On Wednesday 4th March the boys and girls got an opportunity to go to a performance or a workshop by the CBBC Ridiculous Rhyme Show hosts. This was greatly enjoyed by all. 

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

Part-funded by Fingal Co. Co. the purpose of the Musician-in-Residence Programme is to add value to the music education children receive through the primary school curriculum. It supports schools to deliver instrumental or choral tuition; and assists teachers build their capacity for music teaching.

This year St. Laurence's NS have joined up with St. Michael's Special NS to deliver music therapy for the pupils of St. Michael's House. A number of boys and girls from 4th Class will travel with Ms. Fahey to St. Michael's House every Friday and will join in with music class for the pupils of St. Michael's House, lead by a professional musician Mary O'Donnell. 

This programme was recently highlighted on RTE's News2Day programme which can be found HERE. The segment starts at 1:55. 

Maths week was celebrated this year from Monday October 14th to Friday October 18th where the children had great fun engaging in mathematical activities and games throughout the week. The children put great effort into designing Maths Week 2019 posters which were on display throughout the school. 

Children participated in maths games in their classes, maths stations, answered mathematical puzzles and riddles as well as participated in various indoor and outdoor maths trails around the school. Junior Infants to 2nd classes enjoyed a fun day of maths stations and games in the hall while 3rd to 6th classes had great fun in a 'Maths Escape Room' challenge!
2nd class  attended the 'Murderous  Maths' presentation by Kjartan Poskitt in the Helix. Kjarten is the author of the 'Murderous Maths' series of books. It was an interactive workshop full of mathematical tricks and it was very enjoyable. 3rd class participated in 'Lego Challenges', Marsh's Library in  town where in groups they had to solve problems involving shape and space, logic and fractions. 4th class participated in an organised maths trail in Castletown House, Celbridge answering questions based on many beautiful rooms of the house. Finally 6th class enjoyed an 'Izak 9' demo workshop on Tuesday 15th October. Izak 9 are a set of 27 colourful cubes, a resource which promotes problem solving, reasoning and fluency and encourages teamwork and resilience.

On Friday, all children had to dress up in clothes that had a mathematical theme and there were some very imaginative costumes. A very enjoyable day and week for all!
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St. Laurence's NS would like to congratulate all the boys and girls who represented the school in the recent Cumann na mBunscoil football matches. They were a credit to the school. 
A special thanks is also due to all the parents and guardians who drove to the matches. These matches could not have gone ahead without your support. 

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!