Category : Boarding , Early Intervention , Post Primary , Primary
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/
Category : Post Primary
On the 11th of March Holy Family School for the Deaf completed in a swimming competition with St. Declan’s School at the Inspire swimming pool. Competition consisted of all four swimming strokes in 25m pool and team relay race. We had 13 heats and 12 of them were won by our boys. Holy Family’s team did very well this time, our boys and girls are great swimmers. They had demonstrated a top level swimming technique and speed. Congratulations!!!
Category : Post Primary
Holy Family School for the Deaf is delighted to announce that we have activated a Digital Online Library for all our students and staff. It has a collection of ebooks and audiobooks for all students and staff to access and enjoy reading anytime, anywhere. Membership of the JCSP Library Project Digital Library is free for all students and staff in all JCSP schools.
Below are two videos (one in English and one in ISL) by JCSP Co-ordinator Ms.Maggie Owens explaining how to access the library.
Attached is also a document with instructions on how to access the library. Each student will receive an email with their username and password.
When we return to school there will prizes for students for accessing the library and reading the ebooks. Best of luck and happy reading!
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
Category : Post Primary , Primary
We were delighted to welcome our good friends, Lions Frank O Donoghue and Werner Schwerberg and other important Lions from other clubs such as;
Athy Lions Club,
Bray Lions Club,
Castleknock Lions Club,
Dublin Lions Club,
Dun Laoghuire Lions Club,
Howth Sutton Lions Club,
Carrick an Suir Lions Club.
All the Lions arrived at the Holy Family Primary School this morning on our school bus with our friendly bus driver Joey Watson. They were greeted by the children who were lined up in a guard of honor where the children presented Frank O Donoghue with a beautiful handmade Thank You Card. The children and conductor Shirley Higgins then impressed the Lions by performing three songs ‘A Million Dreams’, ‘You got a friend in me’ and ‘True Colours’.
The Lions were so impressed and they really enjoyed their performance.
The Lions then got to visit the classrooms and display of work where they got to see our new visualisers in action. These visualisers are a valuable resource to have in the classroom, they ensure that the teacher is facing the students at all times and that the student can see the teacher signing or lipread the teacher. We then went back up to the post primary school where all the lions were greeted by John Canning and Aideen Lynch.
Aideen and 4A class then showed the Lions how they used digital technology for their ‘Science & Me’ project which was the winning video in the ‘ReelLife Science Competition’. 4A used an ipad to create their video and they showed the screening of their winning video to the Lions.
Next the Lions visited Maggie Owens classroom where they got to see the new Chrome Books in action by playing a fun interactive kahoot quiz with class 2A students – the Lions V’s the Students! Our students came out top on the podium!!
We then visited the woodwork room where we got to see a special and beautiful wooden rocking horse which was created by our students and their woodwork teacher.
Finally we went to the reception area where we unveiled two photos of the Holy Family School sports bibs that the Lions have sponsored for our school. Overall, an exciting and special day. We loved that Frank and Werner and the Lions feels a part of our wonderful school.
