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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!

Junior Infants had a great time exploring all the scenes at The Moving Crib on Parnell Square this morning – with some spontaneous carol singing en route!

After learning all about the post office this month, we decided to walk down to the GPO and post a class letter to Santa while we were at it. We enjoyed all the Christmas decorations we spotted along the way!

Some of Santa’s little helpers did a great job of decorating the tree in reception. Also check out of the lovely festive and Winter art on the middle corridor!

Here is a roundup of some of the fun that’s been happening in Senior Infants lately! A hot chocolate treat in Nancy Bluebells as a reward for lots of hard work, baking cookies as part of our ‘bia’ topic and Santa’s Workshop in our classroom!

We have some wonderful extra-curricular activities to choose from in Rutland. Ms. Manning and her run club train each Thursday. Ms. Wynne and Ms. McMahon and their choir practise every Tuesday and Ms. Callan and Ms. Doyle and their dance club meet each Thursday.

These are the boys and girls who were selected by their classmates to be in the Student Council. Led by Ms. Bermingham, they do fantastic work around the school!