Special Projects

During this school year St. Peter’s has continued to work with our partner school in Lapua, Finland. The pupils in Poutun koulu participated in a “Healthy Lifestyles” project with the children in our school. The areas of diet, exercise and games were looked at by all of the children during the year and some project work was completed and exchanged.
Our school also produced a DVD of the highlights of our school year 2007/08 and this was sent to Lapua.
We look forward to continued co-operation in 2008/09 when we plan to get the PTAs of both schools involved.

Another fantastic day of skipping took place in the school last week when skipping expert, Lee James, travelled from the UK to carry out a series of skipping workshops with the pupils. All of the classes participated on a day when we were blessed with fine weather. Lee demonstrated a whole range of skipping techniques and before long many of the children had learned the moves. At the end of the day Lee selected a number of pupils who had impressed him with their skipping prowess and everyone was treated to a Skipping Exhibition.
Pictures are available in the Gallery

If you want to learn more about skipping check out Lee’s website - www.skip-hop.co.uk

On Friday, March14th, the Mayor of Drogheda, Cllr. Anthony Donaghue, was guest of honour at the raising of our first Green Flag. He was joined by Ms. Mary Murtagh, representing the Environment Section of Louth County Council, as well as parents and pupils.(Photos of the event can be found in the Gallery.)

Our Green Schools Committee is already planning for the next stage of the Green Flag Award: Energy.

Our Current Committee:
Rachel & Annraoi (2nd Class)
Sadhbh & Adam (3rd Class)
Michelle & Ross (4th Class)
Jessica & Georgia (5th Class)
Jessica & Kavi (6th Class)
Brenda , Sylvia & Shannon (Parents)
Mrs Penny Butler (Teaching Staff, Co-ordinator)
Mrs Karen McKeown (Non Teaching Staff)

Our Lunch Box Policy:

To help cut down on Waste and Litter in the school,our committee came up with some guidelines for parents and pupils:
Try to reduce packaging in your lunch. (Plastic boxes which can be re-used are preferable to plastic bags and packets. See the Gallery )
Take a Lunch Box to school.
When you’ve finished eating, put any paper, packaging or left-over food back into your lunch box to take home. (This way parents can monitor what and how much their children are eating - or not eating.)

For the past few weeks all the children in the school have been enjoying the opportunity to partake in the weaving workshops. We are very lucky to have Áine Dunne with us as she teaches us a variety of weaving methods and skills. There was great interest in her spinning wheel as the younger children looked for the needle that pricked Sleeping Beauty’s finger! Parents can look forward to seeing the results of the classes in the near future.