Killeshandra N. S. (C. of I.)

Thank you to everyone who has sent us in photos – you have been very busy learning, keeping active and having fun in lots of different ways! Please continue to send us pictures of what you have been up to, and we will share them here on our website.

May 7, 2020August 23, 2021

Week beginning Monday, 11th May

Dear Parents,

We hope you and your families are all keeping well.

We now know that schools will not reopen until the new academic year. We all look forward to the day when we will be back together in Killeshandra N.S.

Please be assured that we the teachers are here to support you all. We always reply to the emails as soon as we see them. We are also more than happy to chat to you or the children on the phone if you so wish. Please just ask and we will arrange a time.

We are very aware of the disappointment that our 6^th class are feeling. These last few weeks in primary school are special and also a time when we would have been engaging in all our end of year activities. When the time is right, we promise that we will arrange an opportunity for our current 6^th class to have an end of year celebration. It might be months from now but we will mark this occasion for them.

We love to get the photos you send through on the school email. Please feel free to send these at any stage and we will put them up on the website.

Yours sincerely,

All the staff of Killeshandra N.S. (C. of I.)

Answers for week Tuesday 5th – Friday 8th May

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Answers-2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Answers-5th-and-6th-Class-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

Work for next week Monday 11th – Friday 15th May

Junior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Junior-Infants-Monday-11th-Friday-15th-May.docx

Senior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Senior-Infants-Monday-11th-Friday-15th-May.docx

1st Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1st-Class-Monday-11th-Friday-15th-May.docx

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Monday-11th-Friday-15th-May.docx

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5th-and-6th-Class-Monday-11th-Friday-15th-May.docx

Remember to watch the RTÉ Home School Hub every day.

There are lots more resources at https://www.rte.ie/learn/

You might also like to check out free magazines at https://www.newsmagmedia.ie/ – choose from News Flash, The Primary Planet or Eipic. There are also daily activities at https://www.theprimaryplanet.ie/

Thank you to everyone who sent us in photos of your projects, we are really impressed with all your hard work and wonderful creations. Here are a few more pictures.

Have a look at what some of you got up to during Active Home Week – it looks like you had lots of fun getting at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Thank you to everyone who sent us photos!

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020

Week beginning Tuesday, 5th May

Hello everyone,

We hope you enjoyed taking part in Active HOME Week this week. Please remember to complete the Challenge Chart (you can email this to the school if you wish, or keep it safe until we return) and we would love you to email us some photos of you being active to share here on the website.

Please find the answers for work assigned on Monday 27th April and work for the coming week, beginning on Tuesday 5th May (don’t forget the Bank Holiday on Monday!)

Answers for week Monday 27th April – Friday 1st May

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Answers-2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Answers-5th-and-6th-Class-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

Work for next week Tuesday 4th – Friday 8th May

Junior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Junior-Infants-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

Senior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Senior-Infants-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

1st Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1st-Class-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/5th-and-6th-Class-Tuesday-5th-Friday-8th-May.docx

Have a look at some of your fantastic Vikings projects – well done everyone! If you haven’t sent a picture yet, we would still love to see them!

If you would like to take part in the ‘Draw Our Heroes’ competition to honour someone you think has done something important or kind during this time of Covid-19, go to http://www.drawourheroes.ie for more information and details of how to enter.

April 23, 2020

Week beginning Monday, 27th April

Hello all,

We hope you managed to get through some of the work assigned for this week. Please find the answers for work assigned on Monday 20th April and work for the coming week, starting on Monday 27th April.

Answers for week Monday 20th – Friday 24th April

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Answers-2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Monday-20th-Friday-24th-April.docx

You can listen to Ní maith liom an bháisteach here: http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Ni-maith-liom-an-bhaisteach.mp3

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Answers-5th-and-6th-Class-Monday-20th-Friday-24th-April.docx

Work for next week Monday 27th April – Friday 1st May

Junior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Junior-Infants-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

Senior Infants http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Senior-Infants-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

1st Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1st-Class-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/5th-and-6th-Class-Monday-27th-April-Friday-1st-May.docx

Active HOME Week

Next week was due to be Active School Week.

