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Suggestions to help your children when learning from home:

From Monday the 30th of March RTE will be showing a classroom based program for 1st to 6th class students . It will air from 11-12 daily.

This is a list of websites and activities that may be useful when your child finishes work set by their class teacher. Some of the websites need you to register but they are all free. Under each web link or suggestion there is a short description.

https://ncse.ie/online-resources?fbclid=IwAR2YTbZZKmYPO0QvvoWKYFEtUxpi3rdWNzFxe0IhecZ7ESLj3qYjgXM9PvM

Links to support children with special needs. OT, Speech and Language and academic support are all included.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/

Over 100 mini ebooks for different ages.

https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

Phonics games for younger classes and pupils who need extra support.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

A free 10 minute audio clip from his latest book per day.

https://readtheory.org/auth/login

A website with graded comprehensions. Anyone who attends Ms Ryan’s English groups is already set up and has a login name and password on the front of their copy. You do a 20 minute assessment and then the website gives you stories and questions at your own level. Great for independent work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Typing practice through games.

Gaeilge:

https://www.cula4.com/ga/
YouTube: TG Lurgan
Videos, songs and games through Gaeilge.

Maths:
https://ie.ixl.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Maths activities organised by class level
YouTube: Laugh Along and Learn (times tables)

https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/simple-stem-activities-for-kids/

Problem solving maths and science activities.

PE/Art
https://youtu.be/tbCjkPlsaes
https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
YouTube: Art with Cassie Stephens
Artforkidshub
Extras:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com

A huge selection of videos and activities to cover Geography and Science. It would also be very useful for project work.

https://padlet.com/parteensolosinging/zfdq5n59llog

A wide selection of activities based on school subjects and organised by class level

We celebrated World Book Day in St. Brigid’s SGNS by decorating our classroom doors, dressing up as our favourite characters, buying new books from the book fair, listening to a storyteller and entertaining book report and cover competitions! Everyone had a great time!

We celebrated Engineers week with a design challenge. Bridges had to have a span of 30cm and hold a weight to 500g. These are some of the bridges that made the final of our competition. The standard was extremely high and all our students should be very proud of their work.

We celebrated La Fhéile Bríde with a prayer service, art competition and disco. The winners of our art competition can be seen on the notice board in our lobby.