The 2016 - 2017 school year has gotten off to

a flying start. We have been busy settling into

our classrooms and setting out goals for all our

students through our IEP meetings. We are de-

lighted to have a new outdoor play area with

trampoline, swing and slide. We enjoyed lots of

celebrations this term. We had a spooky Hal-

loween assembly and our school Christmas

party was a great success, even Santa made a

very special appearance.

School News

Birthdays this

term:

Rian Joyce-4 Ella Musin-4 Liam Allen-6

Hadia Shahid-7 Sinead Noone-8 Ryan Lally-10

Christopher Reilly JNR-10 Chijindu Onwu-10 Nicole Greaney-12 Conor Cassidy-14 Laurence Ward-12

Christopher Reilly SNR - 17

Happy Birrthday All!

New Faces We are delighted to welcome some new faces to our school community:

Amelia Filipczak—Student—Class 1

Emily Walsh—Teacher Class 2

Helen Kirrane—SNA Class 2

Martina Tynan—Bus Escort

Helen Ruane—Bus Escort

Congratulations

to Miriam (Class

2 Teacher) and

Padraic on the

birth of their

daughter

Marianne

St.Oliver’s Special School

Christmas Newsletter 2016

Class 1 The children and staff in class 1 have really enjoyed

the term. The themes covered for our class work

were Autumn, Halloween, Winter and Christmas. Our

extra-Curricular activity was a weekly trip to Go

Banana’s which we looked forward to all week. We

had a lovely day in Pots of Fun, Claremorris for our

Christmas outing.

We enjoyed lots of activities this term in

class 2. We visited the library for music

therapy. Story time at the library a great

success partly due to the ever ready as-

sistance of the really helpful staff in the

library. We had a great Christmas day out

where we visited the library, The snow-

globe, Santa Claus and had lunch in the

Meyrick. Due to the great weather we

have been out for a walk almost everyday which the children really love.

We have had lots of lunches and ice cream in the Corralea this year.

Class 2

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Class 3

Class 4

Class 3 are busy preparing for their ASDAN Certifi-

cate. ASDAN is a pioneering curriculum development or-

ganisation and awarding body, offering programs and

qualifications that explicitly grow skills for learning, skills

for employment and skills for life. As part of our AS-

DAN program, we are learning about keeping fit, healthy

eating and personal hygiene. We are also discussing our

families, our friends and our likes and dislikes. We can't

wait to show off all our hard work and hopefully our Certifi-

cates in the New Year.

This month we started our new ASDAN Module called Everyday

Living. In this module we will be learning all about myself, people

in our community, areas within our home/school, how to keep

safe and how to ask for help. We enjoyed playing bowling and

our Christmas day out to the Christmas Market in Galway. We

had a lovely walk around the stalls and enjoyed soaking up the

Christmas spirit. We then headed to The Claregalway Hotel

where we had a fabulous lunch.

Class 5 Everybody in class 5 has been working very hard since

returning to school. We have learned lots of new things.

For the month of September we learned all about trans-

portation, October we learned about the life cycles of

different animals, November we learned about our five

senses and December we did lots of christmas activities.

We went to the Christmas market in Erye Square on our

Christmas outing. We had lots of fun. Our favourite part

of the outing was getting to go on the carrousel. We are

all looking forward to Christmas to see what Santa

brings as we all have been so good at school this term.

Don’t forget to check out our class pages on

www.stoliversschool.ie to get a glimpse of the

activities happening in our classrooms