It's that time of year again when we celebrate the wonderful cultural diversity of our school community. The children are all hard at work researching and exploring countries and cultures around the world. So we are all very excited to invite you along to see their work on Thursday 24th May!
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Please connect to the school app by 31st May 2018. Due to excessive costs of text messages, we will not be sending texts after this date. All communication will be done via the app. Please check your text messages and emails for your individual link to the app. Thank you More information: http://www.powerstownet.com/new-school-app/ GAA Afterschool club starting next Wednesday (18th) for 10 weekswith Luke and Aoife. There will be a team for boys and one forgirls. The children in the afterschool club will learn GAA skills andteamwork, and will go on two trips to play against other localschools (in May and June). Cost is €20 for 10 weeks. I am sendinghome sign up sheets today with the children. Thanks!
This week the children started their CraftED projects. Over thenext 5 weeks, the class will be creating a collaborative felt artworkwith Gabi, a professional artist. I've sent home permission formsfor this module; please send them back to me by next week. If youhave any questions, just ask!
Some photos from our trip to the EPIC Museum of Irish Emigration and the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship.
A chairde! Parents, Guardians and friends!
This week we will be celebrating Irish language and culture as part of Seachtain na Gaeilge. We will be busy learning Irish songs and dances, playing games through Irish, reading and writing stories, listening to Irish music and promoting the Irish language throughout the school. We would like to invite you to join in the fun next Friday 16th March.
We would be delighted if anyone would like to contribute baked goods for our Irish Breakfast morning. Some ideas of Irish foods include:
Dear parents, this week we are learning about Internet Safety andCyberbullying online. It's a huge challenge for us - to make surethat children are safe online while also not blocking them from thewider world.
This week could be a great opportunity for you to have adiscussion with your child about screen time, online safety andcyberbullying. I will be dealing with the topics in class on Thursday, but there arelots of resources to help you open this topic at home here:https://www.webwise.ie/parents/ If you have any questions, get in touch! Our Science Fair is on Friday 9th 2018. This is a parent & child home based project. Our emergency closure due to the weather is a great opportunity to make good progress with your project. For tips on presentation and timeline please go to: http://www.powerstownet.com/petns-science-fair-9th-march-2018/?month=jan&yr=2018 For some Science Fair Project ideas go to: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/list https://www.education.com/science-fair/ https://babbledabbledo.com/20-science-fair-projects/ |
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