5C did a litter project as part of their Living in the Community course. Their project focuses on the area around the Holy Family School for the Deaf and surrounding roads. They did a survey to find out how many bins are there in these areas. They found some interesting findings, they found bins were only available on the Navan Road only, near the bus stops and shops. There was one bin at the entrance to the park for cleaning up after your dog. 5C worked as a team on this project and they had different responsibilities, Siocha drew a map of the area. Bryan did a survey of bins in the classrooms. Diana did the laws on litter and Cheyenne did recycling clothes. Please check the Green School Noticeboard to read more about their project. Well Done 5C!
Happy Pancake Tuesday to all our students, teachers and Staff. Special thanks to JCSP initiative for allowing us to get pancakes. Thank you to mammy Phil for ordering the pancakes and to Shirley Wolverton for collecting them from Clarke’s Bakery. They were so delicious ❤️
It was an absolute honour to have Joe Duffy RTE Broadcaster and Author to come to our school to launch the new Reading Corner which was funded by JCSP. Joe was greeted with a guard of honour as he arrived to the Holy Family School for the Deaf. Students, Principal Eimear O Rourke and staff greeted him and talked to him about the wonderful things in our school, for example the choir, our ISL noticeboard, the JCSP Comic Strip Competition etc. Joe was then invited into the Reading room where some students shared their favourite book with him. Joe was then invited to cut a red ribbon and to officially launch our new colourful, reading room which has a good collection of current magazines, newspapers, books and graphic novels. Joe commented how lovely and colourful the room is. He shared with the students and staff that in times of trouble books are more valuable than money. You are richer with a book, Everyone should read. He also said if he could write a book so can any of us, and he encourage us to keep a journal. Hopefully one day we get to see a pupil from Holy Family School for the Deaf write their own book! Peter Grogan a children’s author also visited our school to donate some of his books ‘Seamróg’ to our reading room. Joe Duffy also donated all of his books to our reading room – his autobiography ‘Just Joe’, ‘The Children of the Rising’ and ‘The Children of the Troubles’. Thank you Joe for helping us raise awareness about the importance of creating a positive reading culture in our school community. We are in the process of applying for the WELL READ award for our school. We presented Joe a picture frame with his name fingerspelled and the description “I SIGNED & TALKED TO JOE” He loved it! ❤️ #Justjoe #Promotingapositivereadingculture #readforpleasure #Jcsp
Holy Family School’s Basketball team played against St.Declan’s on Thursday the 30th of January. PE teacher Roman tells us that “This was a very tough game which got heated at times, but every one managed themselves well. St. Declan’s is very strong team. They have few pro players in their team. Unfortunately, one injury set us back a player. We lost the game, but we are getting ready for revenge in March!”
Today 4C experience a Cultural Trip of Dublin as part of their JCSP Newspaper Initiative. They got to visit the coolest Little Museum of Dublin where our tour guide ‘Fiona’ gave us an amazing interesting tour. She told us some interesting stories about the house in olden times in Dublin. We even got to see the Book of Kells which is temporarily on loan to the Little Museum of Dublin. We then visited the Yeats Collection exhibition in the National Library of Ireland. We loved reading the old letters in Yeats collection and looking at the beautiful embroidery created by William B Yeats sister. We saw the famous inscription on WB Yeats Headstone “Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”. We then had our celebration dinner to celebrate our achievements in publishing our school’s newsletter every month. We had a great day and we got a traditional selfie photo with Dublin’s famous street statue ‘Molly Malone’.
Fantastic start to Well Being Week with two fantastic Yoga Sessions. Laura O Grady (CODA) facilitated a fun filled Yoga sessions with activities, games and flexibility stretches. The students didn’t realise they were were exercising and they felt great after the session. The junior classes took part in games and activities which required team work. They competed in two teams in a relay race. They also played ‘Simon says’. The senior classes took part in meditating activities. The students had so much fun! #Wellbeing #fun #games #active #healthymind #healthybody
3B Class (Noel, Kate & Emma) created a project where they investigated the Hearing Aids/Cochlear Implants battery waste in the Holy Family School for the Deaf. They wondered how the students dispose (throw away) their battery. They did a survey and learned some interesting facts!
52% of our students use hearing aid battery. This type of battery is not rechargeable.
39% of students have cochlear implant battery which can be recharged.
50% of our students said they recycled their battery in the blue box (wee).
The other 50% of our students dump their battery elsewhere (bag, waste bin).
94% of our students do not know what happens to the battery once it is thrown away.
3B Class invites you to think about ‘Where does it go and is it harmful to our environment?’. You can find out the answer on the Green School Noticeboard in school.
Check out the Green School Committee research and their new action plans on improving our schools recycling of battery waste on the Green School Noticeboard.
GREEN SCHOOL COMMITTEE Tip of the Month!
Please keep all your dead batteries (hearing aids betteries, from toys, remote controls etc…) and bring them to our school and dispose them in our new Weee recycle boxes. There will be a prize for a class who collected the most, watch this space….
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