Education Passport
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Hi all, I hope you are all well. Your secondary schools have requested some information about you!! As such, you and your parent/guardian are asked to fill in some forms. This form MUST BE FILLED OUT BY ALL 6th class students as it is a REQUIREMENT of your secondary schools. Once you have completed the forms, please email them to St. Oliver's School office. office@stoliversprimary.ie The links are below. Any questions please leave a comment on this post.
Regards,
Ms. Lynch
Information letter: https://ncca.ie/media/4609/info_letter_primary_school_to_parent_2020.pdf
Link for parent's form: https://ncca.ie/media/4535/my-childs-profile_eng_2020.pdf
Link for student's form: https://ncca.ie/media/4534/my-profile-2020.pdf
Hi all, I hope you are all well. Your secondary schools have requested some information about you!! As such, you and your parent/guardian are asked to fill in some forms. This form MUST BE FILLED OUT BY ALL 6th class students as it is a REQUIREMENT of your secondary schools. Once you have completed the forms, please email them to St. Oliver's School office. office@stoliversprimary.ie The links are below. Any questions please leave a comment on this post.
Regards,
Ms. Lynch
Information letter: https://ncca.ie/media/4609/info_letter_primary_school_to_parent_2020.pdf
Link for parent's form: https://ncca.ie/media/4535/my-childs-profile_eng_2020.pdf
Link for student's form: https://ncca.ie/media/4534/my-profile-2020.pdf
Enjoy your Summer Holidays!!
Hi again,
Just a quick post to say well done everyone on reaching your final week of primary school. It is a big achievement and you should be very proud of yourselves as you look back over the past 8 years. That's a lot of early mornings getting to school on time, a lot of busy days of learning and a lot of long evenings completing homework but you've done it all now and I hope you are feeling excited and confident about going forward to the next big chapter in your lives. It was great getting to know you all and teach you over the past few months and even though we didn't get to complete the full school year in actual school, you still did pack in a lot of fun and good memories in the months we were in school.
I hope you all will have an enjoyable and relaxing summer ahead and that you will get to enjoy some fun days out, now that lockdown has been almost completely lifted. I'm sure you've heard from your parents that confirmation has been set for 14th August so I look forward to seeing you being confirmed on that day and.
In the meantime, I'm attaching a graduation booklet below that you might like to complete but no pressure. Finally, I'm attaching some words of wisdom from the great Dr. Seuss for the occasion of your finishing primary school. Enjoy!
Ms. Lynch
Just a quick post to say well done everyone on reaching your final week of primary school. It is a big achievement and you should be very proud of yourselves as you look back over the past 8 years. That's a lot of early mornings getting to school on time, a lot of busy days of learning and a lot of long evenings completing homework but you've done it all now and I hope you are feeling excited and confident about going forward to the next big chapter in your lives. It was great getting to know you all and teach you over the past few months and even though we didn't get to complete the full school year in actual school, you still did pack in a lot of fun and good memories in the months we were in school.
I hope you all will have an enjoyable and relaxing summer ahead and that you will get to enjoy some fun days out, now that lockdown has been almost completely lifted. I'm sure you've heard from your parents that confirmation has been set for 14th August so I look forward to seeing you being confirmed on that day and.
In the meantime, I'm attaching a graduation booklet below that you might like to complete but no pressure. Finally, I'm attaching some words of wisdom from the great Dr. Seuss for the occasion of your finishing primary school. Enjoy!
Ms. Lynch
Memory Wheel and Letter to classmates
Hi all,
Hope you all had a nice weekend. After all this time, you have reached your final full week in 6th class and primary school! I'm sure it feels surreal for you all. I'm finding it hard to process myself, what with us not being in the school and not getting to celebrate your final days of primary school in the usual ways. I'm sure you've heard from your parents that we cannot have a graduation ceremony as schools are only allowed to open to let teachers in to get books etc. at the moment. However, we do have a graduation pack put together for you and we hope you will be able to come along to collect it in July. That won't be the final farewell either because we will all be together again at confirmation whenever it happens.
