​Enrolment for Junior Infants 2022 starts on Monday January 10th 2022. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is February 10th 2022. Please follow the steps below to complete your application.
 
Enrolment 2022 - Steps to follow
 
1.           Download and read Admissions Policy, Admissions Statement & Catchment Area carefully. They are available on www.hopejns.com
 
2.           Please note that children applying for places in Junior Infants 2022 must be 4 before June 1st 2022
 
3.           Download relevant application form from www.hopejns.com
 
4.           Email completed form to admissions@hopejns.ie or post to the address below
 
5.           Post original Birth Certificate to:
 
                             Admissions, Mary Mother of Hope JNS, St Charles Houben Building, Littlepace, Dublin 15, D15 TA49
 
                             This will be copied and returned to you.
 
6.           Utility bills as proof of address can be posted or emailed to the above addresses
 
7.           Closing date for applications to Junior Infants 2022 and to our Special Class for children with ASD is February 10th 2022
 
8.           Applications for transfer can be sent at any time
 
 
 
Many thanks & kind regards,
Alma Moran
Principal
 

Good evening everybody,

We are really looking forward to seeing everyone back in school on Wednesday September 1st and very excited about meeting our new Junior Infants when they visit school for the first time tomorrow.

We will welcome Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd Class children at 8.50 on Wednesday and Junior Infants will start at 9.30 that day.

Best of luck to all of our past pupils moving on to 3rd Class in our Senior school and to children moving to other schools. We will  miss you but know that you will continue to be fabulous wherever you go.

Our updated COVID guidelines and procedures are available here on our website https://www.hopejns.com/return-to-school-september-2021.html
Can I ask that parents/guardians please take time to read them in the coming days?

There is lots of helpful information available  through the following link too: https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/a128d-back-to-school/

The Return to School form will be available through the Aladdin App and we ask that this is completed for each child on Tuesday afternoon/evening.

Many thanks to all staff members who have been busy getting ready for the new school year. Enjoy the last couple of days and the lovely sunshine.

See you all on Wednesday!

Kindest regards,
Alma Moran

We are very excited to be welcoming the children back to school on Monday, March 1st  and look forward to seeing them all at 8.50

We are busy preparing for their return and would like to share the following key points with you. There are lots more details in the documents on the Back to School link on the home page or by clicking on the button below. These great videos that Ms Callery made have lots of important information too. 

Junior Infants https://www.powtoon.com/w/blFKAivnD2i/1/m
 
Senior Infants https://www.powtoon.com/w/fEdw7fDzC7x/1/m
 
First Class https://www.powtoon.com/w/cqWLjMq68Hd/1/m
 
Second Class https://www.powtoon.com/w/e7180NpWIVc/1/m
 
Please remember the following:
 
Children should bring all school books they have at home back to school with them on Monday.
 
There will be no homework for children next week as they transition back to the full school day
 
Every parent must complete the return to school form under the Consent Tab on our App for their children not more than three days in advance of the return.
 
Please do not send your child to school if
 - they have any COVID symptoms, 
 - they are a close contact, of a confirmed case or someone waiting for a test result
 - someone in the house has COVID symptoms
 - they have recently travelled abroad
 - they are generally unwell.
 
Rooms will be well ventilated throughout the day so please ensure that your child is dressed appropriately
 
The must be no congregating at the school. Parents must drop or collect their child and leave the campus immediately. Parents should not wait until their children have entered the building in the mornings. You should also come as close as possible to drop off and collection times each morning and afternoon.
 
All adults must wear masks when on the school campus and maintain social distance from other adults.
 
There are further helpful posters and videos available here: https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/5572b-back-toschool-
advice-for-parents-students-and-families/

​Dear parents and guardians,

As mentioned previously, your child’s books will be ready for collection on Thursday, January 28th.

You are invited to come to school at the time indicated below to collect your child’s things. If there is more than one child in your family you can collect all the packs at the same time. You need only come to school once.

Please wear a face covering when you come to school and maintain social distance at all times. 

Please do not come to school if you have any symptoms of Covid 19 or if you have been in contact with anyone who has tested positive for the virus. 

Please email me on almamoran@hopejns.ie if you have any concerns.

