22/12/2021

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir

Admission Notice for 2022/2023

Dear Parents we are now taking applications for Junior Infants and other classes for 2022/2023. Please click on this link to see our Admission Notice and click here to order an Admission (Enrolment) form.

Christmas Video from SnB

Thanks to Mrs. Elaine Connolly for creating a fabulous Christmas Video this year – which shows all the boys in the school. Thanks also to Ms. Laura Connolly for her assistance.

Dates for your Diary

• Enrolling for next year (2022/2023): is currently underway. Please see above.
• Christmas Holidays: Boys will get their holidays on the 22nd of December at 12.00 p.m. Return 6th January – Thursday.
• February Mid-Term Break: 24th and 25th.
• St. Patrick’s Day and ..: Wednesday 17th March and Friday the 18th of March
• Easter Holidays: Friday 8th of April at 12.00 p.m.. Return Monday 25th of April.
• School Closed: Monday 2nd of May.
• School Closed: Friday 3rd and Monday 6th of June.
• Summer Musical: 15th, 16th and 17th of June or the following week.
• Summer Holidays: Tuesday 28th June @ 12.00 p.m.
• Sixth Class Party: to be decided.

Older items:

GAA Christmas Mass – Thursday 2nd of December @ 7.00 p.m. in the Parish Church. This will only be for one class bubble unfortunately, due to Covid Restrictions.

Carol Service – outdoors – (proposed date) Tuesday 14th of December @ 7.00 p.m. for all classes. Every year we collect for St. Vincent de Paul in Clonakilty at the Christmas event. This year will be no different – except that we will collect via Aladdin payments.

Below you can see the most up to date calendar with the swimming changes included also.

Rang 1 Elves’ Tea Party

Christmas Jumpers in Seniors/1st

Story Winners in Ms. O’Sullivan’s

Imperial Crossword, Ethan’s Crossword and Olan’s Crossword

Imperial Hotel Christmas Crossword
The final date for entries to the Christmas Crossword was last Friday December 17 th . Well done
to all the boys who entered. We had a great response. In total we had 27 entries with entries
from every class from Senior Infants up to 6 th class. Josh Khan and Marwan Ali corrected the
entries with myself. When we got through them all we had 9 entries with a wrong answer, 1
entry with no name on it (unfortunately we had to exclude this entry) and finally 17 correct
entries. We then put all the correct entries into the Crossword box and in the yard Andrew
Hickey from first class picked the names out of the box.
The winners are :
3 rd – Nicholas O’Sullivan
2 nd – Charlie Moore
1 st – Luca O’Donovan
Congratulation to the winners and all the boys who took part in the Crossword. Thank you to
Josh Khan, Marwan Ali, Richard Kennedy, Harry Ellis and Cullen Kearns who worked hard to
create the crossword. Thank you also to their teacher Ms. Mac Auley and to Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice who worked with the boys. Many thanks also to the Imperial Hotel who sponsored the prizes again this year.

Congratulations to Matthew Kingston who won Ethan’s prize, to Ethan O’Donovan and Dumebi Ogwudiedwgu who won Olan’s prize.

Junior Infants’ Christmas

The Junior Infants have had a busy month in December-working in Santa’s workshop, creating some beautiful Christmas clay decorations and artwork. They boys have also had some fun playing some Christmas board games together. We would all like to thank Susan and Finbarr for decorating the area outside our classroom so well, it is so bright and cheerful!

Ronan O’Mahony – wins 5B Ping Pong competition

Congratulations to Ronan who won the 5B Ping Pong Competition recently in a thrilling final against Charlie Moore. Thanks to Patrick Sloan (Rang 6) for organising all the Ping Pong competitions.

Santa, Mrs. Claus and the Naughty Elf visit SnB

Thanks to the Parent’s Association for inviting Santa again this year to visit and for supplying “goodies” for the children. It was a fabulous day. Mrs. Claus was very strict on the kind of food we can leave out for her husband, the naughty elf nearly got extra homework and Santa himself had to answer very difficult questions from the children – he managed them all!! Thanks also the elves from Rang 6 – Logan, Cullen, Tony and Kevin.

You can also see below the Christmas display created by SNA Susan McCarthy for the Junior Infants.

