Ladyswell National School – School Website For Ladyswell

Fáilte Isteach chuig ár scoil.

Welcome to

Ladyswell National School!

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First Confession – 2nd Class 2021

Many thanks to Fr Eoin for a wonderful First Confession today.

Thank you so much Fingal County Council – the mobile library is back in action!

2nd Class had such an enjoyable visit picking some fabulous books out today.

Last week we started a series of Punctuality Blitzes! 1st classes responded very well, with teachers reporting much better punctuality in the mornings.

Loads of children won a special pencil for being “in the line on time”.

This week it’s the turn of the 2nd and 3rd classes. Already we can see an improvement! Let’s see who can win a special pencil- 5 days in-a-row ON TIME!!

Reminder! If you have yet to do so, please sign up to Aladdin Connect when you get a chance. This year our school reports will be sent via Aladdin.

Grandparents Week took place from May 10th to 14th, and was a great success! Pictures and stories were emailed in from many families in the 3 first classes. Children made connections with their grannies and grandads, and compared life stories with the different generations. Have a look at our Gallery of pictures!!

As part of Grandparents’ Week we organised a raffle for those families who sent in pictures and stories. Here are the lucky winners who each won a €30 voucher for Blanchardstown Centre!

Peter 3A, Kaleb 7a and Bobby 3A

Parents, here are a few pictures from Grandparents Day in 2019- the last time we celebrated it! This year we are celebrating a Virtual Grandparents’ Week, for the 3 First classes. We are looking for pictures of grandparents and children together, to be emailed to:

ladyswellhscl@gmail.com

We are also looking for tales of the ‘old days’ to be emailed in, so the children can compare their lives with those of their Grannies and Grandads. A Blanchardstown voucher will be rafffled in each of the 1st classes for all families who enter!!

2nd Class have been having fun constructing obstacle courses and jumping in the sunshine!

Covid Quick Guide March 2021

Well done to our legends of the week!

We look forward to welcoming back our pupils from 3rd Class – 6th Class on Monday 15th March!

It will be so exciting to see you all – we cannot wait!

Start and finish times are as follows:

3rd Class : 8.40am – 2.20pm

4th Class : 8.50am – 2.30pm

5th Class: 8.40am – 2.20pm

6th Class : 8.50am – 2.30pm

Please ensure you have completed and returned the “Return to School” form for each of your children who are returning next week.

Music Week 2020!

Boys and girls: do you remember this time last year we had Music Week in school?! We heard classical and band music, we played rhythms on percussion instruments, we had Music Technology, we had Musical Theatre……No Music Week this year, but in 2022, we will make up for that! It will be bigger and better than ever!

Happy Valentine’s Day 2021

Seesaw WOW Gallery – February 2021

Our School Crest created by Bianca

This week features pieces of work created by our 3rd class students.

I am sure you will agree with me that they have been completing some amazing work. Well done 3rd Class!

Click and scroll across!

Please find below a link to our Remote Teaching and Learning Policy.

We are all so happy to see so many of you on Seesaw this week!

Well done on all your work so far this week – it is amazing to see all the wonderful work going on in your homes.

Below is a suggested daily timetable you might find useful to help plan your day!

Welcome back!

A huge welcome back to the website. We hope you are all keeping happy and healthy at home. Over the weekend we will be updating our school zone some additional ideas that might help you keep busy at home. In addition, some of you might want to check out RTÉ ‘s Home School Hub and After School Hub which is back on television or online. RTÉ are providing fun and engaging daily lessons for us to enjoy from the comfort of our homes each day from 10am – 12pm. In case you miss an episode they are also available on RTÉ Player.

Some ideas for this week!

Oxford Owl is a fantastic free site with online reading for all ages and levels. Joe Wicks is back every morning with some new routines for you to try out and one of our favourites HIT THE BUTTON can be found on the Topmarks website. Have fun! Stay Safe!

The dancing elves and reindeers of 2nd Class, Room 6a have been busy over the past week preparing our version of Ralph the Reindeer for you all to watch. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we have enjoyed creating it!

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE WINNERS

The following children were the lucky winners of this year’s Christmas Raffle!! A big thank you to Glanmore Foods for providing the fabulous hampers!

Amanullah, Early Start

Blessing, Rm 3

Jordan, Rm 3A

Jane, Rm 2B

Noel, Rm 10

Congrats all!!

6th Class Room 2c made decorations and cards for residents of Marymount Nursing Home.

Wishing all of our families a fantastic Christmas. We are so proud of your wonderful children and we hope they have a well deserved relaxing break from school. Here are some of our talented singers in action!