Collection Times Thursday, Jan 28th 2021

9.00   Junior Infants Ms Molloy
9.30   Junior Infants Ms Hennessy
10.00  Junior Infants Ms Keaney
10.30  Junior Infants Ms Keenan & Mrs Cullen’s Class

11.00  Senior Infants Ms Doherty
11.30  Senior Infants Mrs Goodall 
12.00  Senior Infants Mrs Kelly
12.30  Senior Infants Ms McGovern

1.00   1st Class Ms Nolan
1.30       1st Class Ms Doyle/Ms Oakes
2.00   1st Class Ms Hallahan/Ms Joyce
2.30   1st Class Ms McAteer

3.00   2nd Class Mr Hennigan
3.30   2nd Class Ms Hargadon
4.00   2nd Class Ms Da Rossa
4.30   2nd Class Ms Kinch 

Many thanks & kind regards,
Alma Moran

​Dear Parents,
We have purchased a school licence for Collins Big Cat Parallel eReaders.  This will help to make sure that your child has access to a wide range of fiction and non fiction books at their individual reading level. Your child's teacher is in the process of assigning books to your child and will send you an individual user name and password so that you and your child can access these books. Your child's teacher will be able to see which books they have read and will make sure that they have new books available when necessary. Please find attached the instructions to access your child's personal bookshelf and keep an eye out for an email from your child's teacher with their unique username and password. Happy Reading everyone!

​Dear parents and guardians,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well during these challenging times. Thank you for the great effort you have made to ensure that the children are engaging as fully as possible with our online learning platforms Seesaw and Padlet. We are delighted with what we are seeing so far. Thanks also to Anita and Ms Callery for their ongoing technical support. We are all happy to help at any time so please continue to contact us with any queries that may arise.

As it now appears that the school closure will be extended we are making arrangements for the children’s workbooks and other classroom materials to be sent home. The packs will be ready for collection on Thursday and the attached pdf let’s you know the time you should come to collect your child’s pack. If there is more than one child in your family you can collect all the packs at the same time. Please wear a face covering when you come to school and maintain social distance at all times. Please do not come to school if you have any symptoms of Covid 19 or if you have been in contact with anyone who has tested positive for the virus. Please email me on almamoran@hopejns.ie if you have any concerns.

Please remember to find a rhythm around your child’s school work that works best for your family. I believe that home schooling is not the correct term for what we are all dealing with at the moment. Home schooling in it’s truest sense is something very different and we should not put ourselves under undue pressure. We are all trying to manage the demands of home, school and work during a truly unprecedented and exceptional period of our lives. Encourage your child to try their best everyday and engage as fully as possible with the activities being set. Please do as much or as little as works best for your family. Balance the assigned work with free play, outdoor activities and down time with board games, movies, music or some TV. Encourage the children to help around the house and develop important life skills in the process. Everyone returning to school feeling safe, secure, healthy and well must be our absolute priority.

Kindest regards to you and your wonderful children
Alma Moran
Principal

​Teach Your Monster to Read is an app that we use in school to support our literacy programme. This app is a game based approach to reading and phonics which brings children from recognising letter sounds to reading words and full sentences. This app is available free between Tuesday January 12th and Sunday January 17th in iTunes, Google Play or Amazon. 

Good morning boys and girls! Today we will all be logging in to Seesaw and Padlet to complete our school work. Please remember to click Sign in with Google when you are logging in and enter your school email address firstnamesurname@mmhjns.com. The first time you logged in to Seesaw you changed your password....if you are having trouble remembering your password please email us at info@hopejns.ie and we will reset it for you.  I have attached two pages to help if you are having trouble logging in.  One page shows how to log in using the Seesaw Class app and the other shows how to login using the browsers version web.seesaw.me If you are using an apple device you will have to use the app. If you are using an android device and the app isn't working for you maybe you could try the browser version.

Don't forget to log in to your class padlet today too...you can find the link in the Chat Board section of the school app.

​Dear parents & guardians,

I hope that you and your families are keeping safe and well.

As you know, the government has decided to fully close all schools until February 1st due to the very high levels of Covid-19 in our communities.

For the duration of the closure, we will return to offering remote learning to our pupils. We will be using the SeeSaw platform which you have all become familiar with since September to engage with the children.

Each weekday morning your child’s teacher will send a message with suggested activities for the day. The schedules of work have been agreed by teachers at each level. There will be a variety of active learning, prerecorded videos and pencil and paper tasks to be completed in a copy or on a page. The tasks will cover a range of subject areas as well as well-being and physical education tasks. Children will be asked to upload some elements of their work to SeeSaw and teachers will give regular feedback during the week. Tasks not uploaded should be kept in a folder for assessment when children return to school. 

If your child works directly with one of our support teachers or SNAs,they will be in touch throughout the week too. 

We will continue to use our class Padlet Walls to allow children an opportunity to engage with each other during this remote learning period and would encourage you to post to and review the page regularly with your child. 

If you are having problems with  access to your child’s SeeSaw account or Padlet Wall please email info@hopejns.ie for support

We will supplement this engagement with additional videos, suggested learning opportunities and  recommendations for games and activities we feel might be of use to you at home during this time. 

We will not be returning childrens text books and copies at this stage as we are reluctant to ask people to come to the school in large numbers at this time. Furthermore the material in question does not play a central role in the learning experience of children at the junior end of primary school. We will review this if the school closure is extended. 

