COVID-19 vaccine information for parents of children aged 5-11 (Issued by the Dept of Education

Dear Parent/Guardian,

The Department of Education has been asked by the HSE to disseminate the information below to schools for onward communication to parents/guardians.

COVID-19 vaccine information for parents of children aged 5-11

The HSE has published detailed information and guidance for parents about COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11. This aims to help parents and guardians of 5-11 year old children make an informed decision when it’s time for their child to be offered a COVID-19 vaccine. 

Registration for the vaccine will open shortly, with priority being placed on children who are more at risk from COVID-19 or children who have a high-risk person in the family. Parents and guardians can read this information on https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/covid-19-vaccination-for-children/  or they can download these information booklets from HSE.ie.

Important information for parents and guardians about the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 (Comirnaty, Pfizer/BioNTech) (PDF, size 1.11 MB, 16 pages)

Important information for parents and guardians about the COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11 (Irish) (PDF, 1.7 MB, 16 pages)

Thank You

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!!!

Charity Food Drive delivery to Arklow Community Action Resource Centre

We had a huge response for our Food drive charity collection that ran through December to help families in need. Cleo Griffin delivered to Arklow Community Action Resource Centre with our final collection this week. This will be used for Food hampers to be given out to families in Arklow/ Avoca/ Coolgreany and Gorey.

Earlier this month a collection was also delivered to East Coast Roosters with donations.

Thank you to everyone who donated to these worthy causes. We are sure there are lot’s of families who will be very grateful this Christmas.

Thank you to Cleo for organising and delivering the collections.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!

Collection for East Coast Roosters and Arklow Community Action Resource Centre for Christmas still ongoing

Dear Parent/Guardian,

A reminder to everyone we are still collecting for East Coast Roosters and Arklow Community Action Resource Centre for Christmas.

Please spread the word that a box will be left outside the school door on a Monday or Wednesday from 09.30-03.00pm.

Lets try to make the last week a successful one.

Thank You for the support in advance

6th Class Festive Fun Decorating the tree & school - Dec 21

The senior room had lots of fun with Ms Hedderman on Friday being creative and decorating the school for the festive season ahead. After a super tough year for our pupils, it’s lovely to see the festive lights, decorations and cheer in the run up to to Christmas. They done a fantastic job. Have a look at our lovely tree and hallways.

November in the Junior Room

During the month of November we completed lots of activities on the theme of Homes. The children learned all about the different types of homes all over the world, built homes using lego and polydrons and completed art and craft activities on this theme. We learned all about 2D and 3D shapes in Maths and learned lots of new vocabulary of delicious Bia in Gaeilge. The children took part in some Science week activities and also completed their GAA and tennis coaching sessions during November. We are now looking forward to lots of fun activities in the run up to Christmas.

Mental Health Support Leaflet for children and young people

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Please see below a link to an updated mental health support leaflet for children and young people.

This leaflet will raise awareness, signpost and provide details of several HSE funded national organisations that provide various mental health supports and services to children, young people and their families around the country.

Details of these services and more are also available on www.yourmentalhealth.ie or by calling 1800 111 888.

Attached is leaflet link.

Updated COVID19 Info re: Antigen Testing & HSE guidance for age 3-13 years

Dear Parent/Guardian,

Please see below 2 letters issued by the Dept of Education and HSE for parents.

Please read both letters carefully as they contain important information regarding Covid19.

Dept of Education Letter for parent/guardians regarding antigen Testing of asymptomatic children in primary school pods where a confirmed case of COVID-19 is identified.

HSE updated guidelines for children aged 3 to 13 years

Thank You

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Junior Room Tennis with the Jamie Stafford Academy

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The children from the Junior Room class have just finished up a 4 week block of Tennis with Jamie Stafford. They all thoroughly enjoyed it and some were lucky enough to receive prizes each week during games.

Lots of fun & exercise have been achieved for the sessions completed.

Thank you to Jamie from the Academy!!

