We hope you and the children are keeping
well at this time. We have put together a selection of material that we would
like you to collect from the school. This contains photographs taken by the
photographer, end of year school reports, copybooks and completed work etc.
We ask that you bring back the following:
Oxford reading packs
Library books
Novels
Any workbooks belonging to the school e.g. Spellcheck
Complete Postal Bible School Sheets
Active Home Week Sheets
The days and times being allocated for the
collection of these are as follows:
Monday
1st June: 5 – 6 p.m.
Tuesday
2nd June: 9 – 10 a.m.
Please come into the playground area and
proceed to the tables where the teachers will have each pack ready for you. We
ask that social distancing measures be adhered to. If there is already someone
at the table please wait at a distance until they are finished.
If you would like to get in touch with us about your child/children, please use their class teacher’s email address.
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.
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 6th 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 6th 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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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 https://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.
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 20th
April. We have to wait for an announcement from the Taoiseach. In case we are
not back on Monday 20th 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘Run Around Ireland’ challenge – we planned to start this challenge in school on 23rd 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?
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.
