Autumn leaf collages
Monica and Christopher created some wonderful leaf displays. Maith sibh!
Monica and Christopher created some wonderful leaf displays. Maith sibh!
The boys and girls of 1st and 2nd class went on a scavenger hunt based on the 5 senses on Friday afternoon. They had to find things such as something yellow, something red, something you can smell, something smooth, something rough, something you can hear etc.
Unsurprisingly tractors and farm machinery featured heavily!
The links below might be of interest to parents as we prepare to return to school:
The following link is to a video message for parents ahead of the start of the new school year:
The link below is to resources created by the Department of Education for parents and students alike:
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/a04fc-advice-for-students-and-their-families/
The Department together with NEPS has developed short video clips to communicate with students and parents about the return to school with key universal messages.
Primary Students (3rd to 6th): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVlb0jAm55Y
Primary Students (JI to 2nd): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=92MLB_0nq8Q&feature=emb_logo
Parent Advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=03RXGM1hMMI&feature=emb_logo
The booklists for next year can be found by clicking here or you will also find them on the tab above.
At this time of year, we would be focusing on the topics of water and farm safety in our SPHE, Geography, Science and PE programmes in all classes. I’m sharing these links with you and I hope you get a chance to go through this vital content with your child.
The water safety activities can be found at https://www.teachpaws.ie/
http://www.agrikids.ie/home.php is the agri kids website. It has an app available for android and apple devices and is also running webinars for children on the topic of farm safety which you can access through facebook – I can’t seem to send a link.
Zillah asked me to share this information with you to let you all know how you can stay engaged with this excellent service.
Green Schools Ireland have put together some great resources for pupils during the school closure. Have a look below for some ideas on staying busy!
https://greenschoolsireland.org/green-schools-stay-home-travel-week-5-walk-to-school-week/
https://greenschoolsireland.org/projects/
We were delighted to get these images of some research Aobh has been doing to keep busy during the closure – well done! She more than earned the treat of her chocolate mug cake, the recipe for which she has kindly shared. I look forward to trying this, it looks great.
Go raibh maith agat, Aobh!
Download the recipe for Aobh’s cake by clicking chocolate mug cake
One of our wonderful 1st class pupils wrote this excellent short story recently. Maith thú, Liam!
The Abandoned Shack
Once upon a time, there was a kid called Tim. He was ten years old and he had a big brother called Peter. One day Peter and Tim went for a walk in the woods. They got lost but when they looked up over the brown, cold hills they saw a little shack. It was all broken and covered with moss after thirty eight minutes they got to the shack, they looked at it again. Then it started to rain. The only house in the woods was the shack. They ran into the shack.
It was all dark and there were no lights. Luckily Peter brought his phone and turned his light source on. Suddenly a piano magically made music. There was a door but there was no way in. Peter turned around and he looked everywhere to open the door. After a while he tripped,suddenly a painting appeared. Tim and Peter ignored it but the painting watched them with his eyes. It wasn’t any old painting, it was a spirit of the person who owned the shack. A magic voice came and said you cannot open the door unless you find the magic key and until you find the key you won’t be able to enter the next room. After that Tim and Peter searched everywhere for the key. After an hour they got very tired. They tried to have a sleep but they just couldn’t after another hour they found the key behind a statue in the hallway.
The key disappeared then reappeared at the door and opened it. The key disappeared again and Tim and Peter ran through the unlocked door.They saw a stick floating in the air,
Tim said to Peter “ Do you think this is the treasure or what?” Tim touched the stick and it magically brought them home.
