Local Cafe, RockSalt held a “Design a Christmas Coffee Cup” competition with the pupils of St Francis National School. The winning design has been printed on all their disposable coffee cups supplied during the festive season. The logo design was won by 6th class pupil, Maciek Dobros, and the Christmas artwork for the cup was won by 5th class pupil, Anna Cosgrove. Owner of RockSalt, Daniel McLoughlin, visited St Francis.
On Wednesday the 9th of December at 8pm there will be a FREE online talk hosted by the National Parents Council with Laura Berry, a Special Educational Needs Organiser (SENO) with the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) discussing how to support your child’s additional needs when starting primary school. All parents welcome! Please click here to register to attend the webinar https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AdditionalNeedsStartingPrimary
We are pleased to to share with you Edition 1 of the New Louth Child and Family Support Networks Newsletter. This is a new quarterly publication for parents from the Louth Child and Family Support Newtork. In Edition 1 you will find information on some of the services available to children, young people and families across Louth, as well as information on the Louth Meath Child and Family Support Networks.
Please see below a letter from the HSE for all parents of St Francis pupils regarding the two positive cases in school this week.
• St Francis NS is using the Seesaw App for communicating homework and distance learning with pupils and their parents/guardians. We will continue to use Komeer App to communicate with parents and the school website to celebrate school life. • Distance learning will be teacher led and will include both online and activities some that can be carried out offline. Children can take a photo of their work and upload.
As part of our Distance Learning Planning in the event of a classroom or school closure, we need to establish to what extent our pupils have access to digital learning at home, specifically Seesaw and the school website. We would be grateful if all parents could please take a minute to answer a few simple questions at this link. If the link does not work, please cut and paste this.
We will be starting to re-introduce homework from Monday October 5th 2020. For Junior and Senior Infants: Infants will take home a homework folder which will be kept in their school bag for use at home and at school. The children will be in 4 “reading groups”. The children will work with the teacher individually at a separate table that is regularly sanitised. Children will be heard twice weekly, with.
This evening at 6pm pupils from St Francis NS will celebrate their (twice rescheduled!) First Holy Communion at Blackrock Church. A big thank you to Paula McGuinness and the Parent’s Association of St Francis who came in this morning to drop off a little treat for the children. On behalf of everyone at St Francis NS, we wish the pupils and their families a lovely weekend of celebrations.
Starting on 26th September at St Francis NS. Places are limited and booking is essential.
Dear Parents and Guardians, We hope that you and your families are making the best of the recent change in the weather. Thank you all so much for your co-operation and understanding over the past few months. We would like to reassure you that we are working very hard to have our school ready to open to staff and pupils, guided by the “Roadmap for the Full Return to School”,.
If you have just moved to the area and are currently seeking a place at St Francis NS for immediate entry, please be aware that we have very limited availability for places. Spaces available, subject to Board of Management approval, are as follows: Junior Infants – 4 places Senior Infants – 3 places 1st Class – 8 places 2nd Class – 2 places 3rd Class – FULL 4th Class –.