In the meantime, I thought you might like to complete this memory wheel. Think back over your 8 years in St. Olivers and record your top 8 memories and experiences. It could be a favourite school tour, JEP, a Christmas concert or maybe a more personal memory between you and your friends. You could decorate around the wheel with some quotes or words that remind you of your primary school days. If you can't print the template, just draw it out on paper. Send me a photo on Seesaw of your completed memory wheel.
I'm also suggesting that you write a letter to your classmates this week. You could discuss the happy memories you have of your shared experiences and times spent together. Write about some funny incidents that happened in your class over the years or write about how being a part of your class has helped shape you into the person you are today. Again, if you send these to me either by email or on Seesaw, I will put them all together and post them on the blog to share with your classmates. Poems are welcome too if any of you are in the mood for poetry! Looking forward to reading through your memories.
The only other thing I'm asking you to do workwise this week is to finish reading the last 4 chapters of your novel Goodnight Mister Tom. I hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as I have. Finally, down below I've also included links and worksheets for some virtual school tours that you might like to try.
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
Hope you all had a nice weekend. After all this time, you have reached your final full week in 6th class and primary school! I'm sure it feels surreal for you all. I'm finding it hard to process myself, what with us not being in the school and not getting to celebrate your final days of primary school in the usual ways. I'm sure you've heard from your parents that we cannot have a graduation ceremony as schools are only allowed to open to let teachers in to get books etc. at the moment. However, we do have a graduation pack put together for you and we hope you will be able to come along to collect it in July. That won't be the final farewell either because we will all be together again at confirmation whenever it happens.
In the meantime, I thought you might like to complete this memory wheel. Think back over your 8 years in St. Olivers and record your top 8 memories and experiences. It could be a favourite school tour, JEP, a Christmas concert or maybe a more personal memory between you and your friends. You could decorate around the wheel with some quotes or words that remind you of your primary school days. If you can't print the template, just draw it out on paper. Send me a photo on Seesaw of your completed memory wheel.
I'm also suggesting that you write a letter to your classmates this week. You could discuss the happy memories you have of your shared experiences and times spent together. Write about some funny incidents that happened in your class over the years or write about how being a part of your class has helped shape you into the person you are today. Again, if you send these to me either by email or on Seesaw, I will put them all together and post them on the blog to share with your classmates. Poems are welcome too if any of you are in the mood for poetry! Looking forward to reading through your memories.
The only other thing I'm asking you to do workwise this week is to finish reading the last 4 chapters of your novel Goodnight Mister Tom. I hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as I have. Finally, down below I've also included links and worksheets for some virtual school tours that you might like to try.
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
Virtual School Tour
Hi 6th class,
We would have been going on our school tour this week and I know it's not the same but here are some ideas of virtual tours that you might like to do! Some tours also have activity sheets to go with them which you could do if you like. I've linked them below.
History
The Natural History Museum: Explore The Natural History Museum. Includes videos and activities. Please note if you decide to do The Natural History Museum virtual tour you must click the back button to return to the original document after virtually visiting the different floors or opening a video. I would recommend that you open the document twice (two tabs).
Easter Rising: It’s a tour of different places in Dublin during the Easter Rising. Just have to sit, listen and enjoy – not too much navigating! https://dublinrising.withgoogle.com/welcome/
EpicCHQ: A virtual tour of the Epic Museum – easy to navigate.
https://dublin.epicchq.com/virtual-tour-epic-the-irish-emigration-museum?_ga=2.65704366.1695680237.1587912361-161404742.1587668595
Geography/Science:
Dublin Zoo Tour- The virtual Rainforest Ranger class explores the wonderful Rainforest animals, biodiversity and conservation. Join Kelly as she visits the Bornean orangutans, Asian elephants and more! - https://youtu.be/wpVXQZgIJFQ . Activity Sheets also on blog!
Lots of virtual tours to choose from here! You can watch videos and learn about corals, rainforests and so on!
