We hope everybody is having a super week this week and is getting to enjoy the bit of sunshine we are getting at the moment! We are so proud of everybody for working hard and doing their best over the past few months while working at home. We know it hasn't been easy and we are looking forward to the day we can all be back in school together! Circle TimeThanks for making Circle Time this morning lots of fun: we even had the return of the phantom doodles on our Circle Time slideshow!
Hi all - we hope you're having a lovely week and are looking forward to having a few more options next week as restrictions are lifted a bit more. As always, if you have any news or photos you'd like to share with us we'd love to hear from you at [email protected] or [email protected] Circle TimeI hope you all enjoyed circle time today as much as we did! It was nice to read some of our favourite books from class together. I really enjoyed Rithik's suggestion that we get something red for the scavenger hunt!
Hello all: we hope you had a really lovely weekend! We can't believe we're in the last week of school already - we just want to take the chance to say a huge congratulations to the parents and kids for all the heroic work you've done since the school closed in March. We know it has been a lot of work and that lots of the kids will have missed their routine in school just as much as we have and we're so proud of Holly and Hawthorn class for doing their best during these times! Zoom last FridayThanks so much to everybody who made it to our zoom on Friday to celebrate our special relationships with the kids and teachers in First and Second class as well as in the school more generally. We hope you liked the slideshow of all the lovely work and play that Holly and Hawthorn class did this year with all our friends from the school. If you didn't get a chance to view the video on Friday, we hope you enjoy getting to see it here! Hello all, we hope you had a fabulous weekend! It's nice to be able to travel a little farther for our outings so I hope you have been able to enjoy this, or take advantage of the fact that places like the zoo are open once again! Marta's newsMarta had a great weekend! She went for her walk by the river and was very lucky to see some animals: see if you can spot them all! She saw: A heron A swan Ducks Ducklings Salmon Marta also demonstrated a great activity we encourage you to do: making a time capsule of this time during the school closure. When we are all back together in school we can open the time capsules and see what we put in there to remember this time. You can put in photos, drawings, a letter to yourself in the future, anything you like!
Marta chose to paint and decorate her box before adding a finger stamp and then including a few items! Hi everybody: we hope you've had a good week! We had a lovely Circle Time this morning and the colour-themed scavenger hunt was terrific fun with great suggestions from Rafael, Rithik and Cara! Today is the last day of sports week: Day 5: Pick Your Favourite/Traditional Sports Day Events 🥇🥚🥄🤾🏾♂️🤾🏾♀️🏾🏾♀️🥇 Today is our last day of Virtual Sports Week, we hope you had lots of fun doing these challenges each day and have developed your skills in the process! The website will stay live so you can use it any time you want and can repeat the week as much as you like to perfect those skills! Today the focus is on Traditional Sports Day events like the egg and spoon and the sack race! Have a look at the website to see James, Aoife C and Luke racing each other in their gardens (with the help of Zoom!) in Mayo, Dublin and Donegal! Also today take the chance to go back and repeat your favourite challenges if you want! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Don't forget to send your photos of videos to [email protected] if you want them featured on the Virtual Sports Week Website! Follow the instructions below to take part in and complete the activities for the day! Virtual Sports Week Website: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day Day 5 Pick Your Favourite/Traditional Sports Day Events: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/sports-day-traditions 1. Get your equipment ready for the day: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/home 🧢 🥚🥄 🧴 2. Pick a dance to warm up with from the 'Dance Warm Ups' tab on the website or choose a song to dance to from the website playlist in the 'What you Will Need' tab 🕺🏾🏾🕺🏻🏻🩰🔊 3. Go to the 'Day 5: Pick Your Favourite' tab and read the event explainer, then look at the teachers from Powerstown ETNS doing some of the challenges in the slideshow! Have a laugh at James, Aoife C and Luke trying to race each other!!🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻♀️🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣 4. Complete as many of the ' Day 5: Pick Your Favourite ' challenges as you like and record a short video of you doing each. 5. Challenge your family members or friends to an egg and spoon or sack race! 🥇🥈🥉 6. Post your favourite/best video to your Google Classroom page and challenge your friends or teachers and school staff!! 7. If you would like one of your videos featured on the Virtual Sports Week website - send it to [email protected] ️ Additional Links/Activities for the Day: Walking Challenge 🏾🏾♀️🏻🏻♀️: Complete 12,000 - 15,000 steps each day this week - use a phone or watch to count throughout the day! Sports Day 2019 Nostalgia - Highlights from Last Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguVfgvVHDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EER1iPu0Msw NewsClive has been working hard on his raised bed for the vegetables: it's looking great! He also enjoyed going to the beach with his dog Roxi and, unlike the rest of us, Roxi was finally able to get a haircut with the easing of restrictions.
