Sensory Garden Update

Sensory Garden

Mr Walsh (Junior) has been doing some amazing work on our new Sensory Garden recently.

He has enlisted the help of our 6th Class who completed some Trojan work.

As you can see from the sneak preview below, our Sensory Garden is taking shape nicely!

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for further updates.

Well done everybody

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