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The letter below outlines in great detail the procedures and plans that have been put in place for a safe return to school.
Back to school advice in over 30 languages can be viewed on this website.
nascireland.org/covid-19-world-service
Back to school advice in over 30 languages can be viewed on this website.
nascireland.org/covid-19-world-service
Return to School Letter from Principal Mary FitzGerald
Dear Parents,
I hope you all had a nice summer break and that you and your families are safe and healthy during this extraordinary time in our lives.
We are looking forward to welcoming all of our pupils back to St. Ronan’s. The management and staff in St Ronan’s have formulated the plan below to ensure the safe return of all to school. This is a live document, subject to change, according to the best medical advice and guidelines from NPHET, the HSE and the DES.
All of our staff will help to make the school a safe and happy place for every one of our pupils. At the beginning, school will seem a bit different. However, we will settle in to the new routines in a short while. There will however, be inconveniences, but I’m sure you’ll appreciate that these are necessary for the safety of all.
Please read the plan below carefully and we ask that you follow it rigidly. We are all in this together!
The map for reopening will have three distinct parts;
The School
Thursday 27th August
Coming to school and going home
Other information
Parents
In Summary
Day 1
6th 4th 2nd classes only- Back on 27th August
6th class 8.50am-2.30pm (use end gate and Senior end door)
4th class 9am-2.30pm (to prefabs)
2nd class 9.10 am-2.30 (Junior end door)
If you have more than 1 child in these classes, come at any of the above times.
Day 2
5th, 3rd 1st classes only- back on Friday 28th August
5th class 8.50-2.30 (use end gate and Senior end door)
3rd class 9am-2.30 (to prefabs)
1st class9.10am-2.30 (Junior end door)
If you have more than 1 child in these classes, come at any of the above times.
JUNIOR INFANTS WILL BE INVITED TO COME FOR 10 MINUTES, BY TEXT, TO MEET THEIR TEACHER, TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS ETC
Day 3
Monday 31st August.
8.50am, 1st -6th class children who don’t have siblings come to school and go straight to class.
9.05am, all other 5th and 6th class children and their siblings from 1st-6th go to class. Come in via the end gate.
9.15am, all other children and their siblings from 1st-4th go to class.
9.30am Senior Infants come to school through the Junior end door.
Going Home
1.25 Senior Infants go home
1.30 1st class go home
2.10 pm All children who don’t have siblings/cousins to meet or go home with, go home.
2.20pm, 5th/6th classes and their siblings go home. (Use end gate)
2.30pm, all other children from 2nd-4th go home.
Day 4
Tuesday 1st September
8.50am, Senior Infants -6th class children who don’t have siblings come to school and go straight to class.
9.05am, all other 5th and 6th class children and their siblings from Senior Infants-6th go to class.
9.15am, all other children and their siblings from Senior Infants-4thth go to class.
9.30 AM JUNIOR INFANTS LINE UP WITH ONE PARENT AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL. Parents should drop their child and leave immediately. Junior infants will go home at 11am They will be given a snack so please don’t give them a lunch.
Going Home
1.25 Senior Infants go home
1.30 1st class go home
2.10 pm All children who don’t have siblings/cousins to meet or go home with, go home.
2.20pm, 5th/6th classes and their siblings go home. (Use end gate)
2.30pm, all other children from 2nd-4th go home.
As stated above, the school plan for reopening St Ronan’s is a live document and is subject to change. We, the staff and management of St Ronan’s, thank you in advance for your compliance and co-operation with the above plan. There is no such thing as the “perfect plan”, but what we have drawn up is our best shot at keeping our school community safe. We will always do our best for your children and look forward to a pleasant and successful year ahead despite this pandemic.
Best wishes to you all, keep safe and we look forward to meeting you.
Mary FitzGerald
Principal
I hope you all had a nice summer break and that you and your families are safe and healthy during this extraordinary time in our lives.
We are looking forward to welcoming all of our pupils back to St. Ronan’s. The management and staff in St Ronan’s have formulated the plan below to ensure the safe return of all to school. This is a live document, subject to change, according to the best medical advice and guidelines from NPHET, the HSE and the DES.
All of our staff will help to make the school a safe and happy place for every one of our pupils. At the beginning, school will seem a bit different. However, we will settle in to the new routines in a short while. There will however, be inconveniences, but I’m sure you’ll appreciate that these are necessary for the safety of all.
Please read the plan below carefully and we ask that you follow it rigidly. We are all in this together!