Day 4: Landing and Balancing
⛷️🏾🥋🤸🏾🤸🏾♀️🤾🏾🤾🏾♀️🧗🏾♀️🧗🏾🥇 Today we will be focusing on the skill of landing and balancing! Remember to look at the slides on the Virtual Sports Day Website - today you will see Luke showing off his jumping skills doing the broom jump! See how many he can do in 30 seconds!! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Follow the instructions below to take part in and complete the activities for the day! Virtual Sports Week Website: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day Day 4 Landing/Balancing: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/landing 1. Get your equipment ready for the day: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/home 🧢🥏🛴🧴 2. Pick a dance to warm up with from the 'Dance Warm Ups' tab on the website or choose a song to dance to from the website playlist in the 'What you Will Need' tab 🕺🏾🏾🕺🏻🏻🩰🔊 3. Go to the 'Day 4: Landing/Balancing' tab and read the event explainer, then look at the teachers from Powerstown ETNS doing some of the challenges in the slideshow! Today Luke is the star of the show!!🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻♀️🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣 4. Complete as many of the 'Day 4: Landing/Balancing' challenges as you like and record a short video of you doing each. 5. Try to compete with yourself first - try to beat each score you get by doing each activity multiple times! 🥇🥈🥉 6. Post your favourite/best video to your Google Classroom page and challenge your friends or teachers and school staff!! 7. If you would like one of your videos featured on the Virtual Sports Week website - send it to [email protected] ️ Additional Links/Activities for the Day: Do Gymnastics 🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBuGV9SRvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REoa5x-igVE Coolmine Gymnastics: http://coolminesports.ie/gymnastics-for-kids/ Orion Gymnastics Club: https://www.oriongymnastics.com/ Leap Gymnastics Ballycoolin: https://leapgymnasticsclub.com/ Do Taekwondo 🥋: Master Joe Taekwondo: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MasterJoe.ie/about/ Walking Challenge 🏾🏾♀️🏻🏻♀️: Walking Challenge: Complete 12,000 - 15,000 steps each day this week - use a phone or watch to count throughout the day! Circle Time: Thanks to all who made it to circle time yesterday! It was a lot of fun finding things that started with the same letter as our name (well done Zofia - that was a tough one!). Also, after we had lovely singing from Rafael on Tuesday, we had a great performance from Ana yesterday! Thanks guys! Thanks to everybody who made it to circle time yesterday! We had a lot of fun on our scavenger hunt and we had some beautiful singing from Rafael! We also had Ana sing for us but unfortunately we couldn't hear very well so we'll try again today! Day 3: Kicking
🥅🥋🥇🥈🥉 Today we will be focusing on the skill of kicking! Remember to look at the slides on the Virtual Sports Day Website - today you will see Ailish showing off her kicking skills!! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Follow the instructions below to take part in and complete the activities for the day! Virtual Sports Week Website: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day The activities for sports week continue ! Day 3 Kicking: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/kicking 1. Get your equipment ready for the day: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/home 🧢🥏🛴🧴 2. Pick a dance to warm up with from the 'Dance Warm Ups' tab on the website or choose a song to dance to from the website playlist in the 'What you Will Need' tab 🕺🏾🏾🕺🏻🏻🩰🔊 3. Go to the 'Day 3: Kicking' tab and read the event explainer, then look at the teachers from Powerstown ETNS doing some of the challenges in the slideshow! Today Ailish is giving the kicking masterclass!!🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻🏻♀️🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣 4. Complete as many of the 'Day 3: Kicking' challenges as you like and record a short video of you doing each. 5. Try to compete with yourself first - try to beat each score you get by doing each activity multiple times! 🥇🥈🥉 6. Post your favourite/best video to your Google Classroom page and challenge your friends or teachers and school staff!! 7. If you would like one of your videos featured on the Virtual Sports Week website - send it to [email protected] ️ Virtual Sports DayDay 2: Throwing 🥏🤾🏻🤾🏻♀️⛹🏻♀️⛹🏻♂️🤽🏻♀️🤽🏻♂️⛹🏾♀️⛹🏾♂️🤾🏾♀️🤾🏾♂️🤽🏾♀️🤽🏾♂️ 🥇🥈🥉 Today we will be focusing on the skill of throwing! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Follow the instructions below to take part in and complete the activities for the day! Instructions Website: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day Day 2 Throwing: https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/throwing
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Enjoying the outdoorsThanks for all the great pictures! For those looking at deer in Phoenix Park, sometimes you might get lucky and see a really rare beast like Patrick or Conor.
