Happy Chinese New Year from 1st Class

“My dad loves Chinese New Year. I saw three Chinese dragons this week,” said Evan “Chinese New Year celebrations last for 15 days and they began on Monday 23^rd January,” said Dalia. “We made lanterns and drew dragons and made firework pictures. We made lucky red envelopes for chocolate which we will give each other in the class,” said Evan. “I did a survey of everybody in the class and we have a few roosters, lots of monkeys, a dog and a tiger in our class!” said Dalia. “We saw a video about how the Emperor had a great race to name the years,” said Evan. “This year is the year of the dragon,” said Dalia “The most popular colours in China are gold and red, they are lucky colours,” said Dalia. “You don’t wear black or white on New Year’s Day as they are bad luck,” said Evan

“Kung Hei Phat Choi,” said Dalia and Evan!

5th and 6th class enter the blogging world

Over the coming weeks, the children of 5th and 6th will be keeping the school community up to date on all the activities happening in RETNS. This is their first venture into the blogging world and we hope you check back regularly.

Safer Internet Day 7th February 2012

Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2012 with a theme of ‘Connecting generations and educating each other’, and the slogan “Discover the digital World together…safely!”

During this week pupils in RETNS will be doing a range of age appropriate activities to raise awareness about using the internet safely.  It might be an opportune time to discuss internet use with your child and establish family rules regarding safe internet use.  The following websites give some guidance for Parents.

www.webwise.ie

www.saferinternet.org

www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Click on the following for more information:

Safer Internet Day 2012