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Water Safety

Now every child can learn basic water safety skills at home with PAWS – Primary Aquatics Water Safety!
Water Safety Ireland’s PAWS (Primary Aquatics Water Safety) outlines the essential life skills here. 

Gaeilge

You can read this week's e-leathanach here.

STEM at Home

These resources allow parents and guardians to introduce science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to their children at home in a practical, hands-on, enjoyable and interactive way.

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Art

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent Van Gogh in the world.
Click here to learn more about his life and work.
Click here to take a tour of the Van Gogh Museum.

Music Generation

Click here for Music Generation's Weekly Roundup.

This week the activities around the theme of animals in music, as well as some challenges for 5th & 6th class pupils.

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Please find this week's suggested work for all classes here.

Please click here for teachers' email addresses.

Guitar Lesson

Click here to see all Mr. Kelly's guitar lessons.

This week's lesson (6) is The Fields of Athenry

It's not too late to start learning these songs so take out the guitar today and start practicing.

Activities for 3rd to 6th classes

These links will automatically be updated every day so you can check back here to find new work. 

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School Closure Blog Post #43

Cruinniú na nÓg: A Day of Youthful Creativity

Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18.

Offaly Libraries are delighted to present their Cruinniú na nÓg programme of events to celebrate young people and their creativity on Saturday 13th June 2020. There are 65 events so there should be something for everybody! Starting on 6th June there will be two weeks of free creative activities for under 18’s and participation will be through online webinars and videos via our Facebook page. 

Please follow this link to see what’s on. 

Booking for some webinars will be through Eventbrite here.

Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE):

Lessons on puberty would normally be covered in term 3 in school .
Parents may find the following links useful

RSE tip sheet for parents on the PDST website and the
HSE website where copies of Busy Bodies can be ordered for use at home.

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Message for sixth class pupils from President Michael D. Higgins

On Tuesday June 2nd President Higgins issued this special video message for 6th class students.

Course with psychologist David Coleman: Helping Children To Cope with Anxiety

SCARED KIDS:HELPING CHILDREN TO COPE WITH ANXIETY with psychologist David Coleman (Course now costs €100 -reduced from €200)

When kids get anxious they need us adults to help them make sense of their worries and to give them the skills and strategies to cope with it. This course is designed to equip you to do just that!

Click here to find out more.

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Eleathanach 353

Is féidir leat e-leathanach an tseachtain seo a léamh anseo.

The European Commission

Click here to learn about what the EU is and what it does.

Story time for young children

Neligan's pig knows that pigs don't swim. But on one of the hottest days of the summer, she just has to take a dive ... Click here to hear the full story.

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Suggested work for this week

Please find this week's suggested work for all classes here.

Please click here for teachers' email addresses.

Music Generation

Click here for Music Generation's Weekly Roundup. There are some activities you can do outside in the garden while you enjoy the weather. 

Activities for 3rd to 6th classes

These links will automatically be updated every day so you can check back here to find new work. 

NewsFlash

Primary Planet

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