This month the Senior pupils learned about Claude Monet and Impressionism. The did a great job in recreating his painting Reflections.
Our activities in the Senior Room during Engineering Week were great fun. First we had a workshop with All 4 Science in which the pupils made robotic hands. Then the pupils were given an engineering task which showed the talents and resilience of all pupils. The team spirit shown was amazing and everyone worked together to help each other until the projects were finished. Great fun was had ….have a look below at the amazing things they made. We have sky wheels, cars, mechanical fish, elevators, vacuum cleaners, bubble machine, lamp and even a Googly eyed gecko!!!!. Thanks to all the Mums and Dads who provided some equipment and helped out over the weekend with the tricky bits!!!
The Annual Cumann na MBunscol Wicklow Skills competition will take place on the week beginning March 25th
N/B:All participants must be born on or after Jan 01st 2007.
Each school are permitted to send 2 representatives into each category below:
GAELIC FOOTBALL (BOYS)
GAELIC FOOTBALL (GIRLS)
HURLING
CAMOGIE
Please note: Each pupil will only be permitted to complete in one of the above.
The top 2 pupils from each area will be invited to complete in the County Skills Test scheduled for April 03rd in Wicklow GAA Centre for Excellence, Ballinakill at 11am. The top performing pupils in the county skills tests will have the opportunity to represent their school and county during the half - time of selected All Ireland Series games during the summer.
If any parents are interested in your child competing please contact your parent rep or the school office and we will register pupils. Registration must be submitted to Wicklow GAA by Weds 20th March.
Thank You
A very big well done to Jack Nolan, Daniel Jones, Imana van Kan, Aisling Tiernan, Brian Jones, Ronan Wynne and Cian Jones who all took part in the Arklow Music Festival solo verse speaking competitions last week and done so well.
You all did brilliantly and represented the school very well!
We are all very proud of you at Scoil San Eoin.
We’ve done it !!!!
We have filled our Aldi Rugby Play poster and we are now on our way to try to complete our 2nd poster.
A huge thank you to everyone who has brought in stickers and who have asked friends and family members to participate.
We really appreciate it.
Fingers crossed now that we win some prizes :-)
We had our scheduled Skipnrope Workshop with instructor Mark McCabe on Friday 08th March. The weather couldn’t even dampen spirits and the children had a great day. The children in the Junior classes were shown how to skip safely and correctly and the rest of the classes participated in skipping games etc.
Thank you to Mark for providing the workshop.
Students can purchase skipping ropes used on the day - Orders will be submitted on Weds 13th therefore please ensure payment is made to the school office by Weds 13th March if you would like to order one. Prices are below again for anyone that missed previous post on website.
Skipping Rope - Individual Ropes Prices
7ft Speed Rope € 6 (Jun Inf - Small 1st Class Children)
8.5 ft Speed Rope € 6 (Tall 1st Class - 6th Class Children)
10ft Speed Rope € 6 (Very Tall Children in 5th or 6th Class plus Adult)
Family Rope €10 (16ft Long)
Double Dutch Set €15 (2 x 16ft Long)
Long Rope €15 (25ft Long)
Thank You
Skipping ropes are avaible to buy on the day of workshop only if parents wish to. IT IS NOT COMPULSORY. Children will be given ropes on the day to use by instructor.
See below prices given to us by instructor.
Skipping Rope - Individual Ropes Prices
7ft Speed Rope € 6 (Jun Inf - Small 1st Class Children)
8.5 ft Speed Rope € 6 (Tall 1st Class - 6th Class Children)
10ft Speed Rope € 6 (Very Tall Children in 5th or 6th Class plus Adult)
Family Rope €10 (16ft Long)
Double Dutch Set €15 (2 x 16ft Long)
Long Rope €15 (25ft Long)
Wishing all our pupils the very best of luck this week as you enter in the Verse speaking competitions for the Arklow Music Festival. We are all very proud of you at Scoil San Eoin and well done!
The children finished up their 6 week Rugby sessions with Barney on Weds 06.03.2019. They had great fun learning the rules and playing. The smaller children in Junior & Senior Infants also go to play.
Thank you to Barney for coming each week.
