February Midterm Break is approaching. School closes Monday February 17th- Friday February 21st inclusive. School reopens on Monday February 24th.
Welcome
Holywell ETNS is located in Holywell, Swords, Co.Dublin. Holywell was orginally named ‘Gorse Hill’, then ‘Feltrim Hall’ and is located in the town land of Nevinstown. Holywell is located between Airside and Kinsealy. It is an area of over 1,800 mixed housing units of apartments, duplexes and houses where there is a high volume of local authority housing and private rental. Pupils also come from the other surrounding areas of Melrose and Drynam, with some students travelling from Finglas, Santry and the greater Swords area. There are a large number of students who do not have English as their first language.
Enrolment has been growing since 2010 in HETNS, from 21 in its first year to the current 677 pupils. We are a 49 teacher school including 15 special education teachers and English as an additional language teachers. The school also has four special classes for children with autism, as well as a high volume of students with special educational needs in mainstream. These children are supported by 30 Special Needs Assistants throughout our school.
Richies 6th class during their 'Dragons Den' as part of their Junior Entrepreneur programme. Big thanks to Ronan Quinn from @amarestories for visiting the class today as our business visitor. The 'Bead Boutique' were the winners in the end 👏
Eileen's 6th class had a webinar today with Shamsun from Irish Aid as part of their preparation for the Irish Aid "Our World" competition. They learned a lot about the Global Development Goals and how Ireland is helping people in developing countries.
Richies 6th class enjoying a robotics workshop yesterday.
Friendship Week in HETNS 👬👫❤️
Holywell ETNS now collecting bottles and cans for the RE - Turn scheme. We will be working with Tesco and Spar to return the bottles and cans, and the money raised will be used to purchase items for use throughout the school.
All bottles & cans can be brought to Room 20 (Richie's 6th class). All help and support is greatly appreciated!! ♻️ ♻️
A month of dancing, singing & treats 😊 thanks to everyone for supporting all of our school events over the last few weeks. Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas!!!
Our big school raffle soon approaches with some amazing gifts up for grabs! (Including a brand new VR Headset for the 1st prize 🎁).
Please click on the link in our bio! All money raised goes towards the construction of a new Astro Turf area on our school grounds 🏟
Your contributions are greatly appreciated 👏💪😊
A brilliant first week as part of our STEAM Fortnight 🔬🤖⚡️🐝🧪👨💻
A big thanks to MSD Biotech for visiting on Wednesday and putting on a great display for our children 👏👌
LEGO Spike in action in 3rd class. The children had lots of fun creating different projects such as moving Ferris wheels, Lego pinball machines and whatever their creative brains could think of during STEAM week 🔬🎨”
Bhí ceacht Óga Yoga ag rang 3 ar an Aoine. Here's some photos of 3rd class doing yoga 'as Gaeilge' as part of our Gaelbratach drive. The children were absolutely amazing! Maith sibh!!
Cycle Right for 5th class 🚴♀️🚲
5th class began their cycling lessons today. They will complete the programme over the next 6 weeks. Well done 5th class 👏
Thanks to everyone who took part in the cake sale before the break. It was a great success - €820 raised 👏😊
Cake sale this Friday in aid of children's hospitals 🎂 🥮
If anyone would like to donate cakes - please send them into school this Thursday 🙏 😊
Pumpkin & Bounce event cancelled due to yellow wind warning tomorrow.
Apologies for late notice - Event to be held next Sunday 27th October!
Pumpkin and Bounce Event this Sunday 🎃👻
€6 Entry - Don't miss out 🥜🎃👻
Autumn saw the end of one growing year and the beginning of another take place in our school garden. Children harvested the Wheat and OSR grown last year by the Junior Infants and first classes. The OSR is a great pollinator for bees early in the springtime and the wheaten straw was used by this year’s Junior Infants in art.
We then began the job of breaking up the ground and sowing the Wheat and OSR for this year. They are both off to a great start and they are our first crops in the ground for this school year.
Thanks to our 4th class teacher Vincent for organizing 🍁🌱🌿🪴
Thanks to Fiona Murray's 4th class for cleaning our school grounds the past 2 weeks 🧹♻️ Every class from 2nd-6th will have the opportunity to keep our school grounds clean throughout the school year!
Great job 👏
Holywell_ETNS Green school committee ♻️🟩
Meet the team! Well done 👏
Richie's 6th class getting the miles in for the @marathonkidsireland programme. The Final mile will be completed in November in Morton Stadium, Santry. Well done everyone, great work 👏 🏃♀️🏃♂️
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