12
Volume 20, Issue 06 Feabhra / February 2015 Linking home and school. Enrolling for next year: Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th of February @ 2.00 p.m. Midterm break: Thursday 19th and Friday 20th of February Parent’s Association Cake Sale: Fri- day 6th of March at 7.00 p.m. School closed: Tuesday 17th of March First Confession: Thursday 26th of March @ 7.30 p.m. Easter Holidays: Friday 27th of March @ 12.00 p.m. Back to school Monday 13th of April. Confirmation: Wednesday 29th of April, 2015. School closed: Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th of May. First Holy Communion: Saturday 23rd of May at 11.00 a.m. School closed: Monday 1st of June. Scoilavision 2015: Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29 th of January, there was a buzz around Scoil na mBuachaillí, as buses arrived with visiting schools from Macroom Convent and Barryroe National school. Our school hall was to be the venue for a singing workshop for the National Children’s Choir, with one hundred and fifteen children singing together in a choir of soprano and alto voices. All pupils had prepared nine songs from the repertoire of eighteen, and with the fantastic guidance of the musical director on the day Joan Marie, a very produc- tive rehearsal and workshop took place. All pupils mixed well and new friendships formed. Scoil na mBuachaillí was filled with beautiful harmo- nies throughout the day as the snow began to fall si- lently outside. At the end of a hard but en- joyable days rehearsals, each pupil received a treat of crisps and a soft drink, this was generously provided by the parents Association. A huge thanks to all who helped to make this day a memorable one, Finbarr and the boys from 6 th for preparing the Hall, Thelma, Mr Duke Parents Association (especially Robert Hancock the chairperson of the parents Association) who helped distribute on the day!) And Mr Harrington for all the support and help in all things technical and practical! , and for allowing Scoil na mBuachaillí to host the 1 st rehearsals for The National Children’s Choir. It was a fantastic day and all visiting schools had a wonderful time! Continued on page 2 If you have a Smart phone just scan the QR Code on the right and it will bring you straight to our website. @snbclonakilty “This school should be used as a model for other schools around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science Email: [email protected] Website Address: www.snbclonakilty.com Mobile site: m.snbclonakilty.com Telephone/fax: 8834487 Twitter: @snbclonakilty Enrolment for next school year is on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th of February. Tours of the school start at 1.30 p.m. and end in the Junior Infants room where you can enrol your child. Please bring PPS number, Birth Certifi- cate and a Baptism Cert (if your son is a Catho- lic) with you on the day.

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Page 1: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Volume 20 Issue 06 Feabhra February 2015

Linking home and school

Enrolling for next year

Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th of

February 200 pm

Midterm break Thursday 19th and

Friday 20th of February

Parentrsquos Association Cake Sale Fri-

day 6th of March at 700 pm

School closed Tuesday 17th of March

First Confession Thursday 26th of

March 730 pm

Easter Holidays Friday 27th of March

1200 pm Back to school Monday

13th of April

Confirmation Wednesday 29th of

April 2015 School closed Monday 5th amp Tuesday

6th of May

First Holy Communion Saturday 23rd

of May at 1100 am

School closed Monday 1st of June

Scoilavision 2015 Wednesday June

17th 2015

Summer Holidays Friday 26th of June

1200 pm

Sixth class Party Friday

26th of June

Click here

On Thursday the 29th of January there was a buzz around Scoil na mBuachailliacute

