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School Payments 2023-2024

Arts & Crafts €15 Educate Together Membership €15 Pupil Personal Insurance €7 Photocopying €10 ICT-Covers IT maintenance & educational licenses €5 Classroom Materials €3 Total €55 You will receive a payment link via Aladdin for payment. If you wish to pay by cash or cheque, please contact the school office.


School Calendar 2024-2025

You can see the calendar for the 2024-2025 school year 


Return to School Form

You must complete a Return to School form before your child comes back to school after any absence, even if it is only for one day. (This does not apply to weekends or bank holiday weekends). To fill out your child’s Return to School form click here: https://forms.gle/HAhC1f9xgx6sJZge9


Contacting the school by phone January 2021

We  are currently getting some maintenance work done on our landline. If you are having difficulty getting through on 01 6274388 you can contact us on the school mobile phone number which is 089 4433500.


Peace Proms

Every February The Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland performs a concert, Peace Proms, at the Simmonscourt Arena RDS in Dublin with a 3,000 strong children’s choir.Our school has taken part in this concert in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022. It has been a wonderful experience for all involved. The Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland is made up of teenagers and young adults from
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Learn Together Curriculum


NKETNS Pupil Making Masks For Frontline Staff

Congratulations to Daire Jean in 5th class (2019/2020), who with his older brother Conor (a past pupil of ours) has been using a 3D printer at home to design and produce protective masks for frontline health staff in Tallaght hospital. They have already supplied 100 masks and are hard at work on the next batch! You can read the Irish Times report on their
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Draft Admissions Policy for Parents

The Education (Admission to Schools) Act was passed by the Oireachtas in 2018 and certain sections of the Act were commenced earlier this year. One of the consequences of this is that all schools have to draft a new admissions policy which is in line with the Act by September 2020.  Educate Together produced a template policy for all schools under ET patronage to
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Home Learning

Welcome to Home Learning Resources for NKETNS Children & Parents Check out our latest collection of Maths in the Environment photos from Maths Week 2020/2021 on the right of this page. Thank you to all the families who contributed photos! Websites for Kids – here you will find an archive of websites for kids Useful Websites for Parents. Fun Challenges for kids and parents
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Amber Flag

  Amber Flag Update You may remember that we have been working towards obtaining the Amber Flag award for our school this year.  The Amber Flag is awarded by Pieta House and is an initiative to promote positive mental health. We are delighted now to tell you that we have been successful and that our school has been awarded with the Amber Flag!  We
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