Welcome to Virgin Mary Boys National School
A note from the principal:
​We know how important an education is to every child so you can expect nothing but the best from our teachers when delivering that education. Whether you're new to the Virgin Mary or returning this year, we'd like to welcome you. Please see below for a snapshot of information that can be found across our website. We look forward to the year ahead!
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Warm regards
Aisling Cox and all the staff

ANNUAL ADMISSIONS NOTICE  2024
Your child must be 4 years of age by September to enrol in our Junior Infant class.
Junior Infant hours are from 08.50 a.m. until 1.30 p.m.
Please see below for admissions details.

Admissions to the 2025/2026 school year
Application and Decision Dates for admission to 2025/2026
The following are the dates applicable for admission for Junior Infants.

The school will commence accepting applications for admission on 15/10/2024
The school shall cease accepting applications for admission on 10/01/2025
The date by which applicants will be notified of the decision on their application is 24/01/2025
The period within which applicants must confirm acceptance of an offer of admission is 10/02/2025

Note: the school will consider and issue decisions on late applications in accordance with the school’s admission policy.
Failure to accept an offer within the prescribed period above may result in the offer being withdrawn.

Number of places being made available in 2025/2026
Number of spaces being made available in Junior Infants is 22.
Number of spaces being made available in Early Start is 30.
Number of spaces being made available in our ASD class is 0.

Please see enrolment sections above for relevant application forms.
They are also available from the school office. Please return with a copy of your child's birth certificate. If you wish your child to take part in Catholic sacraments please include a copy of their baptism certificate. Places cannot be offered without required paperwork and fully completed application form.

Aladdin
Dear parents, we will no longer be sending home paper notes. All communication and information about school closures, events in school and updates will be on ALADDIN. If you haven't signed up to Aladdin, please check your email for the link and sign up, it's so simple and saves so much time. If you are having trouble signing up, please call into the school and Lorna, our secretary or Siobhán, our home school will help you!!
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Attendance
We love having your children in school and we hope they love being here, so please send them every day!! Our secretary Lorna along with our Home School Liaison teacher are here to help you with all things attendance related. Please use the Aladdin app or call us to notify if any absences. Thank you! You can check out our best attenders in the Celebrating our Students tab of the website.

If your child is unwell and cannot come to school have a look below for some helpful hints and fun activities you can do to ensure that nobody is bored!!
If they are able, you can ask your son's teacher for some work for home!

These following links and websites maybe helpful to you during this time. Please don’t get bogged down, pick and choose what your child may benefit from. Remember- play, talk and relaxation are helpful too, compliment yourselves as parents and what you are doing for your child.
1. Mental well-being: (a)Childline 1800666666 (b) Spunout text 18000280 (c) www.pietahouse.ie
2.Education:(a) bitesize.co.uk (b) scoilnet (worldbook link here too)  (d) studyclix.ie (e) Khanacademy.com (f) Scratchmit.ed (comic and animation) 
3. Play and relaxation: (a) Bike ride (b) Read together (books or make up stories, retell your child stories from the past, your own or their grandparents) (c) Ask your child to teach  you something they like to do (d) Cook /bake together 
(e) Ask your child what yoga they know from school, to teach you a move or sequence, if not watch YouTube yoga for kids. (f) cosmickidsyoga (age 3+)