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To All Our Graduating Boys and Parents who finish their time in St. Patrick's B.N.S. this Wednesday:

A special note of congratulations and thanks to our graduation classes of 2020. For the past 6 years( 7 for some), because of these 43 young men's dedication, talents, personalities, successes and challenges; St. Patrick's B.N.S. has been made even more a special place to learn, work and grow for so many of these boys, their parents and their teachers. The Parents Group has grown from strength to strength and been very well supported by these parents. Thank you for your time and care. Ms. Murphy, Mr. Mullins and the boys teachers are preparing a Video Graduation this Tuesday for each class and maybe a little surprise on Wednesday.
Mr. Mullins and Mr. M. O' Mahony put their vip contacts and video editing skills to good use to create the heartfelt, memorable and special videos above for our Graduation Class of 2020. We hope you enjoy them!

We will be having a special graduation ceremony when the opportunity arises.
But for now, Boys and Parents: We are so proud of each and everyone one of you. Well done all!
Boys you have so many special memories and learning from St. Patrick's to help you on the road ahead. We know that your St. Patrick's foundation offers you so much potential in your lifelong learning journey.

Go-néirí an bothar libh go léir!

Mr. Mullin's 6th Class

Dear parents, guardians and boys;

We are on the final stretch; less than two weeks left for the boys in primary school. It has been lovely to keep in touch with you all in different ways over the last three months. We will be having a graduation day zoom call in the last week- probably Wednesday, the day the 6th class were due to finish this year. We are also planning to have a proper graduation ceremony for the boys in September. If you or your parents need any support from school and you would like to contact me, please email me at mrmullins@stpatricksboys.net. Also our class support teachers Mr. Horgan and Ms. Fitzgerald can be emailed at mrhorgan@stpatricksboys.net and msfitzgerald@stpatricksboys.net

Thinking of you all
John Mullins, Damien Horgan, Annette Fitzgerald

If you do not have books in your possession, don't worry you can follow this programme very easily. It will just take 2-3 minutes to find the books online. Ask someone at home to help you if you think this bit is tricky.
CjFallon has some great resources so feel free to explore all of them and pick topics that may interest your own learning.
Follow this link to bring you to the ‘CJFallon’ resources:
https://my.cjfallon.ie/dashboard/student-resources/?levels=0&classes=0&subjects=0&serieses=0&booktitles=0&types%5B0%5D=Book+Sample
Also https://www.folensonline.ie/registration/
(Note: parents will need to enter their name and email address)

WE THINK YOU ARE PRETTY AWESOME!	ACTIVE SCHOOL WEEK 22ND -26TH JUNE
Dear Parents/Boys; Mr. Horgan (Sport and Wellbeing Coordinator) and the teachers have been busy putting an active fun remote learning week together for our boys to try at home. He's been trying it out at home with his own busy bunch and they all give it a thumbs up! Why not take on an activity or more each day this week, our last school week and give it your best, have lots of fun. You deserve it! Well done on all your learning connections, online activities, emails to teachers, Zoom Calls, phone calls, video messages, Google Classroom learning, projects and huge efforts in continuing your school work at home. We at school think you are absolutely amazing and we want to especially thank the mums and dads for becoming the teachers, snas, caretakers, secretaries and principals of your home school during this closure. As always, St. Patrick's boys, parents and teachers have worked together and played a blinder in spite of the many challenges we faced together. And again, our school motto guides and defines our work together and our pathway to resounding success! Ó gach duine a dhícheall! From each person their best! We are back to school on August 27th. We we will know more about how those returning days will look in the near future. You, your sons and all our St. Patrick's B.N.S. staff safety and wellbeing will be our first priority as we follow Departmental guidelines for schools. For now, enjoy our last week of school in difficult circumstances. Have a lovely summer break and if you need anything just let us know stpatricksboysschool@gmail.com Take a bow mums, dads and boys. You just stole the show! Maith sibh go léir! Shane Foley Principal
Monday	Daily Fitness Sheet. Look at exercises in picture on the left Fitness With Joe (You Tube 9am) 30min https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 Active House Work: vacuum a room or rooms at home/tidy up your bedroom to make it spotless Outside Walk; spot items beginning with each letter of the Alphabet Writing: Best moment of school this year. (in class or yard or PE or a trip etc) Drop Everything and Dance to your Favourite Song/music. Mr. Horgan's is Mc. Hammer - Can't Touch this!
Tuesday	Daily Fitness Sheet above Fitness With Joe (You Tube 9am) 30min https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 Fitness with Tj Reid (Kilkenny Hurler) Facebook Tj Reid Fitness at 12noon https://www.facebook.com/TJReidFitness Active House Work: hang out some washing/move to Dryer Cycle for 20min / Skipping for 10-15min Writing: Funniest moment of this school year. Was it the the time Ms. Lohan thought Buddy the Bear was following her? Go Noodle Dance e.g. Banana Banana Meatball (Youtube: Go Noodle channel) https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames
Wednesday	Daily Fitness Sheet: Above Fitness With Joe (You Tube 9am) 30min https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 Active House Work: wash dishes after lunch or dinner or make mum/dad a nice cup of tea and a sandwich. Play “Simon Says” Writing: a message to my teacher (2 Stars & 1 Wish) Dance to a song picked by a parent or guardian (you must do it!!) It's your chance to have a little dance off with mum/dad/ or your brothers and sisters.
Thursday	Daily Fitness Sheet: Above Fitness With Joe (You Tube 9am) 30min https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 OR Fitness with Tj Reid (Kilkenny Hurler) Facebook Tj Reid Fitness at 12noon https://www.facebook.com/TJReidFitness Active House Work: Clean windows (outside maybe?) Harry the school caretaker can clean 3 windows in 15 minutes. Hide and Seek around the house (all family members??) Writing: Best lesson of the year or hardest part of my learning this year. Was it Long Division/Briathra Gaeilge/ learning prayers for Confirmation? Go Noodle (You Tube channel) e.g. “Clap it out” https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames
Friday	Daily Fitness Sheet: Above Fitness With Joe (You Tube 9am) 30min Active House Work: cut grass/gardening. Water the flowers (without the hose). Balloon Volleyball Writing: my hopes and wishes for nest school year Create a dance to any active or energetic song/music you like. You could call it the Buddy Shuffle!