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/who-we-are/how-we-work/youth-engagement/nature-lab/virtual-field-trips/ -
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Green Schools Celebrate Cycling
Hi 6th class,
I just wanted to let you know that next week is Green Schools Celebrate Cycling week (15th - 19th June). I think our class are particularly good at walking and cycling to school instead of traveling by car so you'll be interested in some of the cycling activities that the Green Schools team have organised, including a video on how to perform cycling safety checks and a Cycle Checks quiz! Just follow the link: https://greenschoolsireland.org/green-schools-stay-home-travel-week-8/
Speaking of Green Schools, they've also put together this great scavenger hunt (below) which you might like to try on one of your nature walks. Here's a sample video to inspire you to get out there! I'd love to see some photos of your nature finds on Seesaw.
Hope you are all keeping well,
Ms. Lynch
I just wanted to let you know that next week is Green Schools Celebrate Cycling week (15th - 19th June). I think our class are particularly good at walking and cycling to school instead of traveling by car so you'll be interested in some of the cycling activities that the Green Schools team have organised, including a video on how to perform cycling safety checks and a Cycle Checks quiz! Just follow the link: https://greenschoolsireland.org/green-schools-stay-home-travel-week-8/
Speaking of Green Schools, they've also put together this great scavenger hunt (below) which you might like to try on one of your nature walks. Here's a sample video to inspire you to get out there! I'd love to see some photos of your nature finds on Seesaw.
Hope you are all keeping well,
Ms. Lynch
6th class work for week 11 (8th - 12th June)
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Parents and 6th class pupils are invited to access this webinar all about progressing to secondary school. All details are in the image below and I hope that some of you might find it helpful.
Video Message from president higgins to 6th class pupils
https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-higgins-issues-message-to-6th-class-students/video
Just in case you hadn't seen this yet, President Higgins has recorded a message for all 6th class pupils, thanking you all for doing your bit in staying at home and recognising that it has been especially challenging for 6th class to be out of school at this time and missing out on all the rites of passage that come with finishing primary school. Watch his video at the link above and enjoy!
Just in case you hadn't seen this yet, President Higgins has recorded a message for all 6th class pupils, thanking you all for doing your bit in staying at home and recognising that it has been especially challenging for 6th class to be out of school at this time and missing out on all the rites of passage that come with finishing primary school. Watch his video at the link above and enjoy!
6th class work for Week 10 (June 2nd - 5th)
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Photos
Some beautiful photos sent in last week of confirmation outfits, new baby sister, and some great art and Science work of recent weeks!
6th Class - Week 9 (May 25th - 29th)
Dia daoibh,
This week we are changing things up a bit in terms of school work. The focus for this week is Science so I have assigned a simple Science experiment for you to complete each day. I tried to choose experiments where the equipment required is minimal and easy to find at home (I hope!) and I would love to see photos or videos of your experiments in action on Seesaw or via Google classroom/Gmail. Thursdays challenge is The Egg Drop so you'll have to get creative and maybe gather some recyclable materials during the week.
You are also beginning work on your World War 2 project this week but you have 2 full weeks to complete it so plenty of time. As a guideline, 4 pages in your scrapbook would be plenty but if you prefer to do you project on Google Slides that's fine too.
You will be busy with these experiments and projects so you'll be happy to hear we'll be doing a reduced schedule of English, Irish and Maths this week. You've done great work in these subjects since we left school and it'll be nice to have a break from the usual Planet Maths, Read at Home and Bun go Barr. So in English we'll just be continuing with Goodnight Mister Tom. In Maths just do your Mental Maths and corrections. In Irish I've included two video links for you to follow: 1. Crafting through Irish and 2. Yoga through Irish. Hopefully they'll be a bit of fun for you while also challenging you to practice your Irish listening skills!!
Everything is explained in the attached document anyway and any questions, send me an email or a comment on Google Classroom.
Best of luck!