Virtual Sports Day🥏🥋🤸🏾🤸🏾♀️🧘🏾♂️🧘🏾♀️ Active week and sports day are such important events and memories made in school time. Sadly this year we will not get to enjoy this day in school as normal. However, we thought that since we have such an amazing school community in Powerstown - we will still be able to get active and have fun at home, making new sports day memories for years to come by doing a Virtual Sports Week!! We have made a website that we will be using each day next week to run our Virtual Sports Week! We hope you can all find it ok - each day we will share a link and information regarding the day's skill based activities. If you can't do a day on the day - don't worry you can do 2 days in 1 or even 3 days in 1, whatever works for you! Remember June is the school month for being outside, getting active and having fun and we hope this website helps our families to do so! Follow this link to get yourselves ready by finding the resources at home that you will need for the week! https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/home We can't wait to get active and we hope as many of you can join us as possible! 🥏🥋🤸🏾🤸🏾♀️🧘🏾♂️🧘🏾♀️ Day 1 Sports Day - RunningToday we will be focusing on the skill of running! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Each day we will post instructions and links here on our google classroom stream to take you to the Virtual Sports Week website and to help you get set up! Follow the steps below to take part in our first ever Virtual Sports Week!! https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day
Circle Time from schoolHi everybody: we hope you enjoyed getting to see Holly and Hawthorn class again on Friday is you were at Circle Time on zoom - it was nice to be back in the classroom for us! A special thanks to Stephen for coming along to visit on Friday! He gave us some great letters for our scavenger hunt! And a big thanks to Gary for taking us on a tour of the classrooms!
Virtual Sports Day🥏🥋🤸🏾🤸🏾♀️🧘🏾♂️🧘🏾♀️ Active week and sports day are such important events and memories made in school time. Sadly this year we will not get to enjoy this day in school as normal. However, we thought that since we have such an amazing school community in Powerstown - we will still be able to get active and have fun at home, making new sports day memories for years to come by doing a Virtual Sports Week!! We have made a website that we will be using each day next week to run our Virtual Sports Week! We hope you can all find it ok - each day we will share a link and information regarding the day's skill based activities. If you can't do a day on the day - don't worry you can do 2 days in 1 or even 3 days in 1, whatever works for you! Remember June is the school month for being outside, getting active and having fun and we hope this website helps our families to do so! Follow this link to get yourselves ready by finding the resources at home that you will need for the week! https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day/home We can't wait to get active and we hope as many of you can join us as possible! 🥏🥋🤸🏾🤸🏾♀️🧘🏾♂️🧘🏾♀️ Day 1 - RunningDay 1: Running 🏾🏾♀️🏾♂️🏻🏻♀️🏻♂️🏻♀️🏻♀️ Today we will be focusing on the skill of running! Hopefully you have what you need for the day all set to go! If not find the link below to help get yourself ready for the active day and week ahead! Each day we will post instructions and links here on our google classroom stream to take you to the Virtual Sports Week website and to help you get set up! Follow the steps below to take part in our first ever Virtual Sports Week!! https://sites.google.com/a/powerstownet.com/powerstown-etns-virtual-sports-day
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Keeping busy at home!Thanks for keeping the pictures coming in of all the fun things you are getting up to at home! It give us all a real boost to see you enjoying yourselves!
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