We are putting a big call out for home-baked goods - both sweet and savoury. School will be open from 9am tomorrow, Sunday 10th December, to receive any goods for our café and festive foods. Please support. Thankyou. 

A big thank you to businesses in Dublin 6; 6W; 4 and beyond that have supported the school. Please see the attached PDF for a list of all that contributed. Any later donations will be acknowlegded on the day and added to the list. Thank you. 

Don't forget to bring in some home bakes on Sunday morning for the Christmas Fair. Thank you for your support.  

Sincere thanks to all the businesses, the list keeps growing - across Dublin 6, 6W and beyond who are supporting this year's @stlouishigh Christmas Fair. This is taking place on Sunday 10th Dec 12- 3pm. All welcome.  Míle buíochas. 

HAROLD’S CROSS

Stephen An Nails & Spa

RATHGAR

Bijou Bistro Iconic Skin,

Laser & Beauty

RANELAGH

AIB

Anastasia Boutique

Blooming Amazing

Brother Hubbard,

Yves Burke’s Pharmacy

Butlers Chocolate Café (Ranelagh & Rathmines)

Company of Books,

The Devlin Hotel,

The Dublin Lettings Company

Expert Hardware

GMale Barbers

Hillary Hair & Beauty Salon

Host Restaurant

HSS Credit Union

Joy’s Flowers

Kinara Kitchen

Leech Pharmacy

Meagher’s Pharmacy

Project Black Coffee Shop

Quillsen Estate Agents

Seagreen Boutique

Smurf Tech Electronics

SuperValu

Tribeca Restaurant

Urban Health Café

Village Barber,

The Village Butcher,

Yoga Dublin 

The DUNVILLE AVENUE

Best of Italy Italian Food Shop

Greenbeards Juice,

Smoothies & Shots

Interiors Atelier

Morton’s Grocery Store

Nobó Treathouse,

The No. 38 -

Pre-loved Designer Fashion

Peperina Garden Bistro

TERENURE

Brown Pig Butcher,

The Eaton 6W Restaurant

Lotts & Co Grocery

Neville Russell Hair & Beauty

South William Clinic & Spa

Terenure Office Supplies

Glitter Nails

RATHMINES LOWER

Alan Hanna Books

Bow & Pearl Boutique

Butlers Chocolate Café (Ranelagh & Rathmines)

Cygnet Children’s Shoe & Clothing Store

Dubray Books

Dunnes Stores

Expert Hardware

Gallagher TV

Hopsack,

The - Health Food Store

Life Pharmacy

l’Ombré Hair & Beauty Salon

Lloyds Pharmacy

Lotties Restaurant

Mairéad O’Leary Opticians

Murphy’s Pub

Peter Mark Hair Salon

Starbucks

Swan Leisure

Stratford Tennis Club

250 Square Speciality Coffee (Ranelagh, Rathmines, Terenure)

Vanilla Sustainable Hair Salon

Voici Creperie & Wine Bar

RATHMINES UPPER

Connolly’s Fish Shop

Fothergills Café Deli

Fresh & Wild Grocery Store

Lawlor’s Butchers

Kuts & Kurls Salon

O’Brien’s Wine Beer Spirits

Roche’s Pharmacy

DUBLIN 2

Hard Rock Cafe

TGI Fridays

DUBLIN 4

Marian Gale Boutique

O’Reilly Hyland Tierney & Associates Construction & Property Consultants

Railway Union Sports Club

& BEYOND

Centra

Ireland’s Blue Book

Leisureplex

Monasterevin Canal Houseboat

The Educational Company of Ireland

Educate.ie

Lush

Unique Publications

Wriggle Learning 

3 days to go to our Christmas Fair. Thank you to all who have donated so far. It will be a wonderful fair and we look forward to the school community coming together. Any final donations would be welcome tomorrow morning please. We are calling on bakers to get the aprons on and bake beautiful cakes, buns, cookies etc for the café. 

Don't forget the raffle - great prizes. 

https://idonate.ie/raffle/StLouisHighSchoolChristmas1

All monies going towards the refurbishment of the school stage. 

Sincere thanks to all who have donated so far to the Christmas Fair. Local businesses have been very supportive for which we are most grateful. See the attached document that lists businesses that have so far provided vouchers, gifts, monetary donations and prizes for the fair. We thank them most sincerely and hope that our school community will support their businesses as well. Thank you for all the support to date. 

A reminder that class 4O will attend a Geography trip to Howth tomorrow, Friday, 8th December. Students are to meet Ms McNamee and Ms Forde at Connolly Station at 8.45am sharp. Please bring a packed lunch, leap card and a pen. All students to wear school tracksuit and school jacket.

