Focus on Community - Blue day this Friday - Hospice Fundraising

As both Dublin Ladies and Mens teams are playing in the All-Ireland finals this weekend we will have a Blue Day this Friday. Students can wear a Dublin top or just wear blue for the day, donations of €2 will be collected and given to St. Francis Hospice.

As always, staff can take part, and we'll even let an odd Kerry, Cavan or Mayo jersey slip through on the day:)

Focus on Community - 'Street Party' 2019 - All Welcome

Focus on Achievement - Higher Options - Thursday 19th September, RDS

ALS 6th Year Students will be given the opportunity to visit Higher Options in RDS, on Thursday 19th September. Tickets are €10 and are available to purchase from the Career Guidance Department. Should you have any questions please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. event is open to 6th Year Students only.

Higher Options is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition for Leaving Cert students, who want to know what options are available to them after the Leaving Cert.

Focus on Achievement - Junior Cert Results

The Junior Cycle provisional Results for 2019 will be available online and in the school on Friday 4th October 2019. 

Focus on Achievement: Classroom Based Assessments (CBAs) and Attendance

Classroom Based Assessments (CBAs) are part of the Junior Cert and take place during the school year. They take place for 2nd and 3rd years. This means that during 2nd and 3rd years students are earning marks every month that will appear in their Junior Cert Results.

They usually take 6 weeks each to complete and there is usually a practice run in the weeks before. They are spread throughout the school year as each student has many of these to do. Students will be informed of the schedule. At any given time our 2nd and 3rd year students will be doing several CBAs at the same time. The CBAs must be done strictly at the set time and no provision will be made to make them up at another time, unless they are missed due to a well documented medical emergency.

It is vitally important that all Junior Cert students have excellent attendance during the coming year - missed time means missed parts of the CBAs, and this means missed marks in the Junior Cert.

Parents will have noticed that Ardscoil La Salle has pushed the  Attendance issue to the forefront, starting last year. This will continue more strongly in the current year. With the advent of CBAs it directly affects exam results on a day to day basis.

Focus on Attendance: Attendance Matters

Focus on Attendance and Every School Day Counts  are HSCL initiatives.