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Some of the exciting activities that the Early Start children have been involved in since September have now been uploaded to the Early Start section of the blog. Enjoy!

Welcome back, St. Brigid’s infant school

Welcome back to all our Students, Parents and Staff. We hope you had a lovely Summer and wish you the best for the coming year. A special welcome to our new Early Start and Junior Infant children and their families. Wishing you and all new members of the St. Brigid’s Infant School Community a happy and memorable new year.

We had a pyjama day on Friday to finish off ‘Better Sleep’ week. It was great fun to wear our pyjamas to school.

Last week was ‘Better Sleep’ week in our school. The children learned about why sleep is important and the Sleep Stealers that can disturb our sleep. The children kept sleep diaries at home and in school and they took part in a colouring competiton. We also had a pyjama day in school on Friday. It was a fun week and we all enjoyed learning about the importance of good sleep.

The winners of the Colouring Competition were announced today.

The winners are:

• Harry Byrne (Rm 17)
• Christopher Martin (Rm 16)
• Aleisha Dowdall Flood (Rm 7)
• Tori Murray Dixon (Rm 3)
• Zara Collins (Rm A)
• Anastazja Waskowska (Rm 4)
• Dinasijs Golubs (Rm 2)
• Julia Slizewska (Rm 26)
• Daniella Baldina (Rm 17)

The overall school winners were:

• Curtis Kelly (Rm 14)
• Faith Kelly (Rm A)

Well done to all our winners. Their artwork is on display in the school lobby.

It is Fair Trade week in our school this week! We are learning all about Fair Trade. This is for our Global Citizenship Litter and Waste flag.

This is the Fair Trade Logo. If you see this logo on the food you buy in the shops, it means the workers were paid fairly for it.

We are also learning about where the bananas we eat come from and how they get to our shops in Ireland

Have a look in our school at our display all about bananas!

You can buy lots of Fair Trade products in the shops. You just need to see the Fair Trade logo on them. The teachers in our school are drinking Fair Trade tea and coffee for Fair Trade week too!

Room 15 were very busy this week in our school garden.  The children did some weeding in order to get the garden ready for Spring flowers and vegetables.

The children also refilled the bird feeders so the birds won’t be hungry!

Seosamh O’Maolalai, a local storyteller, visited our school on 1st December. He read stories to all the children in our school. The Junior Infants children listened to the stories with their mammys, daddys and grandparents and each Junior Infant child got to bring home a story book at the end of the day. Seosamh told very funny, exciting stories and the children all really enjoyed it. He reminded everybody that listening to stories and rhymes can be great fun.

Storyteller Visit – 1st December 2015

1.  Help My Kid Learn 

This is an Irish website with information for parents on talking to and playing with children and practicing reading, writing and counting with children. There are also lots of activities, games, videos and apps for children from 0-12 years.

http://www.helpmykidlearn.ie/

2. Practical Parenting 

This website was set up by an Irish mammy who organises parenting courses and talks with this approach, “no judgement, no preaching, just great advice from someone who’s been through it all”.

Sheila has some very useful ideas and suggestions on positive parenting, helping children through relationship breakdowns and dealing with bullying. Check out the link below.

http://practicalparenting.ie/2015/10/05/basics-of-positive-parenting/

3. One Family

This website provides assistance to one-parent families. The website has an abundance of articles on topics such as:

• Exploring family routines
• Thoughts for parents of children in care
• Parent self care
• The importance of outdoor play
• 10 ways to relate to your child

The website also has a monthly online magazine parents can sign up to, they run affordable parenting courses, they provide a list of agencies that can assist families and they offer a confidential helpline for one-parent families and those who share parenting.  Click on the link below for more information.

https://onefamily.ie/

4. EU Mom

This website has information articles on parenting, well-being, pregnancy, home life, work and childcare. There are also an abundance of helpful posts on dealing with bed wetting, eating healthily, managing behaviour, setting up a sleep routine and helping with homework.

http://www.eumom.ie/

5. Triple P Positive Parenting Programme

We will be running a Triple P Parenting Programme in 2016. Have a look at the link below for tips on positive parenting

http://www.triplep-parenting.net/glo-en/positive-parenting/five-steps-to-positive-parenting/