We can’t thank parent Pádraig O’Connor enough for his time n 5th March 2020, when he brought a robot to school. This robot is used in bomb disposal and goes places where it might be unsafe for humans. It was so interesting, and the robot tried to put our bucket through the basketball hoop and also travelled around the school at 10mph while we watched its view through cameras on a large screen. We peeped into classrooms, zoomed into children in the basketball court. Older children asked some brilliant questions. Thanks so much to Pádraig, and to Ms Olivia O’Shea for organising this for us. See Reamda for lots more about Padraig’s amazing place of work by clicking REAMDA.

Thanks SO MUCH to Mr Boom, real name Urs Wenk! Urs kindly came to our school today to Junior and Senior Infant classes and 1st class do do drumming with us, after a parent won a competition for us with Drumdance Ireland on Facebook. Urs gave us his time free of charge today lifting some very heavy drums in and out of our hall and he was such an upbeat teacher, it was infectious. Thanks to Paudie for his help with the chairs too. We really enjoyed it. Click DRUMMING for more photos.

On 4th March, 4 children came outside and helped to plant flower seeds to attact bees to our garden. These came with the Save the Bees parcel we received yesterday.

We need your help again everyone! We are taking part in the Save the Bees Campaign in conjunction with SuperValu stores. They have sent us this gigantic wall chart which some Junior Infants had fun holding up in this picture and we need your help to fill it with tokens which you can get when you shop in any Supervalu shop. We have lesson plans for classes and posters of bees. One third of our food is pollinated by bees and sadly30% of our Irish bees are in danger of becoming extinct and we want to stop this happening because bees are really important in our ecosystem for pollination of all plants and flowers. We can be in with a chance of winning or sharing in €50,000 if we can get this chart completed before 14th May 2020. Please help us get from 1 to 300 so we can enter this terrific competition. Thanks everyone!