as buses arrived with visiting schools from Macroom Convent and Barryroe

National school Our school hall was to be the venue for a singing workshop for

the National Childrenrsquos Choir with one hundred and fifteen children singing

together in a choir of soprano and alto voices

All pupils had prepared nine songs from the repertoire of eighteen and with the

fantastic guidance of the musical director on the day Joan Marie a very produc-

tive rehearsal and workshop took place

All pupils mixed well and

new friendships formed

Scoil na mBuachailliacute was

filled with beautiful harmo-

nies throughout the day as

the snow began to fall si-

lently outside

At the end of a hard but en-

joyable days rehearsals

each pupil received a treat

of crisps and a soft drink

this was generously provided by the parents Association

A huge thanks to all who helped to make this day a memorable one Finbarr and

the boys from 6th for preparing the Hall Thelma Mr Duke Parents Association

(especially Robert Hancock the chairperson of the parents Association) who

helped distribute on the day) And Mr Harrington for all the support and help in

all things technical and

practical and for allowing

Scoil na mBuachailliacute to host

the 1st rehearsals for The

National Childrenrsquos Choir

It was a fantastic day and

all visiting schools had a

wonderful time

Continued on page 2

If you have a Smart phone

just scan the QR Code on the

right and it will bring you

straight to our website

snbclonakilty

ldquoThis school should be used as a model for other schools

around the countryrdquo - The Minister for Education and Science

Email infosnbclonakiltycom

Website Address wwwsnbclonakiltycom Mobile site msnbclonakiltycom

Telephonefax 8834487

Twitter snbclonakilty

Enrolment for next school year is on Tuesday

10th and Wednesday 11th of February Tours

of the school start at 130 pm and end in the

Junior Infants room where you can enrol your

child Please bring PPS number Birth Certifi-

cate and a Baptism Cert (if your son is a Catho-

lic) with you on the day

Page 2 Volume 20 Issue 06

David OrsquoRegan amp Co Chartered Accountants

Registered Auditors

Our services include Financial Accounting amp

Bookkeeping

Audit amp assurance ndash Taxation Consultancy

Small amp Medium Business Support

Contractor Solutions HR amp Payroll

Company Secretarial amp Formation

Strategic amp Business Planning

Please contact

David OrsquoRegan on

Mob 087-2043800

Email daviddorie

Web wwwdorie

Hire some fun for any occasion

Phone Clonakilty

023 88 35595

Mobile 086

8315744

Bantry 027 50713

Mobile 087

9081273

The National Childrenrsquos Choir called Ms

Karen OrsquoRegan in September Schools

all over Ireland are participating There

are six schoolrsquos taking part in West Cork

There are 18 songs ranging from Irish

songs such as Duacuten Do Shuacuteile and Classi-

cal songs like Battle Hymn of the Re-

public Musical Favourites such as Sev-

enty - Six Trombones and the boys fa-

vourite World in Union

The boys are not just singing songs in

unison they are singing in alto and soprano lines There will be a

Gala Concert in May (Venue to be decided) ndashWatch this space

From this four boys will be chosen by the National Childrenrsquos

Choir to sing in the National Concert

Hall in Dublin in June with children

from all over Ireland

And we hope that the boys have a great

time

On January 29th 120 children gathered

in our hall in SnB to practise Children

from Macroom NS and Barryroe NS

attended We are indebted to the

Parentrsquos Association for providing

refreshments for all on the day

We are also indebted to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan and Mr Coman

