Dear Parents,
We hope you are well and staying safe.
Please see attached a letter from the Minister for the attention of all parents
Thank You
For our Parents, Teachers and children!
Wishing all the parents, children and teachers the very best of luck as we all begin the journey of remote learning. We thought this poem was a lovely one to begin our journey with.
Stay Safe!
GAA resumes
We are delighted to have GAA coach Darren Hayden return to Scoil San Eoin to coach all classes for the coming weeks. Fingers crossed for some dry weather to ensure we can make the most of this great opportunity.
PE Equipment
An end of term sort and tidy of our PE equipment. The children get so much use out of this sports equipment at break times and we have been lucky the weather has been kind to us this term to allow us get our daily exercise and fresh air.
Daily Mile Flag raised
Following our completion of the Daily Mile challenge we were delighted to receive a nice surprise of the colorful flag in the post. It is now flying proudly on our flag poles at the front of the school!
Active Breaks Challenge Complete!!
We always feel best and work our hardest when we take some movement breaks in the classroom. Thanks to Zoe Patterson from FYI dance studio who has provided us with some great tutorials remotely which we were able to utilise for active breaks. Zoe has taught us how important it is to exercise our bodies in order to keep our minds healthy and strong and more able to concentrate on our school work. Of course we still love some gonoodle and runs on our active walkway also.
Christmas in the Junior Room
It has been a lovely month leading up to Christmas in the Junior Room. We are very proud of all the work the children have covered this term so we had lots of nice activities throughout the month to get us all excited for Christmas.
Our theme this month was Winter and of course Christmas with some lovely artwork completed on these themes. The children learned all about the Arctic and Antarctic in SESE looking at the climate and animals who live there. We even compared the height of an Emperor Penguin to some children in the class!! We also learned all about the expeditions undertaken by the famous explorer Tom Crean. While learning about Winter we decided to help the birds which arrive to the trees outside our window by making bird feeders from scratch…..we had mixed success with this experiment-but that’s what’s it’s all about!! Well done to 1st and 2nd class who completed and presented projects on Christmas around the world, a great variety of countries were chosen so it made for interesting listening.
Thanks to Dolores and her craft expertise we made some lovely Santa’s from recycled plastic bottles and also the fabulous flower arrangements which I’m sure are filling your homes with lovely Christmas smells. The children remained active as always in December continuing our run a day where possible, recommencing GAA training and active breaks in the classroom with a festive twist.
We practised really hard to learn some Christmas songs and poems in English and Gaeilge. The children gave a great performance of these in the classroom and we hope you enjoyed watching on SeeSaw.
Have a very Happy Christmas and we look forward to listening to all your santa stories in the New Year.
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 Flower Arranging
The pupils from the junior and senior room today got to make their very own centerpiece for Christmas using a variety of different materials today just in time for Christmas. They chose the material and design themselves and each and every one of them turned out fabulous. A huge thank you to Dolores Byrne for giving up her time and for demonstrating how to make them with the children. We hope you all like them!
A letter for parents issued by the Dept of Health - CMO Tony Holohan
Peace Proms in the Senior Room
The pupils have been working hard on their first Peace Proms song with Ms Hedderman. and we wanted to share what a great job they did learning the words and actions. Although they had to stay in their Pods for the performance I think they did a fantastic job and we’re looking forward to hearing the next instalment after Christmas.
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!
Operation Christmas Cheer - Christmas Postcards for Knockrobin
Wicklow Library recently contacted the school to ask if we would take part in a project where postcards would be delivered to the Nursing homes in Wicklow to create and spread some cheer among the residents at this difficult time.
The nursing home designated to SSE was Knockrobin in Wicklow. All our pupils in both rooms have been busy designing and writing postcards to send to the residents. Ms Nicholson’s Mum Frankie is currently in the care of the nursing home and lots of our pupils decided to send their cards to her while others designed some which will go to the other residents.
The pupils done a fantastic job and we now have lots of colourful cheery postcards on their way to the residents just in time for Christmas!
We know they will be thrilled to receive them and very grateful.
Well done everyone on a great job!!
6th Class Festive Fun Decorating the tree & school
Our 6th class pupils had great fun putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the school for Christmas. They did an excellent job and the school has a lovely festive feel to it.
November in the Junior Room
The children in the Junior Room have been working really hard in November and have covered lots of work.
We started off November with science week where the children completed several experiments like exploring loud and soft sounds by making shakers, looking at sound waves and how sound travels in our jumping rice experiment and just for fun we made cloud dough which smelled divine.