Bedtime Reading Club

Ms Dolan’s and Ms Morley’s Senior Infant classes are both taking part in our Bedtime Reading Club. The children get a book every Monday and read it at home with Mum or Dad every evening, and return the book on Friday. The books stay in school over the weekend and new books are then distributed. Week one has been a great success!

Our 3rd Class children received a special present this week –

Toy Show pyjamas from Barnados!

We had an amazing week trying out a selection of science experiments and investigations!

Scroll down below to watch our video!

Senior Infants – Science Experiments

Well done to all the Senior Infants who did the Skittles experiment at home. Many thanks to all the parents who sent in a picture – we received 26 pictures/entries for the raffle! A selection appears below and the winner will be announce on Monday.

Happy Halloween

Back to school in September we came,

Keeping each other safe was an aim.

Getting back into learning was such fun,

Happy faces, smiling like the sun.

Now as Halloween night draws near,

We celebrated today with lots of cheer!

A super half term…..

A féasta well earned…….

We will miss you all next week,

But the memories remain – take a peek!!

My First Day at School

The wonderful Junior Infants from Room 3 and Room 4

Welcome to all our wonderful Junior Infants!

Dear Parents,

We are all very excited about the school re-opening this week and look forward to seeing all our wonderful students soon.

Please see below a video message from Mr Murray and details of our back to school arrangements.

School Re-opening Details

Due to Covid restrictions the following are our planned re-opening arrangements:

Group 1: 1st Class, 3rd Class, 5th Class

Begin: Thursday 27th August at 8.40am – 2.20pm

Group 1 children do not come to school on Friday 28th August

Group 2: Senior Infants, 2nd Class, 4th Class, 6th Class

Begin: Friday 28th August at 8.50am – 2.30pm

Group 1 & Group 2 all to come to school on Monday 31st August.

The school day for Group 1 will be 8.40am – 2.20pm for Term 1

The school day for Group 2 will be 8.50am – 2.30pm for Term 1

Early Start: Wednesday 2nd September

Morning Group: 9.00am – 10.45am

Afternoon Group 11.45am – 1.30pm

Times will be extended after Week 1

Junior Infants: Tuesday 1st September

9.30am Teachers will collect children from outside the school gate.

11.30am Teachers will bring children back to the school gate.

Times will be extended after week 1.

Preparation

Currently we are busy preparing the school for re-opening. This includes a deep clean and sanitisation.

While we will have hand sanitiser available in every classroom, we encourage children to bring their own.

Due to Health & Safety we have to ask parents to respect the Covid restrictions and stay outside of the school gate.

Pupils Who Have Travelled

Any pupils who have bee outside of Ireland in recent times must follow the government guidelines in respect of quarantining and inform the Principal.

Thank you for your continued co-operation. We will provide further details in the coming weeks.

Temperature checks

We encourage parents to check your child’s temperature each morning and follow the guidelines.

Back to School HSE Guidelines

Booklists 2020 – 2021

Summer PE ideas

Water Safety!

Hoola Hoop Ideas!

Magical Memories

Amazing Animals

Active HOME Week

Music, Maths & Movement!

Dear Parents,

A few weeks ago, along with the food parcels, we gave out dominoes to families, as a way to keep a bit of light-hearted Mental Maths going.

We hope those who got them had some fun!

This week we gave out hula hoops to every family, as a help to a bit of ‘Oudoors PE‘ in the back garden. It is important to keep some physical exercise going, especially when the sun is shining!

Next Tuesday we will continue the exercise theme! We hope to give out a skipping rope to every family- no batteries or screens needed, just good old-fashioned fun!!

So come along on Tuesday!

Hoola Hoop time!

Dominoes!

Get skipping!

A special message from all the staff of Ladyswell to all of our fantastic students. You are greatly missed by us all.

Many thanks to everyone who has joined us so far on Seesaw!

Dear Parents,

In response to our school’s recent online survey, we would like to provide our pupils with the opportunity to receive teacher feedback on some of the work that they will be
doing at home.

We will continue to use the website to assign work and will introduce an additional website/app called Seesaw. On Seesaw, students can view class announcements, access activities posted by their teacher, upload completed activities
and receive feedback from their teacher.

From next Monday, 18th May, we will begin using Seesaw. The activities assigned on Seesaw will come from the weekly work that is posted on the school website and are not additional activities. Therefore, your child’s workload will not increase.

Three activities, chosen by your child’s teacher, will appear on Seesaw between Monday and Wednesday each week. We would ask that responses be submitted on the site by Thursday so that feedback can be given by Friday.

For now, we would just like families to click the link https://app.seesaw.me/ or download the Seesaw app and enter the code which has been emailed to you by your child’s teacher.

