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31/03/2023

Dates for your Diary

Basketball is on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school until 4.00 p.m.

Scoilavision Practices will start after Easter on Mondays and Wednedays after school until 4.00 / 4.20 p.m.. Bands will be given individual times and days.

31st of March 2023: The children get their Easter Holidays @ 12.00 p.m.

3rd – 14th of April 2023: Easter Holidays.

Monday April 24^th : Scoil na mBuachaillí & Knockskeagh N.S. Confirmation in Clonakilty Church. All the Confirmations are at 10.30am.

1st of May 2023: School closed, Bank Holiday.

Saturday 6th of May, 2023: First Holy Communion date @ 10.30 a.m. in the parish church.

15th of May 2023: School closed, holiday.

18th of May 2023 @ 7.00 p.m.: 100 Voices

5th & 6th of June 2023: School closed.

21st and 22nd of June 2023: Proposed dates for Scoilavision 2023.

Sixth class party: to be decided

School Tours:
* Ms. Gillian Galvins’ class / Mr. Paul Carmody & Ms. Michelle O’Neill’s class are going on school tour on Thursday May 25^th to the Treehouse in Skibbereen. The total cost for each child is €15.
* Juniors A and Juniors B school tour for May 24th. Top of the Rock Drimoleague. €21 (€10 for entry fee and €11 for the bus.)
* Rang 1 and Rang 1/2 school tour on Thursday 15th of June.  Smuggler’s Cove Rosscarbery. Total price including bus and ice cream is €30.
* Rang 2/3 class and Rang 3 will be going to West Cork Secret on May 19th. To help parents with the cost of the tour – children will start saving stamps next week.
* Rang 4: Thursday May 25th.  Zip-IT Farran. Leaving at 9.00 a.m.  The boys are using saving stamps to help pay for the tour.
* Kayaking: in May for Rang 5. 25th and 26th of May
* Surfing: in May for Rang 6. Tuesday 2nd, Wednesday 10th, Tuesday 16th & Tuesday 23rd (Surfing begins at 12:30 and collection at 2:45 from the Surf School.  Price remains the same at €20 per lesson.)

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Orienteering – What a Day!

5th class went to to Tramore Valley Park on Friday 24/03. It wa a bright sunny day when we got on the bus. It took 1 hour to get there. Ms. Fitzmaurice gave us SI cards and told us which way was North. Then the instructor put us in our line and we were waiting for our turn. Then out of nowhere it started to pur hailstones and became very windy. It was dangerously cold. It was so bad some people had to go back to the bus . We kept going and managed to run the course. It was a very tricky course with 12 points hidden areound Tramore Valley Park. The points got harder as we went on. The conditions made it very ahrd to run. Everybody was wet and frozen. On the way back to schol on the bus Ms. Fitzmaurice bought us ice cream. We were very tired. Overall 5th class did very well and as a team we came 2nd winning Cork Championship silver medals. Well done everybody!

 By Matthew Kingston and Wallace Chen

Today might as well have been the worst day for orienteering ever. We left school at 09:20 on the 24^th of March. We were heading straight for Tramore Valley Park in Cork City. Once we got there, we quickly got a bite of food and we headed straight for the course. Unfortunately, once we got to the start it started pouring rain and hailstones. Everyone started one minute after each other. Matthew and Wallace were at the back of the line so we, like many other people had to suffer through all the bad weather before we could begin. After a while it was time to start. We got our maps and our SI cards and we began. The sixth-class course was harder than the fifth-class course by including a few extra points to find. The hardest thing about the course was definitely the rain and hail that was making the grass wet and many people couldn’t run, but even it is wet, some people were still trying as hard as they can to do their best to get the fastest time to win the medal for their team. After we started, we opened the map checked where is north. Then we we find the points, we check if that is the number on the map and when we confirm that it is the same number, we put the SI card in the point and when you hear the beep, that means that the SI card worked. Unfortunately, Olan and Malachy’s SI card didn’t beep after they put it in, we think it is because of the weather making the SI card malfunction. After we were done all 15 points, we go to the finish point and put the SI card in to the finish and give the SI card to the person that is collecting them. After you’re give back the SI card, you go back to the bus and change your wet clothes to dry clothes. After that, we go eat our lunch. When everyone is done, we are heading back to school, when we are nearly there, Ms Fitzmaurice even buys ice-cream for us. In the placement, Matthew Kingston came first over all, and our team got 3^rd, and Matthew Kingston came first in the sixth class event. The top four of our team are Matthew, Ben, Charlie O’Sullivan and Wallace, so we are getting bronze medals. We would like to say thank you to Ms Fitzmaurice, Ms O’Keeffe and Teresa for helping us for orienteering.

