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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

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!

Here are some photographs of our wonderful Nurture room! Mr. Cherry, Linda and all of the children who visit it have made it such a cosy and happy space!

Junior Infants have been learning all about the Gardaí and had a special visit from them. They got to try out their walkie talkies, try on their gear and some children were even handcuffed!

For their golden time last week, 4th class read their very own narrative pieces of writing to 1st class. The boys and girls had a lovely time!

They tasted lots of different foods that were sour, bitter, salty and sweet!

It’s been a very busy couple of months for the school football team. The school football team has been training very hard every Thursday after school this year. This really showed as the team put in some excellent performance in their 11 a side matches. The team scored some great goals and it was the first time a lot of the team had played on a full sized pitch.

The team also took part in the Spar school 5 a side competition. This section of the competition was for all the schools based in North Inner city Dublin. The boys put in some fantastic performances and went on to win the competition, winning the final 5-1. This means they are now qualified for the all Dublin finals. It was a great achievement for the team and they did the Rutland N.S school badge proud.