Well done girls and to their teachers Mrs McCartan and Ms. Kirwan. The Broadway and West End better watch out!
Department of Education report for Réalt Na Mara Girls' School
We are delighted to share our recent report from the inspection team who visited our school this year in March. We are proud of our achievements and we will continue to work to maintain the high standards in the school. I would advise reading the Inspectorate’s Quality Continuum at the end of the report before reading the report as the inspectors are limited in the language used in reporting.
Please click on link below to access report.
WSE Report 2017
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who generously provided cakes and attended our coffee morning on Wednesday 7th June. We appreciate your support. A total of €2, 312 was raised.
Green Flag
Congratulations to the Green Schools Committee on achieving the Green Flag for Biodiversity. Mrs O' Reilly and Ms. McManus, along with two representatives from the committee, went along to collect the Green Flag in City North Hotel today. Thank you to everyone who helped us get this latest flag. It was a team effort.
Bees
Thank you to Philip McCabe who came in today to give an informative talk to the girls about bees and his work as a beekeeper. He even brought some of his friends with him and the girls really enjoyed observing the bees at work on their honeycombs and they even got to see the Queen Bee.
Parents' Association Minutes.
Please find click below for the minutes of the last P.A meeting.
April minutes
Our Gaelic Football team
Well done.......
Well done to our soccer team as they took part in the Spar F.A.I Primary School 5s Programme on April 27th in Navan. Unfortunately results didn't go their way this time. They lost their first match to Westmeath 3-
April Newsletter.
Easter Raffle
Thank you to everyone who bought tickets for our Easter Egg Raffle in aid of Trocaire this year. We managed to raise 1,612 euro for this worthy cause.
Well done too, to the 6th class and their teachers Ms. Brodigan and Ms. Linden for running such a successful project. Well done everyone!
Donacarney G.N.S Hockey Team
Congratulations to all the girls who took part in the hockey blitz this week which was kindly hosted by Drogheda Grammar. D.G.N.S played against St. Peter's N.S and the girls did very well and enjoyed the experience.
A lot of our girls play with local club Boyne Hockey, which was only set up a few years and has grown and blossomed ever since.
Well done to everyone involved.
Well done to our Quiz Team.
Our 5th Class quiz team took part in the regional finals of the Credit Union Quiz on Friday 3rd March in Ashbourne. The girls finished in joint 3rd place just missing out on a place into the next round. There was only one or two points between the top three teams and the girls did brilliantly. There were incredibly difficult questions which left adults in the room scratching their heads so it shows just how well our team did. They worked extremely hard over the last few weeks with Mrs. Mc Cartan. Well done and thank you to Grace, Joy, Olwyn and Yasmin.
February Newsletter
Please click on the link below for Mrs McCloughan's February Newsletter.
February Newsletter 2017
Primary Language Curriculum
The Department of Education are introducing a new language curriculum for the teaching of English and Irish in our schools. This will involve a new approach to teaching language with a greater emphasis on play, on practice and on supporting progression in children’s learning. The first phase will be implemented in classes from Junior Infants to Second class and eventually all children will experience this new curriculum. Please press the following link for more information.
Primary Language Curriculum.
February Assembly
We enjoyed a positive news assembly yesterday. Children received awards for being kind and inclusive in their play. We celebrated the best handwriters of the month and we applauded the great job our runners did at Rás Na hEireann.
Rás na hÉireann.
Congratulations to all the girls who ran representing the school at Oldbridge on Sunday 5th February. We had girls running under 9's, 11's and 13's. They all ran fantastically and everyone at D.G.N.S is immensely proud of each and every one of them.
Three of the girls competing under 9's had great success and came home with individual medals. Well done Aisling, Aoife and Ciara!