Staff Emails
tomasmacgiollachomain@stdaighs.com (Principal)
sandracumiskey@stdaighs.com (Deputy Principal / 6th Class)
rachelmccluskey@stdaighs.com (5th Class)
seodhnaflanagan@stdaighs.com (5th Class)
karenmaguire@stdaighs.com (4th Class)
niamhmonahan@stdaighs.com (3rd Class)
amyobrien@stdaighs.com (2nd Class)
jeanmagee@stdaighs.com (1st Class)
hollylynch@stdaighs.com (Senior Infants)
denisemcmahon@stdaighs.com (Junior Infants)
grainnemadden@stdaighs.com (SET)
ruthduffy@stdaighs.com (SET)
trudieconlan@stdaighs.com (SET)
daviddonegan@stdaighs.com (SET)
sandracumiskey@stdaighs.com (Deputy Principal / 6th Class)
rachelmccluskey@stdaighs.com (5th Class)
seodhnaflanagan@stdaighs.com (5th Class)
karenmaguire@stdaighs.com (4th Class)
niamhmonahan@stdaighs.com (3rd Class)
amyobrien@stdaighs.com (2nd Class)
jeanmagee@stdaighs.com (1st Class)
hollylynch@stdaighs.com (Senior Infants)
denisemcmahon@stdaighs.com (Junior Infants)
grainnemadden@stdaighs.com (SET)
ruthduffy@stdaighs.com (SET)
trudieconlan@stdaighs.com (SET)
daviddonegan@stdaighs.com (SET)
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An email has been sent out to all parents, with an access code to register for our new school Aladdin App. All information coming from the school will be accessible from this new App. Therefore, it is very important that ALL parents/guardians, register and download the app.
Click on the link below for a step-by-step guide to registering and downloading the app: 
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St Daigh’s N S
11th September 2020
11th September 2020
Dear parents/guardians
I hope this letter finds you well.
I would like to remind you about a few basic tasks which have been recommended in our war against Covid-19 in our school.
Over the weekend I ask you to wash your child’s lunchbox thoroughly, put it in the dishwasher on a reasonably hot cycle if you can.
Wash your child’s school bag in the washing machine if possible as above, on a reasonably hot cycle if possible. Same for all school uniforms.
On Monday (14th September) we hope to commence the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club will be set up at the shelter area adjacent to the Mol An Óige building. Children may collect breakfast food there and proceed on into their classroom via their indicated route. School lunches will begin on the following week (Monday 21st September)
Administration of Medicines:
Please inform us if your child has been recently diagnosed with any illness.
We are in the process of updating our Administration of Medicine Policy and need to update our list of children with medical issues. If your child requires medication during school time, please download and complete the St Daigh’s N S Administration of Medicines Permission Form. Parents need to sign this to give permission to staff members to administer medication in case of emergency.
If your child suffers from any allergy please download the St Daigh’s N S Administration of Medicine Nut Allergy Details Form Sept 2020. If your child requires an epipen or any other medication which needs to be stored in school, in case of emergency, please bring the relevant medication to the school office. Please make sure it is safely packaged, labelled and in date.
Both forms can be found on the Parent’s Notice Board (below).
Upon completion, please sign the form and email it back to me at
tomasmacgiollachomain@stdaighs.com
It would be advisable to send a body warmer for your child into school and leave in school. Due to the Covid-19 we are making sure there is good ventilation in the classrooms. This may lead to the rooms feeling a little cold at times. Children can wear their body warmer if they feel chilly.
Le dea-ghuí
Tomás MacGiollachomáin
I hope this letter finds you well.
I would like to remind you about a few basic tasks which have been recommended in our war against Covid-19 in our school.
Over the weekend I ask you to wash your child’s lunchbox thoroughly, put it in the dishwasher on a reasonably hot cycle if you can.
Wash your child’s school bag in the washing machine if possible as above, on a reasonably hot cycle if possible. Same for all school uniforms.
On Monday (14th September) we hope to commence the Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club will be set up at the shelter area adjacent to the Mol An Óige building. Children may collect breakfast food there and proceed on into their classroom via their indicated route. School lunches will begin on the following week (Monday 21st September)
Administration of Medicines:
Please inform us if your child has been recently diagnosed with any illness.
We are in the process of updating our Administration of Medicine Policy and need to update our list of children with medical issues. If your child requires medication during school time, please download and complete the St Daigh’s N S Administration of Medicines Permission Form. Parents need to sign this to give permission to staff members to administer medication in case of emergency.
If your child suffers from any allergy please download the St Daigh’s N S Administration of Medicine Nut Allergy Details Form Sept 2020. If your child requires an epipen or any other medication which needs to be stored in school, in case of emergency, please bring the relevant medication to the school office. Please make sure it is safely packaged, labelled and in date.
