Park & Stride (Week 2)

Some more photos of our pupils taking part in Park & Stride - week 2.

No weather was stopping our pupils & parents from taking part in the Big Travel Challenge.

Well done everyone!!

Halloween Activity Day (Part 2 - Avoca Red Kite Walk & visit to Avoca Handweavers)

Thursday the 24th of October 33 pupils from  both the Junior & Senior Room met at the Avoca Car park for our first Halloween Activity Day. The group was divided into two groups by staff.
Ms.Nuzum took her group to visit the Avoca Handweaver Mill and Ms.Fitzgerald took the other half and went on a lovely forest walk starting at the old Avoca Primary school. Both groups spent 35/40 minutes and swapped over once completed.  Our walk was part of our annual sponsored Halloween walk and the visit to the Handweaver Mill was part of the programme being covered in the Junior Room called Wool2Ewe. Each group was delighted to view the museum and touch all the different types of scarves on display. It was interesting to hear that the Mill was 300 years old last year.

Allen, our tour guide,brought each group into the factory area and the pupils got a talk on the history and the making of weaving. It was interesting to see and hear the difference between the wooden weave and the automatic machines.

It was a wonderful morning with lots of learning completed and also lots of fresh air and fun. Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to our parents who volunteered on the day and helped supervise the groups.

Soccer Coaching Complete!!

Our 10 weeks of soccer have come to an end and the pupils all really enjoyed their coaching sessions. They all learned lots of skills about the game and tactics. There were lots of trials, drills and soccer games. Pupils got to learn how to control the ball and how to play as part of a team. By the end of the coaching sessions, we could all really see how much confidence they had gained over the 10 weeks.

Well done to all of our pupils and thank you to our coach for a really enjoyable 10 weeks.

Big Travel Challenge complete for SSE!!

A huge well done to all pupils and parents for their enormous efforts over the last two weeks of 'The Big Travel Challenge'.

It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces arriving at the gate following their walks to school. These efforts saw a huge 45% increase in the number of our pupils who walked to school over the last week. We would love to see everyone continue their efforts as the weather improves.

Great Job everyone!!

#Bigtravelchallenge

Maths Eyes & Maths Trail for our pupils!

Last Friday, our senior room pupils partnered up with the junior room pupils to complete a 'Maths Trail' around our school grounds.

This trail was planned and drawn out entirely by one of our excellent fifth class pupils. All our junior pupils really enjoyed this activity and the opportunity to use their 'Maths Eyes' to complete the trail around the school grounds, expertly guided by our senior pupils.

Well done all! We are already planning a more challenging trail in term 3!!

Week 2 of the Big Travel Challenge

A huge well done to all our parents & pupils who continued to park & stride today as part of the big travel challenge for our green schools flag. We are encouraging all pupils and parents to park & stride this week. Well done everyone, it’s a great start to the week.

We would love to see you all continue for the week and for others to join in.

Thank you to our parents who sent us in photos of their walk to school

Big Travel Challenge 2025 (Park & Stride)

Our #Bigtravelchallenge began Tues 4th Feb and even the wet and windy weather didn’t dampen our spirits as our pupils done the park & stride challenge to school. Everyone was well rested after our long bank holiday weekend and it was great start to the week!!

The weather got better as the week wore on and our park & stride to school each morning were nice & crisp. Let’s just say we were all awake on arrival to school!!

Our pupils all enjoyed some lovely chats on the way to school and a catch up before the day began. Thank you to all the parents for putting in the effort and participating in the challenge.

This is part of our Green schools programme and we are aiming to try to achieve our travel flag for this year.

Well done and keep up the great work!! #Greenschools

Park & Stride - Week 2 (10th-14th February)

Park & Stride - Big Travel Challenge (10-14th February) 

We are encouraging parents & pupils to keep up the great work and to continue for another week to park & stride to school. This week 10-14th is also wellbeing week @ Scoil San Eoin and with the weather improving and our mornings getting brighter, we are asking our parents to continue to park & stride. On the week of the 10th February there will be no teachers meeting pupils.

Please take lots of photos and send them into us @ schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com as you park & stride each day!

We have always proven as a whole school that we are always better united, therefore we are asking all parents to get behind this challenge and encourage their child to take part.

Scoil San Eoin & The Big Travel Challenge 2025

Dear Parents,

As part of Green Schools and our plan to achieve our travel flag this year, we will be taking part in the Big Travel Challenge Competition next week.

All information regarding our schools plan has been sent via aladdin connect.

The challenge will begin on Tuesday 4th February 2025

We have always proven as a whole school that we are always better united, therefore we are asking all parents to get behind this challenge and encourage their child to take part.

Thank You

Linda Greene & The Green Schools Team

SEAI Workshops - Weds 15th Jan

On Wednesday 15th January, our pupils from all classes took part in SEAI workshops with Adele.

The junior room enjoyed meeting 'Guzzler the puppet' in their workshop with Adele. They learned that Guzzler is a puppet who loves to waste energy. Through games and activities with Adele the children learned where energy comes from and why/how we can save energy. 

The senior room took part in an 'Energy Challenge' workshop where they explored the topic of Energy with Adele from SEAI. This was a great hands on experience for the children as they played the energy game and carried out some energy experiments. Experiencing 'Circuit the Robot' was a particular highlight.

