Easter Colour Burst!

The halls are looking super bright and cheerful with these Funky Bunnies and Easter Baskets! Well done Senior Room!

Easter Egg Scramble!

Such a nice way to finish off before the Easter break! The boys and girls had great fun running around and finding all the Easter eggs that the Scoil San Eoin bunny had left around for them! Check out the video and pictures below!

March in the Junior Room

Spring has sprung in the Junior Room. It has been a lovely return to school with lots of happy faces in the Junior Room, all delighted to be back together. Spring was a very fitting theme for the month of March with the children exploring lifecycles, flowers and lots of lovely artwork completed. The nice weather meant the children were spending lots of time outside in the school grounds also. Enjoy the photographs of all the lovely work the children have completed on the topic of Spring during the month.

St Patricks Day

Would you hire any of these Leprechauns? What do you think of our Shamrock characters? Its lovely to have colourful art to brighten up the halls and classrooms again.

Certificates Galore!

Well done to Ms Nicholson’s group who are surpassing themselves completing levels in both Lexia and TTRS. We are so proud of you! Keep up the great work!

Seachtain na Gaeilge - Drop Kick Murphy and Jerusalema mashup dance!

Riverdance may not be calling us to join just yet…but in true Scoil San Eoin style….we gave it a try and had a bit of fun!!! Well done Senior Room!

A link to our Senior Room pupils debut on News2day!!

Hi Everyone,

In case any of you missed our senior room’s big debut on News2day on RTE2 on Monday 22nd March where our pupils were interviewed and filmed speaking about chess and playing some games in the classroom here is a link:

https://www.rte.ie/player/series/news2day/SI0000001210?epguid=IH000400251

Everyone was fantastic and spoke with great confidence and knowledge. They all done Scoil San Eoin proud.

Well done guys!

Feel free to share the link with your family and friends.

Thank You

Big News Everyone! Were on News2Day at 4.20pm today Monday 22th March 2021

Dear Parents,

The children in the senior room today had the fantastic opportunity of being part of a programme on RTE2 called News2Today this morning where they got to talk to a reporter about playing chess and being part of a Ficheall tournament. The children were interviewed and filmed and we have been told just now that the show will air today at 04.20 pm on RTE2. Please tune in a little earlier just in case as this is an approx time!

The children had a great morning and it was so lovely to see such excitement during these tough times!

Thank you to the Ficheall coordinator and to RTE for organising.

Well done everyone

We hope you all enjoy watching!!

World Book Day 2021

Today the children in the junior room celebrated World Book Day. The children shared their favourite books followed by spending time reading and sharing in pairs. We all enjoyed the story ‘Stickman’ and even found our very own stickman from the trees in the school grounds. The children also explored the World Book Day website and listened to some audio books.

Engineers Week in the Junior Room

It has been a lovely return to school for the children in the junior room. Everybody is settled back into school life and enjoying being with their friends. We came back to school just in time to take part in some Engineers Week activities. Take a look at the photos of some of our pinwheel windmills and marble run made from recyclable materials.

Scoil San Eoin - Updated Covid Response Plan for parents/schools (March 2021)

Dear Parents,

Please find attached our Updated Covid Response Plan for returning to schools for your attention.

Items highlighted in red are amendments made to our policy as per Dept guidelines.

Thank You

Skip n Rope

Following our successful skipping workshop last year with Skip n Rope we have been given access to some tutorial videos for this school closure. The children all thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and skipping is one of the most popular activities at break time. This is a great opportunity to brush up on your skipping and practise a new skill!

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChv0GUoeif1tHONdgg_bthQ?view_as=subscriber

Update from the Minister of Education for parents

Dear Parents,

We hope you are well and staying safe.

Please see attached a letter from the Minister for the attention of all parents

Thank You

For our Parents, Teachers and children!

Wishing all the parents, children and teachers the very best of luck as we all begin the journey of remote learning. We thought this poem was a lovely one to begin our journey with.

Stay Safe!

GAA resumes

We are delighted to have GAA coach Darren Hayden return to Scoil San Eoin to coach all classes for the coming weeks. Fingers crossed for some dry weather to ensure we can make the most of this great opportunity.

PE Equipment

An end of term sort and tidy of our PE equipment. The children get so much use out of this sports equipment at break times and we have been lucky the weather has been kind to us this term to allow us get our daily exercise and fresh air.

Daily Mile Flag raised

Following our completion of the Daily Mile challenge we were delighted to receive a nice surprise of the colorful flag in the post. It is now flying proudly on our flag poles at the front of the school!

Active Breaks Challenge Complete!!

We always feel best and work our hardest when we take some movement breaks in the classroom. Thanks to Zoe Patterson from FYI dance studio who has provided us with some great tutorials remotely which we were able to utilise for active breaks. Zoe has taught us how important it is to exercise our bodies in order to keep our minds healthy and strong and more able to concentrate on our school work. Of course we still love some gonoodle and runs on our active walkway also.

Christmas in the Junior Room

It has been a lovely month leading up to Christmas in the Junior Room. We are very proud of all the work the children have covered this term so we had lots of nice activities throughout the month to get us all excited for Christmas.

Our theme this month was Winter and of course Christmas with some lovely artwork completed on these themes. The children learned all about the Arctic and Antarctic in SESE looking at the climate and animals who live there. We even compared the height of an Emperor Penguin to some children in the class!! We also learned all about the expeditions undertaken by the famous explorer Tom Crean. While learning about Winter we decided to help the birds which arrive to the trees outside our window by making bird feeders from scratch…..we had mixed success with this experiment-but that’s what’s it’s all about!! Well done to 1st and 2nd class who completed and presented projects on Christmas around the world, a great variety of countries were chosen so it made for interesting listening.

Thanks to Dolores and her craft expertise we made some lovely Santa’s from recycled plastic bottles and also the fabulous flower arrangements which I’m sure are filling your homes with lovely Christmas smells. The children remained active as always in December continuing our run a day where possible, recommencing GAA training and active breaks in the classroom with a festive twist.

We practised really hard to learn some Christmas songs and poems in English and Gaeilge. The children gave a great performance of these in the classroom and we hope you enjoyed watching on SeeSaw.

Have a very Happy Christmas and we look forward to listening to all your santa stories in the New Year.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

December has been a busy and fun month in the Senior class. We really got into the festive spirit and had great fun opening our class Advent calendar each day, which either gave us a whole class treat or an Act of Kindness to carry out.

In English we continued with the genre of Recount by retelling the story of The Nativity. We also read about Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in The Christmas Carol. We also got really into debating and had some great debates on some hot topics such as Gaming and Zoos!

In Maths we learned our multiplication tables, Gaelige we learned the theme of Bia.

In Religion we looked at Advent and preparing for Christmas, as well as the Annunciation and Christmas itself.

We did some fabulous Christmas arts and crafts and beautiful paintings that really added to the Christmas feel around the classroom.

In SPHE, we talked about the different types of families we can be part of and each child made their own Family crest thinking about different aspects of their families and what they liked to do.

Darren our GAA coach is back to do Gaelic football with us each week.

The pupils did some fantastic projects on Schools in the Past, gathering information from a variety of sources including interviews with family members and neighbors. They each presented them to the class.

They also made some cool light up Christmas cards as part of a STEM lesson and did some brilliant troubleshooting and investigating if they didn’t light up.

Finally we topped the term off by watching a Christmas movie and munching on treat bags made up by our Parent Rep Cleo, who also included some Reindeer food so that no-one went hungry!! Each child also went home with a lovely Kris Kindle gift from a classmate! What a great term!!

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