Ashbourne PTA AGM
Ashbourne PTA Annual General Meeting was held on 6th October 2010 and had a relatively good attendance of parents and guardians. Our Principal, Aine O Sullivan and our three Deputy Principals, Susan Duffy, Ciaran Stewart and Chris Purcell attended and each spoke on different aspects of school life in ACS.
Carole Trodden PRO for PACCS gave a short talk on PACCS (Parents’ Associations of Community and Comprehensive schools)
Our guest speaker was Liam Moggan from Coaching Ireland who gave an inspiring and entertaining talk on how to encourage learning both at home and at school. He had all his audience up and moving on the floor and even managed to cause the chosen few to “break some eggs” He left us with some little nuggets of wisdom for example: WWW not only means World Wide Web but it also means What Went Well which can give us a better approach when facing some situations in our lives. Many thanks to all who attended and looking forward to a new school year together.
New Officers for PTA
Chairperson Margaret Moore
Vice Chairperson Deirdre O’ Doherty
Secretary Diane Smyth
Vice Secretary Sandra Doyle
Treasurer Alice Flynn
Vice Treasurer Mary O’ Connor
PRO Barbara Baitson
Fiona Jones
Uniform Shop
The uniform shop is open every Friday from 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Parents please remember that it is the parents of your school that are providing this facility in an effort to ensure high quality and low cost and any profits made are put back into the school
Training for PTA
On Tuesday 9th November Grace Mooney, President of PACCS gave a talk to our PTA about PACCS and the role of Parent Teacher associations. It was very interesting for us all especially our new members to the PTA and we would like to thank Grace for taking the time out to come and speak to us