St Laserian's School Carlow

Aaron Shorten represented St Laserian’s School in the South Leinster Schools 800m Junior Championship  in  Waterford on Friday April 28^th.

Congratulations to Aaron on winning his race and winning the title for St Laserian’s School.

On Thursday April 6th a a number of classes went on a major Easter Egg hunt in the school grounds.  They were helped along by the Easter Bunny.  They all  sat down together afterwards and enjoyed an Easter party.  Everyone was delighted with their baskets full of colorful shiny eggs.

Senior 2 and Senior 3 had a guided tour of Supervalu recently with Niamh who is  a Nutrionist. Niamh spoke to us about the Food Pyramid and how important it is that we eat from the different Food groups each day.We got to taste Spelt and Honey bread from the bakery.We also got to taste blueberries and avocado which a lot of us had not tasted before. At the butchers we tasted Smoked Salmon and Chicken . We then moved on to the dairy section where we tried Mozarella and Feta cheese. We also got the chance to try Almond and Soy milk. We found it to be a really good experience as many of us tried out new foods for the first time.

On March 25th three students from our school took part in a Leinster Special Olympics Gymnastics event in Carlow I.T.  Peter, Zac and Ava took part in rope and ball routines. They all put in excellent performances and all won medals in both events. Congratulations and well done to the three athletes.

Trip to National Stud.

On Wednesday March 15^th, Ms Keatings and Ms Hennessys classes had a really enjoyable day out to The National Stud and Japanese Gardens which are located just outside Kildare Town. Our tour Guide Paul told us all about the History of the National Stud. We saw where the Foals are born and we also saw some of the Valuable Stallions that are kept at the Stud including the great Stallion Hurricane Fly.We had a Picnic lunch in the beautiful gardens.

On March 5th a number of classes took part in National Spring Clean.  Junior 4, Miss Ahern’s class did a wonderful job cleaning up the seating area outside their classroom.

Senior 3 hosted a Fundraiser on Pancake Tuesday. We served over 100 Pancakes to students and Staff.

We raised €180 which we will send to The Society Of Missionary Children who will use the money to help underprivileged Children throughout the World. Their motto is” Children helping Children”.

We would like to thank everyone who supported our Pancake Day.J Senior 3 Class.

February 7th was Safer Internet Day.

Safer Internet Day 2017

Safer Internet Day 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. The Theme for Safer Internet Day 2017 is ‘Be the change: Unite for a better internet’ and over 70,000 young people across Ireland joined the celebrations this year.

In our school many classes looked at cyberbulling and how it is up to everyone to play their part in making the internet a safe place. Senior 5 put together this presentation for our whole school assembly. Click on the link to take a look.

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Other students produced excellent posters.

Senior 5 created this board outside their classroom.

Aaron Shorten in Senior 1  won the Leinster 800mt U15 Indoor Championships on Saturday in Athlone, and ran a ½ second away from the championship record.

Aaron will go to the All-Ireland final to represent Leinster at the end of March, Aaron is looking forward to his 1^st All Ireland indoor final, Aaron is

already the outdoor All Ireland 800mt and 1500mt National Champion.

Heather from Dogs Trust Ireland visited us last week with TED her dog.  She came as part of the Junior cert Short Course ‘Caring For Animals’.  Many classes throughout the school got to meet TED.  They can have up to 200 rescue dogs at their center at any one time. Heather took TED in after he was found abandoned in very poor condition.  Dogs Trust Ireland rely totally on donations to run the service.