Parents and school management met with Ivana Bacik (TD) who listened to concerns about changed bus routes to Rathmines. Whilst the S2/S4 are proving positive for some, the Crumlin/Drimnagh/Walkinstown/Ballyfermot areas are badly affected. Please highlight issues with local TDs and Councillors. Thank you. 

Please get baking (or get your kids baking) for our Bake Stall at the forthcoming Christmas Fair. 

COOKIES  - TRAYBAKES  - BUNS    -  CAKES   - TARTS

Drop off your home bakes at the school from 9am onwards on Sunday morning, December 10th. 

Keep the donations coming into school over the next few days. Thank you for your support to date. 

Congratulations to all TY, 1st and 2nd-year students who participated in the Trade Fair today. It was wonderful to see the entrepreneurial talent in St. Louis High School. Sincerest thanks to Ms Lanigan for her immense work in organising the event. Thanks also to the TY business teachers, Ms Healy and Mr Sheahan. 

ATTENTION ALL BAKERS. 

At the Christmas Fair, we will have a café. Delicious home baked goods will make all the difference and we hope that the bakers within our school community will deliver delicious wares. Please let the parents council know at parentcouncil@stlouishighschool.ie know if you are in a position to bake goods for the Fair and then deliver them on Sunday morning to the school. Sincere thanks for your help and support.  

With only 6 days to go, we are putting out our final call outs in search of more donations and contributions to the Christmas Fair. The Parents' Council have been working very hard to get as much support as possible. We ask that each student in school brings in at least one item for the fair:

1st Yrs - selection box, colouring book and pens

2nd Yrs - festive wear

3rd Yrs - stationery

4th Yrs - skincare products

5th Yrs - candles

6th Yrs - boxes of chocolates.

These will be collected at the front door first thing in the morning. 

Monies raised will go towards refurbishing the school stage. We are looking for as much support as possible. Thank you to all who have contributed so far. 

We have just been informed that the FOOD VILLAGE, after careful consideration, find themselves in the unfortunate position of having to suspend their service for the morning break in school on Fridays only. This change will take effect from Monday 4th of December.

Food village remains committed to providing a full break and lunch service without any disruptions on Mon-Thursday. Thank you. 

Congratulations to our victorious basketball u/19 team who today won the east Region Division C final today. They played against Portmarnock CC and the final score was 41-35. The players played their hearts out and it was a well-deserved win. There was a fantastic welcome home for the team and Coach G and Ms O'Reilly. They now move on to the next phase of the competition having reached the final 16 in Ireland. This is a fantastic achievement. Thank you to the supporters who lifted the roof with their encouraging chants. Louis the Lion was in splendiforous form, even scoring a few baskets!! Well done again to one and all. UT SINT UNUM.  

We are still collecting donations for the Christmas Fair at the start of the day. All year groups have been asked to bring in at least one item for the Christmas Fair. Thank you to all those who have already brought in items. Please bring in the following as soon as possible. Every donation will make a difference. Monies raised from the Fair will go towards the refurbishment of our school stage. We need your support. Thank you. 

1st Yrs - Santa's Present - Christmas Selection Box; Colouring book and pens - all wrapped

2nd Yrs - Festive holiday wear - eg Christmas earrings; socks, scarves, hats; etc.

3rd Yrs Stationery items eg notebooks; pens/pencils/ laptop stickers; badges

TYs:  Skincare & Beauty products eg masks; cleansers; moisturisers; nail polish

5th Yrs: Candles

6th Yrs : boxes of sweets eg tubs of Quality Street; Roses; Celebrations etc. 

Other donations are welcome. We will need plenty of homebaked goods nearer the time, so we ask you to help as well in this regard. Many thanks. 

• We congratulate our students on completing their exams last week. School timetable returns to normal, with assemblies for all year groups being held at 8.20am on their assigned assembly day. Classes commence at 8.30am. 
  
• Well done to TYs who enjoyed a busy schedule of trips last week. 
  
• There will be a late start for students on Thursday 30th Nov. Class will commence at 9.28am. This is to facilitate planning. 
  
• Please note that some changes have happened to some bus routes (especially bus route 18) as in from the 26th Nov. Check out new routes S2 & S4. https://www.transportforireland.ie/news/eight-new-bus-routes-launch-as-part-of-phase-5b-of-busconnects-dublin/
• We resume collecting items for the Christmas Fair on Monday. Please bring in items. Thank you to those who have already donated. The Parents’ Council and students will be here to accept donations every morning. Thank you to the Parents’ Council and Darina Halpenny for all their work in this regard. Please keep donations coming. 
  
