Category : Principal's News
Dear All,
I hope everyone is safe and well during this difficult time.
Students, I know you are worried about your school work and are missing your friends, and everyone in our school community.
But your health and safety is more important than your education so it is so important that at home you continue to wash your hands and do not meet up with friends or people outside your family home.
This emergency will pass but until then, we have a plan to continue your school work on line.
Each of your teachers (pre-school & primary) and subject teachers (post primary) will be in contact with you or your parents sending and receiving work through email and Google Classroom, etc. A video will be posted on the website to explain to post primary pupils how to log on to Google Classroom.
Just like going to school it is important that you check in with your teachers each day and like in school. I am responsible to ensure that you are “attending” or learning each day.
There is a lot of schoolwork that we will not be able to provide on line but over the next couple of weeks we will be giving advice on other ways of learning.
Log on our website www.holyfamilydeafschool.ie every day for general information while specific information will be provided directly to you through your teacher.
Parents, if you need any further support email info@holyfamilydeafschool.ie or text the school mobile 087 9444266.
Remember to stay in touch with your friends in school. Include everyone in your class. No one should be left out or lonely at this time.
Be kind, stay safe and take care.
Eimear O’Rourke M.Ed
Principal
Category : Further Education , Post Primary
Message from Elaine Grehan from Irish Deaf Society
I am working from home and watched the announcement that the Minister of Education Joe McHugh made – I want to share the news with Deaf parents and guardians so they are aware about their children sitting in their examination.
3 different parts of LC & JC examinations
Oral, Practical and Written Examinations
Minister announced all students who will be sitting their LC & JC examinations this summer will receive full marks for Oral and Practical examination.
The Minister for Education is still considering if LC written will still go ahead. He hopes this decision will ease some of the students’ pressures and allow them to focus more clearly on completing project work and preparing for written exams.
Oral Test in LC – Irish French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian & Japanese
Practical performance in LC: Music
Practical performance in JC: Music and Home & Economics
The Minister also confirmed the changes to a deadline to complete project & coursework in a number of subjects.
Students originally would complete the exams from Friday 20th March until Friday 24th April but the deadline will be on 15th May.
Students need to continue to work with their teachers, parents/guardians through online / resources and keep up with the project/coursework for May and preparing for written exams in June.
Category : Post Primary
Art Teacher Ms.Creed encourage students to get more creative at home by following Marvel Artist Will Sliney #wewilldraw.
Please share your drawings with us on the Holy Family School for the Deaf social media platform such as Facebook or Twitter or simply email it to the school. We look forward to seeing your drawings!
Category : All , Boarding , Early Intervention , Further Education , Post Primary , Primary , Principal's News , School Events
Holy Family School for the Deaf Social Media pages are;
Facebook @HFDeafschool
Twitter @HFSchoolDeaf1
Please check our social media pages for regular updates.
Category : Post Primary
Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️☘️☘️☘️
Here’s our students in the National Gallery of Ireland last week at the Stained Glass artwork of St Patrick. Today Our Taoiseach Leo Varackar gave a ministerial broadcast on the Corona Virus. He quoted ‘Today’s St Patrick’s Day will be like no other, it is one that we will never forget’. He also mentioned that now it is the ‘calm before the storm’, so please keep safe all our students, family and friends.
Category : Boarding , Early Intervention , Post Primary , Primary
We would like to thank all our students for their understanding of the national school closure situation. We were delighted to see them leaving our school calmly, with a work plan and establishing new email addresses knowing that there will be on-going support from their teachers at home.
However it is crucial for this national school closure policy to be effective and to ensure the suppression of spreading of the Corona Virus that all students are to stay at home and not to mix with other children.
This is a message from a consultant respiratory paediatrician at Cork Hospital.
“Message from consultant respiratory paediatrician at cork university hospital . I hope you all stay safe during this difficult time . The children will get through this no problem . Paediatric hospitals are empty in Italy at present after 3 weeks of school closure as the usual viruses stopped circulating . Remember with corona children are vectors not victims . In most epidemics young children are the transmitters . Therefore for school closure to be effective it’s really important that the kids aren’t mixing with other kids while out of school. They will give it to each other silently pass it on to our loved ones. What we do now will contribute to how this develops in cork . Avoid situations that the children will interact . If the community respond to this it will shut it down more than anything we do in hospital . From my experiences in the hospital this last week I would say that corona virus is closer to all of us than we realise and the degrees of separation for all of us is getting narrower . I’m not that good at social media but if this could be shared as widely as possible with parents in cork it will help. This messsge needs to go viral to stop the virus.”
There are several great online resources that are beneficial and helpful to consolidate students learning at home. Many of these websites are providing free access to teachers and parents and students during this period of school closure. Check out some of the resources below;
Twinkl.ie
Nessy.com
Studyclix.ie
LINK TO SIGNING UP FOR FREE TRIAL WITH NESSY https://www.nessy.com/free-trial/signup
