JCSP Cultural Trip

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’.

Well Being Week 27th Jan to 31st Jan 2020

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

Green School News

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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Gymnastic Fantastic!

This term the PE Department worked on the gymnastics module of the PE Curriculum. Students learned how to coordinate their movements doing safe forward and backward rolls, and improving their balancing and strength abilities. As part of the Gymnastic module students also did group-work performing different human pyramids with 2-5 students. Very good workout and super fun to be had by all!

Social Education Task

LCA students presented an exhibition on Contemporary Issues that they have chosen as part of their Social Education Task in the main hall today. Students and Staff were were really interested in their projects which includes Depression and Anxiety in Young People Today, Recycling and the Environment, LBGT Rights & Issues. Well done to the students and to their teacher Katrina Connolly for presenting a well researched, well created and well presented presentation. They presented their projects with great knowledge and confidence.

Happy New Year!

Holy Family School for the Deaf would like to wish all our Students, Staff, Family and Friends a very Happy and Peaceful New Year 2019.
This video was created by 6C Class who made beautiful Masquerade Masks in Art Class with their teacher Ms.Lorraine Creed. Well done!