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School Closure

To support efforts to contain the spread of Covid -19 the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD has announced the closure of schools taking effect from 6 pm this evening, Thursday 12th March until 29th March 2020.

Teachers have prepared work for the children to be completed at home during this period so please check school bags this evening.

Please refer to the school website for further updates, lessons and resources. 

In light of recent developments in relation to Covid-19, Twinkl want to support all pupils, parents and teachers should the decision be made to close primary schools in Ireland. They are offering all parents and teachers a One Month FREE Ultimate Membership to Twinkl.ie. This will allow parents and teachers unlimited access to every single resource for every single curriculum subject from junior infants to sixth class.

Setting this up is really easy to do – go to www.twinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS.

To see how best to utilize the website, please see this post on their blog.

Vooks is a great resource to use in the home with your children.  Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week.  It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading.  You can sign up for Vooks and use the take-home resources to help keep your children reading 20 minutes a day during these extraordinary times.

Sign Up Link:
www.vooks.com/parent-resources

Take-Home Lesson Plans
Week 1
Week 2