Duke for teaching the boys all the songs and becoming involved

in this wonderful project

By Redoy Rana and Liam OrsquoConnell 4th5th

Best of luck to Ms Grace

OrsquoShea and our school Orient-

eering Teams who are travelling

to Fota on February 10th to com-

pete in the next round of the

competition - the CSOA Cham-

pionship

Thanks also to the other teachers

who are assisting on the day Ms

Fitzmaurice Ms Deasy Mrs

Connolly and Ms OrsquoKeeffe

Page 3 Volume 20 Issue 06

Click here

Click here

Basketball 1415 Basketball training is on

Tuesdays and Thursdays Keep an eye on the

Dates for your Diary section of the website

Quizzard rsquo1415 has started Classes from

Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be participating Ernie

McCarthy is in charge of the quiz this year

and has made out all the teams for

20142015 Liam Crowley and David Harte

are assisting

Chess started in October Check Dates for

your Diary if unsure about when itrsquos on

Thanks to Mr Gavin OrsquoRiordan for his as-

sistance

Soccer Competitions -

Senior Infants Soccer

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays or

Thursdays No Soccer on Friday Teams are

on website

Rang 1

Held on Tuesdays or Wednesdays Extra

dayrsquos soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1

and Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 2

Held on Mondays or Thursdays Extra dayrsquos

soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and

Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 3 - Rang 6

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays

and Thursdays depending on what team you

are on These are all up on the school web-

site - just click the Link on the right

Multi-Media Authoring Video Editing Computer Lessons

Coderdojo - for Rang 23 Rang 3 Rang 4 Rang 5 and Rang 6 has

started Many thanks to Margaret Deegan for her assistance

Swimming Ms Kathryn OrsquoShearsquos Ms Maire Houstounrsquos 1st class

and Ms Grace OrsquoShearsquos 5th class Next up Rang 34 and Rang 12

Wardens ndash Boys in fifthsixth class have trained with Mr Harte

for Junior Warden Duty Many thanks to Mr Harte

Choir - Ms Karen OrsquoRegan and Mr Coman Duke are at present

teaching songs to their classes in preparation for the National Chil-

drenrsquos Choir

Athletics Ms Mary Horgan is taking Rang 3 at present after school

on Wednesdays until 345 pm for a six week period After that the

next group from Mr Duke Ms OrsquoReganrsquos will start

GAA - Timmy Anglin

Rugby - Ian Rea

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

First Holy Communion 23rd of May 2015 at 1100

am First Confession Thursday 26th of March

730 pm Confirmation Wednesday 29th of April

2015 Children who were baptised outside of the par-

ish of Clonakilty will have to send in a copy of their

Baptismal Certificate (unless you have already done

so) Please send in these certificates as soon as you

can

A meeting of the Fundraising Committee was held

recently chaired by Mrs Noreen Minihan and secre-

tary Mrs Marie Forristal The following numbers

were drawn out 02 17 43 49 66 73 88 89 92

116 122

A total of euro5500 was re-

turned this year to Parents

Staff and friends of Scoil na

mBuachailliacute euro750 was given

to CUH Childrenrsquos Unit

Cork

So far since 2004 the Re-

membrance Tree has raised

euro7715235

There is now a total of

euro2297625 outstanding This

is made up of euro4000 which is owed to Parents Staff

and friends and the remainder euro1897625 is owed to

the Board of Management which we will continue to

pay off over the coming years Many thanks to all

who helped out in any way this Christmas

This yearrsquos Cake sale is being held on Friday 6th

March If you wish to help out please email the

school ring the school on 8834487 or give your

name to Rob Hancock or any member of the commit-

tee More details in the next Links

Liz OrsquoRegan has just

informed us that Daffo-

dil Day this year will be

held on the week of

Monday the 23rd of

March

More details in the next

Links

Page 4 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below JuniorsSeniors walk around Clon | Rang 6 help

with Remembrance Tree | Presentation to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan |

Christopher helps our Bug House | Christmas Crossword winners

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here Athletics with Ms Mary Horgan | Rang 3 amp Rang 4 start training

Page 5 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below Rang 4 practice for National Childrenrsquos Choir |

Rang 6 - Engineers |

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 2: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 2 Volume 20 Issue 06