Online Books Tutorial

You probably won't need to but don't worry if you can't access schoolbooks and you or your son would like to. Nearly all school books are available online for free at folens.ie and cjfallon.ie

Why not follow the St. Patrick's Online Books Tutorial. CLICK HERE!
You might recognise the voice.

School Support

''And here we learn the golden rule,
to help eachother everyday.
From everyone their best, we say!''

Parents and boys: During this closure, can the school or teachers be of any support to you or your boys?

I’m fully aware that each family has different circumstances and priorities at the moment, and parents are very much in charge of what work is/is not to be done. All activities below are suggestions only. If you or your parents need any support from school and you would like to contact me, please email me at mrmullins@stpatricksboys.net
Also our class support teachers Mr. Horgan and Ms. Fitzgerald can be emailed at mrhorgan@stpatricksboys.net and msfitzgerald@stpatricksboys.net

Parents/Guardians:

We know that keeping your children busy at home during the COVID-19 school closure may be testing. It is important to ensure that your home is as stress free as possible. Picking a suitable time each day, maybe the morning, for him to partake in learning tasks is a good idea. This can become a good habit during this closure. Your son's class /SEN teacher has prepared learning tasks specific to his class which you will find in the webpage below under the teacher's name. These will help to support his learning at this time. We encourage our pupils to engage in these learning tasks and activities at a suitable time during the day at home over the course of the closure. As parents, you will know the length of time which is suitable for your son to spend on learning activities during the day. Remember Stress-free is important ! And so is learning!

Any pupil who uses the Toe by Toe book Phonics program is encouraged to practise with an adult daily if possible.

It is also very important to have fun and exciting activities to keep those young minds busy and sharp. Boardgames, reading, painting, tidying, helping out with house chores etc.

Here are some websites with digital learning games and activities recommended by our Home School Community Links Teacher Ronan Lettis. (if your son as access to the internet.)

To get a good child friendly family workout at home, join:
https://app.gonoodle.com/login
For literacy and numeracy games:
https://play.prodigygame.com/
https://www.arcademics.com/games
https://ie.ixl.com/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

For Comic Artist Will Sliney's daily art challenge: https://twitter.com/WillSliney/status/1238200152915132418

For general learning websites:
https://www.scoilnet.ie/
http://www.helpmykidlearn.ie/
www.mykidstime.com

Free Month access to:
Dear parent,
Also, twinkl are offering parents one-month free membership on their website. Go to www.twinkl.ie/offer and use the password IRLTWINKLHELPS.

Parents here are some learning activities to support your son's education at home: Mr. Mullin's 6th Class

Mr. Mullins class

Finish reading Guns of Easter Novel
Spirit of the Titanic novel:
Read approximately 2 chapters a day. Pick 5 interesting words per chapter. Look up their dictionary meaning and put them into a sentence.
Brain teasers test 53-60
Small World-read chapter 20 and 21 and do written exercises
Find date and location of baptism if not already done - write in journal

What you need;
Guns of easter, spirit of the titanic, copy, dictionary, Brain Teasers, maths copy and Small World

What you need;
Novel, work pack, free writing copy, calculator, hardback, maths copy, refill pad

Basketball

This morning Mr Horgan came into our class room and said that we were being picked for basketball and I was picked! I was extremely happy and excited. I love basketball and my favorite team is Boston Celtics and my favourite player has to be Kyrie Irving. I went and practised it in yard with my friends and I practised at home too. The next day I went to school and we got the bus to Saint Aidan’s.
Their basketball hall was really big and their hoops were really high too and we got free basketballs which was cool, then we did warm up drills and we played king of the ring. If you don’t know what that is it’s when you have to knock the other players ball out of the ring and whoever wins get sweets. We had two games and we had barely any space. Unfortunately, I did not win any games. Then we played miss chair, that’s when if you miss the ball you have to sit in a chair and if the person who’s shooting scores you’re out, but if they miss they sit in the chair then so on, so on but it was fun then we had a match after all the drills and the games. We had four teams and my team played two matches and we won one. We lost the other game but overall it was super fun and I had a great time and I would like to go back there some day to do the same thing.
Basketball is excellent for fitness, fun and ball-handling skills.

By Evan Long

Mr. Mullins' 6th class

Mr. Mullins' class are the new 6th class and lets see how they have been getting on. They enjoy playing on the school team,doing science experiments, playing football and basketball, olympic handball, going to the computer room, playing mathletics,going on maths trails and having Mr.Mullins as their teacher. They are doing lots of preparation for Confirmation and Secondary School teachers have already visited to prepare them for First Year. They really enjoy helping the school have fun-filled breaks as Lunchtime Pals leaders. It's going to be a mega graduation year.