Scoil Mhuire’s Police Station!

The Police Station was the play theme recently in Junior Infants!

We set up our very own police station in the classroom, where every morning the gardaí were very busy, what with taking fingerprints, conversing on the walkie talkies and writing up notes.

The phone was hopping in the police station!

The Garda Station was a hive of activity!

Just some of the hard-working Gardai!

This situation looks very serious!

At the creative table, we made Wanted posters and also used our fingerprints to make some thumbprint art in the form of insects, birds and people.

Have you seen this person?

Does this person look familiar?

finger print art!

Look at all the wonderful things you can print with your fingers!

At the lego table, there were some great police boats and police stations on display.

Finally, Junior infants were lucky enough to have a visit from Garda Sgt James O’Donovan of Schull Garda Station! We asked him lots of questions about the work of the Gardai.  We learnt loads of interesting facts from him! Did you know that four gardaí are based in Schull Garda Station!  Garda James also told us that sometimes Gardaí have to herd cattle off the road.  He emphasised to us the importance of always wearing our seat belts!  Finally, he let us all try out his squad card!  We got to try out the seats and even press the siren and flashing light buttons on the dashboard of the car!  It was a very exciting occasion.  Thanks Sergeant O’Donovan!

Junior infants with their special guest!

Sgt Garda James answered some tricky questions such as how to catch a “baddie”?

He reminded us to ALWAYS wear our seat belt!

Did you know that Gardaí sometimes have to help herd cattle off the road?

The squad car was very exciting!

We got to try out the front and back seats!

What does this button do?

Happy with their new car!

Garda James explained what the buttons did!

The siren was REAllY loud!