Dear Parent/Guardian,
Please see below a notification from the Board of Management regarding the annual review of the school anti-bullyting policy completed.
The updated policy can be viewed on the website under policies. A hard copy of the policy is also available from the school office. We are are asking all parents/guardians to read the updated policy please and make your child/children aware of any changes.
Thank You,
Linda Greene
Principal
Dear Parent/Guardian,
This week at Scoil San Eoin your child/children will be participating in the Food Dudes Healthy Eating Programme, which aims to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables.
Previously we have participated in a 8 days/16 days Food Dudes intervention under which pupils received daily deliveries of fruit and vegetables and were rewarded with stickers and small rewards for participation. At the end of the intervention, pupils were encouraged to bring in and eat fruit and vegetables from home as part of their daily diet.
We are very pleased to inform you that your child/children will have the opportunity to participate in the next phase of the programme this week. Under this phase, we will receive 5 days of fruit and vegetables – a “Food Dudes Week” – to help maintain the healthy eating ethos in the school.
Pupils in Junior Infants and pupils new to the school this academic year, will be provided with a reusable Food Dudes Lunchbox, to help encourage this healthy behaviour.
To support the school based activities that will be running alongside Food Dudes, your child will be given a Passport to Healthy Eating. This passport contains a number of fun activities and is designed to be completed with you at home during the course of the Food Dudes week.
The completion of the passport by you and your child will further enhance the healthy eating ethos in school and at home.
Parent’s may wish to adjust the amount of food in your child’s lunchbox next week, to accommodate these additional foods.
We are looking forward to a great week ahead!
We’ve been super busy in the Senior Room…sit back and have a look!!!
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Our Junior Room pupils have been planting bulbs and working in our new greenhouse with Ms Nuzum and Melanie Byrne (parent of Ben/Sam).
Melanie has entered the school in the Woodies ‘Budding Gardeners Competition’ which gives the school the chance of winning a garden makeover of 2,500 euro and lots of other prizes.
Melanie has submitted the 1st part of the competition. See below our certificate to confirm the 1st task has been completed.
The children are loving being outside and getting to take part.
Thank you to Melanie for taking the time to work with the children and to Thomas and Fiach for getting our greenhouse ready for lots of work ahead for the Spring and Summer months.
Dear Parent/Guardians,
Yesterday 22.02.22 we had a full day workshop with Dale Treadwell from Hertiage Ireland.
The children in our Junior Room had a very busy day.
They got to listen to a lovely Hedgehog story, and spent some time examining woodlice, ladybird, centipede and spiders through lenses which was super interesting for them to see.
They Listened to the story Patricia The Planted Butter Fly written by Dale who gave the workshop and learned about dinosaurs and saw lots of interesting artifacts, bones and teeth
They played lots of games outside in a circle and got to plant wildflower seeds at the bank outside of their classroom. The pupils also planted a Tree (Mountain Ash) over by the corner of the pitch. This will be such a lovely memory for the children and they will get to watch what they have planted develop and grow.
All the children in the Junior Room finished the day with artwork on drawing dinosaurs and using playdough to make one.
Overall everyone had a super interesting and exciting day and I am sure there were lots of lovely stories for parents afterwards.
Thank you to Dale for visiting us at Scoil San Eoin
In the Senior Room they made a bug hotel, learned about echo location and had to work together as a team to put together a geometric dome. It was tougher than it looked and they learned some engineering skills and some skills about job delegation and patience!!
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Wicklow Libraries are running the following parenting events over the coming weeks, which are all available free of charge to anyone interested;
Addressing school avoidance -Tara Kelly - January 12th, 7pm on Zoom
Managing anxiety in children - Tara Kelly - March 15th 7pm on Zoom
Building strong relationships with your Tweens and Teens - Madeleine Connolly - March 22nd, 7pm on Zoom
How to talk to your children (under 13) about porn - Sarah Sproule - 5th April, 7pm on Zoom
ADHD Explained with Ken Kilbride of AHDH Ireland - 6th April, 7pm on Zoom
Please feel free to contact braylib@wicklowcoco.ie to book your place or find out more.
