Homework

Dear Parents, guardians and school community.

  Well done to everyone who has made the return to school smooth considering the restrictions we have all had to facilitate! Together we are working to make the school as safe as possible.

  We have decided that when homework begins next week that we will not be giving the pupils written homework but spellings, tables and reading.  Please ensure the pupils do these as they are important! 

  We remind you that we have staggered arrival and departure times for classes. Senior infants -2nd arrive for 9am and leave at 1.40pm (senior infants) and 2.40pm (1st and 2nd). 3rd-6th arrive for 9.10am and leave at 2.50pm. As much as possible please adhere to these times.

 If you need to speak to the class teacher urgently we are encouraging  telephonic meetings. You arrange via the secretary of the school (secretary liaises with the teacher) to get a call from the class teacher for issues that cannot be addressed via a note in homework journal.

For your information Covid 19 World Service is a joint initiative of Nasc and Together Ireland. In addition to public health videos voiced by doctors in over 30 languages, video messaging has been added for parents of children returning to school in August/September 2020. These videos were voiced by education professionals including teachers and SNAs working in Ireland and the messaging has been approved by the Irish College of GPs. You can view these Back to School videos in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Irish, Italian, Hindi, Hungarian, Kurdish Sorani, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil, Ukranian and Yoruba. Click on the language links below to watch the videos. https://nascireland.org/covid-19-world-service

If you have been abroad recently (as per guidelines) and need to self-isolate, you are obliged by law to keep your child(ren) at home  for 14 days. If you let us know, attendance will be marked as explained absence and  classwork pages and guidelines can be emailed to the pupils if you request them.

Best wishes

Elaine