We certainly had some interesting new pupils in school on Friday as we celebrated World Book Day. The children had the most wonderful day wearing costumes and describing their favourite book characters. The celebrations really sparked the children’s interest and love of reading. Please enjoy the photos below. We love books!
Today Senior Infants took a walk to our local Post Office in Rathmines. We posted our very own letters and we had great fun!
We had lots of practice this term in our Post Office Role Play Area so we knew exactly what to do. We had practiced our writing skills, addressed letters, stuck on stamps, delivered them to our friends and role played lots of different scenarios in the Post Office.
This week we worked on writing a letter to send to a family member and got our letters ready with our address and stamp on them. We set off this morning walking carefully through Rathmines to the Post Office.
When we got to the Post Office we met the Post Office Manager Gary who was happy to tell us all about what they do everyday and answer all our questions. He assured us that our letters we posted today would arrive by tomorrow! He told us about how all the letters go to the sorting office and get sorted into Dublin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc. Most of our letters are staying in Dublin 6 so we are making it very easy for the sorting office!
We had a lot of fun going to the counter to hand over our letter to Chloe who stamped them with the official Post Office stamp!
We had great fun today and learned even more about how the Post Office works!
Harcourt Terrace had a great time learning all about Chinese New Year and Chinese culture. The classes did lots of different activities and art work. It has been lovely to see it all around the school and you can check some of it out below in the photos.
We had a lovely last day for Dan in Harcourt Terrace. We were all very sad to see Dan go but enjoyed our last few days with him as principal.
For Dan’s last day he visited each class with treats for a picnic and enjoyed some time chatting with the children.
Then we had assembly where each class had time to say goodbye to Dan in whatever way they liked. Some classes sang songs, some presented art work and some said poems. We wish Dan all the best in his new school and we look forward to him coming back for a visit! Â 
We had a great Healthy Eating Week in Harcourt Terrace. It was super to see how healthy all the boys and girls are already. They all know so much about how important it is to eat healthily to have healthy bodies.
There were lots of different activities in all the classes such as creating a healthy plate of food and lunch box, sorting healthy and unhealthy food and showing off their healthy lunches.
Check out the photos below of just some of the activities that took place.
On Wednesday 14th of December the children of Harcourt Terrace ETNS all performed on stage for the whole-school community. Check out how they got on in this short video. I think you will agree that they all look amazing. Well done to Hyeguen who captured all of these fantastic pictures and compiled this wonderful video. A big shout out to our PGTA, bakers, staff, children, parental community and wider community who contributed to us raising €2,003.37 towards new literacy resources on the day too through our bake sale and raffle. Maith sibh!
A thought for the day:
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile about- Marilyn Monroe
This week our new student council came together for the first time to meet with Dan our principal.
It was wonderful to see the elected class representatives from all of our classes in the school come together and discuss key matters to the children.
One topic which was discussed was what name shall we have for our Well-Being Morning Check In’s which have been so successful thus far.
Following some wonderful suggestions, we voted that they would be named “Morning Meetings” or ” CruinniĂş Maidine” when spoken in Irish.
Our student council also gave us some great ideas regarding how our Student Council notice board should look.
Our student council will meet at the end of each month with the principal. We plan for this to be a tradition moving forward in the school as we grow. The promotion of student voice within the school is hugely important. Afterall, our children are one of our key stakeholders in Harcourt Terrace ETNS.
We had a very exciting Science Week this year in HTETNS. Every class did so many different and fun experiments! There were so many photos we had to make a video to show them all. In it you’ll see some of the experiments that went on in the school during the week, such as, Skittles experiments, making moon sand, blowing a bubble in a bubble and many more! Some classes even had a special visitor who performed lots of exciting experiments with the children! Thank you very much to Michael again for coming in!
Check out the video to see all the fun that was had with our budding scientists last week!