Grandparents Day A Celebration of Grandparents Everywhere!

The Boys from 1 st and 3 rd class completed projects on their much loved Grandparents.
An invitation was sent out to all Grandparents to attend a presentation by the boys in the hall here in school. The boys presented projects, sang songs, recited poetry and asked the Grandparents about school in the past. Ms O’ Shea was busy the day before baking cookies for the Grandparents to enjoy with a cup of Tea afterwards in the hall.
The boy’s spoke with great confidence and the Grandparents were so proud and happy to share this lovely event together with all the boys form 1st and 3rd class. Huge thanks to Noreen for helping with the event, Ms Fitzmaurice, Ms O’ Shea, Ms Mc Carthy and Ms O’Regan who all helped to make this event a wonderful and memorable one!

4th Class Easter Hunt

The hunt was on in 4th Class today. It took a combined team effort to first solve the clues in order to find the next clues which led to Easter Eggs for the whole class. Can you solve them too.

Rang 6 with OT Karyn

Waiting for the new playground patiently

Scoilavision Interviews – Results

Rohan O’Donoghue and Eoin O’Sullivan have been appointed as IT/Video Managers

Jack Allen and Morgan Cregan have been appointed as Sound Crew Managers. Colin O’Reilly has been appointed as Assistant Sound Crew Manager. The Sound Crew members are Liam McCarthy, JJ O’Donnell, Oliver Hassett, Rian Kelleher, Ruarí O’Donnell, Finn McCarthy and Bobby Fitzgerald.

Joseph Cahalane, Matthew Afonso, Malachy Lyons, Ben O’Regan and Nicholas O’Sullivan were appointed as this year’s Producers for Scoilavision 2023.

Gavin O’Brien, Jim Darren La Madrid and Evan Grimes were appointed as our Graphic Designers.

Evan White, Harry Lyons, DJ O’Sullivan and Josh Wedlock have been appointed as Presenters.

Cillian Whooley, Luka Bosnaj, Fionn McCarthy, Tom Antoine, Tomás Lowery, Adrian McCarthy Keohane, Kevin O’Brien and Jacob Gallwey have been appointed as Judges.

1st class working with our OT Karyn

2nd/3rd class enjoying our brand new iPads

Junior Entrepreneur Update

5th Classes’ first batch of glass art fresh from the kiln today. What amazing creativity for their first effort. Much more to come; watch this space…

Treasure Hunt in Rang 3

Third class had a great time during their Easter treasure hunt. Each team had to solve  clues in both Irish and English to find five pieces of code which led them to the treasure. Well done third class!

Daffodil Day 

Over €1000 has been raised so far for Daffodil Day. We have extended the time for donations as we only recently held a collection for the Turkey / Syria Earthquake Victims. Many thanks for your support. Please also see below Rang 7 enjoyed Daffodil Day by creating their own personalised daffodils!

Glass art in 5th/6th Class

The boys in 5th/6th have been busy this week making glass art pieces. This is all part of the work going into Junior Entrepreneur this year, led by Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan in 5th class. Updates to follow after they come out of the kiln!

