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Happy Easter to all our students, staff, family and friends. We wish you all a safe, relaxing and Happy Easter. Remember to keep safe and stay at home.
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Message from Fr. Paddy and the Board of management
Dear all,
Normally at this time we would be looking forward to the Easter break, but as we know we are living in very unusual times.
Firstly, I hope you are all keeping safe and that adapting to our new way of living has not been too traumatic for you and your families.
Secondly, on behalf of the Board of Management I want to say a very sincere ‘THANK YOU’ to everyone, for the commitment, dedication and the hard work that is going on every day and also for the way in which pupils, teachers, school staff and families have adapted to using new technology and are cooperating together in a spirit of care and concern for the benefit of all.
Our school has as its patron the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This little family had, in their own time, to face great difficulties, but with love, concern and through supporting one another they overcame those difficulties. May I wish you all every blessing at this very special time of the year when we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
I am attaching a prayer to the Holy Family we might pray each day:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. we offer you our day.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, guide us at work and play.
Help us to love one another, to keep each other safe.
May we follow your example in all we do and say
Jesus, Mary and Joseph
We offer you our day. Amen
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Holy Family School for the Deaf recently bought some new Chromebooks from Green IT. This is a company that sells refurbished Chromebooks and laptops. We are delighted with their service. If you like to buy a Chromebook at a great value for your son/daughter to work from home please contact Lisa at 045 409162 or email her at lisa.donaldson@greenit.ie.
Green IT are asking us to see if there are any parents who would like to purchase a Chromebook for their child. They are offering the parents the same discounts as schools get, just to help everyone out and to enable the child to do school work from home.
https://www.greenit.ie/schools/product-category/refurbished/refurbished-laptops/
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Holy Family School for the Deaf Social Media pages are;
Facebook @HFDeafschool
Twitter @HFSchoolDeaf1
Please check our social media pages for regular updates.
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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
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