Dwardu’s Scoops

A Very Active Year

ByNollaigMacAnBhaird, Headmaster

As with every year, in every school, the end of the academic year seems to appear from nowhere! Yet here we are again, ready to hand back your children for some relaxed, quality time, with their parents. This year was different in that we had several renewed ‘firsts’. The year 22/23 saw us coming together, literally, after the interruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. We had the ‘first’ communions, graduations, live ins, concerts, local and international trips, all was back to how we wanted it to be, well, sort of …

Planned Activities

And boy did we enjoy all the activities. There were some hiccups as we renewed our ‘firsts’ but they are now in the rear-view mirror. There were times when we, staff, students and parents, were not exactly sure as to what the procedures, protocols were for any given activity, but we managed. All parents have now received the calendar giving you the dates for start and end dates for main holidays and mid-term breaks for 23/24. Over the summer we will be constructing activity lists for the first term. In the past we gave dates for any full year. Because we have to adhere to dates given to us by outside entities we were hit with clashes and had to change the dates we had on our calendar. The most interruptive, but not only, clash, this past year, was the Bench-mark exams in Junior School. Consequently, we will issue dates per term.