Christmas in Senior Infants

Christmas Carol Service in pictures

Many thanks to everyone who supported our Carol Service on Tuesday 14th of December. Thanks also to the staff of the school for all their help. Thanks to Mrs. Elaine Connolly and Ms. Karen O’Regan for organising a fabulous Staff Choir. Thanks to Finbarr and Noreen for all their help. So far €1,030 has been raised for the St. Vincent de Paul, Clonakilty Branch.

You can still contribute by logging in to your Aladdin, go to Payments and subscribe. We are sending the money to the St. Vincent de Paul on Wednesday next, 22nd of December.

If you have any photos of the night, we would be delighted to get them and we will publish them here.

Letters to Bushmount, Care Choice and Clonakilty Hospital

Rang 2 have been busy getting stuck into some Christmas Art and Drama after singing brilliantly in Emmet Square for our Carol Concert. The boys also enjoyed making Christmas cards for the residents of Bushmount.

Penny Dinners collection for Christmas

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our Penny Dinners Collection for the Irish Red Cross.

Thorntree Christmas Decoration Fundraising

The boys have raised €520 for the Thorntree Project. Many thanks to their teachers Ms. Niamh MacAuley, Ms. Marguerite Bradshaw and Mr. Seán Daly and the children in Rang 5 A, Rang 5 B and Rang 6. See below for photographs – Butterfly Child.

Christmas Magazine completed

Please see below the happy winners of the Golden Tickets and Small Prizes in our Christmas Magazine, which was given to all pupils on Monday 13th of December. Thanks to everyone who helped out – Noreen, Finbarr, all the staff and pupils of SnB.

Debating Practice and Quarter Final

Getting ready for Carol Service

Fundraiser for the Butterfly Children

This year as last year we are fundraising for the Thorntree Project, supporting children’s education in the Samburu Tribe in Kenya.

This Christmas  5th & 6th class are  fundraising for the Thorntree Project in Kenya.  We are creating hanging  glass decorations for your Christmas  tree. The ornaments cost €5  each and can be ordered on Aladdin. Your  wrapped glass decoration will be delivered to your son’s class on Monday 13th December. Order early to avoid disappointment as there is a limited supply! Happy Christmas, Rang 5 & 6. 104 have been sold already, they are now sold out. €520 was raised for the Thorntree Project.

In total €2454.00 was transferred to the Thorntree Project this Christmas. This represents the collections since 2019. Well done to everyone involved to and thanks to everyone who supported our fundraising initiatives.

It’s Christmastime in Clonakilty now…

Foyer, Glass & Pottery making, Taking an Elfie

Below you can see the wonderful display created by Finbarr O’Mahony and Mrs. Elaine Connolly. Thank you to both of them.

Also Ms. Hodnett’s class were busy preparing Christmas decorations for our classroom window.  Pottery and Glass making started in most of the classes – making decorations for Christmas. You can also see Santa’s little helpers from Ms. Galvin’s class below.

Enrolment | Community College dates

20th  December 2021	E mail offering a place in College by 20-12-2021
10th January 2022	Confirmation of acceptance of offer
February 2022	Assessment Process to be confirmed

 

Adverts – Emmet Hotel and Batemans Footwear

Facts of the Month

Gentleman, Lift Off Boy & PenMan of the Month

Advertising

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2021 – 2022 please let Noreen know as soon as possible.  The number of ads is limited.  Our Links goes to all parents in the school – 10 times a year – at the beginning of each month. Now due to the fact that it’s online many more people will view the Links. The cost is €20 per issue or at a discount of €150 for the entire year!  Please ring 8834487 if you are interested.

“Cent” Box – Thorntree Project

Nut Allergy – IMPORTANT!

Adverts: Old Brewery Montessori School & Clonakilty Park Cinema

Contact Numbers

If you have moved, changed phone/mobile numbers or changed doctor or emergency contact person or got a new email address – please update these details on the Aladdin App yourself so that we can contact you in case of emergency. You can do this yourself, there is no need to ring in, just change it on the App and we will be notified automatically.

We will no longer be sending texts to parents – we will just use the Aladdin app.

Recycling – Green Waste

Over the past few years we have tried – in vain – to recycle our Green Waste and unfortunately it hasn’t worked out, probably because the only waste was fruit.
The Recycling bins have being attracting visitors that we don’t want! Because of this we are asking boys to bring home their apple cores, banana skins (organic waste) etc from now on.

