The link to the feedback/assessment form has been fixed and can be found here:
https://forms.gle/A63UiwRyAFFVY8om9
If you encounter any issues please let us know ASAP and we'll try to fix it as quickly as we can! You will need to sign into your google account first to access it, and please include your child's initials so we can identify each student for our records. As Wednesday's blog post contained a lot of material to cover, we are not expecting this work to be completed by today. Please allow the children to continue working on this at their own pace throughout next week also.
You may have seen that RTÉ are starting an hour long show next Monday, with the aim of providing some tuition to students. While this is aimed at 1st class and upwards, it may be good for the children to watch for a break from work as it could have some interesting material. This is to be broadcast from 11am-12pm each day, along with a catch-up programme at 4:15pm later each day. More info can be found below:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/rt%C3%A9-to-broadcast-school-on-tv-from-next-week-1.4213275
Amazon has cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages so as long as schools are closed, children everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming and learning.
All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet using the following link
We know that it’s all a little bit strange at the moment because we can’t go out to many places and we can’t really visit people we want to visit so we decided to come up with an idea to cheer others up from the students in Belmayne Educate Together!
There is a Nursing Home very close to our school called ‘CareChoice Malahide’ where elderly people live. They can’t really have any visitors at the moment so we thought it would be a nice idea to give them a call and see would they like something to make them smile, and of course they said yes!😊
The idea is that each child could make a card, draw or paint a picture, make a piece of art, create something for Easter or come up with something else different, thoughtful and lovely. The children, with parent’s permission, could even make a video of themselves singing a song or doing a dance! It really can be anything to cheer the residents up as they have had a ‘no visitors policy’ for the last three weeks and a little kindness goes a long way.
Parents will then take a picture, send the video or scan the piece of art/card etc and email it to the nursing home directly and the lady Jessica spoke with said that they will print off the pictures and stick them around the nursing home so all the residents can see what the wonderful children from Belmayne E.T have made them. They’re also making a book during this time and our pictures could also go into that.
The email address is hello@carechoice.ie
In the subject bar put: ‘To the staff and residents in CareChoice Malahide, from (child’s name) in Jessica's/Maria's Senior Infants at Belmayne Educate Together’ and attach whatever they’ve decided to send to them, maybe with a short note.
There is no pressure to complete this but we just thought it would be a caring way to cheer a group of people up during this time and random acts of kindness are the best way to help each other each day!💖
If you have any other questions or wish to send us updates, we are still checking our emails every day! Thank you all so much for the lovely emails so far, we're missing seeing all those smiling faces every day so much!
Thanks a million for all your support, it means a lot to us!
Stay safe and enjoy the weekend,
Jessica and Maria
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