St Anthony's Primary School Blog

Hi Everyone!

It has been many long weeks of the lockdown and challenging times for everybody. We all need to make sure we look after ourselves, our family and friends. And of course we need to ensure that our nursery children are well and healthy, not only physically, but mentally especially and that they cope with their emotions. It must be very difficult for them to understand why they cannot be in the nursery, see other people and cuddle them, why they can’t play with friends, why things changed so suddenly.

I decided to talk about emotions again as from my own experience I know how hard it is. I have my good, but also bad days.  Sometime I feel we get through this, become stronger and resiliant. But there are days when I am not as positive and I feel very sad and fed up. And its very important to talk about our feelings.

Talk to your children, tell them how you feel and model the positive conversations about emotions and feelings. Let them know it is ok to not be ok…

I am also attaching a song and hope you enjoy it together. Maybe you can draw some pictures and post them?

Take care everyone

Nursery Team

Good morning children!

Morning prayer.  Say a Hail Mary for all our priests and religious leaders who are doing many things to support our spiritual growth during this pandemic.  Let us also remember the children who were unable to receive the sacrament of First Holy Communion and Confirmation. May this celebration become even more meaningful and holy for them when they are finally able to join in the unity of our  Church. Amen

Poetry competition!

click on the link below for instructions and support to write your poem.

Veolia_Poem_Competition

Please share your poems on the teams page children.  I am sure we will all enjoy reading them so much! Good luck!

THIS WRITING ACTIVITY SHOULD TAKE YOU MOST OF THE MORNING. REMEMBER POETS EDIT THEIR WRITING LOTS AND YOU SHOULD TOO. KEEP EDITING UNTIL YOU ARE FINALLY HAPPY WITH YOUR FINAL DRAFT.

IT IS MENTAL MATHS DAY!

Those using IDL NUMERACY work on that now. You can also work on these activities if you wish as you can chose the level you feel happy working from.

Times Tables Practise

https://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_June11.ASP 

Beat the clock – you can choose your level of difficulty – ALL GROUPS WORK ON THIS PLEASE

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Beat_The_Clock/ 

Mental Maths Strategies

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Exercise/Mental/Strategies.asp  

Multiplying and dividing by 10

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Powten.asp

HERE IS A VIDEO TO TEACH YOU HOW TO MULTIPLY FASTER IN YOUR HEAD

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/YouTube/Video.asp?Movie=30X37X1uk2o

Your brain must be really tired after all that. Here are some lovely afternoon activities to help you relax and feel creative

Now it is time to get arty! Create some pointillist art and give it to your dad for a father’s day gift.

Children remember to upload photos of your art work on teams.  I would really love to see them all!

I hope you enjoyed your day of learning today. I miss you lots and lots!

Take care and God bless.