Dear Parents,
Please see below an attached link with a special message sent from President Michael D.Higgins for our 6th class pupils leaving us this year
https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-higgins-issues-message-to-6th-class-students/video
Following on from our last post regarding the fantastic success of Active Home Week we have added lots of videos below of the children (& their parents) completing different challenges & exercises for Active Home Week. A huge well done to everyone and thank you to all the parents for sending in the videos. We really enjoyed watching them.
Active Home week was a resounding success in Scoil San Eoin. We are so proud of all of the pupils who took on the challenge with great energy and a positive attitude. This can be difficult to do in these times so a huge thank you to all the families who videoed, took pictures s and most importantly encouraged and joined in the fun! It was so nice for the staff to see the smiling faces of the pupils, as we miss them greatly. We were even happy to see that some exercise doubled up as a helpful job such as grass cutting and litter picking!!!Have a look at the beautiful photos below & all the wonderful videos on the next post, which not only show the pupils in action but also the beautiful surroundings of Redcross.
Ms. FItzgerald has been trying to practise her headstands! What have you been getting up to? Please send back your completed challenge charts we are looking forward to seeing all the great activities you have been doing all week!
Following on from their successful Easter Egg Hunt Super Troopers have a May Day Challenge for everyone happening this Saturday morning on their social media channels, a nice way to end Active Home Week. Visit www.supertroopers.ie for more information!
Ms FItzgerald and her helper complete the Wednesday Challenge!
Dear Parents,
Please see below links and information for Active Home Week challenge running from April 27th to May 03rd 2020.
The idea of the #ActiveHomeWeek challenge is to:
Encourage children to find NEW ways of being physically active that they ENJOY
Raise awareness about the fact that children need at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day
To complete the challenge children have to find four different ways of being active every day making sure that this add up to 60 MINUTES, or more. Children are encouraged to try something NEW, have FUN with a family activity and to ENJOY the week!
Please click on the attached document for ideas - word cloud
Please click on the attached document for your challenge chart which is editable
Please click on the attached document for your challenge chart - PDF
Reminder
Challenge charts need to be completed. Please also take some pictures and send them in to us to upload onto website.
Enjoy and have fun!
Thank You
Dear Parents,
Hope you are all keeping safe and well. A reminder below re: hand hygiene.
Say Hi to all the children from all of us!
Dear Parents/Guardian,
Food Dudes have launched a programme that can be adapted to home in current times. Please log onto Fun at Home via the website https://www.fooddudes.ie/food-dudes-fun-at-home/ for more information
Each week on Food Dudes Fun at Home, they will be providing free online, curricular linked resources, activity sheets, games, challenges and brand-new Food Dudes videos for the whole family to enjoy. The resources will be fun and educational and cater for children of all levels. New resources will be online every Wednesday in both English and Irish. The activities will cover a range of different themes each week and cover a number of curricular areas to encourage children to continue learning and having fun with fruit and vegetables.
We understand that this is a difficult time for pupils. We hope this website will be a resource for parents and children at home to try and maintain the healthy eating momentum that they started in school.
Please share the word about Food Dudes Fun at Home with teachers and parents in your community and join in the fun online with the hashtag #FoodDudesFun.
Thank You
Dear Parents,
Further to our last update, please see below some more resources and online websites that can be accessed during school closure
Schooldays.ie - Online Initiatives and Family Friendly Fun/ Online computing and coding classes
CJ Fallon - Busy at Maths Online Tutorials
Maths Week Ireland - The all-island annual festival for the promotion of maths. Running 10th-18th October 2020. #Iusemaths
Prim Ed Ireland - Editable PDFs
Agri Aware - Family Challenge
Green Schools - Green-Schools is Ireland͛'s leading environmental management and award programme, working with primary and secondary schools across the country
David Walliams website: Daily audio story time with David Walliams at 11am each day
Maths Factor : The maths factor.com has free access
Scoilsnet: Decade of centenaries Irish history competition for senior classes
storytimefromspace.com - Reading resources
www.childhood101.com - Learing ideas for parents
crayola.com - Art resources
www.anpost.ie have a journey of post for any children planning on sending the free postcards
Super Troopers: Easter Egg Challenge
Social Media accounts to follow for ideas:
Instagram:
Teacher_mammy2020
Youtube:
Science with Maddie Moate
Easter themed cosmic yoga on YouTube
Music with Myleene Klass
Apps:
Duolingo app for Gaeilge vocab
Please also see our previous posts with other resources and websites.
Stay Safe & Happy Easter!
Dear Parents,
We have added the following websites for parents to gain access to and use during the school closure to help during this period. It is very important to stress that these are simply ideas and resources for parents IF they choose to. It is completely up to parents which of these sites (if any) they use, and when.