We are very aware of the demands placed on parents in managing their own work and family commitments, managing health concerns and restrictions while guiding their young children through remote learning. Our aim is to support you and your children as much as we can, at this time, and to minimise the impact on their learning.

- Please do as much or as little as you can manage - the suggested activities are a menu - not every child will complete every task and that’s ok. It is up to you to decide what work you can carry out during this time away from school. It is also important that you are mindful of your child’s age, ability and learning needs. Please be assured that teachers will not be expecting all children to have completed the same amount of work.

 - As you know, school is more than just completing educational tasks - school offers so many opportunities for social as well as emotional and cognitive development. You cannot do remote learning from 8.50 to 1.30 or 2.30 each day so please dont feel you should.

 -  When your child has made a reasonable effort, praise them, acknowledge their work and then put it away. Your children are resilient and when they return to school, we will pick up their learning from where they are.

- Find a time and routine for remote learning that works for you and your family. Set a start and finish time to your school day. Get children up, dressed and ready for school at a similar time each day!

- Find a place that your child can work in and have pencils, colours,scissors and a folder nearby. Encourage children to use their workspace each day and to keep it tidy and organised. It can be a child’s table, a corner of your desk or one end of the kitchen table. 

- Encourage children to take regular movement breaks. None of the children should be expected to sit for periods longer than 15 minutes or so - many will need to move more often than that.

- Read to your child every day and listen to them read to you. If you can do nothing else during the next three weeks this is the most important. Maybe introduce you child to audio books too.

- Encourage children to watch educational programmes  or watch them together. Cúla4 on TG4, CBBC on BBC and The Homeschool Hub on RTE are great places to start. You’ll find lots of great resources online too but please monitor your child’s use of the internet carefully. 

-  Finally please remember to look after your own health and wellbeing - you cannot look after your children if you have not done this first. 

 We cannot wait to be back in school and I look forward to welcoming you all back at the earliest  possible opportunity. Until then, take care, stay safe, and please continue to follow all public health guidelines.

If you need to contact the school at any time, please do not hesitate to email us on info@hopejns.ie

Yours sincerely,
Alma Moran
Principal 

​Dear parents,
 
Alarmingly High Rates of Covid-19 in our Community

As we write to you, the country is once more in the middle of a new surge of Covid-19, with the number of cases at an unprecedented level. This has caused increasing alarm for all of us all and we are writing to you to ask you to do everything that you can to help drive down the virus in our community.

The entire country has been placed into the highest level of alert, Level 5, and will remain at that level for the next number of weeks. This measure is in place to ensure the protection of everyone. There is no doubt that we are facing into a very perilous time in our community. The rate of increase in the spread of Covid-19 must be brought right down, and this must happen now. If it continues to escalate at the current rate of transmission, it is surely only a matter of time before the continued safe operation of schools is called into question.

School Holidays extended for three days

As you know, the Minister for Education, Ms. Norma Foley has extended the Christmas holidays for a further 3 days. The Minister states her desire is to “allow every member of the school community to follow public health advice closely and minimise their contacts before children return to school...".

 
On foot of this advice, we want to confirm that our schools will be closed for the remainder of the week. There will be no online learning in this period, and families are asked to remain at home, to keep their close contacts to an absolute minimum and follow public health advice to the letter.

 
We await the advice of the Minister in relation to the safe re-opening of schools from Monday the 11th January. We will let you know if there are any changes to the plan to re-open on that date.

 
Need for Parental Vigilance during the coming days and weeks

As we enter the New Year, and with children at home for another week, we are very anxious to ensure that they continue to be safe and protected. In order for this to happen, we are once more asking parents to continue to make very difficult decisions:

-          To stick to public health advice
-          Not to organise visits to other households
-          Not to organise sleep-overs or play dates with other households
-          Not to travel beyond a 5km radius from home
-          To wear face coverings, as required
-          Continuing to encourage good hand hygiene and respiratory health among all members of the household

 
We need to have everyone on board!

These public health guidelines are there for the protection of all of us. They are there to keep each member of our community safe and well.

 
Yes, they are difficult and yes, they are challenging for all of us. However, if we do not commit to following them- each and every one of us- it will mean giving in to the increased transmission of the virus, and allowing it to go un-checked throughout our community. This cannot be allowed to happen.

 
We want to appeal to you all, as our partners in the education of our precious young people, to take every step possible to drive down the transmission of the virus.

 
We want to re-discover the sense of solidarity that was there in the months of March and April when we were all in this together.

 
Please, please adhere to the guidelines, keep your children safe during the coming weeks, and in doing this, help to ensure that our schools remain open and safe for everyone.

 

Alma Moran                                Enda McGorman

Principals                                                    

Mary, Mother of Hope Junior and Senior Schools