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Keeping well for families
Hi all,
Hope you are all coping well and staying safe. I personally miss school and normality, and I know from speaking with nearly everyone in our school community that everyone feels the same way. Parents are working very hard and doing a really good job in a difficult situation, and teachers and SNAs are doing the same to keep the link going between home and school.
As ever, I am available on 0851871173 or hsclstgabriels@gmail.com if you have any questions or need any support with anything.
Here are some more resources as a follow up to the post that I wrote here a few weeks ago.
CYPSC main site for Dublin Covid-19 parental supports – https://www.cypsc.ie/south-dublin/resources.303.html
CYPSC at-a-glance supports and directory – https://bit.ly/2YThMey
Dept. Education guide to supporting children during current crisis – https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/guide-for-parents-supporting-children.pdf
Series of parenting videos specific to current crisis – https://www.cypsc.ie/contact-us/playful-parenting-in-a-pandemic-videos-.3166.html
HSE language, literacy and learning programme for younger learners – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tsUIFmSFRA4-TFvBweyu1UDGhjwBygpa/view
CAMHS mental health support newsletter – CAMHS newsletter FINAL
HSE directory of supports – DNCC Covid Supports poster draft
Take care, Mike
Assembly Monday 11th May
Dia Daoibh! Conas atá sibh go léir?
I am a super proud principal of my staff, students and families and the way that we are embracing our new school life!
I want to send out extra love and well wishes to our ‘ Incredible’ children from 2nd class who were due to make their First Holy Communion this Saturday May 16th. Both myself and Ms Walshe think you are being incredibly brave!!
I want to wish Will, Tadgh, Thaleia, Alexandru, Drex and Yasmin a very Happy Birthday!!
This week I used the SeeSaw app on my phone to take photos of work that Hollie did in a copy using some of the activities Ms Reynolds posted up here on the website. She also really enjoyed the tasks that were set on SeeSaw by the other teachers that work in Senior Infants! Remember if you are not uploading please keep all of your lovely work safe so that we can see it when we go back to school! My skipping is going ok, could be better! I see Ms O’Dowd took up my challenge! Remember you can do any work set by any teacher not just your own! The challenge this week is to find the 3 teachers who have photos of their own animals featured in their message to their class! Next thing they will be trying to enrol them in our school!!!
Last but not least have a look at the post about the Grangegorman ‘Make Place Make’ competition!
Keep up all the good work you are doing,
Suzanne Comerford .
Senior Infants
Hello Senior Infants,
I hope you all had a wonderful week. I hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather and got a chance to go out and get some fresh air and enjoy the sunshine!
This week, on the farm, we had a visit from the vet. The vet wanted to see how all our animals are doing and he was very happy with them.
Here are some pictures of our happy and healthy animals.
Have you ever visited the vet with your pet? Maybe you could play vets at home and take some photos/videos/voice recordings and upload them to Seesaw.
I am enjoying seeing all the lovely work you are doing on Seesaw. Continue to take photos/videos of your work or any activities you are doing at home and upload it onto Seesaw to show me. If you choose not to upload your work, please tell our HSCL teacher Mr. Donnelly and keep all your wonderful work together so you can show it to me when we return to school.
This week, I have been putting together a variety of activities that your child may have-a-go at if it suits. Here is a link to Suggestions for Senior Infants.
Continue practising your counting here with Ms. Whyte.
Religion
To help students, we have been granted free access to the Grow In Love online series. Simply go to the www.growinlove.ie website and use the following details to login:
- Email: trial@growinlove.ie
- Password: growinlove
Gaeilge:
Cartoons as Gaeilge is a fun way for children to learn Irish.
Have a lovely week Senior Infants. Continue to have play and have fun using your imaginations!
Miss Reynolds.
Grangegorman “Make Place Make” Competition
Grangegorman Development Agency have just launched the following competition – MAKE PLACE MAKE. They would love to see as many people and children as possible taking part. Pupils of all ages can enter.
Details here:
http://ggda.ie/make-place-make
1st Class Activities May 8th
Hi all,
All activities are uploaded to SeeSaw app. You can log on now to access the activities.
Thanks to all who have uploaded work – there are hundreds of pieces of work coming in now each day – it’s amazing!
New activities load each morning at 8.50am. Hope you are all having fun with them.
Please remember that in order to access the material your parents should first ensure they give consent via email to Mike.
Have a lovely weekend!
Mr Smyth
Ms Dunne’s Work May 8th
Hello everyone,
I hope that you are all keeping well and have had a lovely week. Unfortunately the weather in Cork hasn’t been as nice as the weather in Dublin so I have been indoors much more that usual. I’ve enjoyed reading, playing boardgames and baking this week.
I have posted some activities for this week that I hope you might like to try!
Take care and be safe,
Ms. Dunne