Rolestown National School

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Table Quiz at Roganstown Hotel is the main school fundraising event, taking place on Friday 22nd March. Kick off the Easter holidays with a great fun night out with the opportunity to win €400 prize money, a Tombola or spot prize. There’s a raffle and an auction to ensure nobody goes home empty handed. Great prizes, great craic & all in aid of maintaining the facilities and activities our children enjoy and benefit from in our school. Watch this space over the coming weeks for details of the raffle & auction prizes on offer.

Raffle  Tickets are on sale NOW at the school mornings and afternoons or contact Valerie 086-403082 (€2 per ticket or 6 for €10)

1st Prize:              Full Organic Lamb Donated by Fieldstown Farm

2nd Prize:            €100 voucher from Super Value

3^rd Prize:              Child’s Violin from Irish Musical Instruments

4^th Prize:               Dinner for 2 at Kettles Steakhouse

5^th Prize:               Dinner, B&B for 2 in Crowne Plaza Northwood

6^th Prize:               Large Butler’s Easter Egg

                                …….. & many more!

Auction Items include Robbie Williams tickets, All-Ireland Final tickets, Late Late Show tickets and many more!

Best of luck to Lynne Cantwell and the Irish Women’s Rugby team who take on France tonight in Ashbourne RFC as they chase a first ever Grand Slam. Lynne came to the school two years ago after playing in the World Cup and brought some of her New Zealand friends with her.

Get along and support them if you can or you can follow the game on IrishRugby.ie or RTE.ie

John Lonergan comes to RNS

John Lonergan is coming to Rolestown to give a talk called ” Parenting – the challenges and the rewards“. This talk lasts about one hour and is a reflective and awareness raising look at parenting.

• making a difference to others,
• the importance of community,
• why we can’t enforce change on others,
• drugs in our society,
• confronting bullying in our society,
• reducing the risks of suicides,
• balancing our lives between work, home and family,
• why sport is so important.

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Eanna Bailey a past-pupil of RNS  made history in the USA on February 24th where when he and Natalya Coyle from Meath won Ireland’s first ever medal at a World Cup competition. The pair claimed Silver in the Mixed Relay event of the modern pentathlon in Palm Springs, California.  At present Eanna as well as being an elite athlete is studying Environmental Science on a full time basis in DCU.

Modern Pentathlon is a sport comprising five phases, epee fencing, swimming, showjumping and a combined running and shooting event

On the competition day in Palm Springs both Bailey and Coyle produced an excellent display in the fencing to score 31 victories and 21 defeats for 910 pentathlon points and a share of thirdplace on the leader board. Moving onto the swim, where Eanna  posted a fantastic 100m split of sub 55seconds to claim third place in the pool for the Irish team. Their score of 1340 pentathlonpoints kept them in third spot heading to the riding event. Coyle, riding “Mo”, knocked one rail while Bailey went clear on “Leap” and their points score of 1116 was enough for second place in the riding event. A zero score for the Russian team saw the Irish move up the leader board to second place before the final run/shoot event.

Hungary started the handicapped run shoot race in 1st place with Ireland following at 18 seconds and the Chinese team in 3rd. A nervy start from Coyle saw her spend 22 seconds on the range forthe first shoot series. Strong running kept the Chinese team distant coming into the range for the second shoot. Another uncharacteristically anxious shoot from Coyle meant the gap to the chasing pack closed a little but Coyle kept a decent gap over the last 800m to the change over. Bailey, showing no signs of nerves, cleared his first shoot series in 9.4 seconds and his second in 11.7, ensuring the chasing pack kept their distance and Bailey powered home to claim the Silver medal behind theHungarian team in Gold with the Ukraine’s overhauling China to take the bronze.

Eanna had also competed in the individual event in the preceding days where he qualified through the semi finals to the men’s final which was held on Friday 22nd Feb. He placed 15th in this competition and was the only athlete to have a clear round in the showjumping. He will miss World Cup 2 in Rio and has returned to training in Ireland to prepare for his next competition; World Cup 3 in China.

Rolestowns Got Talent is currently underway in the school.

Children from 1st – 6th Class are preparing and taking part in our talent show auditions. We have seen a fantastic array of talent from singing, dancing, gymnastics, cheerleading and playing instruments to name but a few.

Well done to all who have taken part so far! The finals will take place in the next couple of weeks.