Parents' Association Committee Members 2025/2026

Contact email paslanens@gmail.com

• Marie Carolan (Chairperson)
• Alex Ledward (Secretary)
• Ruth McKeever (Treasurer)
• Tania Rueda Finnegan(PRO)
• Sarah-Jane Lynch (Board of Management 2023-2027 mother’s nominee)
• Soren Jensen (Board of Management 2023-2027 father’s nominee)
• Bridget Kerrigan
• Dev Cudail
• Rachel Carolan
• Denise Cassidy
• Leah Cooney
• Maggie Greene
• Deirdre Stafford
• Corina Gomez Ball
• Agnes Matczynska
• Eamonn Flanagan
• Elaine Clarke
• Caitlin Potomska

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                                                                                                                 Parents’ Association Update Beginning October 2025

Thanks

Thanks for inviting me to the AGM. Thank you also to the outgoing PA committee and I look forward to working with the new committee, as well as Soren in his role as father nominee on the Parents’ Association.

School Life

New staff – Tara Mahon and Sinéad McNeely (Special Needs Assistants (SNAs), Leesa Flynn & Claire O’Callaghan (Bus Escorts), Catherine Kennedy English as an Additional Language(EAL) Teacher and Paddy Kennedy Special Education Teacher (SET) from Stackallen N.S.

Early September assembly on Tuesday with pupils. Discussion on new works in the school, yard, uniform, attendance, preventative measures relating to head lice, mobile phones, role modelling problem solving in relational difficulties with others, as part of our Bí Cineálta anti-bullying policy and staying safe as part of our Child Safeguarding Statement.

Letter 3 has gone home as well as after school activities.

Improving attendance will continue to be a big focus this year. Our school attendance in 2024-2025improved from 90.9% to 92.2%. We hope to increase this again this year as part of our attendance strategy.

Child protection. Parental feedback on child safeguarding arrangements.

Curriculum

In September some staff participated in the launch of the Erasmus outdoor learning and risky play project website. This was the culmination of three years of work as part of it. A big thank you to Ruth Collins and Lorna Murphy, who led the project in our school.

GAA boys’ and girls’ gaelic football competitions continue this term against other school. Thanks to Lorna Gerrard, Gearóid O’Connor, Tim Dineen and Tom Ó Braonáin for all their coaching this term.

We are in year three of our School Self-Evaluation process (SSE) and continue to focus on the area of music. This year we will be implementing assessment templates for pupils and teachers, as well as continued implementing a new music scheme in all classes.

We hope to have a school band up and running this year, thanks to music teacher Gerry Kelly

Our school is participating in the GLOBE air quality project for the third year running this year.

Some pupils attended Slane library last week to launch Meath Library autumn events.

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