Your Home Learning Pack

Dear parents/guardians, 
With the news that schools are going to be closed, we are anxious that we need to continue with teaching and learning in Esker Educate Together. However, we also want to keep the connection between home and school. This pack aims to let you know how I will be interacting with you and your child(ren) over the coming months. 
  
We have to look after “happy” and “safe” before we look at “learning” so please don’t feel under pressure! Engage as much as you can. Not every family will be in a position to participate in Home Learning activities. As a staff, we understand this and value every family’s decision equally. There is no obligation on families to complete the activities we will suggest. Everyone's main focus should be on keeping safe and healthy.  

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Things you need to know: ​

I will be using the following platform to upload lessons: ​	Aladdin Class noticeboard  www.eskeretns.ie class blog  https://www.eskeretns.ie/senior-red ​
I will upload my lessons for the next day by:	7pm  ​
Here are the teachers that are available to support your child: ​	Jane and Niamh ​
Times to contact: ​	Between 10am and 12pm on school days ​

Suggested Timetable for your child(ren)’s day

1.	​Exercise: Before any home learning gets done, it's a good idea to get in some exercise. There are plenty of options for this depending on family circumstances:   Walk the dog for 30 minutes (if you don’t have a dog, just walk without one!)   Do one of our HIITs or choose from the hundreds on YouTube   Every morning at 9am, Joe Wicks, the Body Coach is doing a live workout for kids on his YouTube Channel
2.	​Core Subjects: Children can get down to some of the work I left for them the previous evening for English and Maths.  NOTE: This session should take no more than 60 minutes. Children will also need regular breaks. They could work these activities for about 20/30minutes before taking a break. Try listening to a song, dancing or doing some exercise.
3.	Break Time:  It's important to take a break. Make sure to have a snack and to try and get outside for some fresh air.
4.	School On TV: Every day at 11am, RTE2 are showing School on TV. While we don't know if it will be any good, there's bound to be some good ideas on it.  ​
5.	Research and Imaginative Play: We will give you a theme to work from for 2/3 weeks. This will be similar to the way the children learn during *Aistear in school. You can choose one activity each day for the children to play with during this time. You can guide them to use new vocabulary or new ideas they learned about the theme during their play, but this time should be led by your child.  *Aistear - in school we have 5 stations which the children will rotate daily. Therefore, they get to each station once in the week. These stations comprise of a sensory station (playdough/water/sand), a creative station (guided art/ free art/ junk art), role play station (encourage them to play imaginatively in role based on the theme. E.g. If the theme is Space, they could be an astronaut, a space station engineer, a space scientist), a construction station (Lego/ blocks/ recycled material) and an english station (free writing about the theme I.e. writing a list of what the astronaut needs before setting off to space/ board game around words)  ​
6.	Lunch Time: It's important to eat their lunch. They should try and get outside if they can too.
7.	Free Time: School work should be completed by now. Children, of course, can continue with projects or have some downtime or there are a million other suggestions out there. If you want, you could recommend some activities to do such as LEGO challenges, Catherine’s “Story Writing Competition” on Aladdin, art projects, audio books, TV programmes and so on. ​

 ​Please keep in mind! 
This suggested timetable and plan is to be used as you wish to suit your family. You can pick and choose when and what you do with your child according to your household. It is to provide support for you and your child’s learning but is not meant to cause added pressure or burden at home. Remember to take plenty of breaks to suit you and your child. ​

Your child(ren) have been sent home the following books and I will pick work for them to do: 

• Spelling Workbook 
• Ready, Steady, Write! 

 
If you do not have any of these books at home, you can access them online in the following way: 

• For ‘Operation Maths Senior Infants At Home’ and ‘At School’ books: 

 https://edcolearning.ie/ Username: primaryedcobooks Password: edco2020 

• For our Gaeilge programme ‘Abair Liom’ and complementary activities for our ‘Ready, Steady, Write’ follow the steps below to get access: 

1. Go to FolensOnline.ie and click register 
2. Select Teacher 
3. Fill in a username, email and password 
4. For Roll Number use the code:   
5. Prim20 for primary book resources 
   

Any other questions? 
Feel free to contact me at [email protected] and I will get back to you as quickly as I can. 
  
Kind regards,
Jane 

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