Both forms can be found on the Parent’s Notice Board (below).
Upon completion, please sign the form and email it back to me at
tomasmacgiollachomain@stdaighs.com
It would be advisable to send a body warmer for your child into school and leave in school. Due to the Covid-19 we are making sure there is good ventilation in the classrooms. This may lead to the rooms feeling a little cold at times. Children can wear their body warmer if they feel chilly.
Le dea-ghuí
Tomás MacGiollachomáin
| St Daighs NS Administration of Medicine Permission Form |
| St Daigh’s NS Administration of Medicines - Nut Allergy/Allergies |
New School App
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Dear Parent/Guardian,
Our school is delighted to announce that we will shortly roll out the Aladdin Schools Connect to parents/guardians of children in our classes.
The school uses the Aladdin Schools software service www.aladdin.ie for administrative purposes and Connect will give you secure access to messages from the school and to details of your child’s attendance, test results, reports cards etc via secure login from your internet browser or Aladdin Connect App
Aladdin Connect is a fantastic way to enhance a school's communication with parents. It enables parents to stay connected and informed about their child's education by:
- Ensuring that the school has their most up to date contact information
- Allowing schools to gather permission(s) from parents
- Allowing parents to quickly and efficiently select preferred slots for parent teacher meetings
- Keeping parents apprised of their child's attendance
- Keeping parents up to date on school and classroom news via noticeboard messages
- Allowing parents to view what items their child had for homework today
- Allowing parents view their child's approved report card
- Giving parents the option to opt in to share contact information with their child's classmates’ parents via the Parent Privacy option for the class list.
- Allowing parents to view their child's latest STen results from their standardised tests.
Along with strengthening our home/school partnership, we also envisage Aladdin Connect helping the school by:
- Helping to improve attendance by allowing parents to keep track of any school days their child may have currently missed, along with late arrival and early leaving information.
- Helping to reduce the amount of class/school notes being sent home
- Helping the school/ teachers communicate with parents when the need arises
- Reducing costs by eliminating the need to send school report cards by post
- Reducing costs by reducing the number of text messages that need to be sent
You can rest reassured that Aladdin Schools uses state-of-the-art security to safeguard information entered by the school and data is stored and processed in strict compliance with Irish and European data protection laws.
Next week, you will receive a text/email message containing your registration link. There will be one link per parent which will allow the parent to access information for all their children in the school from one user account. Please do not forward this text/email or share this link as this is a unique registration code for each parent for your child/children in this school. During registration you will choose a password that will be used in conjunction with your email address to securely access the Aladdin Connect going forward. If you choose you may share your own contact details with other parents of children in the same class as your children, but please be reassured that this information will not be shared unless you choose to share it. Once you are registered you will be sent an email with links to download the Aladdin Connect App for your mobile device. The main advantage of using the App is to receive immediate alerts for app messages sent by your school. Downloading the App is highly recommended to enhance both the parent and school's Connect experience.
We will be using the phone numbers given to the school recently to send out access codes for the app. If your mobile number has changed since then, please let the school know.
Please note: If there are any personal concerns, or legal provisions in place regarding giving access to Connect to any parent/guardian of your child please contact the school in confidence to discuss or restrict access as required.
We hope that you enjoy using Aladdin Connect. I will welcome any feedback or questions you may have.
Yours sincerely,
Tomas MacGiollachomain
Principal
Our school is delighted to announce that we will shortly roll out the Aladdin Schools Connect to parents/guardians of children in our classes.
The school uses the Aladdin Schools software service www.aladdin.ie for administrative purposes and Connect will give you secure access to messages from the school and to details of your child’s attendance, test results, reports cards etc via secure login from your internet browser or Aladdin Connect App
Aladdin Connect is a fantastic way to enhance a school's communication with parents. It enables parents to stay connected and informed about their child's education by:
- Ensuring that the school has their most up to date contact information
- Allowing schools to gather permission(s) from parents
- Allowing parents to quickly and efficiently select preferred slots for parent teacher meetings
- Keeping parents apprised of their child's attendance
- Keeping parents up to date on school and classroom news via noticeboard messages
- Allowing parents to view what items their child had for homework today
- Allowing parents view their child's approved report card
- Giving parents the option to opt in to share contact information with their child's classmates’ parents via the Parent Privacy option for the class list.
- Allowing parents to view their child's latest STen results from their standardised tests.
Along with strengthening our home/school partnership, we also envisage Aladdin Connect helping the school by:
- Helping to improve attendance by allowing parents to keep track of any school days their child may have currently missed, along with late arrival and early leaving information.
- Helping to reduce the amount of class/school notes being sent home
- Helping the school/ teachers communicate with parents when the need arises
- Reducing costs by eliminating the need to send school report cards by post
- Reducing costs by reducing the number of text messages that need to be sent
You can rest reassured that Aladdin Schools uses state-of-the-art security to safeguard information entered by the school and data is stored and processed in strict compliance with Irish and European data protection laws.
