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December in The Parents Room

We have had a very busy few weeks in the Parents Room with 2 two very successful workshops.

Make Up Session:
Early in December, the wonderful Caroline Wimsey ran a Make Up Workshop for Parents. It was a lovely morning with Caroline sharing her make up skills and talents with us.

Doesn’t Emma look fabulous !!

 

Flower Arranging:
On Friday 16th, Martina Kilian joined us to help us to create floral center pieces for Christmas. We used materials that can be easily found in our homes- ribbons, old decorations and recyclable containers. The 6th Class pupils helped Ms Browne to gather greenery from around the school grounds.

It was a great morning and these Parents are so creative yet didn’t think so at the start of the workshop. Their pieces are beautiful!

Lots of creativity, chocolate, coffee and Christmas music- a morning to remember!


Flower Arranging



Plenty more activities for Parents to get involved in 2023. Keep in touch with HSCL and remember that it is so important to take time out for yourself !

The Greening Project

Just before the Autumn takes hold, we thought we would share some pics from our wildflower garden and one of our many fruit trees that we planted last year. We are enjoying watching these apples grow!

Animals & The Vets in Senior Infants

Across the month of June, the boys and girls in Senior Infants have been busy bees. Our theme for the last month of school has been Animals which featured in many subjects.

In Aistear the children played with wild animals in the jungle at the small world area. They became vets treating poorly animals, receptionists booking in animal visits and animal owners bringing their pets to the vet. In the creative station the boys and girls constructed ladybirds using a variety of materials. They also created their own animals using playdoh and loose parts – choosing between farm animals, wild animals and mini beasts to create. Lastly in the construction area, they built homes for animals – kennels being the most popular home!

We learned a lot about mini beasts and chose to focus on one mini beast – a ladybird/ ladybug. Did you know that a ladybird is in fact a beetle? They also have no teeth and chew their food in an over and back manner unlike us humans who chew in an up and down manner!

We revised a lot of maths topics – sorting and identifying coins and amounts of money, we sorted pasta into sets and created our own addition sentences. We also got to watch our stories that we shared with our Drama teacher Kate Brown being performed by the children in first class.

Throughout June we also enjoyed lots of sporting activities: relay races, fun races, sports day activities and our family fun day. What a busy month to end our school year with! Have a look at some photos of these activities below:

Christmas Online Show

We are so disappointed that we cannot have you all in the hall this December for our Christmas performances. But never fear we have been working on a plan!

The staff and children have been working on the safest way to put together their poems, songs and little dramas and record them. They have been using the outdoor space around our school and taking every precaution with social distancing and ventilation in rooms and hallways. It hasn’t been easy with wide open windows and doors in this weather but they have been very creative and very determined! We are delighted with the results and are putting together a video package which we will share with families on the afternoon of Thursday December 17th.

To access our “movie” on that day, you will need an online link  and a secret password. Instead of buying tickets to our concert this year, we are asking families to buy a single family pass for €5. This will help to replace the funds that the school usually generates from our concert. 

Your child will bring home the order form for the online show today. We ask that you complete the form and return it to the school before Monday 14th at the latest so that we can set up access for families in time. 

We have created a fab sneak preview trailer of what the children and staff have been up to so far. Enjoy!

Christmas Show Trailer St Edward’s from St. Edward’s NS on Vimeo.

 

Summer Camp August 2020

Hearing the sound of children’s voices throughout the school this week really gave us a lift. We welcomed back a group of 36 children to our summer camp on Monday morning. They have been amazing us every day with their hand washing and sanitising skills. The children have been demonstrating their knowledge of how to keep themselves and others safe while working separately in their small groups.It is obvious Parents & Families have been working hard at home for the past few months to ensure the children are familiar with the ways we can try our best to keep each other safe. Summer Camp  looked a different to camps from other years but the levels of fun and happiness were just as high!

In the Junior Group we had such a brilliant week led by Ms.Marren. We were super at looking out for one another and washing our hands!Teacher wore her face mask whenever she could not social distance and we got very used to this after the first morning! We all did our very best to keep everybody safe.