Several hands on topics were covered in Maths this month. The Junior and Senior Infants explored long/short, wide/narrow, tall/small etc. and had great fun with links particularly when making a long chain which stretched into the corridor. Shapes both 2D and 3D were explored by all classes which lended nicely to robots and rockets in artwork. The children in First and Second also worked on symmetry which was an enjoyable break from other maths work.
The children are really progressing in Gaeilge and spent the month of November learning all about Bia. They are now experts in how to make pancakes both in English and Irish. Games and interactive activities on the whiteboard in class are very popular, if at times competitive, with the children.
In English we read lots of nice stories including The Tiger Who Came To Tea and Tom’s Shoes. First and Second class wrote and typed their very own recounts, adding pictures and working on changing fonts, colours etc.
During the month of November we studied Sound in depth in SESE. While learning about Alexander Graham Bell the children discovered an interesting fact that he also invented the metal detector. The children tried their best to find some treasure around the school grounds with a metal detector…..no success yet.
Throughout the month the children stayed active either completing go noodle daily or a run a day on our active walkway. Thankfully we have had very few wet days but on those lego has been the go to activity. As the month drew to a close the excitement was building for the Late Late Toy Show, Christmas decorating and opening Advent calendars. We are all looking forward to making the most of the lead up to Christmas in school and enjoying the infectious excitement of the children.
November in the Senior Room
November has been a very productive and interesting month for the Senior Room. We are trying to get as much work done as we can before the festive season kicks off next month!!
In Gaeilge we covered the theme of Sa Bhaile. We worked very hard on how to structure and write good sentences and then everyone wrote some fantastic pieces. 5th and 6th debated whether it was better to live in the country or in the city and 3rd and 4th wrote about looking for something they lost in their house.
In English we analysed some recounts and then wrote our own and read about the famous Moon landing and also how to protect and look after our environment
In Music we are making great strides with our ukulele lessons and were having great fun. We hope to be able to do a brief performance for Christmas! We are also working on our Peace Proms songs with Ms Hedderman each week.
In Geography we did some brilliant work around the Environment also. We looked at causes and effects of global warming, recycling, plastic pollution and extreme weather.
In History we had great fun making amazing dioramas of schools in the past and present and each person did a project relating to schools. So far they are super…(were still presenting them!)
In Religion we Remembered for November and read about the story of Lazurus. We also remembered those close to us who have died. The Confirmation class have started preparing and made a lovely poster to represent one of the symbols of the Holy Spirit - Fire
In SPHE we looked a the theme of friendship and did some lovely pair work. We are continuing on with our Weaving Wellbeing and working on Positive Emotions.
In Maths we tackled the theme of Time which can be a tricky one!
During Science Week we did a fun experiment with Ms Hedderman about density and also looked at how strong air can be when compressed…..it nearly held up a whole pod….until POP!!
Finally…well done to Keeley, Cian and Emma who are flying along in their TTRS(Touch, Type, Read and Spell) and have received certificates.
Also. We are delighted with our new laptops. Check out our busy bees 5th and 6th working on them…
Updated Isolation Quick Guide from HSE
Scoil San Eoin Sponsored Halloween Cycle - 22nd Oct 2020
We had our annual Halloween sponsored cycle on Thursday 22nd Oct 2020. Even with COVID19 Guidelines and rules in place, the day went ahead safely and was a great success! The skies were clear and the sun was shining to ensure that a great days cycling was had by all. Lots of brilliant parents came to help out on the day some cycled with the children, some parents drove in front and behind to make sure the pupils and parents were safe, others helped the younger pupils navigate their way around Cullen Park and to and from the school. The boys and girls had a fantastic day both on the 7k route and in Cullen Pk and they were very proud of their achievement. All of the benefits of extra cycling during lockdown and extra exercise programmes completed in school such as GAA/Hurling and rugby could really be seen across all classes and showed that we truly are an active school!!
Afterwards the children got to enjoy some well deserved treats and refreshments back at the school.
Thank you to all that sponsored the pupils and helped out on the day.
Cards are still being received but as soon as we have a total we will notify parents and post on our website. Again thank you, funds raised will towards much needed items for the school.
Well done all!
#Feel Good Friday on our Active School Walkway!!
Some wonderfully spooky creatures took to our Active School Walkway last week to complete their Daily Mile challenge
Putting our Active School Walkway to good use for our Run a Day challenge!
After the recent launch of our Active School Walkway we decided to put it good use and complete our daily mile. Well done everyone for completing the challenge so enthusiastically every day regardless of the weather.
