Safer Internet Day (SID) 2022, an EU-wide campaign to promote online safety, is taking place this Tuesday, 8th February 2022. St. Anne’s Loreto P.S. is keen to use this day as an opportunity to highlight online safety and wellbeing for children. Access to the internet at school is filtered by PDST Technology in Education, is designed and set to block content of an unsafe nature, always supervised by school staff..

3rd and 4th classes took part in Navan Fire Brigade’s Fire Safety campaign. We were visited by 2 firemen who told us about all the dangers that may be present in our homes and what we can do to prevent them. They spoke about candles, matches, electrical fires and heaters and overloaded sockets and extension cords. They also spoke about the importance of hoovering out our fire alarms annually and.

On November 8th to 12th we celebrated Science Week in St Anne’s. The children spent the week watching workshops from various science organisations and Navan library and completing experiments. 4th class focused on the Body while 3rd class learned all about Space.

This week we celebrated Biodiversity Week in St Anne’s. All classes enjoyed a talk with Goska from the Heritage Council explaining what biodiversity is and why it is needed. She also explained to us the difference between native and invasive wild animals and why we need to protect our native animals. She showed us pictures of tracks and skeletal remains from a number of wild animals.  The Green Committee and.