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Parent(s)/Guardian(s):
If you wish to enrol your child in St. Paul's SNS then please email "stpaulsenrolments2020@gmail.com" and we will be able to forward you an enrolment form. Confirmation Photographs Any parent(s) who would like to purchase the photos of the children taken in the school after the Confirmation need to get in contact with Franz Keller by Friday, June 5th (05/06/2020) either on 041 6862720 or at "theschoolportraitcompany@gmail.com". Update: Parents can collect proofs of the Confirmation photos from the photographer in the school car park from 10.30 am to 11.00 am on Thursday, June 4th. Parents must not enter the school building. |
Attention parent(s)/guardian(s):
In light of the fact that our school provides school meals we have been informed that we can distribute food parcels to families during the school closure. If you wish to avail of this facility please contact Maura Halvey on 087 6186387.
In light of the fact that our school provides school meals we have been informed that we can distribute food parcels to families during the school closure. If you wish to avail of this facility please contact Maura Halvey on 087 6186387.
Should any parent(s)/guardian(s) have any concerns that are not related to school work and would like to talk to the schools Home School Community Liaison teacher then Maura Halvey can be reached on her work number during normal school hours: 087 6186387.
Message to sixth class students from President Michael D. Higgins
A special message from Sherman for all the boys & girls
Sherman is really missing coaching all the classes in the school and is looking forward to seeing everyone again. Go Sherman!
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Updated: 02.06.2020
Hello parent(s)/guardian(s).
All classes now have a digital class online and students are being provided with school work from their teachers to complete.
Parent(s)/Guardian(s) can also find some useful resources below that the school has put together that can offer very practical ways of keeping children busy during the school closure in addition to their school work from their teachers. The resources range from thousands of educational worksheets to free eBooks, audiobooks, colouring books to physical exercise routines. Simply click/touch each picture to be brought to the relevant website. This section will be updated as more useful resources come to light.
Kind regards
The Staff of St. Paul's SNS
Hello parent(s)/guardian(s).
All classes now have a digital class online and students are being provided with school work from their teachers to complete.
Parent(s)/Guardian(s) can also find some useful resources below that the school has put together that can offer very practical ways of keeping children busy during the school closure in addition to their school work from their teachers. The resources range from thousands of educational worksheets to free eBooks, audiobooks, colouring books to physical exercise routines. Simply click/touch each picture to be brought to the relevant website. This section will be updated as more useful resources come to light.
Kind regards
The Staff of St. Paul's SNS
Space X launch - 27.05.2020
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The launch will be live on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1En8Bz-TXOLjRiXDvoUWw
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RTÉ Home School is launching on Monday, 30/03/3030. It will be a daily, scheduled virtual classroom for primary school children. Watch on RTÉ2 from 11.00 am weekdays, catch up on the RTÉ Player and get all the resources here.
How many life skills can you do?
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A great resource to help you discover the wildlife in your back garden or local park. Download it here.
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Axel Scheffler, award-winning illustrator of The Gruffalo series, has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children. Download it here.
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Weaving Well-Being is an Irish designed positive mental health programme, which aims to enhance well-being in children aged 8-12. This well-being journal for children is now available for free for any parent(s) that might find it useful. It can be downloaded here.
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Here are 25 more ways to get moving at home.
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Like Lego? Give these daily challenges a go.
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Zeeko gave a talk to several classes for Safer Internet Day in February of this year and many parents also found the special internet safety parent talk very informative.
Zeeko are holding a free Webinar: How to help your child balance their online and offline lives during isolation. This 45 minute webinar will help parents of primary school children understand the challenges and opportunities of online and offline activities during isolation. Tips will be given to support parents to effectively manage excessive internet use. They are also running a colouring competition with Smyths Toystore vouchers as the prizes. Download the colouring picture here. Date: Wednesday the 1st of April at 20:00 Register here. |
Meet Sylvie. She is 6years old and her whole world has just been turned upside down by the Corona Virus. This video might help further explain the current situation to your child/children.
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Seomra Ranga are running a daily online quiz of 20 questions with a chance to win a €20 book voucher daily, The type of quiz varies from day to day. Check it out here.
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Emu Ink are running a writing competition for primary school children with prizes such as Starbucks and LeisurePlex vouchers. More info here.
