Student Council

This Wednesday, February 21st, is the annual United Nations Mother Language Day.

The Student Council of St Patrick's NS, along with many pupils and class teachers, will celebrate the linguistic diversity of our school community. This is a fancy way of saying that we will make a special effort on Wednesday to use all the different languages we have in our school. Through sharing the languages of our homes and other parts of our lives, we will enjoy all the lovely differences and sounds and musicality of the ways in which we communicate.

The Student Council began in September with the explicit aim of making St Patrick's NS more inclusive. This keeps coming up in meetings. Ms Griffin and Ms Fox are very proud of the children's passion about this very worthwhile goal. Respecting and embracing the different languages we speak is a great way of thinking more inclusively.

Languages are also really important for our learning, in obvious and less obvious ways.. According to the United Nations' website: "The theme of International Mother Language Day celebration 2024 is “Multilingual education is a pillar of intergenerational learning”. We have just celebrated Grandparents' Day and we will soon begin marking Seachtain na Gaeilge in March. Let's pay attention to the message: "Mother tongue education supports learning, literacy and the acquisition of additional languages" and make a huge effort this Wednesday to use and to share our Mother Tongue, especially if it isn't English 

What a wonderful week! Well-being week went very well.

I want to say a very big Thank you to the children from the student council who were amazing at helping out this week. You should all be very proud of yourselves! 

Mrs Hickey