Home of St. Paul's School, Drogheda

Important announcements:

Parents:
The school is currently closed and in light of new Department of Education & Skills instructions, will not re-open until 9.00 am on Monday the 20/04/2020 at the earliest. This is in accordance with the Government directive for all schools to close as a pro-active measure to help contain the threat of Covid-19.

27/03/2020: 3rd Classes + 5th Classes
Work for 3rd classes and 5th classes for next week can be found here. 4th classes and 6th classes already have work assigned in their homework journals for next week.

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.

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.

Last Updated: 27.03.2020
The school website will be updated regularly during the temporary school closure due to Covid-19.

Hello parent(s)/guardian(s).

Below you will find some useful resources that the school has put together that can offer very practical ways of keeping children busy during the school closure. 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

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.

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.

Emu Ink are running a writing competition for primary school children with prizes such as Starbucks and LeisurePlex vouchers. More info here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
There are also some great resources for Irish to be found here.

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.

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.

Here are some great activities from The Wildlife Trusts. There are loads of fun, practical objects to make here to help wildlife out.

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.

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.

We know a lot of children have questions about what’s happening in Ireland with the coronavirus. The Minister for Health @SimonHarrisTD @roinnslainte wants to answer questions from kids. Watch the video to find out how to get in touch. It’s easy: email them to news2day@rte.ie pic.twitter.com/3A86lWe9iY
— RTÉ news2day (@news2dayRTE) March 21, 2020

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.

LGFA Activity Logbook.pdf
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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.

This is a collection of digital resources across a range of levels to support parents during school closure.

This is a collection of activities, websites and videos primarily aimed for Junior & Senior Infants children.

This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 1st & 2nd Class children.

This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 3rd & 4th Classes.

This is a collection of resources primarily suited for 5th & 6th Classes.

This a great colouring book of female sports stars that is currently being offered for free that will keep children busy.

Scoilnet is the official education portal of the Dept. of Education and is full of fantastic resources for parents and children.

Libraries Ireland are fast tracking joining of libraries online to allow children to digitally borrow eBooks, audiobooks, online magazines etc.

Help My Kid Learn aims to help parents help their children with numeracy and literacy through fun activities.

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

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.

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

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.

Online suggestions from RTÉ for keeping children entertained and informed at the same time.

To avoid the "i'm bored" every 30 minutes scenario, parents could check this out where children can learn new skills while having fun.

Some non-screen activity ideas:

SEN online resources:

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Online resources from the NCSE

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

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.

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/

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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

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!

St. Paul's Senior National School