Amber Flag
In May 2021 we were awarded our first Amber Flag. This was a very special day for our school community as all of our hard work and dedication to promoting positive mental health was acknowledged and rewarded.
Our journey to achieving our first Amber Flag was a community effort. Everyone got involved – our students, parents, staff and the wider community.
While we were all learning from home we held a Health and Happiness Week. We ran an online drama and dance workshop with Next Stage Theatre School, a family yoga and meditation class lead by Yoga with Laura and we even all took part in a healthy treat cook along which saw over 20 of our families cooking along online with Ms McArdle and Ms Kildea.
Our wonderful PA organised a fantastic initiative called Active April. They set fun family challenges for the month of April including a superhero challenge and capoeria workshops.
However, the pinnacle event in our bid to achieve our first Amber Flag was our 5 marathons in 5 days challenge. Our 42 junior and senior infants ran a kilometre a day for 5 days – running marathons from Tokyo to Cape Town, Dublin to New York. Our amazing students not only completed 5 marathons in 5 days, learned about different cities and cultures around the world but also raised €1545 for Pieta House. Well done everyone!
Welcome to River Valley
Community National School!
Welcome to River Valley Community National School! We opened in September 2019 under the patronage of Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLTB) as a Community National School.
As Principal of River Valley Community School, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our school website. I hope our website will provide useful and current information for both current and prospective students and their families, for our school staff and the wider River Valley and Swords community.
River Valley CNS is dedicated to the holistic development of every child through the use of high quality, future-focused teaching and learning approaches which strive to develop each individual’s academic, social, moral, emotional, spiritual and creative capabilities. We are committed to the core values of respect, inclusion, equality and fairness, where diversity of belief, language, cultures, traditions and views are not only acknowledged but celebrated.
Our school motto is “partners in learning.” A core value of River Valley CNS is partnership, where staff, parents and members of the wider community work together to enable all of our students reach their full potential in an educational environment which is welcoming, child-centred, stimulating, future-focused, wholly inclusive and reflective of a diverse 21st century Ireland.
Anne McArdle, Principal