The map for reopening will have three distinct parts;
- What the school is doing
- What you as parents can do.
- Summary
The School
Thursday 27th August
- 6th ,4th and 2nd classes only will return to school on Thursday 27th August.( More details below)
- 5th, 3rd and 1st classes only will return to school on Friday 28th August.
- Junior Infants will also be invited in, in two’s, with their parents, at a given time to see their classroom, meet their teacher and take photographs.
- Senior Infants to 6th class will be in school fulltime from Monday 31st August.
- The whole school will be back on Tuesday 1st September, including Junior Infants.
Coming to school and going home
- There will be staggered times for coming and going from school.
- Once we are fully back, children who don’t have siblings will come to school first at 8.50.
- 5th and 6th classes and their siblings will come to school at 9.05
- All other families will come to school at 9.15
- At the end of each day Senior Infants will go home at 1.25
- First Class will go home at 1.30 for the first few weeks.
- Children who don’t have siblings will go home at 2.10
- 5th and 6th and their siblings will go home at 2.20
- Everyone else goes home at 2.30
- Children will enter the building by the end doors only, or go straight to their prefab to avoid contact with others.
- Children will not line up outside their doors, they will go straight in to their classroom
- Each pupil will receive reminder texts and printed notes once they arrive on their first day.
Other information
- Yard times will be changed. Your child will only be allowed play with the children in their own class. They will not be allowed mix with children in the other classes.
- PE will be outside.
- Breakfast club will be postponed for the foreseeable future.
- There won’t be any formal homework during the first month of school. An emphasis will be placed on learning homework, online work and reading. We will be working on getting Google Classroom or Seesaw up and running with every child during the month of September, so your child could be asked to upload something as part of their homework. This is to prepare ourselves, just in case we’re under lockdown again during the winter.
- There will be a great emphasis on play and Mental wellbeing once we’re back at school.
- We will try to keep as many books, colouring pencils and pencil cases as possible in the school to avoid cross contamination. If there is a lockdown, we will arrange to distribute them.
- School lunches will start on your child’s first day.
- Hand sanitizing stations will be at all entrances to the school and in the classrooms.
- Appropriate Covid-19 signage will be in the classrooms and around the building.
Parents
- All pupils should wear their full uniform on their first day. They can wear either their tracksuit or uniform after that until they get their PE days sorted. You can alternate between tracksuit and uniform going forward so that you can wash their clothes. Children should change their clothes after they get home from school.
- All children will be given their own face cloth in a ziplock bag. They should take it home for you to wash or replace with your own face cloth each day. You can replace the ziplock bag also if you wish.
- Parents will not be allowed on school grounds or into the building unless they have made a prior appointment and fill out a contact tracing form. Teachers will be at the gates each morning to guide the children to their classes.
- Children should not be dropped off at the school before their starting time.
- Please ensure that you maintain social distancing outside the school for the protection of all our school community. We ask parents not to congregate outside the school. Please drop your children and leave immediately to avoid congestion.
- Where possible, please encourage your children to walk, scoot or cycle to school. This will minimize the build-up of traffic outside the school.
- If your child is sick or has a temperature, please keep him/her at home
- Parents need to be contactable at all times. The importance of this cannot be stressed more strongly. Two phone numbers which are constantly switched on, need to be on Aladdin. If your child falls ill, you will need to be contactable immediately. Also, in the unfortunate circumstance that we have a case of COVID-19 in your child’s class, the HSE will need to contact trace you straight away.
- Extra cleaning will be carried out during the school day.
- If your child is immunocompromised, you will need a letter from your consultant. Please contact the office during our first week back and we will arrange remote/online tuition for your child.
- If your child has been abroad in any country not on the Government green list, they need to self- isolate for 2 weeks. That means that your child has to stay at home for 2 weeks.
- You can pay for your child’s books on Aladdin. You may also pay by cash if you wish, just give Connie a few days to settle us all in. You will be able to pay through the hatch in the front porch of the school.
In Summary
Day 1
6th 4th 2nd classes only- Back on 27th August
6th class 8.50am-2.30pm (use end gate and Senior end door)
4th class 9am-2.30pm (to prefabs)
2nd class 9.10 am-2.30 (Junior end door)
If you have more than 1 child in these classes, come at any of the above times.
Day 2
5th, 3rd 1st classes only- back on Friday 28th August
5th class 8.50-2.30 (use end gate and Senior end door)
3rd class 9am-2.30 (to prefabs)
1st class9.10am-2.30 (Junior end door)
If you have more than 1 child in these classes, come at any of the above times.
