The children of Rutland St, along with their families have been invited to take part in this fantastic run event on Saturday 10th May. Transport will be provided to and from the event, leaving from the school and everyone who participates will receive a medal. This is a fantastic opportunity to come together as a community to raise funds for athletics equipment for our school. Adults and older siblings are welcome to run with their child participant, but all who are taking part need to register at https://forms.gle/M5nodPieVx77DWp38 to ensure we have enough transport and medals on the day.

Check out https://runkidsrun.org/dublin for more information about the event & the organisers, and feel free to pop into school with any questions. We hope to see as many students, families and community members there as possible – it’s bound to be a fantastic day out!

Junior Infants went to Chapters on Parnell Street to use our World Book Day vouchers this week and enjoyed browsing all the amazing books we could choose from.

Rutland N.S has received an award for being a Changemaker school and is now part of the Changemaker Schools Network!

A Changemaker is someone with the skills and confidence to lead change in their home, school and community.

The 4 pillars of a Changemaker school are empathy, leadership, creativity and teamwork.
The DCU Changemaker Schools Network is a social innovation initiative to help primary school teachers and students across Ireland to put in place and lead programmes of change in their respective schools and wider communities to address societal challenges. Well done to all staff and students!

Follow this link to learn more

https://www.dcu.ie/dcu-changemaker-schools-network/what-changemaker

Our committed Rutland Running Club members had the fantastic opportunity to explore and use the grounds of Morton Stadium – Ireland’s national athletics stadium! We even bumped into Irish Olympian, Sophie Becker, training while we were there, inspiring us to follow in the footsteps of Olympians!

Junior Infants have had a busy week this week, full of exciting, experiential learning – exploring the inside of an ambulance and learning about all the work of paramedics; attending a numeracy event at Charleville Mall Library, where we got to examine photographs that were 105 years old; and enjoying maths activities with some parents at Maths for Fun!

Junior Infants have been learning about the opticians this month and we had the wonderful opportunity to bring this learning to life at Specsavers in the GPO Arcade last week – we got to test each other’s eye sight, try out different lenses, feel contact lenses, and even got to look inside ears and do hearing tests!