School Calendar 2019/2020
Please note the change to the start date for 2nd year students. There is no school for 2nd year students on the 23rd as previously planned. The start date for 2nd years is the 27th.
Monday August 26th from 8:30-12pm: 1st year students only.
*** Tuesday August 27th from 8:30-12pm: 1st and 2nd year students.
Wednesday August 28th 8:30-3:40pm: Regular school timetable commences for all students.
We are moving!
From August 15th please direct all correspondence to our new address:
The Sandymount Building, 16 Simmonscourt Road, Dublin 4.
Hot off the press!
Sandymount Park Press Issue 3
Issue 3 shows great development in the journalistic skills of our press team. Climate issues dominate in the latest edition with a very interesting article by Eliott Greene on this theme in the music of Jeff Lynne and Queen.
As always the newspaper features some original artwork by our talented students.
An Scéal Eile
A fantastic day was had at the GPO this Wednesday May 8th. Josh Kenny, a first year student in Sandymount Park Educate Together Secondary School, was the overall national winner in the Junior category of ‘An Scéal Eile’, a creative writing competition in it’s 35th year organised by An Post and the INTO. A speech was given by the head of the INTO and the head of An Post to the winning students, where the importance of story telling was emphasized. David McRedmond, head of An Post, remarked that the most common degree held by CEO’s was History and English because a key element of success was the ability to communicate and tell a story. Josh certainly has this skill as it was revealed that his winning story was picked among 30,000 entries!
Josh’s story, told through the eyes of Daisy the dog in the novel ‘Wonder’ inspired established children’s author Dave Rudden to write a personal letter to Josh detailing the reasons that he found the story so touching. A reading of Rudden’s award winning book ‘Knights of the Borrowed Dark’ was given to the winners, along with their English teacher and parents, and a signed copy of his book was gifted to each student.
Josh was the overall national winner of the Junior Cycle entries which carried the fantastic award of €500 towards Sandymount Park Educate Together Secondary School and a lovely framed plaque which is displayed proudly in the school.
Congratulations Josh, you have done the school proud!
Sandymount Park Press: issue 2
From Leonardo Da Vinci to Donald Trump, Palm Oil to Plogging and all you need to know about Brexit; read the latest news in the Sandymount Park Press.
