1. Principal's message May 2020
2. NB: Permission form for seesaw-online learning (Scroll down to under the principal's message)
2. NB: Permission form for seesaw-online learning (Scroll down to under the principal's message)
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We write to you today from a school that is missing our most precious asset – our pupils. Our rooms, corridors and yard are missing the lively chatter, giggles and singing of your children. All of our lives have changed hugely and in this uncertain time, we want to reach out to you.
You as parents have always been your child's first teacher. Before they ever entered our doors you had taught them so much. Please be confident in your ability to continue to teach your child. Life is full of teachable moments and in this unprecedented time, the biggest lesson any of us can teach our children is to find happiness in difficult times. Ensuring love, happiness and the tools to cope with the sudden loss of their routine, friends and teachers is the most important goal. This may mean they spend the day in the garden playing, or in the kitchen baking, or in the playroom making jigsaws, playing with play dough, slime, cars, dolls, sand/water or indeed at the kitchen table painting, drawing and colouring or curled up with a favourite book. Life is one big learning opportunity.
Naturally, as parents, you are concerned about your child's academic progress. Firstly let us reassure you that all teachers have detailed plans and a record of the children's progress to date. This is the point where all teachers will start from when we happily swing open the school doors and welcome all the children back to St. Cronan’s JNS. We understand that parents are under great stress and pressure; we know that not all houses have printers, broadband access and enough devices to allow all children to access digital resources. Plans will continue to be uploaded to our website www.stcronansjns.ie for every week that the children were due to be in school. These plans are simply a guide for those who would like to use it, they are not designed to add any stress to home life…follow them if they help…if they don’t help embrace your own learning opportunities.
In order to give another alternative for parents and to have teachers respond to their pupils work we will be setting up an online app for each class/group called “Seesaw” (http://seesaw.me) . Through this app pupils can share PRIVATELY a few of their activities (including photos, videos, worksheets, drawings and voice recordings). However we need your permission to use your child’s name for their account. Once set up each child will be given a code to access their learning journal. If you would like your child to be part of this forum please fill in the Google-Forms-Permission-Slip-Link below.
Please remember that you can contact us with any questions through our school email info@stcronansjns.ie
We are all missing the children and looking forward greatly to the day we can welcome them safely back to St. Cronan's. Until then please stay safe and take care.
Warm Wishes
Edel Moloney Edel Blake
Principal Deputy Principal
We write to you today from a school that is missing our most precious asset – our pupils. Our rooms, corridors and yard are missing the lively chatter, giggles and singing of your children. All of our lives have changed hugely and in this uncertain time, we want to reach out to you.
You as parents have always been your child's first teacher. Before they ever entered our doors you had taught them so much. Please be confident in your ability to continue to teach your child. Life is full of teachable moments and in this unprecedented time, the biggest lesson any of us can teach our children is to find happiness in difficult times. Ensuring love, happiness and the tools to cope with the sudden loss of their routine, friends and teachers is the most important goal. This may mean they spend the day in the garden playing, or in the kitchen baking, or in the playroom making jigsaws, playing with play dough, slime, cars, dolls, sand/water or indeed at the kitchen table painting, drawing and colouring or curled up with a favourite book. Life is one big learning opportunity.
Naturally, as parents, you are concerned about your child's academic progress. Firstly let us reassure you that all teachers have detailed plans and a record of the children's progress to date. This is the point where all teachers will start from when we happily swing open the school doors and welcome all the children back to St. Cronan’s JNS. We understand that parents are under great stress and pressure; we know that not all houses have printers, broadband access and enough devices to allow all children to access digital resources. Plans will continue to be uploaded to our website www.stcronansjns.ie for every week that the children were due to be in school. These plans are simply a guide for those who would like to use it, they are not designed to add any stress to home life…follow them if they help…if they don’t help embrace your own learning opportunities.
In order to give another alternative for parents and to have teachers respond to their pupils work we will be setting up an online app for each class/group called “Seesaw” (http://seesaw.me) . Through this app pupils can share PRIVATELY a few of their activities (including photos, videos, worksheets, drawings and voice recordings). However we need your permission to use your child’s name for their account. Once set up each child will be given a code to access their learning journal. If you would like your child to be part of this forum please fill in the Google-Forms-Permission-Slip-Link below.
Please remember that you can contact us with any questions through our school email info@stcronansjns.ie
We are all missing the children and looking forward greatly to the day we can welcome them safely back to St. Cronan's. Until then please stay safe and take care.
Warm Wishes
Edel Moloney Edel Blake
Principal Deputy Principal