A very big thank you to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our new fence, we are thrilled!








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​Lots of preparations for the children returning to school happening in ABACAS today - a quick photo and back to work!
A BIG Thank you to all the volunteers from AMAZON (AWS) 




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 Department of Health and the HSE have produced Covid-19 resources in a range of languages other than Irish and English which you can access below:
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/partner-resources/covid-19-translated-resources/





***In line with the introduction of the new Admissions to Schools Act our pre-enrolment list is closed - 
we will post more details soon. ***

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'Thank you' to Carlton Banks from
Collision Drumsticks, who kindly donated some brand new 5A and 5B standard drumsticks to the pupils in ABACAS!
​We will have hours of fun! 




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Credit Union
Walk of Life Art competition 2019
We had 4 individual winners in the 14-17 Special category and 4 class winners in the group section. 
​Congratulations to all our artists. 

Exciting news ...
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We at ABACAS are delighted to share our news that the wonderful people at 'Waltons Music' have donated us a new drum kit! We are so grateful for your generosity! We love music in our school and we are so excited with out newest addition! 

                                      THANK YOU WALTONS Music !!!!  - Check out the video below!

https://m.facebook.com/waltonsmusic/videos/551804885599831/?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fstory.php&_rdr 

Christmas Jumper Day for Crumlin Children's Hospital- we raised a massive €159.40 well done and thank you to all who took part. 


GOAL Jersey Day - Friday 11th October 2019
WOW we raised €122 for GOAL !!!!


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Child Safeguarding Statement
​The Board of Management reviewed the Child Safeguarding Statement and Risk Assessment on the 18th September 2019. The reviewed and ratified statement can now be found under "policies". It is important that all parents and staff familiarise themselves with this very important policy.

Updated Policies
Please find recently ratified policies in our "Policies" section:

• Swimming Policy
• Complaints Policy
• Custody/Separation Policy
• Stay Safe Policy
• RSE Policy
• Toileting/Intimate Care Policy
• Job-Sharing/Career Break
• Administration of Medicines and Management of Health Conditions
• Critical Incident Policy
• ABACAS Covid Response Plan 
• Data Protection