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The Primary Planet magazines are now available to read for free online while schools are closed. These are award-winning, fantastically entertaining children's magazines that are well worth checking out.
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The Department of Education have provided this template, that can be adapted to suit different family requirements, to help children plan their day while schools are temporarily closed. There is also this guide from the department on supporting young children with daily routines whiles schools are closed.
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The Department of Education have also provided some helpful tips on practical relaxation techniques that children can use daily. Children can also read this advice for young people from the Department of Education to help them while schools are closed.
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Everyday, Monday to Friday, the Body Coach Joe Wicks is doing a live workout called "P.E. with Joe" which is designed to get kids moving, energised and feeling positive. Children only need a small space to do these workouts. St. Paul's is an Active School and is an achievement we are very proud of so lets keep active at home too while the school is temporarily closed. Twinkl have a dedicated section for Joe Wick exercises which can be found here.
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Unfortunately, we were not able to proceed with our planned Seachtain na Gaeilge activities but pupils of St. Paul's can still build on their love of Irish. Futa Fata will be reading a daily story in Irish on their YouTube and Facebook page that can be a great way for children to develop their Gaeilge.
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Twinkl, is a fantastic educational website that has tailored worksheets for the national curriculum. Parents can find plenty of worksheets that children can use to revise already studied content. Twinkl, are currently offering a free one month premium access in response to school closures resulting from Covid-19. The company has stated it might extend the free one month offer should schools remain closed longer than anticipated. With regards to the Twinkl offer; parents should use the code "CVDTWINKLHELPS". If this does not work then try this code "IRLTWINKLHELPS". Once you create an account with Twinkl you should head to the Parent's Hub page.
Starting from yesterday, 23/03/2020, the famous children's book author David Walliams is releasing a daily reading of one of his books for the next 30 days. Listen to them here.
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From Audible: With school closures and social distancing affecting us all, we’ve created something in the hope that it makes your life a little easier. Audible Stories - 100s of kids’ audiobooks for free. Just click, stream and listen. Here at St. Paul's we think this is a fantastic resource that parents can avail of to light up some imagination.
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Here are some great activities from The Wildlife Trusts. There are loads of fun, practical objects to make here to help wildlife out.
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This is a 20 page GAA Heroes Colouring Book that can help keep children entertained at home with such greats as David Clifford from Kerry to colour in.
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RTÉ is planning on broadcasting an hour of "school on TV" each school day from March 30th. It will run for an hour each day from 11.00 am to 12.00 pm. The show will be aimed at pupils in 1st class through to 6th class. There will be accompanying worksheets for children too.
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To help teachers, students and parents during this difficult time Veritas are granting free access to our Grow In Love online series. Simply login on the Grow in Love website with the following details:
Email: trial@growinlove.ie Password: growinlove |
For all our Girls Gaelic Football players, here is a very useful booklet to help you with practicing your skills at home and track your progress.
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While Joe Wicks is doing his daily P.E. with Joe, the 10@10 from RTÉ Jnr is something the pupils of St. Paul's are already use to and is another great way to get some much needed daily exercise.
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This is a collection of digital resources across a range of levels to support parents during school closure.
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This is a collection of activities, websites and videos primarily aimed for Junior & Senior Infants children.
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This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 1st & 2nd Class children.
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This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 3rd & 4th Classes.
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This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 5th & 6th Classes.
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This a great colouring book of female sports stars that is currently being offered for free that will keep children busy.
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Scoilnet is the official education portal of the Dept. of Education and is full of fantastic resources for parents and children.
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Libraries Ireland are fast tracking joining of libraries online to allow children to digitally borrow eBooks, audiobooks, online magazines etc.
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Help My Kid Learn aims to help parents help their children with numeracy and literacy through fun activities.
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Edco are kindly offering free access to all their eBooks which is of huge benefit for parents. Use "primaryedcobooks" for username and "edco2020" for the password
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Folens are kindly offering free access to all their eBooks which is of huge benefit for parents. You need to register as a teacher and use the code "Prim20" for the Roll number section.
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Fallons are kindly offering free access to all their eBooks which is of huge benefit for parents. No action required, simply visit the website to access all their e-books for free
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Educate are kindly offering free access to all their eBooks which is of huge benefit for parents. No action required, simply visit the website to access all their e-books for free.
