Safer Internet Day 2019 is on Tuesday 5th February and the theme for this year is "Together for a Better Internet".

Safer Internet Day (SID) is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise. 

Webwise has many resources for parents, teachers and students. 

Webwise have a very good guide for Parents available here: download

Please visit their website https://www.webwise.ie/parents/ for more information. 

This year the pupils took part in an art or poster competition, while learning about how to stay safe online 

Our school celebrated science week from Monday 10th February to Friday 14th February and a very enjoyable week was had by all! 

Every daya science riddle was called out over the intercom with students competing with each other to be first in their class with an answer. On Friday we held a table quiz over the intercom.

The teachers carried out various experiments in their classrooms during the course of the week much to the enjoyment of the children. On Friday in the senior building, classes moved around to different classrooms to see different experiments carried out by different teachers while in the junior building, there was a display of various experiments in the hall for all classes. Predictions were made, questions were asked and results were achieved!

All week there was a CSI forensic workshop for both buildings. Children had to find clues, examine footprints and fingerprints to find the culprit!

​On Friday afternoon many classes watched a science movie or played interactive science games, a lovely end to a great week!

Below is a link for our school's Whole School Evaluation report as published by the Department of Education inspectorate. 
I would like to acknowledge the high standards that are maintained throughout the school. 
I would like yo thank all the teachers for their hard work and dedication and congratulate all the boys and girls for helping to make St. Laurence's such a wonderful school. 
I would also like to thank all the parents and the Board of Management for their continued help and support. 

With thanks,
Clare Finnerty