The code is is unique to your child. This code is like a password and should be kept safe and never shared. To ensure privacy, any work that your child submits can only be seen by their
teacher.

Seesaw is intended to aid your child’s learning and its use is optional but we would hope that everyone will give it a go.

We will be in touch soon with more detailed directions regarding how to use the app.

Many thanks,
Niall Murray

A heartfelt huge thank you to the manager and staff of Mr Price, Blanchardstown Centre who helped out loading up Ms Sloan’s car over several trips, with the contents of our learning packs. Laura and her staff went out of their way and were extremely helpful and friendly. It would not have been possible without their help!

We hope all of our students received their packs and are enjoying working away with the contents. You will find lots of helpful ideas and tips in our Maths and Healthy Happy posts below!

Thank You Mr Price!

RTÉ Learn RTÉ Home School Hub

A Covid Spring by Ava Osbourne

All our streets are empty
All the shops are closed
The world is very quiet
Because we’re told to stay at home
This virus can’t get us
If we stick to the rules
And what makes it all better is we get to stay off school woohoo
We get to spend our days
Doing things we’d once forgotten
Spending time with our families
Playing games and just loving
Our Irish country should be proud
We’re doing everything we can
To stop this virus spreading
We are virtually holding hands
So just stay strong and keep on praying
Because we can make it trough this if we stick together
STAY SAFE

Happy Easter

Wishing you all a peaceful time this Easter
and may all your homes be filled with
love, joy and happiness.

Congratulations to the overall winner of our Poetry Competition, Ava Osbourne! A great selection of poems were entered, and there are class level winners too!

Congratulations to our four Easter Raffle winners! We hope they’ll enjoy their goodies, at this Easter which we will remember for a long time. A big THANK YOU to our lunch supplier Glanmore Foods, who provided the lovely hampers.

Infants Raffle winner: Justin Burnett, Ms Morley’s

1st / 2nd Class Winner: Jade Bello, Ms Heerey’s

3rd / 4th Class winner: Wojciech Samko, Ms Sweeney’s

5th / 6th Class winner: Mercy Agunbiade, Ms Casey’s

A Covid Spring by Ava Osbourne

All our streets are empty
All the shops are closed
The world is very quiet
Because we’re told to stay at home

This virus can’t get us
If we stick to the rules
And what makes it all better is we get to stay off school woohoo

We get to spend our days
Doing things we’d once forgotten
Spending time with our families
Playing games and just loving

Our Irish country should be proud
We’re doing everything we can
To stop this virus spreading
We are virtually holding hands

So just stay strong and keep on praying
Because we can make it trough this if we stick together

STAY SAFE

Zach Fagan Clarke, Room 3 Winner of Junior & Senior Infants Poetry Competition!

Charlie Murray Keegan, Room 3a Ms Corkery Our 1st & 2nd Class Poetry Competition Winner

* POETRY COMPETITION WINNERS! *

A huge congratulations and well done to all of the creative, talented children who entered our competition. It was fantastic to get such a great response from you all and we were amazed by all of your wonderful poems and artwork. Keep up the superb writing over the next couple of weeks!

Our overall winner will receive an Easter hamper ( in time for the weekend!!) and winners of the individual year group categories will receive their prizes after the holidays.

Well done again to everyone who entered, we had a tough time picking the winners and will share their poems with you soon.

Overall Winner:

Ava Osbourne

6th Class Ms Murray

Year Group Winners:

Junior / Senior Infants:

Zach Fagan Clarke

Junior Infants Ms Dolan

1st / 2nd Class:

Charlie Murray Keegan

1st Class Ms Corkery

3rd / 4th Class:

Jessica Pirtac

4th Class Ms Barragry

5th / 6th Class:

Max Palmer 5th Class

Julia Burciu 6th Class

Covid-19 Update 24th March 2020

Dear families,

As advised today by the Department of Education all schools, pre-schools and further and higher education settings will remain closed to students until 19 April 2020.

The decision has been taken following advice from the NPHET (National Public Health Emergency Team) as part of efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19.

All young people and children are urged to practice social distancing, and to minimise physical contact to keep themselves and others healthy and to limit the spread of infection. This should include minimising social contact, avoiding meeting up and keeping physical space of two metres between each other. Parents and guardians are urged to support young people and children to follow those simple guidelines.

If you have not already done so please send your current email address whenever you get a chance to: ladyswellns@gmail.com

The Department of Health and the HSE have produced Covid-19 resources in a range of languages other than Irish and English which you can access below:

HSE Covid 19 Resources

NEPS (National Educational Psychological Services) have also produced some resources. Links to these can be found below in our ‘Happy & Healthy’ section.

We hope you are all keeping safe and well during this difficult time.

Ladyswell National School