DojoMór - Free online coding workshop for children - Sat 06th Nov

DojoMór 2021 - Free online coding workshops for primary and secondary school students.
For more information and to book your place visit www.dojomor.ie Choose from a selection of over 12 different workshops in our new virtual convention centre.
We look forward to seeing you there on Saturday, November 6th at 10am, for some coding fun and games!
Follow us on social media @dojomor2021 for a chance to win cool official merchandise in our daily prize giveaways. Stay tuned for a sneak preview of the virtual event centre coming soon.

Free webinar for parents on the (Importance of sleep for national school children)

Dear Parent/Guardian,

 There is a webinar taking place on Wednesday the 3rd of November at 7pm called The importance of sleep for our national school children.  The main speaker is Lucy Wolfe and she will be giving some information and guidance around this topic.  You can register for this free webinar using this link: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/PlanetYouthSleep, or through the www.planetyouth.ie website.

 Parents can also submit questions on the night or in advance by email to events@planetyouth.ie.

Thank You

Important Message from the Dept of Education to Parents!!

Dear Parent/Guardian,

 We have been asked by the Dept of Education and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to assist in sending out a message through school communities to parents.

Please see below its warning about the danger associated with eating edible products, such as jelly sweets, containing cannabis components.

Warning regarding jelly sweets containing cannabis (THC)

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is urging parents and guardians to be extremely vigilant to the dangers of their children getting access to and eating confectionary, particularly jelly sweets, containing significant amounts of the psychoactive cannabis component called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). This warning comes amid the ongoing seizures of these illegal food products by the Gardaí and Customs services, and a number of serious medical incidents whereby these THC-containing jelly sweets resulted in teenagers and young children suffering serious adverse health effects requiring hospitalization. These jelly sweets are packaged to look like popular brands of jellies and have been found to contain toxic amounts of THC (up to 50mg/jelly).  Depending on the concentration of THC, eating one of these jellies can  mean an equivalent intake of THC that is 5-10 times higher than that inhaled from a single cannabis cigarette. Also, unlike the almost immediate effects of inhaling THC (smoking or vaping), ingesting THC through these jellies can take up to 30 minutes for any effects to be felt. However, while waiting for those effects, those who have eaten these products may overdose in the mistaken belief that they need to eat more sweets in order to feel the effects. Of particular concern to the FSAI is the inadvertent consumption of these jelly sweets by small children who may somehow gain access to what looks and possibly tastes like ordinary sweets. Unfortunately, given access to a bag of these jellies, children will rarely eat just one and therefore, overdosing is a very likely outcome as witnessed by the hospitalisation of a number of seriously ill young children in the early part of 2021.

 The FSAI has become aware of reports about the availability of THC-containing jelly sweets in schools in Ireland and therefore, parents and guardians are asked to speak with their teenagers alerting them to the dangers if they eat them or if their younger siblings get access to them and subsequently suffer the serious consequences of consuming a toxic substance.

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Sponsored Cycle Event - Thurs 22nd Oct 2021

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Our annual school Halloween Sponsored Cycle took place on Thurs 21st Oct. We were so fortunate with the weather after a wet start to the week but on the day it turned out to be glorious and we had some fabulous sunshine ensuring that the cycle would be a great day ahead!

Our pupils from our Junior Room brought scooters/bikes and scooted/cycled around the school yard. They also completed a sponsored walk to Cullen Park and were very lucky to fit in some play time in the park area as well.

Our pupils from the Senior Room had the very serious task of cycling 7k to Ballykane. Everyone with this group also got some much rewarded time in the park also after all their hard work. The children well and truly proved that we are a very active school and faced the task of a long cycle head on!

Everyone headed back to the school then for some much needed refreshments and Halloween treat bags!

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.

Thank you also to our parent reps who helped in organising the event and provided the treat bags for our pupils.

Covid19 has hugely impacted fun events and parental involvement in schools and for this reason it was so lovely to have everyone together outside safely and for the children also to enjoy being active!

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.

School Office: 0404 41 727
Email: schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com
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