Ms. Lynch
This week we are changing things up a bit in terms of school work. The focus for this week is Science so I have assigned a simple Science experiment for you to complete each day. I tried to choose experiments where the equipment required is minimal and easy to find at home (I hope!) and I would love to see photos or videos of your experiments in action on Seesaw or via Google classroom/Gmail. Thursdays challenge is The Egg Drop so you'll have to get creative and maybe gather some recyclable materials during the week.
You are also beginning work on your World War 2 project this week but you have 2 full weeks to complete it so plenty of time. As a guideline, 4 pages in your scrapbook would be plenty but if you prefer to do you project on Google Slides that's fine too.
You will be busy with these experiments and projects so you'll be happy to hear we'll be doing a reduced schedule of English, Irish and Maths this week. You've done great work in these subjects since we left school and it'll be nice to have a break from the usual Planet Maths, Read at Home and Bun go Barr. So in English we'll just be continuing with Goodnight Mister Tom. In Maths just do your Mental Maths and corrections. In Irish I've included two video links for you to follow: 1. Crafting through Irish and 2. Yoga through Irish. Hopefully they'll be a bit of fun for you while also challenging you to practice your Irish listening skills!!
Everything is explained in the attached document anyway and any questions, send me an email or a comment on Google Classroom.
Best of luck!
Ms. Lynch
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Confirmation Video
Here's the link to St. Oliver's Confirmation Class 2020 video. I hope you all had a nice day on Friday and remember if you'd like to send in a photo of yourself from the day, please do so and I'll put together a slide show during the week for the class blog!
https://www.wevideo.com/view/1718730870
https://www.wevideo.com/view/1718730870
6th class - Week 8 (May 18th - 22nd)
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and keeping in good spirits. Just a quick message to say well done on all the work you have been doing in recent weeks. You are making good progress in a situation that is far from normal. This week would have been the final build up to our confirmation ceremony on Friday. For now, everything is on hold but you will of course get a chance to make your confirmation in the future when it is safe for us all to come together again. It is very disappointing for everyone at the moment but when the big day does come, it'll be an even bigger celebration!
We are not going to be completing any school work on Friday. Some of you may have some little celebrations planned within your homes or maybe a phone call to some of your classmates and that's much more important than school work on Friday!! Fr. Barry will also be holding a mass in celebration of the Holy Spirit at 11AM on Friday, the time you would have been making confirmation. He will have a message for all the confirmation classes. I will post the video link later in the week where you can watch it live.
In the meantime, I hope you all continue to stay safe and have a great week.
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
I hope you are all doing well and keeping in good spirits. Just a quick message to say well done on all the work you have been doing in recent weeks. You are making good progress in a situation that is far from normal. This week would have been the final build up to our confirmation ceremony on Friday. For now, everything is on hold but you will of course get a chance to make your confirmation in the future when it is safe for us all to come together again. It is very disappointing for everyone at the moment but when the big day does come, it'll be an even bigger celebration!
We are not going to be completing any school work on Friday. Some of you may have some little celebrations planned within your homes or maybe a phone call to some of your classmates and that's much more important than school work on Friday!! Fr. Barry will also be holding a mass in celebration of the Holy Spirit at 11AM on Friday, the time you would have been making confirmation. He will have a message for all the confirmation classes. I will post the video link later in the week where you can watch it live.
In the meantime, I hope you all continue to stay safe and have a great week.
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
6th class work for week 7 (May 11th - 15th)
6th class work for Week 6 - Beginning World War 2 this week!! (May 5th - 8th)
6th class work for Week 5 (April 27th to May 1st)
Welcome to your final term!!
Hi all and welcome back! I hope everyone had an enjoyable two weeks over Easter and used the time off school work to get out and enjoy the amazing weather.
I am looking forward very much to our final term of the year and remain hopeful that we will get back into school in some capacity before too long but for now we have to keep up the motivation levels and keep going at the great work you've been doing at home. The exciting news is that we are starting our World War 2 novel, Goodnight Mister Tom. I've managed to source an online PDF of this and it's posted on the Google Classroom. I've been reading it the past week myself and am really enjoying it. I hope you all will too.
