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Mass for School Communities

7/4/2020

Tomorrow morning Fr Paul Farren, Director of the Catechetical Centre is offering the 10 am Mass tomorrow, for our school communities. This will acknowledge the end of Term 2. Fr Paul will also offer this Mass for past pupils of all schools who are currently on the frontline keeping us safe from the COVID-19 virus.

Fr Paul will highlight the importance of the liturgies over the coming days, encouraging children, young people and families to engage with Holy Week.

The links to Saint Eugene’s Webcam are http://www.steugenescathedral.com/webcam.html or

https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-eugenes-cathedral-derry

NI Children's Spare Time Project - Survey

7/4/2020

PlayBoard NI, as part of the UK Play Policy Forum is working with Professor Helen Dodd from Reading University on a research project - The Northern Ireland Children's Spare Time Project.
Playboard would be grateful for your help in completing a survey.
The survey asks about how their child spends their time, their own beliefs and attitudes to children’s activities, their child’s wellbeing and their own wellbeing.

The survey will take around 20 minutes to complete with all parents who complete the survey contacted in approximately 12 months time to complete the survey again. Participants are encouraged to take part if they are willing to do so again in one year.

The first 400 people who complete the survey will be sent a £10 voucher and if they complete the follow-up questionnaire next year they will receive an additional £10 voucher at that stage.

https://childresearch.online/NI

This is Holy Week

6/4/2020

The Derry Diocesan Catechetical Centre have created lots of resources to help you celebrate Holy Week. Click on the picture above to view a special set of Stations of the Cross for Children and Families during the Coronavirus to help them walk with Jesus in their current stay at home situation. The children can create artworks which will be shared by the DDCC. More resources from the DDCC can be found here: https://catecheticalcentre.org/category/primary-school-resources/

P.E. with Joe

30/3/2020

Every morning at 9 a.m. Joe Wicks posts a live, child friendly workout on YouTube: "P.E. with Joe". All of the workouts are body weight movements so no equipment is required. Anyone who takes part just needs a device to stream it live. You can re watch past sessions on YouTube but its nice taking part in a live experience knowing that thousands of others are doing the same. Lets get our kids moving!

Tír Eoghain Abú!

27/3/2020

Visit the Tyrone GAA website and learn some Irish! There are a wide range of Irish language lessons, with sound files, videos and worksheets and its all free!

Sounds Like Phonics

24/3/2020

Sounds like phonics. Fun, free online phonics activities.

Resources Page

20/3/2020

We have created a resources page on the school website to store resources that may be useful to parents at this time. A Calm Pack from "Relax Kids" and advice and resources for newcomer children (children with English as a second language) has been added to this page.

MySchool

20/3/2020

Pupils from P2-P7 will have received login details for MySchool in their home learning packs. A document with instructions, explaining how to log on and what resources are available can be viewed on the documents page. Please read the instructions before attempting to log on. If you are experiencing difficulty logging on to MySchool with the username and password provided you can request a password reset using the contact us page.

Letter to Nursery Parents

19/3/2020

A letter to parents of Nursery Children and a home learning planner are now available to view and download from the documents page.

Pupil Study packs

19/3/2020

A Letter regarding the distribution of pupil home study packs is now available to view on the documents page.