David OrsquoRegan amp Co Chartered Accountants

Registered Auditors

Our services include Financial Accounting amp

Bookkeeping

Audit amp assurance ndash Taxation Consultancy

Small amp Medium Business Support

Contractor Solutions HR amp Payroll

Company Secretarial amp Formation

Strategic amp Business Planning

Please contact

David OrsquoRegan on

Mob 087-2043800

Email daviddorie

Web wwwdorie

Hire some fun for any occasion

Phone Clonakilty

023 88 35595

Mobile 086

8315744

Bantry 027 50713

Mobile 087

9081273

The National Childrenrsquos Choir called Ms

Karen OrsquoRegan in September Schools

all over Ireland are participating There

are six schoolrsquos taking part in West Cork

There are 18 songs ranging from Irish

songs such as Duacuten Do Shuacuteile and Classi-

cal songs like Battle Hymn of the Re-

public Musical Favourites such as Sev-

enty - Six Trombones and the boys fa-

vourite World in Union

The boys are not just singing songs in

unison they are singing in alto and soprano lines There will be a

Gala Concert in May (Venue to be decided) ndashWatch this space

From this four boys will be chosen by the National Childrenrsquos

Choir to sing in the National Concert

Hall in Dublin in June with children

from all over Ireland

And we hope that the boys have a great

time

On January 29th 120 children gathered

in our hall in SnB to practise Children

from Macroom NS and Barryroe NS

attended We are indebted to the

Parentrsquos Association for providing

refreshments for all on the day

We are also indebted to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan and Mr Coman

