Author Archives: Emer Russell

Look at what was spotted in The Ahare river! An otter! We are excited to see local ecosystems prospering! Many thanks to Cathy Lee for sharing Learn more about the otter here: https://kids.kiddle.co/Otter

How lucky are we!? A recent kind donation has enabled us to purchase this fantastic equipment for our yard! We just love our movement breaks and playtimes!

Our Active Leaders are doing wonderful work on yard. Structured games and activities will help to boost fitness and also create opportunities for inclusion on yard. Thank you Ms. D’Arcy and team. It is super to see leadership in our pupils.

On Friday, we spoke about some recent amazing achievements of Irish women in sport including those of Rachael Blackmore, Rhasidat Adeleke and Leona Maguire. We continue to promote equality for all our pupils and also the respect for one another in sport and the wider world. This might be a nice conversation to have over dinner

Huge thanks to Garda Ronan from Gorey Garda Station who came out to talk to our pupils about the dangers if being online. Older classes learned about the responsibility that goes with being online.

We are using Kindness Jars as part of #FriendshipFebruary this week. We hope that being friendship detectives and reporting acts of kindness will foster and encourage kindness in school. It is important to recognise and name a kind act.

Nothing beats experiential, hands on Maths activities. Here 2nd class are enjoying weighing pasta- using estimation and measuring skills.

* Today is Safer Internet Day and we spoke to children about the dangers of being online. I have booked a visit from Garda Ronan from Gorey to talk to older classes and this is due to happen this week. All children received a SID band which I have asked them to use as a prompt for conversation at home tonight. Some areas you might talk about are : screen time, phones in the bedroom, digital footprint etc.* Here is a cartoon to suit younger children in the theme of Safer Internet Day https://www.rte.ie/player/series/alva-s-world/SI0000011834?epguid=IP000066126* More resources for parents are available at https://www.webwise.ie/parents/