Ashbourne Educate Together National School

Social Media sites and online gaming have become extremely popular, Facebook, You Tube, Instagram, Snapchat, Musical.ly, Fortnite and although these sites require children be 13+ or 16+, it is not uncommon to find underage children, like our students registered.

Through lessons provided by classroom teachers, and Internet Safety and Cyber Bullying programmes, we do our best to provide our students with the awareness and knowledge they need in order to recognise and avoid dangers, and to respond appropriately.

With this in mind, AETNS has arranged an Internet Safety presentation to be delivered to students on 15^th January, followed by a presentation to parents of all students at 7pm. Please make every effort to attend and it is strongly recommended that at least one parent of all students from 3^rd to 6^th class attend.

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Please be advised that the access route to the school through the Milbourne estate is temporarily closed for a period of 4-6 weeks. This is to facilitate a private developer to undertake works to the road and pathway. Neither the school nor the council are responsible for this closure.  As this closure will affect the school run for many families, I would like to ensure all are aware of the situation ahead of tomorrow morning. I have been informed that local councillors are speaking with the developer in order that interim accommodations be made to facilitate pedestrian access. I hope you have all enjoyed the holidays and I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year.

Le Meas,

Lynn

Emily’s Class enjoyed making rice crispy buns as a special reward this week. We have been working hard to be kind to one another and always try our best in order to fill our class reward jar. Our prize was making chocolate marshmallow rice crispy buns! They were so delicious!!