Some of our favourite activities included;

Making our own lunches in the kitchen: This was such a great learning experience. Making choices about what we would like to eat, choosing our food, buttering our chosen bread and putting on our fillings. We even made our own rice krispie treats! We felt very independent .

Art and Crafts: This was another of our favourite activities. We did lots of different types of art, as you will see in our video. Painting, colour mixing, drawing, decorating, colouring and working with fabric and fibre. We were all so creative in our own ways.

Outdoor activities: We also loved getting outside and being active. We loved the running and throwing games. We worked on skills like balance, speed and coordination.

What a brilliant week – well done to the boys and girls.

Have a look at our video to see more examples of our  wonderful fun!

 

Middle Group + Ms. Browne: Our week in Summer Camp was all about FUN,FUN & FUN! It was so lovely to be back in school and to see our friends and some of our Teachers too.

We had a busy week with plenty of Arts & Crafts activities, stories, outdoor games as well as Music, Dancing and even decorating our own cupcakes! We went on a Nature Walk and found some conkers by the pitch as well as listening outdoors for the many sounds around us.

Wayne O’Connor, the Storyteller came to visit on our last day of Camp and he was fantastic. He told us the story of mythical people a long time ago and he was really funny. We were so excited listening to him and watching him.

On Friday we had an ice-cream party and we really loved it. We even had yummy toppings to create our own ice creams- yummy, yummy in my tummy!

We sanitised our hands everytime we went into school and when we were leaving the school. We washed our hands throughout the day – before we ate and after we ate, whenever we sneezed or coughed and we all coughed into our elbows. Ms Browne could not believe how wonderful we were at following the guidelines about sneezing and coughing and she had her ‘proud Momm’ face’ on every day at Camp because we were so good at looking after one another!

Here are some photos of our fantastic week !

Watching ‘Chicken Licken’

Finding Conkers on our Nature Walk

Dragon Art

Senior Group + Ms.Kivlehan

We had a great time at Camp this week and we spent a lot of time outdoors – playing basketball, running through obstacle courses as well as doing our exercises with music.  We really enjoyed making our own lunches with help from Ms. Grimes as well as baking our Fairy Cakes in the kitchen. Decorating them was a messy job but so much fun!!!The fairy cakes were delicious.

We did lovely art and craft activities – making our own window decorations for home as well as doing music and board games in our room.

We followed social distancing guidelines and are really ready for and excited about getting back to school next Thursday – we know when to sanitise our hands and washed our hands regularly throughout the day at summer camp.

Summer Camp 2020 was the best fun!!!!!

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Obstacle Course

Basketball Fun

Parents/Grandparents from Aisling HSCL March 25th

I hope that you are all safe and well. These are difficult times for all of us and a lot is being asked of us as Parents BUT we are able to do this and we can do it! The Teachers have lots of lovely ideas and activities prepared for your kids – take a look at them here on the Blog and see what would work well in your home.

Try to have some structure and have some time for school activities each week day so as to help your child to continue with their learning as well as passing some time! There are some lovely ideas for Apps on the kids devices that they can play while learning Maths and developing their Reading skills.

As Parents, we can often be very hard on ourselves! Remember we are all very limited in what we can do during these weeks and we must follow the guidelines and advice given to us from Government and the HSE. Be sure to remind the children to wash their hands and to stay away from meeting their friends etc – chat to them about this and the reasons why. The older children will understand this more and most definitely can be helping out at home with jobs and with younger brothers and sisters.

So try to relax, stay calm and know that we are all in the same boat! Once I get out for a walk (in a quiet place) with my 2 kids every day and our lovely dog Rupert, I feel it is a successful day! After that we do some school work and then we do things we have not had time to do in a very long – we play card games, we dance around the kitchen to ‘Mommy’s old music’ (Poor old Kenny Rogers!) , I’m learning  all about  Lewis Capaldi, Niall Horan, Charli XCX and the likes. We have pulled out the board games and the ring board set on the back of the door and are having competitions as to who can beat Mommy (I’m the Champ) I am chatting to them more about things they like and really getting to know my kids better – just having the time to sit and to listen. We love watching TV together in the evenings and just sitting together as a family. This is so important.