The End
To view our new Admission policy, please click on the link below
Any comments, queries or questions should be directed to the Principal who can be contacted by emailing rnsns19@gmail.com
Teachers from www.ficheall.ie have been in touch to share these great ideas:
Suggested activities for children of all ages from Junior Infants – 6th class:
– Joe Wicks has a huge range of child-friendly workouts on his YouTube channel. He has new ones every morning this week at 9am which last for 30 minutes. You can find these and shorter workouts here https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
– There are loads of interesting lego challenges and ideas here https://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/category/lego/
– RTE will broadcast 1 hour school lessons from 11am – 12pm each day on RTE2 from next Monday
-The author David Walliams (who is really popular with children!) is doing audio readings from his series The World’s Worst Children every day at 11am. You can find more details at https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/
– You will find more free audible stories for children at https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
– A teacher in Co. Clare has created this fantastic resource https://padlet.com/parteensolosinging/zfdq5n59llog which has plenty of ideas for children of all ages from Junior Infants – 6th class
– 25 non-screen activity suggestions https://medium.com/pobble/simple-and-fun-non-screen-activities-that-children-can-do-at-home-115543cb3b9c
– There are some lovely Irish stories being read aloud here, you will recognise some of them no doubt! https://soundcloud.com/search?q=walker+eireann&fbclid=IwAR0hsRoTHasAwd62Won1nT5Nlcb7JoBLZyTbOEHGk_qi5k9xVwgC7rK0dPk
Hope these are of some help!
If you need any more ideas or support or if any pupil would like to send us a video or photo of their work or just want to say hi, please be aware that we are monitoring the school email constantly during this closure. The address is rnsns19@gmail.com.
Stay safe everyone, we miss you all and can’t wait to go back to school as soon as it is safe!
Eimear, Mary, Anne, Claire, Carmel and Geraldine
We hope you are all keeping safe and well in these uncertain times. We will be keeping in touch with you via email and have plenty of suggestions if you need any inspiration for keeping your children busy, just let us know and we will forward those ideas to you.
Wishing you all good health and feel free to stay in touch with us,
Eimear and staff
Swimming lessons will commence for 1st – 6th classes on Friday March 20th next. All relevant information is contained in the letter below.
We will close at 1:55pm this Wednesday February 19th to facilitate parent-teacher meetings. If you are unsure of the time of your appointment please get in touch.
School will be closed on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st of this week for our mid-term break. We hope you all enjoy the well earned break!
We always start our day on a Wednesday with Reading Buddies but we changed things up today and had Art Buddies instead! Inspired by the unique work of Wasily Kandinsky, the older pupils helped the younger ones to draw hearts which they then decorated to great effect. The results are simply stunning!
We will hold our annual meetings on Wednesday February 19th next. Classes will finish for everyone at 13:55 on that day.
We look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress.
The Department of Education has sanctioned 2 half day closures for all primary schools in order to engage with webinars to support the implementation of the Primary Language Curriculum in the the senior classes. We are to close for a half day in term 2 and again in term 3.
We will take our first half day on Friday March 13th next, finishing at 12pm on that day and will advise of the second closure after the Easter break.
At our meeting last night, the Board of Management ratified our Stay Safe and RSE policy and reviewed our Child Safeguarding Statement and Swimming policy. These documents can be found by clicking on https://reenascreena.scoilnet.ie/blog/essential-information/ or you will also find them under the ‘Policies’ tab at the top of this page.
Our fabulous SNAs Claire and Carmel went to great lengths recently to prepare 13 different shoeboxes to challenge our Junior and Senior Infants in a variety of ways. Activities include making jigsaws, using playdough mats, threading, using pegs, squeezing, pinching, making patterns and lots of other ways to improve fine and gross motor skills while working independently. Just look at those faces full of concentration!
We recently borrowed ‘Lego WeDo’ kits from the West Cork Education Centre and they are proving to be very popular! The programme combines traditional lego bricks with instructions via an iPad app. Here you can see the pupils of the Senior room helping children from 1st and 2nd class. We can’t wait to have another go!
We look forward to welcoming our incoming Junior Infants for their enrolment day on Friday week, January 31st from 12:30 – 13:30. They will meet their new teacher and some of their future classmates while having a good look around their new classroom! Once they are settled, the Mums and Dads will enjoy a cuppa and chat with Eimear in the staffroom where they can ask any questions they have about school life.
We are really looking forward to seeing everyone!
Please click on the link below to access the letter that will be sent home with children on Tuesday regarding upcoming Parent-Teacher meetings.