Tin foil and uneaten lunches will be brought home also. Many thanks for your cooperation.

NUTELLA OR PEANUTS are not permitted. This is for safety reasons. them. Thanks for your cooperation in this matter.

What’s going on? … in school and extra-curricular activities.

Basketball 21/22: Basketball training is on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the end of September / early October. Thanks to Ms. Carol Anne O’Donovan / Seán Daly / Paul Carmody for assisting again with Basketball this year. This year it have to be run as last year – Tuesday will be for Rang 5 / Thursday will be for Rang 6.

Quizzard ‘21/22: will start in November. Classes from Rang 3 – Rang 6 will be participating. Last year we only managed to do a few rounds, outside in the yard but we are hoping to complete it in the coming year. Cillian Whooley and Pearse Nolan are in charge of the Quiz this year.

Chess: started in September. Boys in Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 may participate. It will run on Tuesdays and Wednesday after school. We hope to start before the end of September and end before Easter.
Thanks to Ms. Niamh Mac Auley for her help with the players. Thanks to Ms. Gillian Galvin for her help with the Learners Chess Club.

Soccer Competitions

Senior Infants Soccer
Held on Fridays only
Rang 1
Held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Teams are on website.
Rang 2
Held on Mondays / Wednesday – depending on what team you are on. Teams are on the website.
Rang 2/3
Held on Mondays. Teams are on website.
Rang 4
Held on Tuesdays. Teams are on website.
Rang 5
Held on Wednesdays. Teams are on website.
Rang 6
Held on Thursdays. Teams are on website.

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons / Coderdojo – for Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 will hopefully start this year. Thanks to Mrs. Margaret Deegan for hopefully teaching Coder Dojo to Rang 2 each week.

Swimming: for Rang2 – started on 15th of October and will run until the 3rd of December.

Wardens – every year Rang 6 act as School Wardens. The scheme is up and running. Thanks to our team of SET teachers who have taken over from Mr. O’Driscoll. Thanks also to Chris Hinchy for his help again this year.

GAA – Conan O’Donovan on Wednesdays.
Rugby – Finbarr O’Mahony on Fridays. Finbarr is starting on September 3rd until the October break.

Sciath na Scol Competitions – we’re not sure what’s going to happen with Sciath na Scol this year. We’ll let you know as soon as we know.

P.E. / Soccer Timetable

Class	Soccer	P.E.
Junior Infants (Mrs. Marie Forristal)	Not applicable	Mondays and Thursdays
Senior Infants (Ms. Gillian Galvin)	Fridays	Wednesdays and Fridays
Senior Infants / Rang 1 (Ms. Michelle O’Neill)	Fridays for Seniors Tuesdays and Thursdays for 1st	Tuesdays and Thursdays
Rang 1 (Ms. Kathryn O’Shea / Ms. Karen O’Regan	Tuesdays and Thursdays	Tuesdays and Fridays
Rang 2 (Mr. Paul Carmody)	Mondays and Wednesdays	Mondays and Thursdays
Rang 2 / 3 (Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan / Ms. Laura Connolly)	Mondays	Mondays and Fridays
Rang 4 (Mrs. Marie Hayes)	Tuesdays	Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Rang 5 A (Ms. Marguerite Bradshaw)	Wednesdays	Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Rang 5 B (Mr. Seán Daly)	Wednesdays	Mondays and Fridays
Rang 6 (Ms. Niamh Mac Auley)	Thursdays	Tuesdays and Thursdays

Roots of Empathy

Roots of Empathy is an international, universal,  evidence-based, classroom programme that has shown dramatic effect in reducing aggression among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy. Barnardos was chosen as the lead agency to deliver the programme in Ireland in 2011.
The programme has been delivered in a hundred and thirty primary schools around Ireland with a small number of schools in Cork and Waterford already participating. As a result of support from the Tomar Trust, Barnardos is now in a position to roll out the programme in West Cork & Waterford schools. They are currently developing a three year plan to involve schools in Cork and Waterford in the Roots of Empathy programme. We have been chosen as one of the West Cork Schools and will be implementing the programme this coming year. Please note Covid-19 may change these plans.