Duke for teaching the boys all the songs and becoming involved

in this wonderful project

By Redoy Rana and Liam OrsquoConnell 4th5th

Best of luck to Ms Grace

OrsquoShea and our school Orient-

eering Teams who are travelling

to Fota on February 10th to com-

pete in the next round of the

competition - the CSOA Cham-

pionship

Thanks also to the other teachers

who are assisting on the day Ms

Fitzmaurice Ms Deasy Mrs

Connolly and Ms OrsquoKeeffe

Page 3 Volume 20 Issue 06

Click here

Click here

Basketball 1415 Basketball training is on

Tuesdays and Thursdays Keep an eye on the

Dates for your Diary section of the website

Quizzard rsquo1415 has started Classes from

Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be participating Ernie

McCarthy is in charge of the quiz this year

and has made out all the teams for

20142015 Liam Crowley and David Harte

are assisting

Chess started in October Check Dates for

your Diary if unsure about when itrsquos on

Thanks to Mr Gavin OrsquoRiordan for his as-

sistance

Soccer Competitions -

Senior Infants Soccer

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays or

Thursdays No Soccer on Friday Teams are

on website

Rang 1

Held on Tuesdays or Wednesdays Extra

dayrsquos soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1

and Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 2

Held on Mondays or Thursdays Extra dayrsquos

soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and

Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 3 - Rang 6

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays

and Thursdays depending on what team you

are on These are all up on the school web-

site - just click the Link on the right

Multi-Media Authoring Video Editing Computer Lessons

Coderdojo - for Rang 23 Rang 3 Rang 4 Rang 5 and Rang 6 has

started Many thanks to Margaret Deegan for her assistance

Swimming Ms Kathryn OrsquoShearsquos Ms Maire Houstounrsquos 1st class

and Ms Grace OrsquoShearsquos 5th class Next up Rang 34 and Rang 12

Wardens ndash Boys in fifthsixth class have trained with Mr Harte

for Junior Warden Duty Many thanks to Mr Harte

Choir - Ms Karen OrsquoRegan and Mr Coman Duke are at present

teaching songs to their classes in preparation for the National Chil-

drenrsquos Choir

Athletics Ms Mary Horgan is taking Rang 3 at present after school

on Wednesdays until 345 pm for a six week period After that the

next group from Mr Duke Ms OrsquoReganrsquos will start

GAA - Timmy Anglin

Rugby - Ian Rea

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

First Holy Communion 23rd of May 2015 at 1100

am First Confession Thursday 26th of March

730 pm Confirmation Wednesday 29th of April

2015 Children who were baptised outside of the par-

ish of Clonakilty will have to send in a copy of their

Baptismal Certificate (unless you have already done

so) Please send in these certificates as soon as you

can

A meeting of the Fundraising Committee was held

recently chaired by Mrs Noreen Minihan and secre-

tary Mrs Marie Forristal The following numbers

were drawn out 02 17 43 49 66 73 88 89 92

116 122

A total of euro5500 was re-

turned this year to Parents

Staff and friends of Scoil na

mBuachailliacute euro750 was given

to CUH Childrenrsquos Unit

Cork

So far since 2004 the Re-

membrance Tree has raised

euro7715235

There is now a total of

euro2297625 outstanding This

is made up of euro4000 which is owed to Parents Staff

and friends and the remainder euro1897625 is owed to

the Board of Management which we will continue to

pay off over the coming years Many thanks to all

who helped out in any way this Christmas

This yearrsquos Cake sale is being held on Friday 6th

March If you wish to help out please email the

school ring the school on 8834487 or give your

name to Rob Hancock or any member of the commit-

tee More details in the next Links

Liz OrsquoRegan has just

informed us that Daffo-

dil Day this year will be

held on the week of

Monday the 23rd of

March

More details in the next

Links

Page 4 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below JuniorsSeniors walk around Clon | Rang 6 help

with Remembrance Tree | Presentation to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan |

Christopher helps our Bug House | Christmas Crossword winners

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here Athletics with Ms Mary Horgan | Rang 3 amp Rang 4 start training

Page 5 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below Rang 4 practice for National Childrenrsquos Choir |

Rang 6 - Engineers |

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 3: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 3 Volume 20 Issue 06