All the rest of your work is posted in the attached file so try your best to get through as much of it as you can. I am available at mairead.lynch@stoliversprimary.ie for any questions and to receive work for correction. Don't forget to tune in to Home School Hub every week day at 11AM on RTÉ 2...highly recommended! Best of luck everyone and looking forward to receiving your work this week and hearing your thoughts on the new novel!
I am looking forward very much to our final term of the year and remain hopeful that we will get back into school in some capacity before too long but for now we have to keep up the motivation levels and keep going at the great work you've been doing at home. The exciting news is that we are starting our World War 2 novel, Goodnight Mister Tom. I've managed to source an online PDF of this and it's posted on the Google Classroom. I've been reading it the past week myself and am really enjoying it. I hope you all will too.
All the rest of your work is posted in the attached file so try your best to get through as much of it as you can. I am available at mairead.lynch@stoliversprimary.ie for any questions and to receive work for correction. Don't forget to tune in to Home School Hub every week day at 11AM on RTÉ 2...highly recommended! Best of luck everyone and looking forward to receiving your work this week and hearing your thoughts on the new novel!
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Hi a pháistí,
The Easter holidays are upon us at last! Well done on all the hard work you’ve put in over the last few weeks. It hasn’t been an easy adjustment being away from the classroom and all your friends. It can be hard at times to find structure and routine.
I will not be posting any work over Easter. I would encourage you all to take a well-earned break from all the hard work you’ve been doing! I hope you keep active and make sure to get a little exercise in most days (Joe Wicks!), play lots of games, read loads of novels, do some creative writing, some baking or learn a new song. It is also important that you help your adults at home if you can! They will appreciate it!
I’m listing a few optional activities below that you might like to do over the break. You do not have to do them, but they are a bit of fun!
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
The Easter holidays are upon us at last! Well done on all the hard work you’ve put in over the last few weeks. It hasn’t been an easy adjustment being away from the classroom and all your friends. It can be hard at times to find structure and routine.
I will not be posting any work over Easter. I would encourage you all to take a well-earned break from all the hard work you’ve been doing! I hope you keep active and make sure to get a little exercise in most days (Joe Wicks!), play lots of games, read loads of novels, do some creative writing, some baking or learn a new song. It is also important that you help your adults at home if you can! They will appreciate it!
I’m listing a few optional activities below that you might like to do over the break. You do not have to do them, but they are a bit of fun!
- Draw/paint along with Don Conroy on Youtube!
- Do some Duolingo
- Cúla4 on Youtube has some great activities i nGaeilge – including Déan Féin é (DIY!) and Is Eolaí Mé (science experiments through Gaeilge!) if you are interested!
- I highly recommend using Twinkl.com (free to access at the moment), which has hundreds of resources (oral language games, powerpoints, colouring sheets, ebooks) on the Easter theme, or search under a theme or topic of your choice.
- If you missed the Home School Hub programme on RTÉ 2 this week, catch up on RTÉ player. There was a great activity on Friday's episode showing you how to build an Easter nest using just newspaper, paint and some items collected from your garden!
- Those of you with younger siblings could plan and set up an Easter egg hunt in your garden. Draw a map to help them find the eggs!
Best wishes,
Ms. Lynch
Week two - 23rd - 27th March 2020
Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a nice weekend and are finding ways to pass the time and keep busy. Attached below is your work for the coming week.
Instead of working in our Maths copies this week, I am hoping we can move onto an online platform so that I can keep track of your progress. We are going to use Khanacademy.org so please sign in using your school account and you should be able to see the Maths work I have assigned for you there. Any problems, email me and I'll try to help as much as I can. (mairead.lynch@stoliversprimary.ie)
I'm aware that you haven't got your Bun go Barr books home with you, but luckily Cj Fallon have opened access to the book online so please go to cjfallon.ie to access it! You could also download the DuoLingo app to keep practicing Irish. It's very important that you spend some time listening to Irish so please try to watch some TG4. They have lots of children's shows during the day, which you can also access at https://www.cula4.com/en/.
