Who would have thought that, that very strange day last March when you were told Leo Varadkar had announced that all schools would be closed for two weeks, would be your last day in school for the year?
I'm sure you've had days when you missed your friends, days when you just didn't feel like doing your school work, days when you were bored and would have loved to be back in school and days when the sun beamed down and you wanted this time to go on forever. We really hope that you've taken something from the experience and will have some happy memories of this time with your families.
We want to congratulate you all on your work and to thank your parents for supporting you and also for supporting us teachers in doing our job.
For this last week, we suggest you take it easy, do something fun, read a book, finish off a bit of work, do some art, get active, go on a virtual school tour (see below), go on an adventure in your locality, have fun. Clean out your schoolbag and take all the books that belong to the school... readers, PM plus books, class novels, Sin é, Planet Maths, put them safely in a bag together and put them somewhere you can find them to return to us in August.
Maybe you could take a few minutes to write us an email about your experience, send us some final photos and reflect on this time.
We hope to see you all on Friday on Zoom for a final goodbye. We have missed you all and are looking forward to seeing you in August, glad to be back and ready for work.
Of course plans are afoot to mark this occasion for 6th class but we would like to give them a mention here.
Abbie, Muireann, Dáire, Fionn, Eve and Jack, we thank you all for your contribution to life in Lisboduff NS over the past 8 years. We are sorry that you didn't get to finish out your year together but hope that your seven and three quarter years here will have created a bond that will last and that you will always have a friendly smile for one another.
Have a great week everyone!
Slán go fóill,
Mrs. Burns, Ms. Connolly, Mrs. Murphy, Ms. Dempsey and Madge