Next week, you will receive a text/email message containing your registration link. There will be one link per parent which will allow the parent to access information for all their children in the school from one user account. Please do not forward this text/email or share this link as this is a unique registration code for each parent for your child/children in this school. During registration you will choose a password that will be used in conjunction with your email address to securely access the Aladdin Connect going forward. If you choose you may share your own contact details with other parents of children in the same class as your children, but please be reassured that this information will not be shared unless you choose to share it. Once you are registered you will be sent an email with links to download the Aladdin Connect App for your mobile device. The main advantage of using the App is to receive immediate alerts for app messages sent by your school. Downloading the App is highly recommended to enhance both the parent and school's Connect experience.
We will be using the phone numbers given to the school recently to send out access codes for the app. If your mobile number has changed since then, please let the school know.
Please note: If there are any personal concerns, or legal provisions in place regarding giving access to Connect to any parent/guardian of your child please contact the school in confidence to discuss or restrict access as required.
We hope that you enjoy using Aladdin Connect. I will welcome any feedback or questions you may have.
Yours sincerely,
Tomas MacGiollachomain
Principal
Dear Parents/Guardians
Due to the COVID -19 pandemic it has been decided to suspend the Inniskeen Credit Union School Saving Facility until further notice. However, you can still lodge savings into your child’s account by calling to the Inniskeen Credit Union office.
Opening hours are as follows:
Tuesday 9am -12.30pm
Thursday 9am-12.30pm
Friday 9am-12.30pm
Saturday 9am-3pm
(Please note that the office is now closed on Friday evenings)
Regards
Sandra Cumiskey
Due to the COVID -19 pandemic it has been decided to suspend the Inniskeen Credit Union School Saving Facility until further notice. However, you can still lodge savings into your child’s account by calling to the Inniskeen Credit Union office.
Opening hours are as follows:
Tuesday 9am -12.30pm
Thursday 9am-12.30pm
Friday 9am-12.30pm
Saturday 9am-3pm
(Please note that the office is now closed on Friday evenings)
Regards
Sandra Cumiskey
St Daigh’s N S
8th September 2020 |
To all Parents/Guardians:
The Special Education Teachers (SET) just wanted to get in contact with all parents to keep them informed of what is happening in St Daigh’s at the moment. For the month of September all SET’s will be supporting classes, teachers and students with class work, mostly through 1-to-1 withdrawal and some small groups withdrawn from class. This time is needed to settle children back into school and back into a routine. Some children will need that little bit of extra support to complete class work. Hopefully, we will be able to start writing up Support Plans and targets at the beginning of October. We will be in contact with all parents/guardians of children, that will be receiving support from us, to discuss these plans. If any of these arrangements are changed, we will endeavour to keep you informed. Thanks Grainne Madden, Ruth Duffy, Trudie Conlan & David Donegan. |
Friday 4th September
Dear Parents/Guardians
Firstly, we the staff of St. Daigh’s would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and co-operation with the drop-off procedures in the mornings. There is a great sense of calmness throughout the school. We hope that you and the children are beginning to settle back into the routine that comes with school life.
Due to the heavy congestion of traffic in the evenings and to ensure the safety of our pupils we will be altering pick-up times slightly from Monday 7th September.
Families with surnames beginning A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J & K are asked to collect their children at 2:45pm
Families with surnames L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y & Z are asked to collect their children at 2:50pm
All bus children will leave at 2:45
Children who walk home will leave at 2:50
We thank you for your co-operation
*please note this will be on a trial basis*
Other Notices
No Credit Union collection in school until further notice
Breakfast Club and Lunch will begin approximately late September. Details will follow in the coming weeks relating to these.
Firstly, we the staff of St. Daigh’s would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and co-operation with the drop-off procedures in the mornings. There is a great sense of calmness throughout the school. We hope that you and the children are beginning to settle back into the routine that comes with school life.
Due to the heavy congestion of traffic in the evenings and to ensure the safety of our pupils we will be altering pick-up times slightly from Monday 7th September.
Families with surnames beginning A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J & K are asked to collect their children at 2:45pm
Families with surnames L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y & Z are asked to collect their children at 2:50pm
All bus children will leave at 2:45
Children who walk home will leave at 2:50
We thank you for your co-operation
*please note this will be on a trial basis*
Other Notices
No Credit Union collection in school until further notice
Breakfast Club and Lunch will begin approximately late September. Details will follow in the coming weeks relating to these.
Wednesday 2nd September 2020
A letter to parents and schools from
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ronan Glynn
A letter to parents and schools from
Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ronan Glynn
Monday 31st August 2020
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