Click here

Click here

Basketball 1415 Basketball training is on

Tuesdays and Thursdays Keep an eye on the

Dates for your Diary section of the website

Quizzard rsquo1415 has started Classes from

Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be participating Ernie

McCarthy is in charge of the quiz this year

and has made out all the teams for

20142015 Liam Crowley and David Harte

are assisting

Chess started in October Check Dates for

your Diary if unsure about when itrsquos on

Thanks to Mr Gavin OrsquoRiordan for his as-

sistance

Soccer Competitions -

Senior Infants Soccer

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays or

Thursdays No Soccer on Friday Teams are

on website

Rang 1

Held on Tuesdays or Wednesdays Extra

dayrsquos soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1

and Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 2

Held on Mondays or Thursdays Extra dayrsquos

soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and

Rang 2 Teams are on website

Rang 3 - Rang 6

Held on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays

and Thursdays depending on what team you

are on These are all up on the school web-

site - just click the Link on the right

Multi-Media Authoring Video Editing Computer Lessons

Coderdojo - for Rang 23 Rang 3 Rang 4 Rang 5 and Rang 6 has

started Many thanks to Margaret Deegan for her assistance

Swimming Ms Kathryn OrsquoShearsquos Ms Maire Houstounrsquos 1st class

and Ms Grace OrsquoShearsquos 5th class Next up Rang 34 and Rang 12

Wardens ndash Boys in fifthsixth class have trained with Mr Harte

for Junior Warden Duty Many thanks to Mr Harte

Choir - Ms Karen OrsquoRegan and Mr Coman Duke are at present

teaching songs to their classes in preparation for the National Chil-

drenrsquos Choir

Athletics Ms Mary Horgan is taking Rang 3 at present after school

on Wednesdays until 345 pm for a six week period After that the

next group from Mr Duke Ms OrsquoReganrsquos will start

GAA - Timmy Anglin

Rugby - Ian Rea

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

First Holy Communion 23rd of May 2015 at 1100

am First Confession Thursday 26th of March

730 pm Confirmation Wednesday 29th of April

2015 Children who were baptised outside of the par-

ish of Clonakilty will have to send in a copy of their

Baptismal Certificate (unless you have already done

so) Please send in these certificates as soon as you

can

A meeting of the Fundraising Committee was held

recently chaired by Mrs Noreen Minihan and secre-

tary Mrs Marie Forristal The following numbers

were drawn out 02 17 43 49 66 73 88 89 92

116 122

A total of euro5500 was re-

turned this year to Parents

Staff and friends of Scoil na

mBuachailliacute euro750 was given

to CUH Childrenrsquos Unit

Cork

So far since 2004 the Re-

membrance Tree has raised

euro7715235

There is now a total of

euro2297625 outstanding This

is made up of euro4000 which is owed to Parents Staff

and friends and the remainder euro1897625 is owed to

the Board of Management which we will continue to

pay off over the coming years Many thanks to all

who helped out in any way this Christmas

This yearrsquos Cake sale is being held on Friday 6th

March If you wish to help out please email the

school ring the school on 8834487 or give your

name to Rob Hancock or any member of the commit-

tee More details in the next Links

Liz OrsquoRegan has just

informed us that Daffo-

dil Day this year will be

held on the week of

Monday the 23rd of

March

More details in the next

Links

Page 4 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below JuniorsSeniors walk around Clon | Rang 6 help

with Remembrance Tree | Presentation to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan |

Christopher helps our Bug House | Christmas Crossword winners

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here Athletics with Ms Mary Horgan | Rang 3 amp Rang 4 start training

Page 5 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below Rang 4 practice for National Childrenrsquos Choir |

Rang 6 - Engineers |

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 4: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 4 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below JuniorsSeniors walk around Clon | Rang 6 help

with Remembrance Tree | Presentation to Ms Karen OrsquoRegan |

Christopher helps our Bug House | Christmas Crossword winners

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here Athletics with Ms Mary Horgan | Rang 3 amp Rang 4 start training

Page 5 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below Rang 4 practice for National Childrenrsquos Choir |

Rang 6 - Engineers |

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 5: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 5 Volume 20 Issue 06

Pictured below Rang 4 practice for National Childrenrsquos Choir |

Rang 6 - Engineers |

There are loads more photos going with this

Links online gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

Click here

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 6: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 6 Volume 20 Issue 06

Photos

Getting ready

for the Inter

School De-

bate next

week v Cas-

tleack Na-

tional School

Debate

chaired by

Paul King-

ston

Click here

All cans gratefully received

Please contact Ms Regina Fitz-

maurice if you have any query

re this matter Many thanks to

Ms Fitzmaurice She and her

class will also look after the

school garden and glasshouse

The money that is collected by

this scheme is used in the school

garden Thanks to Cian and

Jack for helping with cans this

year

Hello my name is David Harte and I am the captain of

the school debating team this year The debating season

has begun On the first Monday of February (2022015)

we shall be debating against Castlelack NS from Bandon

The debate will be held in this school The team is Diar-

muid Caverly Dan Peet and myself The substitutes are

Liam Crowley James OrsquoRegan and Philip Walsh The

researchers are Craig Bateman Mark Allman Eoghan

Ferguson and Paul Kingston The topic of the debate is

ldquoEvery child of school going age should have a mobile

phonerdquo We will be proposing the debate while they will

be opposing it We had a practise debate last Tuesday in

our classroom The teams were Myself Diarmuid and

Dan against Liam James and Philip Paul Kingston was

the chairperson and he did a great job Ms OrsquoShearsquos and

Ms OrsquoReganrsquos classes were in attendance It was a much

heated debate and when it got to the crossfire roundhellipwell

lets just say no one held anything back Overall it was a

good day and a brilliant challenge so now we know what

to expect against Castlelack Irsquoll let you know in the next

Links how we get on

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 7: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 7 Volume 20 Issue 06

If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2014-2015 please let Thelma 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 The cost is euro20 per issue or at a discount of euro150 for the entire year Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested

Thanks to Blaise McCarthy Dan Twomey and Leon Krawczyk

who are responsible for the collection for Just One this year

So far they have collected euro17672 for the Charity Decemberrsquos

monies are not included in the above amount

This very popular scheme has started again for all

classes except Junior Infants Stamps cost euro1

each Junior Infants will start collecting later in

the year

Thanks to Eileen OrsquoDonovan for her assistance

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surf-

ing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use it for Kayaking

Thanks to Ms Sineacutead OrsquoRegan for organising Green Schools

in SnB again this year

This year World Book

Day will be held on

Thursday 5th of March

The theme will be ldquoComic

Stripsrdquo Your sonrsquos class

teacher Mr OrsquoDriscoll

will explain whatrsquos in-

volved next week

This event as always is

being organised by Mr

Tadhg OrsquoDriscoll

This will again further our

Literacy Work in the

school encouraging the

children to read and dis-

cuss what they are read-

ing

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 8: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 8 Volume 20 Issue 06

