We had lots of fun in the school environment completing a maths trail!
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We love writing on the whiteboard during maths time! Stop, Block, Talk! We learned what to do if we ever experience cyberbullying or if we are talking to someone we don't know online. Local libraries are are great resource - they are the venue for so many workshops, talks and seminars scheduled on a broad range of topics. Here is a great example!
As part of developing pupil well-being (Health Promoting Schools), Active Schools and parental involvement, we have linked in with parenting plus new pilot programme - healthy families. Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme We are delighted to announce that the Department of Children and Youth Affairs has awarded Parents Plus funding to develop a new Healthy Families programme aimed at improving the health and well-being of children, young people and their families in local communities and nationally. The focus of Healthy Families programme is to support and empower parents to make positive lifestyle changes within their families, by adopting a series of healthy habits in areas such as mealtimes, healthy eating, screen time, sleep routines, playtime and activity. The programme will be delivered via the Parents Plus ‘train the trainer’ model throughout Ireland and particularly to disadvantaged and hard to reach communities. The goal is to improve outcomes for children and parents by preventing childhood obesity and increasing positive family communication and wellbeing They are going to run a FREE parent workshop on Tuesday 23rd October from 9am to 11am in the hall. We hope you can make it! Today we were learning about rooms in houses and the various items you find in each room e.g. toilet in the bathroom; couch in the sitting room etc. Then we had some fun - we took turns drawing pictures of items on the whiteboard.... then our friends had to guess what the item was and what room in the house you could find it in! It was lots of fun and helped cement our learning. We are officially launching the PETNS Maths Eyes Competition 2018! As part of Maths Week next week, we are encouraging as many children as possible to get involved and create their own Maths Eyes poster. Deadline for submissions will be Friday the 19th and all entries will be displayed in the school and submitted to the national competition after. There will be one prize for each category (check PowerPoint for more info). Attached is a PowerPoint to help introduce the topic to children, with examples of posters from previous years. Any entries can be emailed to teachers or prints can be given to teachers. This would be a fun task for children to complete at home and in the neighbourhood! We will be designing and constructing tree houses soon and we need your help! Please send in clean recycled materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic containers, paper cups, etc that we can use to build our masterpieces!
We got to put our road safety work to use as we crossed the road walking over and back to the Forest School! Well done everyone Today we had our first visit to the Forest School! It was so windy but we loved it and collected lots of signs of Autumn for our Autumn Table! |