Please access the Google Classroom for photos of the Planet Maths and Mental Maths answers from last week! If you could correct these with red pen and write your result in at the bottom of the page it would be great, as we won't have time to correct everything as a class when we get back to school. We will of course go through any of the more difficult questions.
Best of luck with this week's work and looking forward to when we can get back to the classroom and a bit of normality!
Ms. Lynch
I hope you all had a nice weekend and are finding ways to pass the time and keep busy. Attached below is your work for the coming week.
Instead of working in our Maths copies this week, I am hoping we can move onto an online platform so that I can keep track of your progress. We are going to use Khanacademy.org so please sign in using your school account and you should be able to see the Maths work I have assigned for you there. Any problems, email me and I'll try to help as much as I can. (mairead.lynch@stoliversprimary.ie)
I'm aware that you haven't got your Bun go Barr books home with you, but luckily Cj Fallon have opened access to the book online so please go to cjfallon.ie to access it! You could also download the DuoLingo app to keep practicing Irish. It's very important that you spend some time listening to Irish so please try to watch some TG4. They have lots of children's shows during the day, which you can also access at https://www.cula4.com/en/.
Please access the Google Classroom for photos of the Planet Maths and Mental Maths answers from last week! If you could correct these with red pen and write your result in at the bottom of the page it would be great, as we won't have time to correct everything as a class when we get back to school. We will of course go through any of the more difficult questions.
Best of luck with this week's work and looking forward to when we can get back to the classroom and a bit of normality!
Ms. Lynch
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Hi Parents,
I've added a file below from the irishprimaryteacher.ie blog, called Real Life Maths. It contains a lot of practical ideas for exploring some of the more hands Maths topics, including weight, capacity, money, time, length, area and chance. The children have covered all these topics before so should be quite familiar with them. You could take one topic each week over the coming weeks and complete some of the suggested activities with your child. Don't feel under any pressure to do so, I just thought it might be a more fun way to engage with Maths, rather than just working through pages of a textbook.
Best regards,
Mairead Lynch
I've added a file below from the irishprimaryteacher.ie blog, called Real Life Maths. It contains a lot of practical ideas for exploring some of the more hands Maths topics, including weight, capacity, money, time, length, area and chance. The children have covered all these topics before so should be quite familiar with them. You could take one topic each week over the coming weeks and complete some of the suggested activities with your child. Don't feel under any pressure to do so, I just thought it might be a more fun way to engage with Maths, rather than just working through pages of a textbook.
Best regards,
Mairead Lynch
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Dia daoibh a phaisti,
Here is the first week of work. Try your best to complete it by Friday March 20th. Have questions ready for me if there’s anything you don’t understand!
I've also added some Maths activities on our latest topic of Ratio to our Google Classroom. Please complete these if you can get access to Google classroom from home.
Finish week 1 before beginning week 2. Week 2 will be posted Monday 23rd March.
Make sure to read as much as possible, play lots of games such as board and card games and get some exercise!
All the best and see you soon!
Ms. Lynch
Here is the first week of work. Try your best to complete it by Friday March 20th. Have questions ready for me if there’s anything you don’t understand!
I've also added some Maths activities on our latest topic of Ratio to our Google Classroom. Please complete these if you can get access to Google classroom from home.
Finish week 1 before beginning week 2. Week 2 will be posted Monday 23rd March.
Make sure to read as much as possible, play lots of games such as board and card games and get some exercise!
All the best and see you soon!
Ms. Lynch
Parent teacher meetings
Hi parents,
Please follow this link to sign up for parent teacher meetings the week beginning November 25th 2019.
Thank you,
Ms. Lynch
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040D44ACAE2AA6FE3-parent
Please follow this link to sign up for parent teacher meetings the week beginning November 25th 2019.
Thank you,
Ms. Lynch
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040D44ACAE2AA6FE3-parent
Oíche Shamhna!
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Happy Halloween to all the school community from 6th class. Well done boys and girls on the Halloween costumes!
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