December in the Senior Room

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The Grinch who Stole Christmas - Our Senior Room Christmas 2021 Performance

Covid wasnt going to spoil it for us… Our parents and lovely families could not come to Scoil San Eoin so we are bringing our performance to you!! Grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy our brilliant Christmas performance from our senior room pupils.

Let all your family know they can watch it on our website.

Well done to each and everyone of you. You all worked so hard and it showed in this brilliant performance. It wasn’t an easy task having to do it in the classroom, with pods in place and limited space and resources, but as usual everyone got into the spirit of Christmas and made the best of the situation. Creative juices flowed to turn a reading piece into a mini play by making props, adding in songs, costumes and props. Special mention to our excellent musicians Brian Jones on keyboard and Ronan Wynne on guitar. What a talented bunch you are!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

December has been a busy and fun month in the Senior class. We really got into the festive spirit and had great fun opening our class Advent calendar each day, which either gave us a whole class treat or an Act of Kindness to carry out.

In English we continued with the genre of Recount by retelling the story of The Nativity. We also read about Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in The Christmas Carol. We also got really into debating and had some great debates on some hot topics such as Gaming and Zoos!

In Maths we learned our multiplication tables, Gaelige we learned the theme of Bia.

In Religion we looked at Advent and preparing for Christmas, as well as the Annunciation and Christmas itself.

We did some fabulous Christmas arts and crafts and beautiful paintings that really added to the Christmas feel around the classroom.

In SPHE, we talked about the different types of families we can be part of and each child made their own Family crest thinking about different aspects of their families and what they liked to do.

Darren our GAA coach is back to do Gaelic football with us each week.

The pupils did some fantastic projects on Schools in the Past, gathering information from a variety of sources including interviews with family members and neighbors. They each presented them to the class.

They also made some cool light up Christmas cards as part of a STEM lesson and did some brilliant troubleshooting and investigating if they didn’t light up.

Finally we topped the term off by watching a Christmas movie and munching on treat bags made up by our Parent Rep Cleo, who also included some Reindeer food so that no-one went hungry!! Each child also went home with a lovely Kris Kindle gift from a classmate! What a great term!!

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Christmas in the Senior Room

Covid may have sadly prevented us from having our usual big production and concert this year, but we still wanted to spread some Christmas cheer and do a little performance for our wonderful parents. Sticking to our pods, we performed the fun song Sleigh Ride and even told a little joke at the end. Enjoy!

Christmas Shoebox Appeal

We are taking part in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal again this year where we encourage each child to fill a shoebox with items from a designated list for Christmas. These shoeboxes are then delivered to underprivileged children all over the world. These children may never have received a present before, or live in difficult situations where basic necessities are hard to come by.

The benefits of the children being involved in this programme are getting to ‘‘feel good about doing something nice for others’’ and it can also help to teach your children about the world around them.

The deadline for drop off of the Christmas Shoeboxes for this year will be 08th November 2019. Please ensure that all shoeboxes have been brought to the school by this date.

Leaflets and further information will follow in the next few days with the children but we have included some helpful tips at the bottom of this post for anyone that wants to get started early!

Thank You!

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5 simple steps to follow to fill shoebox:

1. Grab a Shoe box
   Or a plastic container would be great! Wrap the box and lid separately with Christmas paper

2. Use boy/girl sticker from leaflet) and choose who you want to give your Christmas Shoebox to and what age.

3. Fill the box
   See below guide for items to put in the box

4. Close the box

   • Include €4 in your leaflet envelope either on top of the gifts or taped to the inside of the lid.

   • To make it easier you can
     donate your €4 on our secure on-line site.

   • With elastic band – please don’t seal with tape as we need to check contents to comply with regulations.

5. Drop it off
   To your school.

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Christmas Fun Day

We had our annual Christmas breakfast morning and Santa visit for all the pupils on Friday 21st December. The Parents Reps had a yummy breakfast of sausages and rolls for the pupils with teas/coffees and treat for visiting parents. A huge thank you to all involved. It was a great way to start off the Christmas holidays!!. The BOM and staff would like to wish all our pupils and their families a very happy, safe and peaceful Christmas. See you all in January.

Festive Clothing Day and Breakfast - Friday 21st December

We are holding a festive clothing day on Friday 21st December. The children can wear Christmas jumpers, Christmas onesies, make their own Christmas jumpers, anything once its full of festive cheer!! The Parents Reps will also be providing tasty breakfast treats for the pupils and we may even have a surprise visitor in the morning!

The pupils will not need to bring in any money for this non uniform day.

Can we also remind parents that the annual Kris Kindle present swap will be taking place in the school on Thursday 20th, so each pupil should have their gift in, wrapped and nameless, by that day.

Thank You

Other Fun Activities!

Here are a sample of some of the other fun activites we have been doing in the run up to Christmas!

Festive Christmas Art!

We have been very busy doing our Christmas art over the past few weeks. These will be displayed in the hall on the night of our Christmas play for all the audience to admire.