Killarney

<p>By Michelle Crean</p>
<h3>There&#8217;s something brand new in The Mon which will be of&nbsp;enormous benefit to children with sensory needs &#8211; and it cost the school just &euro;5!</h3>
<p>The Sensory Pod is worth a whopping &euro;10,000 &#8211; but thanks to Principal Mary Brosnan &#8211; it barely cost them anything at all.</p>
<p>Presentation Monastery was announced the winner of the Sensory Pod from thesensorypod.ie with the support of Fresh Today Ireland and AsIAm, at the recent Irish Primary Principals&#8217; Network (IPPN) conference in the Gleneagle Hotel.</p>
<p>She had purchased a ticket in the raffle and was thrilled when the school won.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was brilliant, I couldn&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; Mary, describing it as the size of a bunkbed, told the Killarney Advertiser. &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted as it&#8217;s something we would never have been able to afford.&#8221;</p>
<p>The school has a sensory unit &#8211; but it&#8217;s of the more active kind, she explained, saying that the new pod is located in the corridor where pupils can take some quiet time out if needed.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a sensory room but some children have different sensory needs and our room is a very active space. We have it [the pod] along the corridor so it is accessible for everybody. The boys love it, they said it&#8217;s like a spaceship!&#8221;</p>
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School thrilled with €10k sensory pod prize

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