Some confusion over Scoil Eoghan return date

Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Scoil Eoghan

I got a letter from Scoil Eoghan at the end of last term which went out to all the parents.

I was certain that it said that the pupils were to return on Wednesday, September 1st although I didn't have it to hand.

I discovered the night before that they were to return on the Monday rather than the Wednesday.

Up He Got

How could that have happened?

I got my son up the next day.

He wasn't very pleased to be told that he was going to school rather than being on holiday that day.

However, I discovered that his school clothes were all at his mother's house - and she had gone to college.

Buying Clothes

I went up to Kelly's shop to buy some soon after 9 o'clock but the shutters were all up.

Perhaps they had Monday off after the weekend.

I went up again between 10am and 10:30am and found them open.

Wednesday

"You thought the school was going back on Wednesday" smiled the person working there.

"Yes, I did." I replied.

I got my son a full kit for school which drained just about everything I had in my pocket.

Amused

I called in the school to find out what time lunch was as that would be a good time to go in rather than searching about for the right classroom - and to inform the teacher that my son would be in.

Whoever answered seemed amused that I thought it was Wednesday he was due back too.

How?

How could I have got it so wrong?

And why did Kelly's shop ask if I thought it was Wednesday they went back and not Tuesday or Thursday?

Why Wednesday?

Explanation

When he did come back from school my son told me that a note went out at the end of term from the Principal saying it would be Sepetember 1st that they would go back.

However, it seems that a notice was put in the Parish Bulletin saying that it was Monday.

Bulletin

It seems that there were a few pupils missing.

Now they know who doesn't read the Parish Bulletin.

Well, at least that's that all cleared up.

Weather Signs

I should have known that they were going back on Monday.

The weather forecast was for a spell of good weather.

It happens every year when the kids go back to school.

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