Goal Workshop January 2025

Visit from the Community Gardaí

Heritage Visit January 2025

In January, we had a visit to our school from Lucy Forde. Lucy explored historical food preparation during workshops with classes 1st-6th. Lucy taught the classes about milling. Milling is a unique lens to explore how ancient people found and processed grains—first by hand and then by harnessing the power present in their natural environment. The history of milling is interwoven into the built heritage of Ireland, with important (and tasty!) lessons for today. The children explored all of the steps in making brown bread from scratch. They examined raw cereals, and grinded them by hand using traditional tools. In the end, the children all got to eat some of the bread that they made. 

Reggie visits our school!! 09.01.25

We had a special visitor in school today when Reggie (a new pet hedgehog for a 5th class student) was brought to school. It was really fun getting to meet someone's new pet and the children enjoyed giving Reggie his breakfast!

Lucy Kennedy Visits St. Peter's N.S 09.02.24

We had a winner in the Senior category of the Specsavers Children’s Short Story Competition at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023. After battling strong competition with hundreds of entries received from all over the country, a story by one of our pupil's was chosen as the winner for the Senior category. We are so proud of this massive achievement.

The winning pupil was gifted a hamper of shortlisted children’s books from the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023. In addition to this, our school was presented with a cheque of €500 from Specsavers for our school library as well as an exclusive reading session for the children from children’s author Lucy Kennedy. Lucy visited the school and met all the children and even signed some autographs!

Heritage in Schools Visit 6.11.23

On Monday, Frankie Callaghan from Heritage in Schools visited all classes. Frankie is an archaeologist and she brought some fantastic artefacts and knowledge to our school. The theme of our workshops was medieval and prehistoric archaeology and history. She spoke about Dunboyne Castle and what it would have been like during medieval times and what children's lives would have been like back then. She explain The children had opportunities to play games from long long ago, look at and handle tools and other items. Some of our favourites were the old combs, the horns, the ball and cup game and the bone and teeth of a sheep.

Road Safety Authority (RSA) Visit 12.09.23

Nicola from the RSA visited the children from Junior Infants up to 6th Class on Tuesday. Nicola taught us how important road safety is. She reminded us how to cross a road safely, rules of the road when cycling and how to be safe on the road. 

Author Visit 2nd June 2023

We were delighted to  have Gemma Keir, Founder of the Abilities in Me Foundation and Author of the Abilities in Me book series, come to speak with the children in St. Peter's N.S. Gemma very kindly donated a full set of her books to our school and it was a delight to meet her and her family and to hear her story. 

Heritage visit 25th May 2023

Heritage expert, Edel Heeran visited the children in 3rd - 6th class to teach them all about bee-keeping. Edel brought in her beekeeper suit, smoker, a sample hive and the children even got to taste some honey!

Garda Visit 17th May 2023

Gardaí, Barbara and Ethan are part of the Meath Community Policing Team. They came to visit St. Peter's NS. In 5th and 6th class they gave a talk about internet safety and told us about Coco's law. They then visited each classroom and showed the pupils the equipment they carry and answered lots of interesting questions. Check out the photos below!

 Reptile Visit  5th & 6th Class

What an exciting - and a little bit scary - visit with all of these amazing reptiles! 

Heritage in Schools

Nessa Darcy, Creative Entomologist, visited our school today to give us a workshop all about insects. We went Bug Wild, searching for and identifying the many types of insects in the church grounds. It was fANTastic!!!

Fighting Words!

2nd, 3rd & 4th Class were extremely lucky to have a virtual session with Fighting Words. The children created a fantastic story  as a group and then wrote individual endings or new stories. It was an incredible workshop and wonderful for the children to explore their creative writing skills, not to mention let their imaginations run wild!
​Our story, The Volcano Between Two Friends has even been published on the Fighting Words website!
​You can check out the story by following this link https://www.fightingwords.ie/stories-creative-work/school-stories/volcano-between-two-friends

David Walliams - September 2021

​Pupils in 2nd, 3rd & 4th class were treated to a special Zoom call with beloved children’s author, David Walliams. The children were rolling around laughing as David read from his books, ‘Gangsta Granny’ and ‘The World’s Worst Children’. David gave advice to our budding authors and answered questions sent in from children. He introduced us to his adorable dog and promised to include an Irish character in a future book. Motivated by this call, we are writing our own stories inspired by the book ‘The World’s Worst Children’ which we are looking forward to sharing with you!