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This week is Safer Internet Week across the country. At Rutland NS we are encouraging all of our pupils to ‘Swipe Less and Sleep More’. Research shows that screen addiction goes hand in hand with sleep disturbance. We are seeing many of our pupils arriving at school with less than 8 hours sleep. This is having an impact on their learning in school. If children can reduce their screen time before bed and keep devices out of bedrooms, we believe it will have a positive impact on their sleep and learning.

We had some very special performances today from The Irish Baroque Orchestra.

It was fantastic to see them perform some of the music we have been learning about from Bergie. They played pieces from Bach and Vivaldi and even finished with some lovely Christmas songs.

Thank you so much Bergie, Catherine and everyone involved in such a magical concert.

Today 6th class was busy doing art. We were doing German pop art.

First we printed our portraits and then we had to trace over them.

We used the windows to help us trace.

We are then going to make dots with markers to make them look like pop art.

Check our website later to see the finished product!

by Leila T

6th Class had a fantastic morning in Glasnevin Cemetery today. Pat was our tour guide and he told us all about Micheal Collins and how he helped make the Catholic Emancipation. He also showed us the graves of Eamon De Valera and Countess Markievicz.

By Evan

Katriona O’Sullivan came to Rutland NS last week to share her experiences with the staff.  We were joined by staff from other local schools for a wonderful afternoon listening to Katriona share her story and remind us all of the impact education can have on children.  Thanks for sharing your story with us Katriona!

We had a colourful day in Rutland NS last week when we all wore our odd socks to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day!

We raised over €200 for Down Syndrome Ireland and are really grateful to everyone for their support.

Thank you

We had a very special evening on Thursday when we held our first ever night time Christmas performance!

The church was filled with family and friends to support our amazing pupils.

They put on some amazing performances to fill our hearts with Christmas cheer.

The evening raised over €4,000 for the school.

A huge thank you to everyone who came to support. It was a very special evening in the history of Rutland National School.

2nd Class were very lucky to take part in Drama with Darren. We also went on our class trip last week to the Viking Splash tour, Stephen’s Green playground and McDonald’s! The biggest part of this year was our First Holy Communion – we had the best day!

Well done to all of our very talent students who all took part in our end of year Arts Show today.

It was a morning filled with wonderful music and very talented actors and actresses!