Talking to Children and Young People about COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Advice for Parents and Schools

Talking to Children and Young People about COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Advice for Parents and Schools  Children and young people need factual, age appropriate information about the virus and concrete instruction about how to avoid spreading of the virus. Without the facts, they often imagine situations far worse than reality. See https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/coronavirus.html  Let the child/young […]

Covid 19 Information For Parents 27th March 2020

Dear Parent’s, I hope this post finds all our students and parents well and coping with the school closure. As announced on Tuesday, the government has extended the school closure to 19th April. We are all doing our best to support our pupils, parents and staff at this challenging and stressful time. We have been […]

School Closure Work 3rd Class

Ms King/Mr Hanratty:3rd Class Hi all children and parents, Hope you are all keeping well, keeping safe and most of all keeping positive ☺ Kids, we hope you are helping your parents get through this tricky few weeks and doing what they ask you to do, including a little bit of school work. Over the […]

Ms Conroy’s 2nd Class School Closure Work

Here are some suggestions for 2nd class that cover all subject areas; English Writing skills; -Daily diary – including something they made (with Lego, play doh), daily exercise they did, a game they played, what they read, something they did to help in the house & something they practised (tables, art, handwriting, music) -Instructional writing […]

Ms Curran’s 5th class School Closure Work

Over the next week I would suggest your child do the following; ● Continue on working with Mental Maths – Week 26 ● Continue on working with Reading Zone – Unit 26 ● Project on “ The Great Famine” The Great Famine Contents Page Page 1 – What was The Great Famine? What was happening? […]

School Closure suggested 4th class work

Hi, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. I have included a broad programme of work below, it’s not prescriptive and should only be taken as guidelines.   Reading Zone, Abair Liom and Planet Maths  , the publishing company have made both e-books available. Go to www.folensonline.ie, select Teacher, fill in a username, email address […]

School Closure Junior Infant Work

Hi all, Firstly we hope that you and your families are coping ok during these extraordinary times. We have put together some ideas/activities for the children to explore over the next week off. March 30th-Friday 3rd. Please do not put yourselves under pressure to do this work. We know these are stressful times and we […]

School Closure work Senior Infants

Senior infants ENGLISH  Revise all letter sounds  Read and write Tricky Words I, was, my, like, he, she, me, we, be, The, They, do, to, are, all.  Practice writing all capital letters  Encourage children to create their own short sentences using 3 and 4 letter cvc words  READING ‐ Read […]

1st class school closure suggested work.

1st Class – Suggested Topics for the coming week Literacy: • Daily reading- Read a book from home (Approx. 15 minutes per day). If you wish to obtain additional reading material online, register for free on Oxfordowl.co.uk. Go to the ebooks section and you will find a huge array of age appropriate reading books from […]

SCHOOL CLOSURE COVID 19

Dear Parents, This time of unprecedented school closure, can be very frightening for both parents and children. The children are very aware of what is going on and are listening to everything.They can also sense the tension and anxiety of the moment. This is not like a regular school closure, of play-dates, parties and trips […]

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