Hello Everyone!


We hope you all had a lovely weekend! We hope you are all keeping well and staying safe. We know that it is very hard at the minute not getting to see your friends every day and coming to school but we hope that you are helping your families with different jobs around the house and doing a little bit of school work whenever you can! 

We are missing you all so much and hearing all of your news but until then, Ms. Callery has set up a “Gallery of Curiosities” section on the school app so that we can see more of each other! All you have you to do, is take a picture of something you have done that week, it could be something from the Senior Infant grid, it might be a new skill or game you have learned, it could be you helping someone at home with a job, it could be of your tidy bedroom that you tidied up by yourself! You might decide to take a few pictures of what you have done and then all you have to do is get an adult to email your pictures with your name and class to info@hopejns.ie.

We have put together another grid of activities for you to do over the next few days, but remember they are optional! Try to do whatever you can and whatever works best for you and your family. Be reassured that any playtime that your child has whether it’s playing with lego, making a jigsaw, painting, colouring, playing with dolls or outside in your garden playing with a ball or planting new flowers is invaluable and important for their learning and development also!

Also, some of you might be interested in listening to the author David Walliams reading some of his books. During this time, he will release an audio book each day for the next 30 days! Here is the link! ://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ 


Take care of yourselves and your families,we hope you are all managing during these difficult times.

 We are thinking of you all,

The Senior Infant team 

​Hello First Class! Here is some work for you to enjoy- take your pick of what you would like to do and enjoy some fun this week as the Easter holidays approach! We miss you all! ❤️

​Dear Parents, Guardians, Girls and Boys,

Hello again! We hope you are all enjoying your time at home, and we're sure you're helping around the house where you can!

We miss seeing you all everyday, but we know that it is super important that we all stay at home for now! 

Parents - we really appreciate that it is hard enough to juggle everything in life on a normal day, and throwing school closures into the mix doesn't help! We as a group want to stress that the work we are sending out is not a compulsory list of tasks, but instead a bank of ideas to keep children in their school routine as much as possible, in the given circumstances.

You will notice that there is a lot of repetition involved in Junior Infants, so don't be disheartened if you feel that nothing new is being covered!

Once we are able to get back to normal and resume our normal school days, teachers will work to allow all children to reach their own learning potential. So please do not put yourselves under pressure, or feel as though your child is falling behind. We are all doing our very best during these uncertain times, and that is all we can do! 

Boys and girls - we are looking forward to the day we can finally return to our lovely school and see all your happy faces ready and waiting in the line! We are sure you've got plenty of news to share, and we can't wait to hear it! Until then we want you to look after yourselves, your brothers, your sisters and your parents. 

Stay safe and enjoy your time at home, and we'll hopefully see you very soon!

From the Junior Infants Team,
Ms. Mulhall, Mrs. Goodall, Mrs. Kelly, Ms. McGovern, Ms. Naughton, Ms. Martin, Ms. Jones and Ms. McNamara.

Happy Monday Everyone !

We have some exciting activities for you all to try  over the next few days. Remember parents and guardians that everything is optional - please do what works best in your circumstances. Keep talking with your children, keep them active

We hope that we have made the tasks as enjoyable as possible and remember if something is tricky, don’t worry, just try your best. 

We have popped in some nice links that you might like to explore and don’t forget that RTÉ 2 have a home school programme everyday at 11am that might be interesting to check out.

Have a fantastic week,

Boys and girls, we are so pleased with how hard you are working at home with your parents and brothers and sisters.  The teachers and SNA's are missing you all and we know that you are missing seeing your teachers and friends every day.  This week, we are going to start a "Gallery of Curiosities" so that we can see more of each other.  All you need to do is choose one of the activities that your teacher has set you - it can be art, exercise, writing, reading, maths, Irish, science, baking, planting etc....you can decide.  Once you have chosen your favourite activity from the week we would like you to take a photo of you doing the activity or take a photo of the thing that you have created and email it to us at info@hopejns.ie.  We will then put your photo into our "Gallery of Curiosities" which will be shared each week through our app. What a fun way to see all of your friends! (Please make sure to add your name, class teacher and explain the activity in your email)

​Hi everyone! 
Here are some new activities for home over the next few days. Please remember that these activities remain optional and that you should do whatever works best in your circumstances. Thank you all so much for your support and we hope you can enjoy some special times at home. 
Have fun with these activities, and keep doing lots of talking with your families, lots of reading, and staying active with Joe Wicks or Just Dance on YouTube.  
We all miss the boys and girls hugely, stay safe and well. 
The Senior Infant team :) 

Good morning parents and guardians. 
I hope you and yours remain safe and well during these strange times. As you will have heard school will now remain closed up to and including April 19th. We will continue to support you and the children as as best we can. Please remember that you can contact us on info@hopejns.ie at any time and we will get back to you without delay. 
Many thanks to all the staff of the school who have been working hard to ensure suitable work is made available as well as  getting to grips with planning with colleagues remotely and holding virtual staff and team meetings. Staff are missing the daily contact with our wonderful school children and are managing their commitment to them with their own home schooling challenges and care and concern for their own children, older family members and friends.
I have attached some informatiom from the DES giving advice to young people on how to manage their time durimg this crisis. You may find some of it useful when chatting to your children. There is some helpful information for children with special educational needs on www.ncse.ie from the Speech & Language and Occupational Therapy perspective too.
Teachers have sent more suggested activities in the morning but please remember that these are simply suggestions. As ever you know your child and your circumstances best so plese do what works for you. The most important thing for now is to have a routine to your childs day, encourage them to be active, engage in a variety of activities, chat, reassure, exercise, read and play together. Take time to say a little prayer together if this is part of your family’s culture. 
Maybe take this opportunity to help your child develop essential life skills like taking responsibility, helping to prepare meals, basic house work, gardening or simple baking. You could also encourage them to accomplish a new skill like riding their bike without stabilisers, learning a dance routine or skipping. Help them have a telephone conversation or write a letter, email or postcard to a special person they cant visit at the moment. The priority for now has to be everyones health and wellbeing - we will catch up on the rest when we are back together in school again.
Thank you for all that you do for your children. Stay safe and well.

​Please be reminded that this is only a guide and not all work is compulsory! Keep reading, playing, exercising and spending lots of quality time together! We hope to see you all very soon 

​Hi there, 

We hope everyone is keeping well and that the children are enjoying this week's tasks. We aren't adding anything new today, but we wanted to touch base with you all. We miss you so much boys and girls but trust that you are all being so good for your mums and dads. 
 
We felt it would be helpful to outline a proposed structure to the "academic " learning part of the day. As always, none of the activities are compulsory, we are very conscious that circumstances are different and evolving for each family. 
 
We would encourage you to continue with the creative learning, digital learning, and physical learning ideas outlined in our post last week. 
 
Please see the attachment for a proposed session for table top learning. 

We hope that it is helpful and gives some clarity around timings of various subject areas. Please remember none of the activities are compulsory. 

Take care everyone and we will be in touch again on Monday. 

Le meas, 
Ms McGovern, Mrs Kelly, Mrs Goodall, Ms Mulhall, Ms McNamara, Ms Jones, Ms Martin, Ms Naughton (The Junior Infants Team)