Chess Teams have great success in Enniskeane

160 pupils from Inishannon to Eyries attended the finals in Enniskeane yesterday (Wednesday 22nd of March). All the teams had quailified from the groups so the competition was high. We had 4 teams in the competition who had qualified – 1 Budding Master’s team and 3 Masters teams.

The boys were accompanied by Ms. Carol O’Boyle and Ms. O’Keeffe. In the end we were delighted with the results:

Budding Masters Competition:
SnB’s team came 1st.

Masters Competiton
SnB’s A team came 1st
SnB’s B team came 2nd
SnB’s C team came 4th.

Many thanks to Ms. Niamh Mac Auley, Ms. Gillian Galvin, Ms. Laura Connolly and Mr. David Lynch for staying behind after school since October to help out with our Chess Club.

‘Sing Choir Snb’ –  100 Voices Concert –  A Celebration of Positivity through Music and the Arts

This year we have decided to run a choir with the boys from 1st 2/3^rd 3^rd and 4^th Classes.

This Choir Project began back in 2019 with Mrs. Marie Hayes and Ms. Karen O’ Regan they felt it was such a fantastic experience for all involved it was one that needed to be repeated!

Bringing together one hundred voices is a powerful thing and an experience allowing every voice to count!

We will by the end of term 2 we will have completed a wonderful program of songs.

All the songs chosen have running themes of Love & Joy, Bravery & friendship, Appreciation, resilience and self belief. This Concert is a Celebration of Positivity through Music and the Arts , after recent times is now so important we promote a feeling of well being and no better way to instil this than through music Art and Drama and Dance.

We are honoured to have a brand new Song written by Mr Barth Harrington  entitled – “Without Music Life Would B Flat” this  upbeat  tune fits perfectly into our theme of songs , and we are so excited to perform this song with the help of some talented brothers from Snb! The B- Flats!

The boys will have a Performance concert on Thursday May 18^th at Scoil na mBuachaillí in our state of the art Hall with full sound and lighting to enhance this experience.

Thanks to the boys in the sound and lighting crews who are working so hard with the team to make this night a memorable one.

With the amazing artistic talents of Ms Kathyn O’Shea and Ms. Áine Mc Carthy , we will be hosting an Art Exhibition prior to the Concert. All songs have been interpreted through the Boys own original Art with the creative encouragement of their teachers.

We are so lucky to have the skilled and creative minds of Finbarr O’Connor, Mrs. Sam Aerts and Ms. Niamh Whelton who are helping to create a wonderful stage for these 100 voices to shine from

They are also helping to display all the Art for the Exhibition on the night .

Mrs. Elaine Connolly and Ms. Laura Connolly have been guiding the boys not only musically but through dance and mime to allow the boys to use movement and dance in a number of the performances on the night.

We are very proud to be signing one of our songs  “A Million Dreams”  using Lámh  with the help of Ms. Gillian Galvin, Mrs. Claire Kavanagh and Eilish McSweeney, a fundamental Signing method being actively used here in Snb!

On the performance night the boys will be accompanied by a live band, with Staff members, Mr Harrington, Ms Josie Files -who we are so delighted to have returning to us at Scoil na mBuachaillí, to accompany the choir on piano.

Mr. David Lynch, Mr. Paul Carmody  Ms Caoimhe Hennessy  and the talented pupils from 4^th 5^th and 6^th with add rhythm on Acoustic ,Electric and Bass Guitars. Tadhg will keep us up to beat with his magic ability on the drums!

Parents both past and present Margaret Deegan and  Anne Mc Carthy , will play Flute and Violin. What an amazing combination of talents!

We are making fantastic progress, and this is thanks to a wonderful team of Teachers Staff and Pupils. This will be an amazing night of Music Art movement and Fun. One not to be missed!

Tickets go on sale after Easter Break, keep an eye out on Aladdin .

Spring in Juniors A

Junior Infants are exploring all thing ‘Spring’ at the moment. We are singing Spring songs, looking out for signs of Spring outside and enjoying some Spring Aistear activities.

