NO SCHOOL 18, 19 & 20 MARCH

Monday 16 March 2020

Dear Parents

We are very concerned about having children in school and yet we are working within the context of Departmental advice which maintains schools should still be open. As such, we will be making some change to our holiday plan for Term 3 and moving 3 of the days forward to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week (18, 19 and 20 March 2020). 

This means, that school will be closed for the rest of this week.

The safety of our school community is priority at this time.

Documentation was sent out with children on Friday outlining our plan for learning in the event of closure. (Please see below)
Staff will be in school on Wednesday 18. Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact the office.

In the meantime, I urge all in our St Clare’s Abbey family to take care of each other and to pray for the safety of us all and those who will be working with the sick in our community.

Please keep alert for posts on the website and school app in the days to come.

Yours in Partnership

Michelle Monaghan

SCHOOL CLOSURE LEARNING PLAN 

Teachers will try their best to ensure access to high quality learning materials via the following:

Use of See-Saw

Pupils will be able to access school work through the See-Saw ‘app’. Teachers will be providing regular updates of tasks to be completed.

Mathletics

Pupils will locate activities related to the area of maths outlined by the Teacher on See-Saw for that week. These activities will be the priority but additional Mathletics activities of pupil choice may also be completed.

C2K Newsdesk (P3 – P7)

Pupils will be expected to use this valuable resource. Teachers will be able to monitor pupil activity. This is an amazing resource which will offer hours and hours of learning opportunity.

Daily Reading

Pupils in Primary 1, 2, 3 and some P4 can access books on Bug Club. Teachers will ensure that ample suitable titles are allocated.

All children should be members of our local library. Please join as soon as possible as e-books can then be accessed on ‘Libby’ and ‘Overdrive’ apps.

Transfer Revision

Primary 6 Teachers will upload tests and guidance notes on ‘One Note’ so that pupils will continue with their revision.

GL preparation work, above and beyond other school work, will be sent by Teachers.

Nessy / Lexia Users (Specific Children Only)

Pupils are encouraged to work at home at the level that they are currently using.

Please check your child has access to the above ‘apps’/on line learning programmes by testing their username and password (copy will be provided on See-Saw).