The children were very lucky to have a tasting session for Pancake Tuesday where they were given pancakes and got to try all of the different toppings. Thank you to all the volunteers who set up and served the children and who tidied up after.
This week is Engineers week across the country in schools. We will be completing challenges and workshops in school throughout the week to celebrate this.
Thank You
Just a general reminder for parents:
Our Sale of work and open day is 06th April. We are seeking donations from the community for items for the sale of work. Please click on the attached link for full list of items. We are ready to accept donations now and parents/community members can drop items to the school.
Bagpack Fundraiser - We have our Bagpack fundraiser on Friday 29th/30th March in Dunnes Stores Bridgewater and we still have some slots that need to be filled. Please contact the school office or a parent rep if you or a family member can volunteer your time for any of the slots. (Friday 29th 2-4pm & 4-6pm need to be filled) and Sat 30th (10-12, 12-2pm need to be filled)
Tesco Blue Tokens - We are in Tesco Arklow as a charity for the Tesco community fund. Please remind your friends and family members to support us if they can.
Aldi Play Rugby Poster - We nearly have our Aldi Play Rugby Poster filled - Please ask all friends and family members to request stickers when shopping in Aldi for the school. There are great prizes to be won but we also receive water bottles/ bag and balls if we submit a full poster.
Thank You
Pupils from the senior room had a Reconciliation and Bowl Burning Ceremony in our new classroom on Friday with Fr. Byrne.
Pupils were asked to burn away the negative things they wished to leave behind and to write down about the positive things they wanted to replace them with and to leave it on the religion table.
Pupils who are set to make their First Holy Communion in May had their First Penance mass last week in Barnisky Church with Fr Byrne.
Some pictures of our new Cosy reading corner in the new senior classroom. Pupils are getting the chance to relax and read in lovely comfortable surroundings.
Thanks to Ms Greenes Mam for taking the time to make the lovely cushions for the children to use .
Our 5th & 6th Class pupils had their Confirmation Retreat in Glendalough with students from Ballycoog National School.
Our tour was lead by Fr. Pat from the Tearmann Spirituality Centre.
The retreat was based around Nature, St Kevin’s life in Glendalough and Spirituality.
The weather was brillant for the day and the children had a great time.
We would like to thank Fr. Pat and the Tearmann Spirituality Centre for having us.
Aldi are giving primary schools a chance to win €50,000 to develop a school’s playing facility. Our large poster that we received has been hung in the hall of the school and we are delighted to report that we have filled the stickers to the halfway line!
We don’t have much more to go to be in with a chance of winning the prize but even if we do not win the main prize, just for entering a full sheet we will receive an Aldi Play Rugby kit bag, 4 rugby balls and a set of Aldi Play Rugby water bottles.
The promotion is finished on 07th April .
We can do this!!!
Please help support the school and ask your friends and family to gather as many stickers as they can when they shop in their local Aldi store.
We really appreciate it.
Thank You!
We are holding a Bagpack fundraiser on March 29th/30th at Dunnes Stores Arklow. We are looking for volunteers to fill time slots throughout the day to help us raise as much money as we can. Please contact your class rep or the school office if you can help on the days in any way.
All proceeds from this fundraiser will be used towards a new laptop trolley which will charge and store our laptops safely. This will be a huge benefit to pupils to have laptops at hand charged and ready to use at all times.
All family members once over the age of 14 can volunteer to bagpack on the day.
Pupil have received their certs for completing the food dudes phase 1 programme. We are asking all parents/guardians to try to keep up the encouragement of the children bring fruit and veg to school for their snacks/lunches. Phase 2 is now beginning.
Bord Bia are rewarding the hard work of our school’s pupils by providing a special supply of fruit and vegetables for five days in February.
This will commence on Monday 11th February and run until Friday 15th.
We are encouraging all the children to take part.
The children got the chance to do some CPR awareness and training with Polly today. Everyone enjoyed themselves and learned some valuable information that could hopefully save a life.
From the money received and a school donation we were able to give Polly a donation towards Conary Community First Responders as a thank you.
Thank you to all the children who volunteered,
School Office: 0404 41 727
Email: schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com
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