The New Year got off to a flying start in St. Peter’s Primary School! Festina Lente came to visit with beautiful miniature horses. The junior classes were allowed to pet them and they asked lots of questions on how to look after them. The new Board of Management met in early January and discussed all of the important issues relating to the school. Sixth class took part in the Primary Science Fair which runs in conjunction with the BT Young Scientist. They created and programmed a talking robot called OBOT. They had a great time in the RDS and really impressed all of the visitors to their stand. Mr. Foley’s class visited the newly re-furbished Lexicon library in Dun Laoghaire. They studied bus routes and timetabling in Maths prior to the trip. Students from fourth and sixth were up early on Saturday, the 30th of January. They met at the school at 6:30am and headed off to Galway to compete in First Lego League. Their team called ‘Smash the Trash’ came 12th out of 26 primary and secondary school teams. In addition to that, they brought home an ‘Against all Odds’ award. It was a tremendous achievement and we followed them on twitter and on a live stream all day. We celebrated ‘100 days of learning’ on the 29th of January where all of the students took part in music, dance, art and sporting activities. Students with excellent attendance were given an extra reward. I attended the Principals’ conference at the end of January and came back full of ideas. The new build is starting to take shape and we are all looking forward to getting new classrooms and offices. The main corridor normally looks quite bare in January when all of the lights and Christmas decorations have been taken down. Fifth class have been very busy over the past few weeks during their lunchtime art club, where they took the theme of ‘Under the Sea’. We now have beautiful sea creatures dangling from the ceiling all along the corridor. All in all it was a great month. Thank you so much to all of the students, parents and staff for their hard work and commitment. I look forward to seeing what February has in store for us all!
Emer Whyte
Principal
