Our Fabulous Senior Room Fairy Doors!

Take a look at our fabulous new fairy doors that have been hung today in the school garden by our senior room pupils. Each and every one are unique and just gorgeas. They have added such a lovely twist to our school garden.

Well done everyone!

Our beautiful fairy doors from our Junior Room

Have a look at our gorgeas new fairy doors that have been hung today in the school garden by our junior room pupils. There are lots of bright colours and designs and each fairy door is a great example of the child’s personality and likes. It has transformed the bare trees and brightened up the space.

Well done everyone!

Confirmation Retreat to Glendalough - June 2021

Our confirmation class were very fortunate and got to attend a confirmation retreat in Glendalough today. Fr. Michael and Sister Breda from the Tearmann Centre looked after us so well on our guided walk and provided lots of very informative information about Glendalough and our confirmation ahead.

The weather was glorias and overall it was a really lovely morning. It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to reflect and pause in beautiful surroundings.

New addition to our school yard!!

The children have gotten a lovely surprise and a new large wall mounted basketball hoop and 15 new basketballs have been purchased for the children to play with. It is already a huge success!

Our New whole school project: School Fairy Garden

Our senior room pupils got to enjoy the recent beautiful weather we have been having and started our fairy garden project. We sourced some wooden wheels which the pupils have painted in gorgeas bright colours and which we will all decorate as a whole school project in the coming weeks.

Each pupil have also received their own wooden fairy door which they could paint in their own choice of design and these will then be decorated and placed around the school for many years to come.

It will be a lovely way of pupils leaving their own mark on Scoil San Eoin and will really brighten up our lovely outdoor space where the children will play

Recycled Bird Feeders by our Senior Room

Our senior room have been very busy makin bird feeders out of recycled milk cartons with Ms Hedderman to look after our birds. They have made them look very stylish and inviting for our bird visitors.

These will be placed around the school grounds very soon with lots more exciting changes coming in the pipeline!

Lots of activity in our new vegetable garden!!!!

Since our return to school we our very lucky and have just started a beautiful new vegetable garden with new bedding areas. Our senior room have been very busy planting with Doloras. All our lovely vegetables are growing away and are already looking good enough to eat. We have a mixture of carrots, onions, lettuce and herbs. Our pupils are looking after them very well as you can see.

Our junior room have also been very busy little bees and have been planting sunflower seeds. They also have lots of vegetables and herbs that have started in cups and are now ready to move to our bedding trays when Mr Sunshine decides to come back to us.

Have a look at everyone’s hard work!

IT Questionnaire for Parents - More replies needed!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We issued an IT Questionnaire to all parents via email on the 05th May regarding digital learning and technology in our school.

In order for us to draw up an effective digital learning plan for our school we need to have the input of parents. As part of the process, we are collecting information regarding the use of digital technology in our school and we would greatly appreciate parental input on this. If you haven’t already submitted a completed questionnaire, could you please complete and return one to help us get an overall opinion from parents as at present we can’t use the data that has been received already as we do not enough replies.

A link has been reissued to all parents via email today 19th May 2021

When finished please press submit. 

We really appreciate you taking the time to complete the survey.

Thank You

Free Webinars for parents - Weds 19th/Thursday 30th May

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Wexford Education Centre are running webinars for free tonight and tomorrow night for parents of pupils.

The information is as follows

• Getting Ready for Secondary School

• Wednesday May 19th @ 7pm

• Please click on the attached link to register

https://www.ecwexford.ie/cpd-courses/parent-courses/1535-webinar-preparing-sixth-class-students-for-secondary-school.html

• Ramp your resilience and boost your well being

• Thursday May 20th @ 06.45pm

• Please click on the attached link to register

Please click on the links given to register if interested in the courses

Thank You

GAA/Rugby sessions

Our junior & senior room have been so lucky to of gotten in some GAA sessions with Darren Hayden and Rugby sessions with Barney before finishing up for the school year. We were also blessed with good weather for most of the scheduled days. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed getting out into the fresh air and getting some exercise.

Our last Rugby session was Monday 17th May and our last GAA session will be Thursday 20th May.

Pupils will also finish up their IT classes with Ciaran on Weds 19th May.

School Closure Date - Info for parents

Dear Parent/Guardians,

Please note that we have outlined on our school calendar for this year that we have a day in-lieu to use regarding a school closure. We have decided that this day will be used on Friday 4th June 2021 therefore there will be no school on the 4th.

Please also note that we are finished on Thursday 24th June for our summer holidays and this will be a half day and school will finish at 12.30

Thank You

Moving on up workshop for 5/6th Class Pupils (Transitioning to secondary school)

Our5/6th Class pupils completed a workshop on Monday 17th via zoom called Moving On Up: Transferring to Secondary School. The aim of the workshop was to equip our 5/6th class pupils with the skills and knowledge to make a smooth transition to secondary school. Some of the topics covered during the zoom were friendship, social and emotional skills, organizational skills and digital well-being.

Overall the workshop was a great success and the pupils really enjoyed it. We really hope that it will assist our pupils in making things easier for them when moving to secondary school

All pupils received a certificate and a Moving on up pupil booklet which outlines everything they covered on the day. The plan is now to include this course every 2nd year for 5/6th classes to cover before making the transition to secondary school.

Free Webinars for parents on Young People's Mental Health

Hi Everyone,

Please see attached a flyer on Supporting Young People: A webinar series for parents and teachers which is being organised by UCD.
This is a free series of events for anyone interested in learning more about supporting young people’s mental health.

If interested please click on the attached link with all the information needed

to book a place.

Thank You

Lots happening in the month of April in the Junior Room!

Since we returned to school after the Easter holidays the children have completed lots of great work around our SESE theme of the month of Space. Everyone (including Ms. Fitzgerald) learned lots of new information about Space and I’m sure they will surprise you with their knowledge. We also spent time on the measures topic in Maths with lots of work done on Time and Money - 1st and 2nd class even set up a shop in the classroom for everyone to practise using coins. We also spent some time planting cress and sunflower seeds which we hope will continue to grow on our windowsill and eventually make it out to the school garden. We hope you enjoy looking through all our photographs.

IT Classes with Ciaran resume!

Our annual IT Classes which were cancelled at Christmas due to the school closures recommenced this week on Weds 14th April much to the delight of our pupils. Students from 1st-6th class will engage in these classes for the next 6 weeks with Ciaran. They really enjoy the classes but they are also learning some valuable skills needed for the future in IT.

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!