​The Board of Management of St. Oliver Plunkett National School wishes to inform you that: 
• The Board of Management’s annual review of the school’s Child Safeguarding Statement was completed at the Board meeting of 1st May 2019.
 • This review was conducted in accordance with the “Checklist for Review of the Child Safeguarding Statement” published on the Department’s ‘website www.education.ie.

Kindest regards,
Raphael Leen (Chairperson)
Dominic Tyrrell (Principal)

The updated documents can be found in our Downloads section (here).

Our Bring 'n Buy takes place in the school on Friday 5th April. ​

The Board of Management and staff of our school will be reviewing our Child Safeguarding Statement and Anti-Bullying Policy during the month of April. We are asking parents to review these policies (available here) and to give us feedback/suggestions which will help to inform our review. The Student Council will also be assisting us with our review. ​

Congratulations to our wonderful boys and girls from 6th class who made their Confirmation. It was a beautiful and the children really did our school proud. Well done to Ms. Dalton for the hard work that she has put in to preparing the children and the fantastic choir for this special day. It was another lovely day for our school community. ​

Many thanks to the following companies who kindly sponsored our Christmas Raffle this year. The success of our raffle is largely due to the generous donations of the following local shops and businesses. Remember to shop local this Christmas and show our appreciation to the companies who supported our Christmas Raffle.
Allenwood

• Tom Baker Family Butcher
• Carrolls Launderette and tyres
• Michael Anderton Photography
• Sanitas Take-away
• Star Barber
• Judge Haulage
• Spar

Derrinturn

• Bergins Shop
• Serena’s Hair Salon
• Yvonne’s Hair Loft
• Estee Beauty Salon
• New Century Chinese
• Turn Inn
• Daniel’s Shop
• Centra

Edenderry

• Anna-Marie Boutique
• All Inks Stationery Shop
• Tons of Fun
• Larkins Pub
• Edenderry Swimming Pool

Prosperous

• McCarthys

We had a fantastic day on Friday 14th December for the annual Killina National School Christmas raffle. Mrs. Noonan's superstars started off the event with a fantastic rendition of Winter Wonderland on the tin whistle. Ms. Dalton led the 3rd-6th class boys and girls with singing Winter Wonderland too. This then led to the first of our two raffles. Our wonderful Parent Association put so much effort into ensuring the success of this raffle and it certainly paid off.

Fíona took over as MC for the raffle with Gerry, Kevin and Margaret ensuring that everything ran smoothly. The winners for the main raffle were:

• 1st Prize: Voucher (Value €300)- Eoghan Mulvey
• 2nd Prize: Voucher (Value €200)- Cillian Noonan 
• 3rd Prize: Drinks Hamper (Value €150)-Derek Murray
• 4th Prize: Beauty Hamper (Value €75) -James O’Rourke
• 5th Prize: Turkey and Ham – Tom Nolan           
• 6th Prize: Toy Voucher (€50) – Ruby Gill     
• 7th Prize: Bottle of Brandy – Margaret McCormack
• 8th Prize: Turkey – Leon O’Meara                  
• 9th Prize: Ham – Carmel Percival                   
• 10th Prize: Bottle of Whiskey – Cathal Cumiskey  

Once this raffle was completed we then went into our cloakroom ticket raffle. This raffle was generously sponsored by our wonderful parents and many local businesses (click here for our list of sponsors). The prizes were absolutely super and there really was a great sense of community spirit surrounding it. We were extremely grateful to our kind parents and the local shops and companies that gave us a huge range of spot prizes. There were over 30 prizes (hampers, vouchers, sweets, biscuits, candles etc...) and we made lots of children and families happy as a result. This really was a successful raffle and the children of our school will benefit greatly from this wonderful fundraiser. We are very thankful to our staff, parents, the boys and girls, local businesses and the fantastic Parents Association who went above and beyond to ensure that this was a success. Well done everyone and many thanks for making this another exciting event in our school calendar. 
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Our school will close on Friday 21st December for the Christmas Holidays. We will return on Monday, January 7th. We wish every member of our school community all the best for the Christmas season and we hope that you enjoy making lots of memories with your families. We look forward to hearing all about them.

These are the tasks that our students have been tackling this week:

• Junior and Senior Infants have to estimate how many marshmallows are in the spooky pumpkin?
• 1st and 2nd have to estimate the number of chocolate eyeballs in their spooky pumpkin.
• 3rd to 6th class have to estimate the weight of their pumpkin (sweets and pumpkin combined!).

The pupil who's estimate is closest to the correct answer gets to bring home the prize pumpkin. Go n-éirí an t-ádh libh!