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Online suggestions from RTÉ for keeping children entertained and informed at the same time.
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To avoid the "i'm bored" every 30 minutes scenario, parents could check this out where children can learn new skills while having fun.
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Some non-screen activity ideas:
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SEN online resources:
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Credit: Chris Woods @dailySTEM (www.dailystem.com)
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Credit: Pobble (www.pobble.com)
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Online resources from the NCSE
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These Learn at Home choice boards were designed to provide children with a choice of fun and educational activities to complete at home during the school closure. It would be nice to complete some of these activities as a family where possible. Children can cross out or colour the squares when they complete an activity. More info here.
Translated resources to help share the messaging about coronavirus (COVID-19) in various languages have been provided to the school and can be viewed/downloaded here.
We all need to practice social distancing
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Boys and girls, it is very important that we all practice social and physical distancing at the moment and to minimise physical contact with each other. This is not a holiday so that means playing apart from each other if playing with friends and also standing apart from your friends when you go outside.
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09/03/2020
Useful information for parents on Covid-19:
The Department of Education have issued further guidance on talking to children about COVID - 19. This can be viewed here:
covid-19.pdf www.education.ie/covid19#13
Covid-19 PDF
Also there is a child-friendly interview that Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn did with RTÉ’s news2day programme last week, that may also be a useful resource when talking about Covid-19 with children and students.
www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0306/1120692-news2day-coronavirus/
covid-19.pdf www.education.ie/covid19#13
Covid-19 PDF
Also there is a child-friendly interview that Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn did with RTÉ’s news2day programme last week, that may also be a useful resource when talking about Covid-19 with children and students.
www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0306/1120692-news2day-coronavirus/
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Pupil of the Week - Friday, 6th of March
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 28th of February
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 14th of February
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 7th February.
Credit Union quiz team - well done to all for participating!
Players from St. Nicholas GFC who won their division championship. Well done!
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 31st January.
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 17th January.
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 10th January.
Full attendance from September to December. Well done!
St. Paul's SNS wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Carol Singing for the Alzheimer's Society
6th Class Quiz
Amazing orchestral performances
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Annual Mince Pie Morning
Winter Wonderland
Junior NBA League - Tuesday, 10th December
Well done to the boys and girls who took part in the Junior NBA League in the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Check out more photos of the action in our Active Schools Blog.
Full attendance for the month of November. Well done to all!
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 6th December
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 29th November
Advent - Week 1
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 22nd November
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 15th November
Pupil of the Week - Friday, 8th November
20 Day Challenge
For the month of November the school is committing to the "20 Day Challenge" where we are looking for every child in every class to not miss a single day of school for a whole 20 days! For all the children who succeed there will be a chance to win 23 really cool prizes from Mrs. Halvey.
Fancy Dress - Friday 25th of October
Flag Raising Ceremony - 24th of October
Garda Sports Day - 24th of October
St. Paul's boys and girls put in great performances at the annual Garda Sports Day in the O'Raghallaigh's G.A.A. grounds!
Junior NBA League - 22nd of October
Well done to the boys and girls who represented St. Paul's in the Junior NBA league in St. Oliver's Community College.
Active School Flag Raising Ceremony - 18th of October
St. Paul's boys team have qualified for the league final after a hard fought victory over St. Malachy's Dundalk - 16th October
Pupil of the Week - 11th October
Upcoming talk for parents
Pupil of the Week - 13th September
Active School Flag Presentation - 27th of June
Congratulations to the St. Paul's boys team on winning the Cumann na mBunscoil Division 2 Final on the 19th of June! The final score was St. Paul's 4 - 7 St. Joseph's 0-7.
We had our Active School Week from Monday 8th April -Friday 12th April.
A big thanks to all the coaches, speakers, teachers and most importantly the children which made it possible.
Have a look at our Active School pages to see the type of fun we had!
A big thanks to all the coaches, speakers, teachers and most importantly the children which made it possible.
Have a look at our Active School pages to see the type of fun we had!
Active School Dance (12/04/19)
Dance for Active School Week
Remember to bring in your Rugby Stickers
Skipping Rope Workshop for Active Schools
Active Dance
€1,021.19 raised for The Alzheimer Society
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Christmas performances by classes
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Everything is feeling Christmassy...
What else is going on in the school
Awesome Pupils
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Active Schools
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