HSENI Farm Safety Calendar Competition

Unfortunately this year due to the unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in with Covid-19, our staff will not have the opportunity to visit rural primary schools in the run up to the summer holidays to deliver our farm safety messages. However we still wish to promote our farm safety poster competition which we have been running successfully now for a number of years as we feel this is also an excellent way of getting our important safety messages out to farming families. This year we need your help and support more than ever to run our competition.

We are inviting Primary School pupils (Foundation, Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2) and pupils from Special Schools to take the opportunity to enter our poster competition which will commence on 1st June 2020 and run for 12 weeks. To do so each child should draw or paint a picture and the design of this picture should be based on the key dangers on the farm from one of the following four categories –

Dangers from slurry

   Dangers from farm animals                        

   Dangers from tractors & other farm machinery

   Dangers from falls & falling objects

Each week we will invite entries from one of the above categories. The theme for each week will be announced every Monday on HSENI’s Facebook page and on our website www.hseni.gov.uk. Competition Terms & Conditions can also be viewed on our website.

Entries should be submitted portrait style on either A3 or A4 sized plain paper. To ensure entry to the competition is as simple as possible this year, we would ask that a photograph or scan of the completed picture is e-mailed to safestart@hseni.gov.uk.

A cover note on the e-mail should state the child’s name, primary school attended and contact telephone number for a parent/guardian or responsible adult.

We will select a winner each week for the 12 weeks of the competition and winners will be notified the following week. .

Prizes for each of the 12 winners will be a £30 One4all gift card.

It is important that after a picture is submitted by e-mail, the original hard copy is retained as we will require the 12 overall winners selected to provide this for printing purposes. Please note, failure to provide a hard copy will result in the prize not being awarded.

In previous years HSENI has produced a calendar made up of the winning entries to the competition and the calendar has been distributed to over 42,000 rural homes throughout Northern Ireland, HSENI hopes if possible to produce a calendar for 2021 from the winning entries to this year’s competition.

For more information on “child safety on farms” go our website www.hseni.gov.uk/articles/be-aware-kids-child-safety-farms-campaign or you can e-mail safestart@hseni.gov.uk

Downloading Office 365 at Home

Just a reminder that all pupils have the option to download Office 365, including Microsoft Word and Powerpoint, on up to five devices for free, with their C2k username. There is a link to a help sheet on our school website, under Parents and scroll down to near the bottom. Please contact Mrs Howe (rhowe432@c2kni.net) if your need a reminder of your child’s c2k username.

DE Safer Schools App - Children's Version

Following the recent launch of the Department of Education’s app on the Safer Schoolsplatform, provided by iNEQE Safeguarding Group on a trial basis during this COVID-19crisis, they have now also launched a children & young people’s version of this app. Click here for details.

ThinkUKnow

The fourth online safety pack is now available. Each pack has different resources and are available here.

Become a Young Storykeeper Competition

Running until May 19th, children aged between 7 - 12 years are asked to send stories, poems, songs and comics on the theme of lighthouses.

Lighthouses are hugely inspirational and symbolise safety, guidance, help and hope - very important in these times. 
Now that lighthouses are automated, the people who work there and provide tours are called storykeepers. We are inviting children to become Young Storykeepers. Watch our video here.

Writers can create a story, a poem, a song, a play or a comic.

The story must involve a lighthouse, a buoy - or even a helper ship.

Your pupils might invent stories about the birds and animals that might live beside or even inhabit a lighthouse, or create a sea story rescue.

The lighthouse might be beside the sea - or on another planet!

Maybe the story is about the light itself – what kind of light is it? Who does it help? The possibilities are really endless.

All stories will be included in a digital magazine to be launched as part of Cruinniú na nÓg on June 13th and featured on the websites of Great Lighthouses of Ireland and Fighting Words.

A number of stories will be selected to be animated by the Fighting Words volunteer team of illustrators and animators.

For more information - Become a Young Storykeeper

Visit a lighthouse!

All children who submit a story will receive a family ticket to visit any one of the Great Lighthouses of Ireland Visitor Attractions, to be used when they re-open in accordance with Government guidelines.

Parent Survey, Ulster University

Ulster University researchers are seeking parental views of children from primary, post-primary and special schools across Northern Ireland on their experience ofsupporting their children’s learning during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

You can find the survey and more information here

Competition, Moy Park

Young Enterprise NI, in partnership with Moy Park Ltd has announced an exciting online venture for all pupils from the age of 8 to 12 years old.

The Moy Park Challenge, is an online competition which will help pupils to develop skills such as creativity, thinking, problem solving, decision-making and using ICT as well as compete for the chance to win up to £50 as a prize!

Pupils are set the task of being a  new Project Manager at Moy Park Ltd and their first job is to come up with a new and exciting chicken product or meal idea that will encourage people in Northern Ireland to eat more chicken! - as we all need to think about eating healthily and chicken is one of the best sources of protein. They have 2 parts to the task:

1. Create a colourful and detailed ‘A4 poster’ advertising their chicken product ensuring they include a logo & slogan 

2. Tell us about their idea and how they would encourage more people to eat chicken EITHER in a word document of no more than 200 words OR by a short video clip of no more than 60 seconds.

You can find more details at www.yeni.co.uk/moyparkchallenge

The top 3 ideas will win up to £50 of vouchers and their creation will be shared across all our Social Media channels! 

All entries are to be submitted by email to Cathy Morrison by 22nd May 2020  at cathy.morrison@yeni.co.uk.  Winners will be announced online on Friday 29th May 2020.

History Links

I received this from the Navan Centre and Fort, Armagh. It may be of interest to some of our children.  

Ongoing weekly series of educational videos focusing on topics we would normally be delivering to schools via our Education programme are now being offered by video. Every week, we introduce a video of the topic on a Tuesday, followed by the associated quiz on a Thursday. This week’s topic is The Egyptians, other weeks have included World War II, the Victorians, the Vikings and the Celts. These are published on our Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/navancentrefort and may be of interest to some of your pupils, during these times.