Planting in Rang 3

Third Class have been very busy doing a little spring gardening. They planted cress and cat grass in potatoes and have been keeping a close eye on whose potato head has the longest ‘hair’! They’re also been taking turns watering them daily to ensure optimum growth.

Mother’s Day in Rang 1/2 & Rang 3

Third Class made some beautiful glass ornaments for Mother’s Day. They helped prepare the glass before assembling their pieces and they were super-proud of their creations!

St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Clonakilty

Many thanks to Ms. Orla O’Keeffe for organising the Parade again this year. Thanks to all the children who attended and their parents. Thanks to Mrs. Elaine Connolly, Mrs. Marie Forristal, Ms. Kathyrn O’Shea, Mr. Seán Daly, Mr. Paul Carmody, Mr. David Lynch for helping out on the day.

Green Schools Designathon

The boys in 5^th/6^th and 6^th class have been working hard for the past month on their Green Schools project. In groups of three, we researched environmental issues and then tried to come up with an idea that could tackle some of these problems. After a lot of hard work we whittled it down to eight ideas. The boys built prototypes and made a presentation to both classes which was judged by Mr. Daly, Ms. MacAuley and Ms. Fitzmaurice. In the end Oisin Cronin, Wallace Chen and Olan White were successful with their idea, a solar powered bin for beaches, towns and homes which will scan the item’s bar code and then sort it into the appropriate green bin. What a fantastic practical idea, which will now be sent to Green Schools Ireland. We wish them the best of luck!

St. Patrick’s Day Parade in SnB

Live Storytelling with Liz Weir 

Ms O’Neill’s Senior Infants and Ms Galvin’s Rang 7 recently enjoyed a live storytelling from Irish storyteller and children’s writer Liz Weir. 

She shared stories about fairies, magic and leprechauns just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. 

FAI 5-a-side soccer blitz

Two teams from 6th class represented SNB at the annual FAI schools 5 a side blitz in Carrigaline on Monday the 13th of March. The B team played five group games and were hugely competitive against large city schools. The A team were incredible, winning all five of their group games and winning their group. They progressed to a quarter final which they won in added time. They then played a semi-final against Crosshaven and were narrowly beaten 3 goals to 2 in the end. Well done to the boys involved, who represented their school so well.

Naomh Pádraig Rap. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Filmed and edited by Rohan O’Donoghue, Eoin O’Sullivan and Olan Quirke. Rap composed by Ms. Karen O’Regan.

Seachtain na Gaelige was in full swing in Scoil na mBuachaillí this year, The boys were greeted at morning yard with traditional Irish music playing.
The teachers had a vigilant eye and hear to see who was making an extra effort chun Gaeilge a úsaid timpeall na scoile – using Irish around school!
The boys had great fun learning Irish dancing to the music Dance over the Rainbow with the talented Mrs Connolly. The boys performed this dance in the yard hall and classrooms throughout the week
The boys with the help of 6th class and Ms McCauley recorded an original rap for St Patrick ’s Day entitled Naomh Pádraig.
Boys from every class in Scoil na mBuachaillí took part in the filming of a music video to accompany the rap recording- this even featured our very own Noreen and Mr Harrington.
Josh from 6th class was an outstanding St Patrick looking to take over Scoil na mBuachaillí! He was accompanied by his Snb crew and some Talented Beat Boxing from Wayne in 6th Class also!
The video is now on our links in celebration of Seachtain na Gaeilge and St Patricks Day 2023
Many thanks to Eoin , Rowan, and Olan – for the amazing filming and editing of the Video. All the wonderful Boys who took part in the Video, the amazing voices of 1st -6th Class for the rap recording.
Thank you also to all the teachers who helped to make this Seachtain na Gaeilge a great one.
Gach duine ag obair le chéile chun Gaeilge agus ár gCúltúr a celuireadh . –All who worked together to celebrate our Language and Culture.

When the teacher becomes the student! 

