Nuacht Litir Eanáir/January

WELL BEING

Well being Week

It's Well being Week in school this week and children can look forward to engaging in a number of well being activities including:

• Meditation & mindful moments
• Exercise- tag rubgy, cricket, soccer, frisbee, athletics
• Gratitude journalling
• Rainbow Dress Up Day- students permitted to wear rainbow coloured clothing to school on Friday
• Bake Sale- 6th class will be selling treats and cakes on Friday to the rest of the school. Students can bring in money if they wish, all proceeds go towards Jigsaw

Catholic Schools Week

Catholic Schools Week will aptly coincide with our Well-being Week this week and classes will be engaging with resources & lessons from the Catholic Education Partnership (CEP). Our Sacrament classes will be paying a visit to St Brigid's Church before mid-term to learn about our place of worship and the celebration of mass.

Motus Well being Workshops

Our sixth class students recently engaged in very worthwhile mental health workshops provided by Motus Learning and funded by our PA. These workshops provide education on student mental health, well-being, transition, meta-cognition, and resilience.

Artane Coolock Family Resource Centre

Communications

Internet Safety

Santa was very kind to many of our students who received new devices over the Christmas. In school we are working hard to promote safe and appropriate internet use through a variety of strategies including the anti-cyber bullying, Webwise, Stay Safe, Be Kind Online etc. As an extension of this work we would like to draw parents' attention to fantastic resources on Webwise including the #TalkListenLearn toolkit.

Safer Internet Day takes place on Tuesday, February 7th. We will be using this as a time to promote safer, better internet use. Teachers will use the opportunity to explore online safety topics such as cyber bullying, privacy, social media, image-sharing, consent, misinformation and more.

STEM Space

Following consultations with staff & student council, we are in the process of updating our computer room to a STEM space which will be fit for purpose. Our desktops have been upgraded and we look forward to having our STEM stations installed in the coming weeks.

Instagram

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Learning Zone

Léitheoireacht Threoraithe

Shocraíomar léitheoireacht threoraithe a phíolótú sa scoil i mbliana. Bíonn léitheoir leibhéalta difriúil ag gach grúpa a oibríonn siad air gach lá. Tá ceithre stáisiún ann agus oibríonn na cailíní ar gach stáisiún ar feadh 8-10 nóiméad. Oibríonn na cailíní leis an múinteoir ar léitheoireacht nua agus staidéar ar fhocail ardmhinicíochta. Oibríonn na cailíní ar ghníomhaíochtaí neamhspleácha scríbhneoireachta agus úsáideann na cailíní Duoliongo ar na iPads ar na stáisiún eile. Tá go leor spraoi againn ag foghlaim gaeilge trí léitheoireacht faoi threoir.

Numicon

Infant classes are enjoying exploring the use of numicon maths resources. This multi-sensory approach to maths is a fantastic way for children to see connections between number and it is a highly motivational, purposeful and enjoyable tool for learning numeracy.

Science

Huge congratulations to Ms Flynn's third class who completed their science book. They even received feedback from the very prolific scientist, Luke O'Neill! Check it out!

Spanish

Our third to sixth classes have started learning Spanish as part of the Government's initiative "Languages Connect." Our school has engaged the wonderful services of Brady Languages for the next eight weeks.

Creativity

CBeebies

CBeebies presenters Joe Chambers & Andrew Crawford will be coming to our school this week to perform their Ridiculous Rhyme Show & TV Workshop with our students. They will be using comedy to promote rhyming and poetry to our younger students and our older students will be learning about life within the television industry.

Trashion Show

After months of work our Trashion Show is being filmed this week. News2Day from RTE will be in school to capture the event. We also welcome the Regional Coordinator with The Arts Council's Creative Schools Programme, Nora Nic Con Ultaigh, to our school to witness the coming together of the project. In celebration of all of the students hard (and super creative) work, every student will receive a Trashion Show portrait that they can keep. This is made possible by fundraising from our wonderful PA! A huge thank you to Annie Holland, Karl Quinn and in particular Ms Linda Flynn for organising this super project!

Outreach Programme Artane School of Music

Our third classes have begun learning the recorder as part of a collaboration project with the Artane School of Music. Following their ten week session, students will be invited to the Artane School of Music to perform with the prestigious Artane Band on Monday 6th March at 7pm.

Peace Proms

Our third and fourth classes have been busy practicing for their big performance in the RDS on Saturday 4th February. Keep an eye on our Instagram page to get a glance of them rocking out!

Painting of the Month

All Things Active

Swimming

First and fourth classes have commenced swimming lessons in Westwood, Clontarf. They will be covering skills from the Aquatics strand in the PE curriculum e.g. buoyancy and propulsion & stroke development. Thank you to our parent volunteers for chaperoning.

Cycling

The Irish Centre for Cycling are back this year under the wonderful direction of Mike Breen. Our fifth class students will learn core bicycle handling skills and road skills training over the coming weeks.

Gymnastics

This month all classes will be explore the strand of Gymnastics from the PE curriculum. They will learn fundamental movements skills as well as an understanding and appreciation of gymnastics.

Activity for Wellbeing Week

As part of Wellbeing Week students will engage in a number of different sports & activities including tag rugby, soccer, cricket, frisbee & athletics. Thank you to Ms Barry for organisng these brilliant sessions!

GAA

Gaelic football training will commence for junior classes (JI-2nd) this week and run until Easter. Senior classes will then have GAA from Easter till the summer. We're delighted to resume GAA as we know there are a lot of talented footballers in our school!