We are helping each other with jobs around the house and having ‘timed’ competitions about who can hang the clothes out the fastest on the clothes line or who can hoover downstairs the best! Simple fun while keeping the house going.

Reading is a great idea always and anywhere- my kiddies are reading books they read a long time ago and every now and then we down tools, sit on the step at the back door and one of them reads a few pages from a book to us. We chat about the stories and imagine what life would be like in Hogwart’s or as The Hungry Caterpillar. You can do all of these things- they cost nothing, are very simple and pass the time. The days can be very long but it is the simple, easy things that we are enjoying and you can too. Then when we all feel like we are annoying each other we scatter off to different rooms and chill for a while! We are all only human! Try keeping a good bedtime routine too – its very important.

As I said last week- in St Edward’s we are all a TEAM and we are here to support you, the Parents in these difficult times.  You can ring my HSCL Mobile or text me Monday to Friday on 086 7769756 and please continue to check out St Edward’s Facebook Page. Like and Share too so others will get to see the information. I will help you in any way that I can or I can get Ms Grimes to call you back if necessary.

So grab the deck of cards, play for pasta pieces instead of money!

Make paper planes and run up and down the last 2 steps of the stairs a few times- see who can do this the fastest! Dads too!

Facetime Nannie & Granda and send them your love. Nannie & Granda Browne in Kerry are now ‘Skyping’ us every evening!!! Up to now they could hardly turn  their phones on to silent!

Limit your time and the older kids time on Social Media and the constant ‘scary’ newsfeeds!

Know that you are doing your best and that your love and care is all the children need right now more than anything else.

Know that we can all do this and we are all in this together!

Up Kerry! Up Sligo! We’ve got this!!!

Take care and please stay in touch.

Aisling

Up Kerry!

Kerry are playing Dublin in The All Ireland Football Final on Sunday in Croke Park. Ms.Browne is very excited – she has her ticket and is going to watch the match in Dublin. We hope Kerry win and bring Sam Maguire back to its rightful home !! Ms Browne told us that we will have NO HOMEWORK for the whole year if Kerry win the match.

Ciarraí Abú!!!!!

The Crocus Project

Last December, sixth class from rooms 1 and 12 planted some yellow crocus bulbs in one of our courtyards in memory of the one and a half million Jewish children (6 million people in total) who perished in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945 across Europe. It is very important that we never forget this terrible period in European history. We must make sure that we never allow anyone or any group of people to murder or harm others because they do not like them or do not agree with their views. 

December 2018

The yellow flowers recall the yellow Stars of David that Jewish people were forced to wear under Nazi rule. But these beautiful flowers also remind us that, even after the most terrible events, new life begins again and we can hope that things will be better than they were before. The flowers remind us that there is still beauty in the world and hope for our future. Crocuses bloom usually around the beginning of February. 

March 2019

Check out the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland website for further information. International Holocaust Memorial Day is held on January 27th each year. 

Christmas in 6th Class Room 1

It has been a lovely few weeks in room 1. We put a lot of work into preparing our performances for the School concert last week and some of us even got to go to Dublin to the Peace Proms rehearsal workshop the very next day. We made snowflakes from paper and newspaper and some giant stars from brown paper bags which was really fun. On Wednesday we ran in the Santa Mile Dash on the athletics track  at the IT and to top it all off, we enjoyed a visit from a man in red to our classroom! Merry Christmas from 6th!

Peace Proms Tickets

If you are a parent of one of our Peace Proms choir children, and wish to see them on stage in the RDS Dublin on Saturday February 2nd at 2PM then you will need to buy tickets quickly as we have had word that they are nearly sold out! Tickets on sale here: www.peaceproms.com 

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