• The events of last Thursday in Dublin city centre have led to much upset and distress nationwide. Our thoughts and prayers are with the children, families, and school community of Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire. St Louis High School is a community that celebrates and welcomes diversity - one of our greatest strengths. The school motto of Ut Sint Unum, (that we may be one) is one that we value dearly and we look forward to seeing all our students back in school tomorrow for the final weeks of term in the run up to Christmas. 
• These coming weeks will be extremely busy with teaching and learning continuing, an Arts festival, Christmas Fair; celebrating Advent; parent-guardian/teacher meetings for 1st & 5th yrs; preparation for the Christmas Variety Show; Christmas ceremonies and assemblies; Carol singing;  end-of-term reports;  trip to Germany and charity fundraising. We look forward to the school community coming together in a spirit of togetherness, support and positivity over the coming weeks.  
• Student attendance and punctuality are extremely important. Much learning will be achieved over the next four weeks. Please avoid scheduling appointments during school time, where possible, for students. We would appreciate cooperation in this regard.  Any absences/lates should be noted on the school app for the attention of year heads. 
• We ask all to be patient, kind and look after each other. 
• Thank you. 

Please check out the changes to bus routes at the links below. If you think your child will be impacted by changes due these bus route changes, then please let us know in school at stlouishs.rathmines@gmail.com. Please make representation to your local representatives in this regard. An email will be sent with a sample letter which might be of help in any representations. The more representation made, the better for the campaign. Thank you.  

https://www.transportforireland.ie/getting-around/by-bus/phase-5b-southern-orbitals/

https://www.transportforireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/S4.pdf

https://www.transportforireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/S2.pdf

Route S2 will connect Heuston Station with St. James's Hospital, Rathmines, the RDS, Sandymount and Poolbeg.

Route S4 will connect Liffey Valley Shopping Centre with Ballyfermot, Crumlin Hospital, Terenure to UCD. 

As you may be aware, Transport Ireland has been changing bus routes over the past while. This week, the 18 bus route has now been changed and this is impacting students travelling to and from school. Whilst the school put in a comprehensive submission to Transport Ireland during the consultation stage requesting that this bus route should not be changed, the change has still gone ahead.

If this is affecting your child's journey to school, we would ask that you contact your local TD representative or councillor to raise your concerns and to seek action as soon as possible. We would appreciate if you could let us know if your child has been affected by this change to the 18 bus route. This will give the school further evidence of the negative impact this move will have on the school travel arrangements for some of our students.

https://www.dublinbus.ie/news/phase-5b-of-the-busconnects-new-redesign-launches-in-the-south-of-dublin-on-26-november-2023

The Soroptimist Ireland Girls’ Public Speaking Competition has been running for over 40 years and is the result of North-South Soroptimist co-operation when Mildred O’Brien SI Bray (President SI ROI) and Marie Brownlee (President SI Northern Ireland) decided that there should be a competition to encourage girls to speak in public.

The Competition is a three-stage event with local, regional competitions leading to a national final. A selection of topics is circulated to schools and each competitor can choose. A 6-minute speech is presented at the competition on the topic of choice and adjudicated by a panel of 3 judges. 

The competition encourages girls to develop the skills to speak effectively and articulately with clarity and conviction. This enables them to improve their self-confidence and personality which in turn will enhance their career opportunities.

Today, in the Mansion House, Lucie Walsh (TY) represented St Louis High School. Lucie put in a very impressive performance and now, along with one other is progressing to the regional finals in January. Congratulations to Lucie and wishing her every success at the next stage of the competition. Thank you to Ms Capper for encouraging, guiding and supporting. 

https://soroptimistireland.com/public-speaking/

We are collecting donations for the Christmas Fair at the start of the day. All year groups have been asked to bring in at least one item for the Christmas Fair. Thank you to all those who have already brought in items. 

1st Yrs - Santa's Present - Christmas Selection Box; Colouring book and pens - all wrapped

2nd Yrs - Festive holiday wear - eg Christmas earrings; socks, scarves, hats; etc.

3rd Yrs Stationery items eg notebooks; pens/pencils/ laptop stickers; badges

TYs:  Skincare & Beauty products eg masks; cleansers; moisturisers; nail polish

5th Yrs: Candles

6th Yrs : boxes of sweets eg tubs of Quality Street; Roses; Celebrations etc. 

Other general items can also be dropped off to the school:  books; bottles; bric-a-brac; festive food (nearer the date); decorations; etc. 

We really appreciate your support. All funds raised are going towards the refurbishment of the school stage. 

The TY Junk Kouture class are busy working on their entries for this year's competition. They would really appreciate the support of the entire school community in sourcing Ikea blue bags and plastic bottles (clear and blue) as their supplies are limited. Please check at home and bring in what you can to support this fantastic project. 

Many thanks,

Ms Howard and the TY Junk Kouture class.