Monthly Archives: January 2022

1st and 2nd class are learning about toys and games from the past and having great fun! Who needs screens?!

We are excited to kick off #FriendshipFebruary tomorrow in association with Special Olympics Ireland. Here Anna and Aodán are displaying our quote of the week – Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud!

Thanks to Nathaniel for this fabulous speaker that he won in an Active School competition, we will be having music on yards every few Fridays! Keep moving!Thanks Ms. D’arcy for organising and for the great set list! Click the link to view!

Our Active Committee interviewing junior and senior infants with the Active Flag questionnaire. It is lovely to see interaction between older and younger pupils and we hope to be able to do it indoors with buddy reading etc. once restrictions lift!

We are delighted with our new purchases of laptops to be used in station teaching. Along with our new interactive whiteboards, we bought these with our most recent ICT grant. The laptops can be used differently from our ipads as they have keyboards and so our students will be enabled to learn some elementary typing skills and basic use of Word etc. We think this is a great addition to our Digital Framework plan. Here Ms. ní Shúilleabháin’s students are using a programme called Typing Club and they love it!

We were delighted to welcome Irish Heritage in Schools expert Sarah Myers to talk to the children about Mythology. She told magical tales and the children explored her wonderfully theatrical masks! The children then got to decorate their own masks. They were all so engaged! Thank you Sarah and well done everyone!

I have collated the updated restriction situations for your ease. They are also available under the Covid tab on the website.

I am mindful that classrooms are very cold due to ventilation. With this in mind, I have allowed that children may wear their beanie hats during the day, they may wear undergarments such as long sleeved tshirts, they may wear hooded jackets (not snuggies/onesies as these will make them sleepy) and may bring a small blanket to put over their legs. I hope that this makes conditions more bearable.Uniform is still important – we want as much normality as possible!

Here is our school padlet which is jam packed with activities for your child to engage in if you are isolating/restricting movements currently. There is something here for everyone! https://padlet.com/cnsiaswx/xrsnjyxd8tw8aho7

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