Healthy Habits

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HSE RSV Notice

Important messages for families and children regarding any infections:

The most important measure is for your child to stay home from school and activities if your child is unwell.

Many children might have a runny nose or a slight cough in winter season and still feel well. However, if a child is feeling unwell they should stay at home and away from school and activities until their symptoms have finished and they are feeling well.

Please see links below for more information.

HSE Colds and Coughs

HSE Vaccinations

DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, have made a guide available for parents on the below websites.

Antibullying Centre

Tackle Bullying

The following are some interesting resources on how technology is contributing to insomnia and how we can balance screen time and bedtime.

Smartphones and Sleep

How does Technology affect Sleep

Safer Internet

We would like to bring the following Internet Safety websites to your attention:

Internet Safety for Schools Ireland - www.isfsi.ie

Office for Internet safety - provides resources, explanations of technology, publications and tips www.internetsafety.ie

Web wise - provides parents, teachers and children with educational resources, advise and information about potential dangers on-line www.webwise.ie

Watch Your Space - Provides advice on managing children's profiles on social-networking sites www.watchyourspace.ie

Texting acronyms - provides an explanation of net lingo www. netlingo.com/acronyms.php

Urban Dictionary - provides an explanation of everday slang used by children www.urbandictionary.com

Advice on mobile phones and texting - www.ThatsNot Cool.com

Common Sense Media - www.commonsense.org

Tips on protecing your children on the Internet (opens as doc.)

Help My Kid Learn

The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) has developed Help My Kid Learn - a simple website that brings together relevant information for parents and the wider community to support children’s literacy and numeracy development.

The website’s purpose is to provide fun activities that parents can do with their children to develop their literacy and numeracy. It includes general information, fun activities and useful tips. Help My Kid Learn is a website where people can see that supporting a child’s literacy and numeracy development is a natural, easy and fun activity that can be integrated into any part of their day.

Find out more here

Britannica School website

The Britannica School website is now available anywhere, anytime in the Republic of Ireland. It contains a comprehensive range of age-appropriate resources that feature factual information, multimedia and interactivity. So, pick the level that best suits you and your students and get started! Just click the link below..

Useful information for Parents