Dear Parent/Guardian,
Please see below 2 letters issued by the Dept of Education and HSE for parents.
Please read both letters carefully as they contain important information regarding Covid19.
HSE updated guidelines for children aged 3 to 13 years
Thank You
We had our sponsored cycle event on 22nd Oct 2021 and the day was a great success.
The final amount is in and a whopping €1651.20 has been raised by our brilliant pupils.
A massive well done to everyone who made the day such a success and a big thank you to all our pupils who gathered their sponsorship money and completed the cycle. You should be all very proud of yourselves!!
Thank you to everyone who brought in a Christmas Shoebox for Team Hope. Teresa a volunteer from Team Hope collected them on Tuesday 09th Nov.
The children from the Junior Room class have just finished up a 4 week block of Tennis with Jamie Stafford. They all thoroughly enjoyed it and some were lucky enough to receive prizes each week during games.
Lots of fun & exercise have been achieved for the sessions completed.
Thank you to Jamie from the Academy!!
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Please see below a poster looking for donations for the less fortunate this Christmas. If any locals or Grandparents wish to give any of the below, please spread the word that a box will be left outside the school door on a Monday or Wednesday from 09.30-03.00pm from next Mon 08th Nov until Christmas.
Thank You for the support in advance
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Please see below a link issued by the Dept of Education below for parent-focused public health advice about COVID-19 symptoms.
If your child is displaying any symptoms of covid19 please keep them at home and contact your GP for testing.
Thank You
Some splendid, spectacular and spooky work was completed in the senior room this month!
DojoMór 2021 - Free online coding workshops for primary and secondary school students.
For more information and to book your place visit www.dojomor.ie Choose from a selection of over 12 different workshops in our new virtual convention centre.
We look forward to seeing you there on Saturday, November 6th at 10am, for some coding fun and games!
Follow us on social media @dojomor2021 for a chance to win cool official merchandise in our daily prize giveaways. Stay tuned for a sneak preview of the virtual event centre coming soon.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
There is a webinar taking place on Wednesday the 3rd of November at 7pm called The importance of sleep for our national school children. The main speaker is Lucy Wolfe and she will be giving some information and guidance around this topic. You can register for this free webinar using this link: https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/PlanetYouthSleep, or through the www.planetyouth.ie website.
Parents can also submit questions on the night or in advance by email to events@planetyouth.ie.
Thank You
Dear Parent/Guardian,
We have been asked by the Dept of Education and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to assist in sending out a message through school communities to parents.
Please see below its warning about the danger associated with eating edible products, such as jelly sweets, containing cannabis components.
Warning regarding jelly sweets containing cannabis (THC)
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is urging parents and guardians to be extremely vigilant to the dangers of their children getting access to and eating confectionary, particularly jelly sweets, containing significant amounts of the psychoactive cannabis component called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). This warning comes amid the ongoing seizures of these illegal food products by the Gardaí and Customs services, and a number of serious medical incidents whereby these THC-containing jelly sweets resulted in teenagers and young children suffering serious adverse health effects requiring hospitalization. These jelly sweets are packaged to look like popular brands of jellies and have been found to contain toxic amounts of THC (up to 50mg/jelly). Depending on the concentration of THC, eating one of these jellies can mean an equivalent intake of THC that is 5-10 times higher than that inhaled from a single cannabis cigarette. Also, unlike the almost immediate effects of inhaling THC (smoking or vaping), ingesting THC through these jellies can take up to 30 minutes for any effects to be felt. However, while waiting for those effects, those who have eaten these products may overdose in the mistaken belief that they need to eat more sweets in order to feel the effects. Of particular concern to the FSAI is the inadvertent consumption of these jelly sweets by small children who may somehow gain access to what looks and possibly tastes like ordinary sweets. Unfortunately, given access to a bag of these jellies, children will rarely eat just one and therefore, overdosing is a very likely outcome as witnessed by the hospitalisation of a number of seriously ill young children in the early part of 2021.
The FSAI has become aware of reports about the availability of THC-containing jelly sweets in schools in Ireland and therefore, parents and guardians are asked to speak with their teenagers alerting them to the dangers if they eat them or if their younger siblings get access to them and subsequently suffer the serious consequences of consuming a toxic substance.