To help us as we continue to work towards renewing our Active School Flag, we would love families to take part in Active HOME Week instead!

Active School Flag have provided some information about this week: http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Info.-Document-for-PARENTS-Schools-Working-Towards-ASF.pdf

Active School Flag have also made a Challenge Chart for families to complete. You can either fill in the details on this chart and email it back to the school at the end of the week, or print/draw your own chart and fill it in, then bring the completed chart back into school when we return. http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CHALLENGE-Chart-Schools-Working-Towards-ASF-Fillable-PDF.pdf

You are encouraged to be active for at least 60 minutes per day, and to try at least 4 activities a day. Active School Flag have put together some ideas here http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/3.-IDEAS-Word-Cloud.pdf, or have a look back at some of the ideas we suggested on the website before Easter. You might like to:

see how many places in Ireland you can run to in the ‘Run Around Ireland’ challenge
design an obstacle course in your garden
make up a dance routine or have a ‘dance-off’ with someone in your family
work on your football skills and tricks or challenge someone to a penalty shoot out
do ‘PE with Joe’ every day
do anything you want to have fun and stay fit and healthy!

We would love you to take photographs of Active HOME Week and email them to the school. We will share these here on the website next week – we can still be an Active School, even when we are not together!

Thank you to Daisy who sent us a fantastic poem she wrote about Covid 19. It was published in this week’s Anglo Celt! Great work, Daisy!

We look forward to seeing some pictures of your Viking construction projects – we will post as many of these as we can next week.

April 6, 2020

Easter Holidays

Hello boys and girls!

As you begin the first week of your Easter holidays, we hope that you will take a break from your school work. Well done to you and your families for all your efforts to complete as much work as you were able for. We know it can be difficult to get motivated to do school work at home but we are very proud of you for trying your best to engage with it. Please thank your parents for all the time they have spent working with you at home.

We don’t know if we will be back to school on Monday 20^th April. We have to wait for an announcement from the Taoiseach. In case we are not back on Monday 20^th April we are going to work on some plans over our Easter holidays to prepare for this.

Those of you who have been watching the RTÉ Home School Hub will be glad to hear that it is continuing over the Easter holidays. It is on RTÉ 2 each week day from 11am to 12noon. As well as this check out some of the fun Easter activities on Twinkl https://www.twinkl.ie/. Type ‘Easter Activities’ into the search bar at the top of the webpage and you will find art and craft ideas, colouring, crosswords, word searches and lots more!

We have included a game which you might also enjoy playing with your family. It is a ‘Chicken Licken Drive’! It is similar to the ‘Reindeer Drive’ which we have played before in school at Christmas time. We have included some instructions (see the two links below this note).

We wish you all a very Happy Easter and please keep safe.

With our very best wishes,

Mrs Richardson, Mrs Sweeney, Miss Graham, Mrs Patterson and Ms Gregg

Chicken Licken Drive Instructions http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chicken-Licken-instructions.docx

March 27, 2020

Additional work and activities for week beginning Monday, 30th March

Dear Parents,

We trust that you are all keeping well. Due to the school now being closed for a further week, we are adding some additional work which you may be in a position to complete before the Easter break. As this is such an unprecedented time for everyone, we want to take the opportunity to say that the work activities are not compulsory.

Many of you may now be living and working in very different and difficult circumstances. We as a school do not want to add further to the stress that you may currently be under. However, if you would like to complete some of the work, please feel free to do so.

No doubt your children are happily engaged in other ‘educational activities’ and are using this time as an opportunity to learn in ways that don’t involve books and worksheets. Please continue to use the resources we posted last week, and we have added some additional resources below which you may find useful.

We will be in touch with any other updates, should they become available. In the meantime, we hope you all remain safe and well.

Yours sincerely,

All the staff at Killeshandra N.S. (C. of I.)

