Massive Well Done to all our Students and Staff who took the time to send in pictures and videos of what they are reading for DEAR challenge. Reading helped to bring us to other places during this time of isolation, so well done all! Below are some pictures of what you are reading. Fantastic Job Everyone!
Liz McLafferty reading with her sister for DEAR while minding their mam who is cocooningWell Done Stevie!
We start a Shoulder Tap competition between Holy Family students. Everyone is required to take part. All you need to do is make as many Shoulder Taps as possible. Please watch my tutorial and follow the correct technique: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11wz7BAl2hEdQ65uoG4zYq2yOTavB9QLe
Film it, name your video file “YourFirstNameNumberOfShoulderTaps”, for example “Roman25” and upload it to the shared folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14becIB6xES8ZwU85e5zFDMa8MArYiFsm We have 6 different groups to compete: Group 1 – boys, 1st and 2nd year class Group 2 – boys, 3rd and 4th year class Group 3 – boys, 5th and 6th year class Group 4 – girls, 1st and 2nd year class Group 5 – girls , 3rd and 4th year class Group 6 – girls , 5th and 6th year class So please make sure you put your video into the right folder.
Competition starts now and ends on Friday 1st of May at 11.59pm. If you have any questions, please let me know. Good luck and let the strongest win!!
Holy Family School Staff created this imovie for DEAR (Drop Everything and Read), which is this Friday the 24th of April. We also want to let all our students know that we miss them very much and we wish them well and to keep safe. It is very important that everyone is looking after their well-being. We hope that all our students, staff, family and friends will drop everything on the 24th of April at 12 noon to READ for 20 minutes. You can read anything; it can be books, magazines, graphic novels, comic books, newspapers, digital library etc. When Joe Duffy visited us last February to open our new Reading Room, he shared a quote with us, that is “Books will get you through times of no money better than money will ever get you through times of no books.” in other words, books will get us through challenging times. Happy Reading Everyone, and please send us pictures and/or photos of books you are reading for DEAR. Below is a photo of our students Shauna, Emma and Shane getting ready for DEAR challenge. Well done guys!
Dog Trust have multiple free downloadable resources on our website that are all curriculum linked, and cater to all levels of primary school https://www.learnwithdogstrust.ie/resources/
Here is the video (including ISL) of Sinéad Burke from today’s Home School Hub.
Sinéad is an activist, designer and educator. Sinéad has given a TED Talk, spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos and she was the first little person to feature on the cover of British Vogue.
Sinéad makes every attempt to advocate for the inclusion of all and to amplify the voices of the most marginalised members in our communities.
Sinéad talks about her decision to become a teacher, her love of fashion and the importance of dreaming big.
Along with the IDS we have been campaigning for ISL access for an educational programme ‘Home School Hub‘ on RTE for all our deaf children during lock down. We are delighted to say that starting from today RTE will be providing ISL access to HOME SCHOOL HUB. This is a fantastic programme that delivers 1st class to 6th class curriculum into all children’s homes. Please click the link below to read more information about the programme.
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.
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
As we begin our Easter break, I would like to express a huge thank you to you our parents who have been so supportive as we reached out, over the last three weeks, to teach and support your son or daughter from a distance. Thank you for the huge effort and time you put into enabling communication and supporting learning at home.
I am very proud of our teaching and SNA team who have worked so creatively and tirelessly to ensure the continuity of education for your child. Holy Family has certainly answered the call and in continued partnership with you, I have no doubt that we will succeed in our mission despite the current challenges.
On behalf of the Holy Family School Community, I would like to offer our best wishes to you all during these strange and difficult times. We sincerely hope that you and your families will get some rest over the Easter Holidays, even if the break is more confined than normal.
And I look forward with great optimism to news of a date for our return to Holy Family.
Best regards,
Eimear
Eimear O’Rourke M.Ed Principal Holy Family School for the Deaf
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