NEWSLETTER NUMBER 1

9 JANUARY 2012

Dear Parents

All the staff of Foxrock join me in wishing you a happy and prosperous new year!

This year we will try to send out regular newsletters by e-mail, which will also be available on the LFI website. As part of our constant search for ways of improving the children’s day at school and meeting health and safety recommendations, various new practices will be introduced in the primary school in the new year.

1- New coat hangers which meet current safety standards better, and of which there will be enough, have been put up in the school corridors(hangsafehooks.com).

2- We have to find quickly a solution for lunches other than the supervisory staff heating up individual lunchboxes in the microwaves. The recommendation is to suggest to families who want their child to have a hot meal that they get a good quality thermos. A meal which is heated up in the morning at home then put in the thermos will stay hot until lunchtime. The thermos which families who are already using this system recommend is easily available: www.argos.ie or in Decathlon shops for those who go to France from time to time. This system can also be used for cold meals, so as not to break the ‘cold chain’. From Monday, we will be giving out the leaflet " Healthy Lunchboxes" from Safe food. The goal is to have no more meals heated up in microwaves in the school corridors by the month of February.

3- You can view our monthly calendar describing the activities planned for January on our website:www.lfi.ie

4- We can already announce to you that the CM1s and CM2s will have six weeks of bicycle road safety sessions in the school in March/April. This training will be done in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire County Council. All the necessary equipment will be provided, but it is important to know in advance if there are some children who can’t ride a two-wheeler…... There are about two months left for them to learn!

Bleuenn Morvan

Headmistress Primary School

Monday 26th September 2011

Experiments with Hervé This

On Monday morning 26th September Mr. Hervé This came to the gym in our school to work with the 36 CE1s in the classes of Corinne and Michèle.
   Mr. This is someone who does a lot of cooking experiments. He showed us how to get the white of an egg out without the yolk falling in the bowl. We noticed with him that the egg yolk is actually orange, not yellow, and that the white is yellow. Afterwards, he showed us that when you put a piece of paper in the water, if you turn the bowl, the paper stays in the same place.
   After that, we mixed the egg whites with a whisk, which hurt our arms. Mr. This showed us the transparent bubbles that made in the bowl.
   We’re going to continue the chemistry experiments in class: we’re going to start beating an egg white again with a whisk to make the biggest amount of foam possible.

"I loved it, it was great fun" Amélia
"I loved breaking the eggs" Zelma
"It was great to see the experiments and mix the egg whites" Timothée
"I liked it a lot when we whisked the egg whites" Victoria et Maximilien
"I loved the competition to have the most bubbles when we beat the egg whites" Jean-Benoît

Thursday the 15th of September 2011

-The school rewarded!

Two pupils from last year’s Green School Committee went to the Town Hall in Dun Laoghaire with Ms Pieussergues, a new teacher at the school and Ms Morvan, our primary school director to accept a certificate as part of the "Tidy Schools in the Community Competition Awards Ceremony" on Thursday 15th September. The school was rewarded for the efforts made in making the school attractive to users: yard and walls painted and clean, and really well-kept gardens.The Certificate was presented by the Mayor and his environmental officer, Dean Eaton. Our ‘green’ delegates left with a little bag of presents and a book token to buy books for the school.

Bravo to the green committee! -