Purple Blues – 6th Class Band – singing Coldplay’s Yellow

6th class dancing with Mrs Connolly for Seachtain na Gaeilge

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Planting Sunflowers in 1st/2nd Class

On Thursday 1st/2nd class started learning about flowers, how to plant them and help them to grow. The boys then had the opportunity to plant their own sunflowers! We will watch them grow over the next number of weeks and look forward to brightening up the classroom with some sunflowers!

Helpful at a Maths Lesson in 1st class-5th and 6th Class Boys! 

Engineering Week

This week is Engineering Week and so they boys are solving problems by designing, building, reviewing and testing their creations. In light of the cake sale in aid of the horrendous earthquake in Turkey and Syria, we designed Earthquake Safe Towers. The boys worked well within their teams and came up with interesting designs using marshmallows and dried spaghetti. A quick shake of a table brought some crashing down, whilst others remained stable. Not all of the marshmallows survived this investigation!

The boys in 4th class undertook an investigation to find out how to protect a raw egg following a tragic incident involving their teacher’s lunch!

The aim of the exercise was to design, create and test a cushioned case for protecting an egg when dropped from a table. There was great teamwork on display here.

Take a look at their efforts.

1st/2nd Class building for Engineering Week

On Tuesday 1st and 2nd class looked at buildings and the structures of buildings to help them stand upright as part of Engineering Week. We had a competition to build the tallest, free standing tower. However, the only materials the boys had to build their towers were marshmallows and spaghetti! The boys did an excellent job and had great fun building!

5th class Engineering, they engaged in some activities for engineering week. 

We made: Balloon powered Lego cars which we tested on different surfaces. Paper airplanes and measured the distance each one travelled. 

Rang 7 enjoyed Engineers Week by using magnets to explore magnetic and non-magnetic materials around the school!

For Engineer’s Week third class worked in groups against the clock to build some very interesting bridges! Each group only had 8 lollipop sticks and 8 wooden blocks and the challenge was to build the longest possible bridge using only these materials. Well done third class, you showed great teamwork and problem solving skills!

Cake Sale raises €2851.00

Many thanks to everyone for their support of our Cake Sale held on Friday 3rd of March. We raised €2851 for the victims of the Turkey and Syria Earthquake. Many thanks to Ms. Orla O’Keeffe for organising this event.

5 a side Soccer Trials

Many thanks to Mr. Seán Daly for organising the Soccer Trials for Rang 6 recently. Thanks also to Mr. Paul Carmody and Mrs. Marie Forristal also.

JEP Dragons

Many thanks to Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan and Mr. Seán Daly for inviting the Dragons – Noel White, Stephen Hayes, Catherine Murphy and Kate Fitzgerald to SnB. It was a great day.

New iPads

Good news. Our new iPads have arrived. We recently bought 16 iPads and a Charging Cart to hold them. Eolann, Eoin and Rohan did a great job sorting the iPads and the charging cart. We are all looking forward to using these iPads once they are all organised.

World Book Day

6th class read their own stories to Ms O’Neill’s, Ms Crowley’s and Mr Carmody’s class today for World Book Day. 

School Garden

Every day at lunch break Dylan Walsh. Evan Mc Auliffe Aherne and Liam Mc McCarthy go to the garden. We have a lot of tools, wheelbarrows, hoes, shovels and rakes. We take turns doing jobs every day. We dig the soil and brush the yard. We plant vegetables for example potatoes. There are onions and rhubarb already planted. We will be planting lots of new vegetables and flowers. We really love helping Ms Fitzmaurice.
Written by Liam Mc Carthy and Kian O’Donovan

Mrs. Connolly’s Star Pupils

Ayaan did some fabulous writing with Mrs. Connolly. Well done Ayaan.

Global Schools in Rang 6 & 5/6

2023/2024 Calendar

2022/2023 Calendar

School Fees 2022/2023

If you are worried about any of the fees below – please don’t worry! Contact Barth Harrington on 023 8834487 to discuss the matter.

