St. Laurence's National School

Spanish Day. La Fiestadel Espanol.

Pinatas, tortillas, song and dance were just some of the fun activities that the children were treated to in the hall today in celebration of all our achievements in Spanish over the year. The children made posters about Spain, Mexico and all things Spanish. They were then given a demonstration on making Spanish and Mexican tortillas by some 6th class. We then had great fun singing and dancing to La Macarena. The children learnt about the history of the pinata and had great fun trying to break them open to find the goodies inside. Special thanks to our Spanish teachers, Janier Iglesias and Lupita Lannin for organising such a wonderful event. Have a look at the slide show to get a taste of the fun!

Discover Primary Science Award

Here in St. Laurence's we have been awarded our 4th Discover Primary Science Award of Science Excellence. It is a fantastic achievement for all children and teachers to have been given this award for the fourth year in a row. Special thanks must go to our Science Co-ordinator, Ms. Catherine Duggan, for all her hard work in this area.
Today we had a special school assembly in honour of our achievement. The award was presented to our principal Mrs. Coveney. We are also going to release some balloons today. Each balloon has a tag attached with details of each class. We are hoping that they will be found by someone who will then get in touch with the school so that we can find out how far they travelled.

Summer Closure

The school will close at 12.30pm on Tuesday the 30th of June for the summer holidays. The school will re-open on Tuesday September 1st at 8.50am.
The principal Mrs. Coveney and all the staff of St. Laurence's wish you all a wonderful summer break. Thank you to all parents for their continued support over the year. Looking forward to seeing you all in September.

Contacting the School

If you need to contact the school over the summer holidays please feel free to phone on 01 2876198 or e-mail us at stlaurences@eircom.net. All enquiries will be dealt with within 48 hours.

School Reports

Reports and details of classes for next year will be posted in July.
Booklists have already been distributed to pupils.

Coming up....

Filming for "Test your Teacher" will take place in the school in August.

Graduation Mass

Sixth Class Graduation Mass will take place on Monday 29th June at 8.30pm in St. Killians Church, Blacklion.


Delgany Schools Cup Results

Congratulations to the boys and girls who represented St. Laurence's in the Delgany Schools Cup.It was the first time our school participated in a golf competition of this nature and they did themselves proud by finishing runners-up in the boys and girls sections.
The teams were:

Alice Brennan, Joe Ennis
Rachel Lockhart, Sam Lewis
Aoife Madigan, Kyle Howard
Orla Minogue, Conor Darcy


School Garden:

A school garden has been established in conjunction with the local community. We are looking forward to seeing the fruits of their labour over the coming weeks.


SCIENCE OPEN DAY.

Fizzing volcanoes, exploding sweets, secret writing and bouncy custard balls were just some of the amazing experiments which were on show for parents and friends on our Science Open Day last week. Visitors got the chance to see what makes St. Laurence’s a school of excellence in science and were treated to an amazing variety of experiments and displays by pupils and teachers from Junior Infants to sixth class. Well Done to all the children, teachers and science co-ordinator Catherine Duggan and a very big Thank You to parents for supporting the day. To view pictures of the day have a look at the Discovery Science page in the Achievements section.

GREEN SCHOOLS – CÁIRDE GLAS.

St. Laurence’s School was presented with its fourth Green flag in 2008 and has this year been putting its energy (pardon the pun) into helping home-owners achieve the same kind of results in the home as we have done at school. Working on the ‘Green Home Theme’, the emphasis September to Christmas was on Waste Management. Remember “The Slim Your Bin Challenge”…. This term’s focus is on “Energy”. This, of course is very topical, the Government having recently offered grants towards home insulation. The academic year
2009 / 2010 will look again at the “Water” topic, not to mention “Travel”. All of these areas have received much attention over the last number of years in the school and projects are ongoing to maintain the standards reached as we strove towards our 1 – 4 Green Flags… Please support The Green Flag Team by participating in the GREEN SCHOOL HOMEWORK your child may bring home.
We would love to see you on our WALK ON WEDNESDAY, LEAVING TESCO CAR-PARK & DELGANY VILLAGE AT 8.30 am EVERY WEDNESDAY. If you would like to become more involved and JOIN THE GREEN TEAM please contact Triona Hassett or send a message through your child’s class teacher. We would love to hear from you. (Green Committee 2009).

Extra Curricular Activities
For details of this years extra school activities please look in the information section of the website under calendar. We would encourage all pupils to participate in at least one activity.

Parental Involvement
At St. Laurence’s we have always encouraged parents to actively participate in the education of their children. There are several ways you can do this:-

Help in the classroom:Listening to reading, contribute to Art/Craft, sport, drama. Do speak to your child’s teacher in the first instance.

Participate in the Parents’ Association.


European Language Label for 2008
We are delighted to inform you that our school has been selected for this award. This award was presented to the school at an award ceremony in Croke Park in September 2008. This is a very exciting award for our school and together with the GLEO award for Irish received last year is a credit to the dedication and hard work of all our staff and makes us proud that our school is a shining example to all that is best in the educational system in present day Ireland.


Park and Stride

Do your bit for the environment and join us for Park and Stride.
We will leave from Tesco car park and from Delgany Village at 8.30am on Wednesday mornings.