Today we took a team 50 students from 3rd to 6th class to compete at the Wicklow Athletics Sports Day event at Charlesland running track. We had athletes competing in 500m &600m distance races, 80m sprint races, 4x100 relay races and the turbo javelin event. Our team were a credit to St. Andrew's and represented themselves and the school brilliantly. It was a fantastic day out and we returned home with 5 individual medals and 3 team relay medals. Well done to everyone who took part and to all...

During the month of April, we worked on the theme 'The garden centre'. We transformed our role play corner into a garden centre, where we took care of plants and sold and bought them. We made flowers from various materials and sorted seeds (have you seen how many pumpkin seeds were collected?). Our mathematics and literacy was also garden themed. And in science we learned about germination, photosynthesis and pollination! We also learned about bumblebees, they are an endangered species....

We had a visitor in school today: Poppy the lamb! Before we went out to meet Poppy, we discussed what would be a kind way to treat the lamb. Then we went to the outdoor classroom, where Poppy and her owner were waiting for us. We learned about where Poppy lives and what she likes, and we got to ask some questions. The best part came at the end- we got to pet Poppy!