All classes took part in a workshop with Conor Halpin on Thursday. There was lots of fun and games and everyone really enjoyed the day.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Please see below updated isolation quick guide guidance from the HSE - Issued 06.01.2022
Isolation quick guide Isolation quick guide - Adults and children from their 13th birthday
Thank You
Dear Parents,
Our 5/6th class are getting in the Christmas Spirit and done a performance of Jingle Bell Rock on the Ukulele. They have done an excellent job and you can really see they are progressing from their lessons with Sean in music generation.
We hope you enjoy!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
The junior room children have been very busy in the month of December and the lead up to Christmas. Our theme for the month was Winter where we talked about Winter weather, Winter clothes and some animals associated with Winter such as the Penguin and the Irish Seal. In Gaeilge we covered An Aimsir learning lots of new vocabulary about Winter weather.
In the run up to another COVID Christmas we unfortunately were unable to have any visitors to the school or any outside trips but we made the best we could of this situation with lots of arts and crafts activities and of course plenty of practise for our classroom concert - we hope you all enjoyed this video posted on seesaw! Take a look at all the lovely work the children have completed and we hope their log decorations will bring joy to all households for many years. Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir!
Dear Parent/Guardian,
The Department of Education has been asked by the HSE to disseminate the information below to schools for onward communication to parents/guardians.
COVID-19 vaccine information for parents of children aged 5-11
The HSE has published detailed information and guidance for parents about COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11. This aims to help parents and guardians of 5-11 year old children make an informed decision when it’s time for their child to be offered a COVID-19 vaccine.
Registration for the vaccine will open shortly, with priority being placed on children who are more at risk from COVID-19 or children who have a high-risk person in the family. Parents and guardians can read this information on https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/covid-19-vaccination-for-children/ or they can download these information booklets from HSE.ie.
Thank You
Covid wasnt going to spoil it for us… Our parents and lovely families could not come to Scoil San Eoin so we are bringing our performance to you!! Grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy our brilliant Christmas performance from our senior room pupils.
Let all your family know they can watch it on our website.
Well done to each and everyone of you. You all worked so hard and it showed in this brilliant performance. It wasn’t an easy task having to do it in the classroom, with pods in place and limited space and resources, but as usual everyone got into the spirit of Christmas and made the best of the situation. Creative juices flowed to turn a reading piece into a mini play by making props, adding in songs, costumes and props. Special mention to our excellent musicians Brian Jones on keyboard and Ronan Wynne on guitar. What a talented bunch you are!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
We had a huge response for our Food drive charity collection that ran through December to help families in need. Cleo Griffin delivered to Arklow Community Action Resource Centre with our final collection this week. This will be used for Food hampers to be given out to families in Arklow/ Avoca/ Coolgreany and Gorey.
Earlier this month a collection was also delivered to East Coast Roosters with donations.
Thank you to everyone who donated to these worthy causes. We are sure there are lot’s of families who will be very grateful this Christmas.
Thank you to Cleo for organising and delivering the collections.
Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!
Dear Parent/Guardian,
A reminder to everyone we are still collecting for East Coast Roosters and Arklow Community Action Resource Centre for Christmas.
Please spread the word that a box will be left outside the school door on a Monday or Wednesday from 09.30-03.00pm.
Lets try to make the last week a successful one.
Thank You for the support in advance
The senior room had lots of fun with Ms Hedderman on Friday being creative and decorating the school for the festive season ahead. After a super tough year for our pupils, it’s lovely to see the festive lights, decorations and cheer in the run up to to Christmas. They done a fantastic job. Have a look at our lovely tree and hallways.
During the month of November we completed lots of activities on the theme of Homes. The children learned all about the different types of homes all over the world, built homes using lego and polydrons and completed art and craft activities on this theme. We learned all about 2D and 3D shapes in Maths and learned lots of new vocabulary of delicious Bia in Gaeilge. The children took part in some Science week activities and also completed their GAA and tennis coaching sessions during November. We are now looking forward to lots of fun activities in the run up to Christmas.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Please see below a link to an updated mental health support leaflet for children and young people.
This leaflet will raise awareness, signpost and provide details of several HSE funded national organisations that provide various mental health supports and services to children, young people and their families around the country.
Details of these services and more are also available on www.yourmentalhealth.ie or by calling 1800 111 888.
School Office: 0404 41 727
Email: schoolofficeredcross@gmail.com
Roll No: 14829M
“This school now has high speed broadband connectivity through the Department of Education School Broadband Programme, delivered as part of the Irish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU.”