Parents now that children are back in school please be

vigilant and check your childrsquos hair regularly for head-

lice If you find any please notify the school and we will

send a note to all parents in that class

It would be so much safer if you did not bring chil-

dren across the road by the hand at 300 pm often

crossing between cars and traffic which can be danger-

ous and may even encourage another child to attempt

the same on his own with possible disastrous conse-

quences

Please always use the wardens when on duty and at

the very least the zebra crossing which is there for this

purpose

Thank you

Good luck to Ms Fitzmaurice and the school Quiz teams in the Credit

Union Quiz on Sunday 1st of February

Many thanks to Ms Fitzmaurice for organising this in our school

A number of boys in the school are allergic to nuts and

for them any contact with nuts or products containing

traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTEL-

LA

Please be aware of this when organising your childrsquos

lunch and if possible do not allow your child to bring

anything containing nuts to school Your help in this

matter is very much appreciated

ps Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 9: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 9 Volume 20 Issue 06

As you may know we are now running the LITERACY LIFT-OFF PRO-

GRAMME throughout the school (from Junior Infants ndash Sixth)

Part of this programme requires a parentcarer to read with their child EVERY

DAY at home

In the Junior classes the entire short book is to be read and in the Senior Clas-

ses it may be a chapter of the book

The parent carer then signs the sheet accompanying the book It should be

an enjoyable session taking no more than ten minutes

After reading you might discuss the book eg What do you think is going to happen What was your favourite part Did you

like the ending Who was your favourite character Can you relate to what happened

If you have any concerns about helping your child to read you can contact your class teacher or Ms Carol OrsquoBoyle at 8834487

Please ask Thelma to make an appointment You will be amazed the difference your input can make to your childrsquos reading

To be a good reader takes PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE It is so important that you play your part

If you would like to help out and be part of our LLO team we would very much appreciate it Please contact Carol at

8834487 We are extremely fortunate that we have so many willing to help in the school - without their help we could not

run the programme

REMEMBER PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD RETURNS HIS BOOKS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL THEY ARE

NEEDED BY YOUR SON OR BY OTHER CHILDREN

This is very important as a lot of teaching time can be lose ringing parents to bring back books to the school Itrsquos in every-

onersquos interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents

WANTED Any spare booksnovels would be greatly appreciated by Carol OrsquoBoyle the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team

