Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
St. Patrick’s Parish Skerries
Dear Parent(s) / Guardian(s),
We hope you are keeping well and safe during these difficult days.
As a way of supporting you at home and helping you pray with your children, we are providing a space on Wednesday evenings for families to join us for Bible Stories and Prayer.
The family prayer time will be on the parish webcam (visit www.stpatricksskerries.ie and follow the webcam link) as well as the parish radio (87.5FM) and will begin at 7.30pm each Wednesday evening beginning this Wednesday April 22nd.
Each family prayer time will focus on a Bible story with ways of praying based on the story and will cater for all children attending school.
We promise we won’t keep you too long and we hope that you can join us as a way of linking parish, home and school during these days of ‘separation’.
During these uncertain days for us all, praying at home is a great way of uniting your family. Even if they don’t seem to pay attention, nothing of what you do as a parent is lost, every little counts, and contributes to building up your child’s faith. By seeing you pray, they will also learn to pray.
Remember - When you pray with your child:
And always remember…
With every good wish and blessing,
Fr. James & Fr. Melvyn
Survey on the development of Music Education for Children & Young People
Dear Principal & Teachers,
I would like to send a message of support and solidarity to you and your colleagues, pupils and families affected by the current crisis. Fingal Arts Office endeavors to sustain arts development in Fingal, and within this context I bring your attention to public consultation for the development of music education for children and young people in Fingal.
If you have access, I invite you to complete a survey for schools/music education providers below. If you are communicating with pupils/families remotely, I invite you to share this email with those families, who might like to have their views heard. There is an added bonus for children and young people who can opt in to a draw to win a €50 voucher for one of Fingal’s Arts Centres.
Have Your Say!
Performance Music Education for children and young people in Fingal.
Fingal County Council, in partnership with the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board, invite you to complete a survey that will help us understand your views regarding access to performance music education for children and young people in the county.
This research will support a submission to Music Generation, the national performance music education programme, to extend and enrich the partners’ commitment to children & young people in Fingal.
Your views are important to this process and will enable the partners to develop and deliver music education programmes that suit the needs of those aged 0 – 18 years, now and into the future.
There are three surveys to choose from:
We invite Children & Young People to complete this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FingalMusicYoungPeople
We invite Schools, Music Education Providers & Musicians to complete this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FingalMusicProivders
We invite the General Public to complete this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FingalMusicGeneralPublic
Should you require assistance or alternative mechanisms to complete a survey please email Fingal County Council’s Youth & Education Officer julie.clarke@fingal.ie
Deadline for survey submission: 5pm Wednesday 22nd April 2020.
Be in with a chance to win!
Children and Young People are invited to opt in to a draw to win a €50 gift voucher for one of Fingal’s Arts Centres - Draíocht and the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre, upon survey completion. See information within Children &Young People survey link.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any queries,
Kind regards,
Julie
Julie Clarke, Youth & Education Officer, Fingal Arts Office, Fingal County Council, Grove Road, Dublin 15.
Tel: 018905960
twitter: @fingalarts
Agri Aware, Ireland's agri-food educational charity have relaunched their popular primary school programme Incredible Edibles and opened it up to families to participate during this time of isolation and school closures.
Since food has been flying off the shelves in many supermarkets across Ireland, Agri Aware are encouraging families to learn all about where that food comes from and the importance of consumption of Irish fruit and vegetables, for a healthy balanced diet.
There are five tasks to complete in this Family Challenge, on topics such as food origin, identifying Irish food, planting, cooking and healthy eating week. Any parent can sign up their kids for free and on completion of the 5 tasks, may be in with a chance to win some prizes worth up to €175.
Parents are simply asked to take pictures of the worksheets given and write a simple description on what they did for each task. There are also two levels to facilitate different abilities of learning, beginner and advanced.
To sign up to this free project, or for more information, visit: www.incredibleedibles.ie
Please note: This is an add on to the project to adapt to current times and encourage those at home to participate in agri-food education. We would like to get as many students participating at home as possible and would greatly appreciate if you could help us spread the word by sending this out to your students if possible or sign up yourselves with your own family!
Kind Regards,
Eilis Greene
Programme and Events Manager
Agri Aware