Leprechaun breaks into school and trashes third grade classrooms
The class inspects the trap. Photos by Kat Sheridan
Brittany Travassos examines the photos left by the perpetrator. 
A footprint left by the leprechaun.
The Legos with a chair thrown by the leprechaun.
A trap with some leprechaun footprints.
Christine Gideon and a student inspect evidence left on the desk.
A mess left in the reading section of the classroom.
The class inspects the trap. Photos by Kat Sheridan
Brittany Travassos examines the photos left by the perpetrator.
A footprint left by the leprechaun.
The Legos with a chair thrown by the leprechaun.
A trap with some leprechaun footprints.
Christine Gideon and a student inspect evidence left on the desk.
A mess left in the reading section of the classroom.
School vandalism is usually a very serious issue, but it was a very silly matter at the Quinn School on Tuesday, March 17 when students and teachers learned that the perpetrator was a leprechaun.
“I got here this morning and the window was open,” said third grade teacher Christine Gideon.
Teachers suspect the leprechaun either snuck in last night or during the wee hours of Tuesday morning , leaving trails of sparkly coins and green glitter.
“I’m going to say late last night, because when I left here the classroom was intact,” said third grade teacher Brittany Travassos, “And when I came here this morning it was completely destroyed.”
The teachers and students in the third grade classes came into school to find that the classrooms had been trashed. There were footprints on the desks, books and chairs thrown about, but empty leprechaun traps.
“It’s very messy,” said third grader Kayla Costa. “I’m sad because I just cleaned my desk.”
Students in both classrooms made leprechaun traps to try and catch the legendary creature. In Travassos’ class, each student made their own and then worked together to make one big trap. Gideon had her students either work in groups or on their own. Their traps were made of boxes, tape, paint and recyclable materials.
The leprechaun left a letter in Travasso’s classroom, praising their tricky traps and also left photos of him playing around the classroom.
“It was pretty crazy,” said Gavin Sullivan, a third grade student. “All my hard work with the Legos that I tried to build a theme park out of, it just got flipped with a chair and I’m surprised.”