Overall there was lots of learning throughout the day and the children really enjoyed it!

#Park & Stride - Tues 3rd Dec

On Tuesday 3rd Dec, We had our first Park & stride day as part of our Green Schools Goal towards our travel flag. It was a gorgeas crisp morning and all our pupils got in the spirit and were well and truly awake by the time they reached school! They even had time for a selfie with Ms Greene!

Well done everyone.

Park & Stride @ Scoil San Eoin

Dear Parents,

As part of our Green Schools Travel Flag will be doing ‘Park & Stride’ @ Scoil San Eoin for the three Tuesdays in December 3rd, 10th & 17th.

A full plan has been issued via aladdin for parents today Monday 25th November!

Lets really make the effort to participate and take part in Park & Stride!!!

Halloween Activity Day (Part 1 - Cycle to Ballykane)

Our annual school Halloween Sponsored Cycle took place on Thursday 24th Oct.

Again this year we were so fortunate with the weather and we got lucky and we had some decent weather ensuring that the cycle would be a great day.

Our pupils that signed up for the option of the cycle had the serious task of cycling 7k to Ballykane and a small group of pupils braved this one along with Ms Greene and the parents who volunteered and helped out on the day. The children well and truly proved that we are a very active school and faced the task of a long cycle head on! We even some Junior Infant pupils who tackled the task and done brilliantly on the day.

Afterwards everyone headed back to the school and to meet back up with all our other pupils who done option 2 (red kite walk and avoca mill tour) and we all had some much needed refreshments and treats

The day was a fantastic success achieved only by the help and volunteering of our parents who were road marshals, who cycled alongside our pupils, who walked and supervised our smaller pupils and who volunteered afterwards to provide refreshments. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the day, we couldn’t of done it without you.

It was so lovely to get outside on the day and have some much needed fresh air for everyone!

We are still awaiting all sponsor cards to be returned to the school but once we have a final figure we will let parents know!

Again thank you to everyone for all your help and a huge well done to all our pupils and teachers for taking part in the event.

Whole School Avondale Nature Trip (Weds 16.10.2024)

We visited beautiful Avondale Park as a whole school Nature trip on Wednesday 16th October 2024.

As part of the Small Schools Project all pupils and teachers took the trip to Avondale to go orienteering & on a nature walk.

The three schools involved in the cluster, Shillelagh, Crossbridge and ourselves came together in Avondale as part of a collaborative learning day.

It was a semi-guided walk through the woodland allowing the pupils to interact with nature and see their curricular  learning from the classroom in its natural environment.

We hope to further build on the learning to create projects next week. It also allowed for social interaction with their peers from two other schools. It was a fun, interactive day full of learning, fresh air and exercise!! 

Walk to School Week - WOW (Friday 11th October 2024)

Our pupils from 1st class upwards too part in walk to school week on Friday 11th October and completed a walk to Cullen Park as part of this.

Getting to enjoy delicous apples from our own School apple tree!

We are extremely lucky at Scoil San Eoin to have a beautiful garden for our pupils to play in and enjoy. Part of our school garden contains an apple tree that was planted many years ago. Our pupils today, got to enjoy the fresh fruit from that tree and there were lots of happy faces while eating apples in the sunshine!

We are very blessed to have this area in our school!

#Relaystakeover Day - Friday 27th Sept

On Friday 27th September, the whole school enjoyed the #relaystakeover as part of our Active Flag and European School Sports Day 2024. All classes enjoyed outdoor relay activities inspired by the successful Irish relay teams, who so many of us watched in Paris this Summer.

The Junior Room, led by Ms. Reilly and Ms. Blount, had great fun in their relay races using bean bags, hula hoops and cones.

Followed by the Senior Room, who before taking batons into their own hands, re-lived some of the Irish teams' races on our interactive whiteboard in the classroom with lots of cheering!! Then it was their turn outside to practise ready positions, baton changes and sprints.

A great active day for all!

A New School Bike Rack for our pupils!

Over the Summer period we had a new bike rack installed at the school. This project is encouraged by Green Schools and promotes cycling to school as part of an active lifestyle. We hope that our pupils will enjoy cycling to school for many years to come!

Pictured below is our 3rd class pupil Theodora who was our very first pupil to use the school bike rack today! Well done Theodora, we hope you enjoyed your cycle to school!

Litter Pick (Pure Mile Project)- Senior Room Pupils

Our pupils took part in a litter pick around Redcross and out towards Brennan’s Farm as part of the Pure Mile Project. We collected lots of rubbish on the day and the pupils really made an effort.

There was lots of fun had by all our pupils on the hay bales!

They all done a great job and we are sure the local community are very pleased with the result!

Junior Room School Tour - Friday 21st June 2024

Our Junior Room had their annual school tour on Friday 21st June and headed to Woodfield House with Ms Nuzum, Ms Fitzgerald, Ms Reilly & Thomas.

The weather was brilliant and the children all had a great time. The children took part in lots of fun and engaging activities and milked cows, had sponge fights, listened to story telling and had lots of playtime.

Overall everyone had a fantastic day and there were smiles and laughter all round from everyone. Our pupils behaved wonderfully on the day! We couldn’t ask for more than that.

Thank you to Thomas for coming along and helping out on the day!