Work for J.I., S.I. and 1st Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/J.I.-S.I.-and-1st-Class.docx

Work for 2nd, 3rd and 4th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2nd-3rd-and-4th-Class.docx

Work for 5th and 6th Class http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5th-and-6th-Class.docx

Caint na Maidine http://killeshandranscoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Caint-na-Maidine.docx

‘Elevenses’ with David Walliams audio stories https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Free audio books https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

spell out your own name
choose other words to spell
try and make up your own alphabet activity challenge!

The Department of Education and Skills’ NEPS psychologists have developed advice and some resources for young people to manage and stay well when schools are closed. You may find the following materials useful.

* Advice to young people while schools are closed https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/advice-to-young-people-while-schools-are-closed.pdf

* Plan for the Day https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/plan-your-day.pdf

* Relaxation techniques https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/relaxation-techniques.pdf

NEPS psychologists have developed guidance for parents supporting children to create new routines at home. Having a Plan for the Day is key for children/young people to manage and stay well at this time.

* Guide for Parents Supporting Children with Routines https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/guide-for-parents-supporting-children.pdf

NEPS psychologists have developed advice for parents and schools on talking to children and young people about Covid-19 here https://www.education.ie/en/The-Department/Announcements/talking-to-children-and-young-people-about-covid-19-coronavirus-advice-for-parents-and-schools.pdf

March 20, 2020March 26, 2020

Useful resources

Hello all,

We hope you are all keeping well and adjusting to this unprecedented situation that we find ourselves in.

We gave children a couple of weeks worth of work when we closed, and we hope you are managing to work through this as best you can.

We also hope that the children are having time to spend on activities they may not have time to do otherwise. The following are some suggestions of things they might enjoy and benefit from at this time:

Some reading every day (independently, audio books, reading to them)
Occasional free writing or keep a diary/scrapbook
Practical, hands-on activities such as cooking, gardening etc.
Fine motor activities e.g. cutting, Lego, playdough
Some physical exercise everyday (preferably outside)
Music and art activities
Lots of imaginative free play, the more independent the better

There are lots of other activities on the grid below that you might like to try.

We do not want parents to feel under pressure at this time, but we as teachers want to support you and provide you with some useful resources and activities, should you wish to use them.

Here are some useful websites, activities and games which might be of interest to you over the coming weeks. Click on the links below to access these resources.

English/Literacy/Reading

Scholastic Learn at Home reading projects https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html?caching

Teach your monster to read https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

Listen to the story https://www.storylineonline.net/

Phonics Play (use the username and password given) https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Maths

Topmarks Mental Maths https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Math Game Time http://www.mathgametime.com/

Gaeilge

Séideán Sí https://seideansi.ie/

Cúla 4 https://www.cula4.com/ga/

Digital Dialects https://digitaldialects.com/Irish.htm

All subjects

Twinkl https://www.twinkl.ie/

Seomra Ranga https://www.seomraranga.com/

Learning Games for Kids https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/

P.E. /Active School

GoNoodle https://family.gonoodle.com/

10 @ 10 https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/

The Body Coach TV on YouTube – live ‘P.E. with Joe’ workouts each weekday at 9 a.m. and lots of other children’s workouts https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

‘Run Around Ireland’ challenge – we planned to start this challenge in school on 23^rd March – you might like to try this at home! Download the map and challenge chart, work out the distance from your house to each landmark (Google Maps can help with this), set up a lap around your house/garden (1 lap = 1 km) and get running! How many places can you and your family visit?

Run Around Ireland Map https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Run-Around-Ireland-Map-ENGLISH.pdf

Run Around Ireland Challenge Chart https://activeschoolflag.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Run-Around-Ireland-Challenge-Chart-ENGLISH.pdf

Please take care of yourselves and your families at this time.

March 13, 2020

Digital Health Conference

The pupils in 6th Class were invited to a Digital Health Conference in Hotel Kilmore on 3rd March. They heard speakers on topics including bullying, resilience and the impact of screen time on their physical and mental health. This was an excellent and informative event for everyone.

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

World Book Day

We celebrated World Book Day on 5th March by bringing a favourite book in to school. Everyone prepared an oral book report to share with the children in their class, and we enjoyed having the chance to read and share books together.