Take a look at our fantastic video of parts of the Senior Room cycle provided by Sean Nolan!!!
Thank you Sean, a great video for our pupils to look back on the day!!
Scoil San Eoin - Sponsored Cycle 22nd Oct 2021
Our annual school Halloween Sponsored Cycle took place on Thurs 21st Oct. We were so fortunate with the weather after a wet start to the week but on the day it turned out to be glorious and we had some fabulous sunshine ensuring that the cycle would be a great day ahead!
Our pupils from our Junior Room brought scooters/bikes and scooted/cycled around the school yard. They also completed a sponsored walk to Cullen Park and were very lucky to fit in some play time in the park area as well.
Our pupils from the Senior Room had the very serious task of cycling 7k to Ballykane. Everyone with this group also got some much rewarded time in the park also after all their hard work. The children well and truly proved that we are a very active school and faced the task of a long cycle head on!
Everyone headed back to the school then for some much needed refreshments and Halloween treat bags!
The day was a fantastic success achieved only by the help and volunteering of our parents who were road marshals, who cycled alongside our pupils, who walked and supervised our smaller pupils and who volunteered afterwards to provide refreshments. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the day, we couldn’t of done it without you.
Thank you also to our parent reps who helped in organising the event and provided the treat bags for our pupils.
Covid19 has hugely impacted fun events and parental involvement in schools and for this reason it was so lovely to have everyone together outside safely and for the children also to enjoy being active!
We are still awaiting all sponsor cards to be returned to the school but once we have a final figure we will let parents know!
Again thank you to everyone for all your help and a huge well done to all our pupils and teachers for taking part in the event.
All our junior room pupils have had a lovely October in school, working hard on our theme of the month Autumn! We learned all about hedgehogs and squirrels and made some lovely Autumnal art pieces. The children began their tennis coaching with Jamie on Fridays to their great enjoyment and also continued GAA on Tuesdays with Philip. We have surely had an active month especially with our sponsored walk and cycle on Thursday 21st. It is lovely to see all our new pupils enjoying Scoil San Eoin and making lots of friends, everyone deserves a good rest over the midterm as we’ll have lots more work to get stuck into in November. Enjoy the selection of photographs from the past month and have a Happy Halloween!
Dear Parent/Guardian,
We are taking part in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal again this year where we encourage each child to fill a shoebox with items from a designated list for Christmas. These shoeboxes are then delivered to underprivileged children all over the world. These children may never have received a present before, or live in difficult situations where basic necessities are hard to come by. With Covid19, Team Hope have missed out on valuable donations from schools in the run up to Christmas for the past 2 years.
The benefits of the children being involved in this programme are getting to ‘‘feel good about doing something nice for others’’ and it can also help to teach your children about the world around them.
The deadline for drop off of the Christmas Shoeboxes for this year will be 08th November 2021. Please ensure that all shoeboxes have been brought to the school by this date.
A leaflet will be going home with the children today to include with your donation in your box. Please pop this in an envelope inside your box. There is also a label on this sheet for the outer top of the box.
Tips from Team Hope on how to fill the shoebox
Also see below some ideas on what you might fill your child’s shoebox with.
Thank You!
Please spread the word to any new parents! Parents can apply for a place for their child from today 18th October for the next school term.
Closing Date for new admissions is 29th April 2022
Our senior room pupils are a few weeks in to Hurling coaching with Philip from Wicklow GAA and they are really enjoying it each week.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Our annual admissions notice in respect of the school year 2022/2023 is now available to view under school information - section Enrolment/new admissions. This notice details all dates in relation to enrolment of new Junior Infant pupils at Scoil San Eoin.
Please spread the word to any new parents that you may know that are planning on enroling their child/ren for next Sept
Thank You
Thank you all for taking part in our Goal Jersey Day on Thurs 07th Oct. We raised €68 which will go directly to Goal charity
Well Done Everyone!!!
Our Senior Room have been very busy during the month of Sept. Take a look at some of the fantastic work completed by our pupils.
Senior Room Sept Update
School Office: 0404 41 727
Email: schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com
Roll No: 14829M
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