Art and Craft (all classes) (€12) + Drama (€2): €14.00 Christmas Magazine 2022/2023: €5.00 (all classes) Elocution (all classes): €8.50 French Lessons Term 1 (Rang 2 – Rang 6): €8.00 French Lessons Term 2 (Rang 2 – Rang 6): €8.00 Photocopying & Printing (all classes): €20.00 Rental Scheme (Rang 1 – Rang 6): €30.00 Swimming (Rang 1 – Rang 6): €49.00 Zumba dancing (Special classes, Junior Infants – Rang 2/3): €6.00

Optional Milk Term 3 | April – June 2023 (All Classes) | €?

Music Lessons (Optional) Music enrolment for 2022 /2023 Term 1 (these lessons are optional) Please note: your child can only study 2 instruments maximum. Cajon Lessons with Laurie Hedger (Rang 1 – Rang 6) €20 Drum Lessons with Laurie Hedger (Rang 3 – Rang 6): €40 Brass Instruments with Adrian Hanley (the instrument will be supplied to the child) (Rang 3 – Rang 6): €150 Kay O’Flynn: Guitar (Rang 2 – Rang 6): €84 Kay O’Flynn: Keyboard (Rang 2 – Rang 6): €84 Kay O’Flynn: Tin Whistle (Senior Infants – Rang 6): €84 Kay O’Flynn: Accordion (Individual lessons): (Rang 2 – Rang 6): €110 Conan GAA Coaching: €5

Gentleman, Lift Off Boy, PenMan of the Week & Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine

Advertising

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2022 – 2023 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.

Old Brewery Montessori School

Clonakilty Park Cinema

The Emmet Hotel

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

Basketball 22/23: 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 ‘22/23: will start soon. Classes from Rang 3 – Rang 6 will be participating. This will start in November.

Chess: is now drawing to a close. Only the school teams are playing.

Soccer Competitions

Senior Infants Soccer
Held on Fridays only
Rang 1 & Rang 2
Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Teams are on website.
Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 & Rang 6
Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and 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 Rang 1/2 and Rang 4 started on the 9th of December, finishing on the 27th of January, 2023.

Wardens – every year Rang 6 act as School Wardens. The scheme is up and running. Thanks to our team of SET teachers who are looking after the wardens again this year. Thanks also to Chris Hinchy for his help again this year.

25,000 Bottles refilled at the Water Cooler

P.E. / Soccer Timetable

Class	Soccer	P.E.
Junior Infants (Mrs. Marie Forristal)	Not applicable	Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Junior Infants /Senior Infants (Ms. Michelle O’Neill)	Fridays for Seniors	Wednesdays and Fridays
Rang 1 (Ms. Kathryn O’Shea / Ms. Karen O’Regan	Tuesdays and Thursdays	Tuesdays and Fridays
Rang 1 / 2 (Miss Therese Crowley	Tuesdays & Thursdays for Rang 1 Mondays & Wednesdays for Rang 2	Tuesdays and Thursdays
Rang 2/3 (?)	Mondays & Wednesdays for Rang 2 Mondays for Rang 3	Mondays and Fridays
Rang 3 (?)	Mondays	Mondays and Thursday
Rang 4 (Mrs. Marie Hayes)	Tuesdays	Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Rang 5 (Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan)	Wednesdays	Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Rang 5/6 (Mr. Seán Daly)	Wednesdays for Rang 5 Thursdays for Rang 6	Mondays and Fridays
Rang 6 (Ms. Niamh Mac Auley)	Thursdays	Tuesdays and Thursdays

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.

“Cent” Box – Thorntree Project

“Cent” boxes will continue this year.
Rang 5 (Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan) and Rang 5/6(Mr. Seán Daly) will be in charge of this and will inform you later of how it will be organised. We have been assisting the Thorntree Project since 2015, when we release a Christmas single “Butterfly Child”. Please support this worthy cause, when asked to do so.

Nut Allergy – IMPORTANT!

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.

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.