Visit from Lusk Hospital Friends

Here are the children from 6th class who have been part of the inter-generational project with the Thursday Day Group from Lusk Community Hospital for the last three years. We all know each other so well now! The boys and girls below are waiting for their friends to arrive in our school to spend some time together in our Outdoor Classroom.

Back Row L-R: Valerija, Izabela, Evelina, Paula, Sarah, Natalia, Ciaran, Eduard, Foluso, Liam

Front Row L-R: Leah, Sophie, Ross, Rainers, Damian, Idoreyen (missing from picture: Morgan).

 Kevin was first off the bus looking very dapper in his straw hat! Valerija was waiting to escort him to our lovely outdoor space.

Susan, the nurse who leads the project taught all the children over the years how to link our older friends to support them walking. The boys love to watch Paddy operate the wheelchair lift and they are experts in pushing the wheelchairs now thanks to Susan's training. They managed very well getting the wheelchairs through the bumpy grass.

 Natalia and Kathleen

 Foluso and Una

 Eduard and Maureen

 Sarah and Mary. Mary remembers being brought with her class to Kenure House for an orange at Christmas.

Damian, Sophie, Maura (wearing her beautiful lace collar) and Kay.

 Mary, our wonderful school gardener prepared lettuces for us to plant together. We took photographs of the old hands and the young hands working together and we are going to use them for an art project. Here are Leah and Angela working the compost into the pot.

 Ross and Christy

 Peggy and Valerija

 Idoreyen and Terry

 Paula and Patrick

 Eduard and Maureen

 Frank and Morgan

 Evelina and Maura

 Mary and Natalia

 We had time to chat and catch up on all our news in the beautiful weather.

 But then, sadly it was time to say goodbye...

As all the boys and girls are moving on to secondary school, our project will come to an end in June. We will have our final visit to Lusk Community Hospital next Thursday. See you all then!

Overall 4th in Fingal Cross Country League

I received a message from Niall, Sports Officer with Fingal Coco this afternoon. He told me that our school was 4th overall in the Fingal Athletics League and that they were really impressed with the achievement for a smaller school. A great result for our team. Here are some more pictures of the last race. Well done everyone!