Hi 6th class.
It's week 15 since lockdown and we have made it to the end of the school year!!! What a school year it has been?! It is one I will never forget and that's for sure. But you and your parents/guardians have been magnificent and I want to commend you all for your huge efforts in engaging with the home/school assignments that I set each week.
I want to thank you also for emailing me your work each week and taking part in all the photo challenges etc. I set. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing what you were all doing and even though we weren't together physically in school, I felt we achieved a lot of learning objectives throughout the lockdown. A lot of "life skills and lessons" were also learned and that sometimes is as important as the academic learning.
I hope you will forever remember the quality time you got to spend with family members without all the hectic running and racing that would normally go on. These memories and strengthened relationships will endure in your hearts long after Covid 19 is a thing relegated to the history books.
Your support was much appreciated during this time. Thank you all so much.
6th class this week also marks the end of your amazing journey in St. John the Baptist G.P.S , Cashel. Can you believe your eight years with us is over? I hope you look back over your career here with us and remember all the times you had here. All the teachers who taught you and those who may not have, but you may have minded their class or may have looked after you on the yard.I hope the good memories out weigh the others. I hope you remember all the fun activities we had each year and the funny things that happened that made you laugh.
To quote Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa " Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world". He is so right and it is something we take for granted until it is taken away. Use your education wisely to make your change in the world.
I have missed and will miss you all. You were a great group of girls to deal with and to teach. I will remember you fondly as "The Lockdown Class of 2020".
Best wishes now and always.
Aileen Flanagan.
Make sure to look at the website on Friday, 26th June girls. You will enjoy it!!
Thank you all for handing back your books. If you find anything at home later, please drop it into the school office.
Cashel library are also running a Reading Stars programme for the summer for all ages. Its a great way to get books and it is one of the most important things you could do to enhance your learning. READ, READ, READ. If you are interested you will find a post on the website about it.
Aileen Flanagan.
This week is Active School Week 2020. Mrs. Cawley and Miss Ryan have put together a fantastic weeks work full of fun activities.They would love to see your active photos this week so email me, Mrs. Cawley or Miss Ryan on our school emails. I can't wait to see what you get up to. Have a great week and enjoy the following activities. It is important to check out the Active School section on the website also. There may be extra things there on that post.
Active Schools Week
You’ll find the different activities for each day on the Active Schools Week handout that Mrs Cawley and Miss Amy Ryan put together for your work pack. Have a look at the Active Schools section of the website as it’s there too!
Try out some yoga poses using the videos below. There are lots more videos like these on Cosmic Kids Yoga on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3gCrL_XIM (Moana themed – younger classes might enjoy this!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHoErQuFw_4 (Older classes will be well able for this one.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9uttOZdOQ (This is a trickier one for the older girls!)
Miss Sinéad Ryan has put together a dance video for that you can all learn during the week! You can do this as many times as you like! You’ll find it on the Active Schools section of the website. Hope you enjoy it!
Have a look at this video on the school website of yourselves when you were in 2nd class. You will enjoy this. Its a trip down memory lane. https://www.cashelgirlsschool.ie/school-activities-/active-schools-/
Fill in the 60 minute a day activity chart attached at the end of this post as a download. Make sure you meet your 60 minutes of activity per day!
- Active Schools Week Times (from your work pack)
Write a report on all the activities you did during Active Schools Week. You might like to do one paragraph per day. This is a personal piece so include your opinions; which activities you enjoyed the most, which you found difficult and why etc.
- Wordsearch (from your work pack)
Complete the Active Schools and Ag Deireadh na Scoilbhliana wordsearches from your work pack.
- Favourite Sporting Moment
Draw a picture of your favourite sporting moment of all time and write a paragraph about it. It could be personal to you (a time you won a medal/played an important match/beat your siblings in a race!) or it could be about your favourite team or sportsperson.
Choose your favourite sporting photograph and try to recreate it yourself at home. You can use any of the ones I've put up below or any other sporting photo that you like. You may need to rope in family members as teammates! Please send your photos to me by email. I'd love to see them!
Write an acrostic poem for Active Schools Week or write a poem in the ABCB rhyming pattern (the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza rhyme) like the example below:
If School were more like Baseball
If school were more like baseball (A)
we’d only have to play. (B)
We’d hang out in the sunshine (C)
and run around all day. (B)
We wouldn’t have to study. (A)
We’d practice and we’d train. (B)
And, best of all, they’d cancel (C)
whenever there was rain. (B)
By Kenn Nesbitt
You’ll find some suggestions for skipping games that you can play at home in a download at the end of this document.
Check out the pdf file at the end of this document with some suggestions for playground games that you might like to adapt and play at home with your family.
- Irish Heart Foundation Let’s Get Active at Home Pack
You’ll find lots of activities to keep you active this week in this fantastic pack.
Use the following link to practise the physical literacy skills you learn in PE:
https://www.scoilnet.ie/pdst/physlit/beyond/
Answers to Green School Quiz 2020.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
- Main front door.
- None.
- Everyone.
- 17.
- Wallers Lot- across from Topaz.
- Forever.
- 50%
- Less energy.
- Batteries.
- oil/gas/ coal
- 1%
- Pacific Ocean
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