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Pancake Tuesday

5/20/2020

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Pancake Tuesday is a special day in our school when our wonderful parents volunteer to come in to make and serve pancakes to our girls. Everyone loves this day. The girls are always so excited to come down in their class groups see the pancakes being made then to decorate and eat their delicious pancake.
Chef Gerry (Dad to 6th class Abbey and past pupil Rebecca) has been coming in on Pancake Tuesday for a number of years now to share his knowledge and create the all important pancake mix and we are all so grateful to him. A huge thank you to all our parent helpers, the day would never been so successful or so much fun without you all.
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Micheál and the Moo Crew

5/7/2020

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Moocrew.ie/ Homeschooling link
MIcheál and the Moo Crew are bring school into our homes.  There are 5 lessons for each level Dairy in my Diet, Keeping Active, Dental Health, Dairy and the Environment and Fromm Grass to your Glass.

Click on the green link button above and scroll to find you child's class level. There are videos on each topic and an accompanying activity. As most of us don't have a printer at home you can just open the activity and talk through it with your child . For example with the sequencing/ unscramble the pictures activities get younger ones to point to the pictures in the correct order. 
Kids might find it interesting to see how milk is produced and gets form the cows in the fields to our homes!
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There video below is just an advert and just to warn you it plays for the first 40 seconds at the beginning of every class video.I thought it was the same video over and over initially but its just an opening sequence, which can be a little confusing, 
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RTE Home School HUB

4/17/2020

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Schedule for next week. RTE school hub is on at 11am every morning Monday - Friday and also available on rte.ie
RTE Home School Hub
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The Corona Virus and Me.  A lovely little positive story for children to help them cope with the current situation.

4/8/2020

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Ana Gomez Book
File Size: 2010 kb
File Type: pdf
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I just took a screenshot of the first part of the story, click on the file above to see the rest. it is quite cute!
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Supporting Parents and Families though the days and weeks ahead.

4/8/2020

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Supporting Parents and Families through the days and weeks ahead
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The above file is a booklet created by Genesis to support parents and families through this most unusual time. It includes information , advice, appropriate activities for varying ages and websites to help parents at home.
There are sections on Reconnecting as a family, Home Schooling, Playing, Toddlers, Managing challenging behaviour, Children's anxiety, Building resilience, Speaking to you child about Covid 19 ( I am going to put up more of these in separate posts?)
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March 19th, 2020

3/19/2020

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Dear Parents/ Guardians, 
We hope you and your families are keeping well in these strange times. I have just added a few websites and apps below to help keep your lovely little ladies busy. Hopefully some might help pass the time in a fun but educational way.
Lots of the websites teachers use as a resource have very kindly given free access to all to help parents and children stuck at home. 
Take care,
Máire

www.twinkl.ie/offer enter code IRLTWINKLHELPS
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Teach your monster to read
is highly recommend by the teachers and the app is free at the moment too


Oliver Jeffers is reading a bedtime story every night  Monday -Friday at 6pm. Click the button below to signup via Facebook
Bedtime stories read by Oliver Jeffers
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February 12th, 2020

2/12/2020

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Free First Aid course.
Delighted to be offering a free First Aid course to our parents.
The course Starts on Wednesday 5th March in the Parents' room
It will run for 5 weeks on Wednesday mornings form 9:30 - 11:30 am 
Parents who complete all 5 classes will be awarded a Red Cross Certificate.
Places are strictly limited  and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Contact Máire to book your place
Text/ Phone 086 070 1481        Email: m.orourke.hscl@gmail.com
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Make up Masterclass for Mums

12/5/2019

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Our mums had a  great  morning learning more about make up from the lovely Noeleen. We enjoyed friendly chat with tea, coffee and treats, including non alcoholic mulled wine and mince pies -well it is almost Christmas!  
Everyone was in good spirits and enjoyed Noeleen's presentation, asking questions and having a bit of a girl time. We are all set to create make-up looks and try out our new tips just in time for the festive season.
​Make sure you join us for our next parents' gathering
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First day at School, 29th September 2019

11/28/2019

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November 28th, 2019

11/28/2019

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    Máire O'Rourke 086 0701481

    Hi, I'm Máire your parent liason. Feel free to call or text me for any school related help or advice.  If you have an idea for a course you would like to see us running or any ideas on ways to help parents become more involved in our school community to benefit our girls let me know.

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