Home Learning Ideas: Please click on the attached /document for 20 ideas for home learning during COVID 19
Folens: Folens have provided access to all digital resources on their website for the next few weeks. For parents to gain access follow the below steps
Go to Folensonline.ie and click register
Select Teacher
Fill in a username, user and password
For Role Number use the code: Prim20
PebbleGo: PebbleGo is an online resource for 5-8 year olds. Please click on the following link to gain access www.PebbleGo.ie Follow the steps for registration.
Seomra Ranga: Seomra ranga have been running Free online quiz’s of 20 questions each day for pupils to find the answers to. A daily prize of a €20 Book Vouchers can be won. Please log onto www.seomraranga.com for further information.
Phonics Play: PhonicsPlay comics are decodable comics. They are short, simple, silly comics that can be viewed on screen or printed out. They aim to provide children the opportunity to rehearse knowledge that they have learned in school. For the period of COVID19 they have made access to the website free. Please click on the following www.phonicsplay.co.uk Username is: march20 and password is: home
#PE with Joe: The body coach is running live PE lessons on youtube daily commencing at 9am on 23rd March and running Mon- Friday for children of all ages. Sessions will be 30 mins long. Please log onto youtube and search The Bodycoach TV and subscribe to gain access to these.
Art: Cork artist Will Sliney started #wewilldraw challenge to provide a daily drawing challenge for children across Ireland and the world. Due to the high levels of interest he has now vowed to hold a free live youtube channel. Please click on the following link for further info.
For all aspiring writers, John Boyne is running a short story comp with prizes and an opportunity to have your story shared on RTE’s Liveline. 300 words to be submitted by next Weds 25th March. Please click on the following link for further information.
Gooseberry internet safety suggestions: Please see attached a link for parents with internet safety suggestions during COVID 19
RTE 10@10: Pupils will be aware of this and know hoe to do it. Please see attached a link to all 10@10 excersises.
RTE: The one-hour lessons will be broadcast from 11am to 12pm Monday to Friday on RTÉ 2. They will be filmed inside a real-life primary school classroom and will be led by teachers with previous television experience. All information is listed on RTE.ie
www.worldbookonline.com is free at the moment to access
www.vooks.com have a free month of online stories with activities to match
An Post are sending each house two free postcards for children to write and post
Starfall is a free public service that teachs children to read. Please log onto www.starfall.com for further information
As we receive any further resources/ideas we will publish them on the website to try to help parents during this difficult time.
Stay Safe,
Thank You
Dear Parents,
Due to the unplanned closure, we have tried our best to organise as much as possible and sent pupils home on Thursday with work packs for the next 2 weeks. There are also some useful tips and websites below which have great resources that parents can avail of for free to use while pupils are off.
During the closure, teachers may also send some work home through Aladdin email therefore please also check your emails. These will be issued from Aladdin, please remember you cannot reply to these emails.
The best thing you can do is take out their maths book and go over old topics. Especially tables!!! Pick a topic every few days and print out a few worksheets for them to do. Revision is best here.
Join Mathlethics. This is a website packed full of maths games. Children can play against each other and work on all the skills that they will have already covered this year https://login.mathletics.com
Pick out the next 2 reading comprehensions in their English reader. Listen to them read. Get them to do the topics in a new copy for home. Have a read over it yourself when they're done. Spend a week on each story.
Read, Read, Read. This is the best time for kids to read as much as they can. Pick a good book. Download a summary for yourself. Most books have book club type questions for each chapter online. Have a chat with the kids about the books.
If your children are older, there are some excellent websites for coding. I use scratch when coding with the kids. There's loads and loads of tutorials online https://scratch.mit.edu
Twinkl are offering a free month to parents. This website is incredible. It is full of printable for everything from pre schoolers upwards. You will find so much here https://www.twinkl.ie. Use the code IRLTWINKLHELPS
Pick a topic and get the kids to research and put together a project. This could be done the old fashioned way or using powerpoint or Prezi https://prezi.com
Scoilnet Primary is another website with a wealth of worksheets and topics for researching. https://www.scoilnet.ie
www.gonoodle.com - Physical Activity website
http://dabbledoomusic.com//parents-subscription-full-access - Music website
Please click the attached link for a home activities worksheet also that can be used
Thank You.
Dear Parents/Guardian,
We have been asked to bring this to all parent/guardian’s attention.
Thank You
Food Dudes Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of fruit and vegetables in a healthy lifestyle. The goal of Food Dudes Week is to reinforce the healthy habits that were introduced to the children during Food Dudes intervention stage last year at Scoil San Eoin.
There will be 5 days of fruit and vegetable tasting for all pupils.
Food Dudes Week is an opportunity to celebrate our schools healthy eating culture and to get the wider community involved in the programme.
Parental engagement is an important component of Food Dudes Week and it is an opportunity for parents to get involved in the healthy eating celebrations.
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