JUNIOR INFANTS WILL BE INVITED TO COME FOR 10 MINUTES, BY TEXT, TO MEET THEIR TEACHER, TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS ETC
Day 3
Monday 31st August.
8.50am, 1st -6th class children who don’t have siblings come to school and go straight to class.
9.05am, all other 5th and 6th class children and their siblings from 1st-6th go to class. Come in via the end gate.
9.15am, all other children and their siblings from 1st-4th go to class.
9.30am Senior Infants come to school through the Junior end door.
Going Home
1.25 Senior Infants go home
1.30 1st class go home
2.10 pm All children who don’t have siblings/cousins to meet or go home with, go home.
2.20pm, 5th/6th classes and their siblings go home. (Use end gate)
2.30pm, all other children from 2nd-4th go home.
Day 4
Tuesday 1st September
8.50am, Senior Infants -6th class children who don’t have siblings come to school and go straight to class.
9.05am, all other 5th and 6th class children and their siblings from Senior Infants-6th go to class.
9.15am, all other children and their siblings from Senior Infants-4thth go to class.
9.30 AM JUNIOR INFANTS LINE UP WITH ONE PARENT AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL. Parents should drop their child and leave immediately. Junior infants will go home at 11am They will be given a snack so please don’t give them a lunch.
Going Home
1.25 Senior Infants go home
1.30 1st class go home
2.10 pm All children who don’t have siblings/cousins to meet or go home with, go home.
2.20pm, 5th/6th classes and their siblings go home. (Use end gate)
2.30pm, all other children from 2nd-4th go home.
As stated above, the school plan for reopening St Ronan’s is a live document and is subject to change. We, the staff and management of St Ronan’s, thank you in advance for your compliance and co-operation with the above plan. There is no such thing as the “perfect plan”, but what we have drawn up is our best shot at keeping our school community safe. We will always do our best for your children and look forward to a pleasant and successful year ahead despite this pandemic.
Best wishes to you all, keep safe and we look forward to meeting you.
Mary FitzGerald
Principal
Sixth Class Graduation 2020
Click below for photos
Book Lists and School Calendar 2020/2021
N.B. School Calendar and reopening of the school are subject to change in line with any directives issued by the Department of Education.
Information Booklet for Junior Infants available HERE
To access your child's book list for the academic year 2020/2021 CLICK HERE
Information Booklet for Junior Infants available HERE
To access your child's book list for the academic year 2020/2021 CLICK HERE
Click here to access support for parents during covid 19
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A word from Mary Fitzgerald, principal
Welcome to the website of St Ronan’s National School. I hope that as you browse through this website, you will get a flavour of our most wonderful and unique school.
Whenever we have visitors, they always comment on the positive atmosphere here in St Ronan’s. This would not be possible without the hard work and absolute commitment of every member of staff, our most fantastic pupils and their wonderful parents. As the saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child” and the community here in Deansrath are so supportive of all initiatives ongoing in our school.
There is so much happening in our school, table tennis, badminton, swimming, hill walking, running, Green School’s Committee, Music Generation, orchestra, Accelerated Reader, Power Hour, Maths Blast, chess, the list goes on and on. We celebrate the richness of the many cultures, international and Irish, amongst us and anyone who leaves us, be it past pupil or staff member, they always say “there’s no place like St Ronan’s”
Enjoy your visit to our Website!
Whenever we have visitors, they always comment on the positive atmosphere here in St Ronan’s. This would not be possible without the hard work and absolute commitment of every member of staff, our most fantastic pupils and their wonderful parents. As the saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child” and the community here in Deansrath are so supportive of all initiatives ongoing in our school.
There is so much happening in our school, table tennis, badminton, swimming, hill walking, running, Green School’s Committee, Music Generation, orchestra, Accelerated Reader, Power Hour, Maths Blast, chess, the list goes on and on. We celebrate the richness of the many cultures, international and Irish, amongst us and anyone who leaves us, be it past pupil or staff member, they always say “there’s no place like St Ronan’s”
Enjoy your visit to our Website!
The school will take applications for places in Junior Infants from November for the following school year. Please bring your child's Birth Certificate, PPS Number and a household bill with your name and address to the Secretary, Connie, any morning from November on, 9.00 - 11.00 a.m.
Please visit as soon as possible to ensure your child's place for September.
School Self Evaluation Report
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