St. Laurence's NS will be playing in a quarter final on Tuesday 12th May in our school pitch at 2pm.

We wish the team the best of luck!

Since January we have been busy planning and organising our J.E.P. We had to do loads of planning, designing, creating advertisements, a jingle and lots more, but we had so much fun.

At last Wednesday 3rd April came. We all went into the hall and most of us made all sorts of icing colours blue, green, red and oreo. The blue wasn’t turning out as we planned but the green and red were amazing. Then we tried to make oreo icing and at first we thought it wouldn’t turn well but it did. We put the toppings in plastic bowls and set the drinks out.

At 12 o’clock we finally got the show on the road. When the first class came in at 12 o’clock they all got very excited. Almost everyone bought a cupcake. We were very organised and polite to our customers. When the last class came, we were getting excited. As the last person came around to pay we all realised that our JEP journey was over. It was a lot of hard work but really fun. We felt proud of our class for working together and creating Cupcake Town.
The finance team counted all the money and we made an excellent profit. We couldn’t believe that we had made 300 cupcakes that day. Everyone was shocked. We really enjoyed our JEP journey and have learned a lot about being entrepreneurs.  We would also like to thank everyone who helped and supported us during our JEP project. 
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By Ethan, Ava, Trina and Nida

A very exciting final between Holland and Ireland was played out today in the Junior Soccer League. Holland were the victorious team on a scoreline of 1-0. Huge congratulations to the winning team, and everyone who took part from 3rd and 4th. 

We would also like to thank all the teachers who helped to organise such a successful tournament, and a special thanks to Baldoyle Utd. who sponsored the medals and plaques. 

​Make sure to check out the gallery!

This week the children will be taking part in a range of different activities to foster and promote literacy within the school.

• On Monday the children in both school buildings will take part in ‘The Big Book Quiz’.
• Tuesday’s activity will see the children of the senior school building go on a book trail.
• The centrepiece of our week will be on Wednesday when the children and teachers will dress up as their favourite book characters and take part in our monthly reading buddy programme.
• The writer of the ‘Arthur Quinn – Father of Lies’ series, Alan Early will visit the school on Thursday and the children in the junior school building will have their opportunity to go on a book trail in the school library 

For the past four week the boys and girls in the senior building had exercise classes with fitness coach Glen. Glen taught us many different exercises and activities that we can do on our own, or in pairs and groups, that only take 15 mins. 
It was extremely enjoyable for all the boys and girls. Have a look at our gallery to see what we completed on the last day of the classes. 

5th Class are continuing to engage in the JEP programme. 

Ms. McLaughlin's class set up a cupcake sale and Mr. Quinn's class are in the process of designing keyrings.

Today marked the retirement of Kelvin Troy, our beloved basketball coach. He will be sadly missed throughout the school by all the boys, girls and the staff. We count ourselves very lucky to have a former NBA player as coach to our students, and we would like to wish Kelvin the best in his retirement. 

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 will be taking part in an art or poster competition. Come back soon to see the winners.