Good luck to Ms Grace OrsquoShea and the school basketball team who

are travelling to Cork on Monday 3rd of February to compete in the

interschool basketball competition

Many thanks to Ms OrsquoShea for coaching the boys after school

throughout the year Thanks also to the parents and Mary Buckley

Healy who are bringing the boys to Cork

Our annual Spelling

Bee will take place in

the next two weeks in

the school

Boys from Rang 5

agus Rang 6 will

participate and just

one boy will qualify

to go to Cork to com-

pete in the County

Competition

The competition is

being organised by Ms Fitzmaurice Mr Harte Ms

OrsquoKeeffe Ms OrsquoRegan and Ms OrsquoShea in our

school and we thank them for giving the boys the

opportunity to participate in this National Competi-

tion

Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

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Page 10 Volume 20 Issue 06

Step it Up Rang 3 | Project Work Rang 3

In September we decided that if you got five Friday tests

right instead of written homework you could create a

project and present it on Friday Gearoacuteid Coleman Don-

nacha Walsh and James Murnane did power points on

America Subaru cars and Real Madrid Jude McCarthy

did a movie about Lego Shane O Regan and Gergely

Svzios were the first to create projects Eoin Farrell

Cameron Rose Eamonn OrsquoDonovan and Odhran Mul-

cahy created posters on their favourite topics Lego Mo-

torbikes London Liverpool Manchester United Coral

Reefs and Lionel Messi

In January we started group projects in school We did

Viking projects in groups on Longboats Viking settle-

ments Viking houses who were the Vikings Viking

Gods Weapons and round towers Some

groups created models of long houses long-

boats and weapons Others created power

points on Viking Gods Viking Longboats

Some people made small books posters and

maps It was very fun making the projects

By Jude McCarthy and Fionnaacuten Bennett

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 11: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Page 11 Volume 20 Issue 06

These boys have made an extra effort to be polite and ldquogentlemanlyrdquo during the month of January and are deemed to be Gentlemen of

the Month - Duncan Rose Darragh Murphy Eoghan Minihan and James Maguire

Pictured below ldquoGentlemen of the Weekrdquo during the month of January

2015

Reminder

If you are not collecting your child on a particular day but a

friend or a relative is please notify us about this by

a note in your childrsquos baglunchbox

telephone the school on 8834487

email the school on infosnbclonakiltycom

James O Regan 6th class

Recently in Scoil na mBuachailliacute Finbarr built a bug hotel Finbarr has made many

great things in this school but this is one of the best Ms Fitzmaurice and the pupils

of 6th class have filled the bug hotel up using wine corks wood blocks kindling old

carpet straw and pine cones We hope to position the bug hotel in the school garden

in February so watch out for the official opening We hope to see lots of little bugs

living in there over the next few months It is a great addition to our garden and we

love it

Many thanks to Finbarr for building it for us Thanks also to Cian Cullinane for

bringing in blocks Chris Harrington for all the wine corks and everyone else who

brought in things for the hotel

As we all begin to get busy in the garden we will have other projects coming up so watch this space

Dear Parents a number of fees are still outstanding for Term 2 We

will send a reminder in February to the relevant parents

Photocopying (Term 2) euro1000

French Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) euro600

Elocution (Ms Horganrsquos Ms OrsquoNeillrsquos Ms K OrsquoShearsquos Ms

Houstounrsquos Mrs Breen OrsquoRiordan and Mr OrsquoRiordan) euro700 Most parents paid for the above in September

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

Thank you very much to Roni Collins and Tom Mannix for your

recent kindness to the school

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015

Page 12: “This school should be used as a model for other …Summer Holidays: Friday 26th of June @ 12.00 p.m. Sixth class Party: Friday 26th of June Click here On Thursday the 29th of January,

Your child will experience the

following activities during his time in

SnB

Orienteering | Basketball | Athletics

Chess

DIY

GAA Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama Musicals amp

Elocution

French

Music ndash Guitar Keyboard Drums

Tin Whistle Accordion Brass

Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew ndash work with Mixing

desks microphones digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers ndash Word Processing

Multimedia Authoring Website

Design etc

Video Editing and Film making

Quizzes Inter School Debating

Spelling Bee

Literacy Lift Off throughout

Reading Recovery

Maths Recovery

Christmas Annual

Swimming Surfing and Kayaking etc

OPEN DAY AND TOUR OF THE SCHOOL This year again there is an Open Day and a Tour of the School on both enrolment days This

starts at 130 pm sharp and you will have the opportunity to view the school and experience the

activities available in the school After the tour there will be refreshments available You can

then enrol your child in the Infant classroom after the tour

What to bring with you on the day

Your child

Your childrsquos PPS No | Your childrsquos Birth Certificate

Your childrsquos Baptismal Certificate (if your child is a Catholic and baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish)

Your Email Address and Mobile Phone Number (for Text a Parent)

If the times above are not suitable please contact the school at 8834487 or E-Mail us at

infosnbclonakiltycom | Web Site httpwwwsnbclonakiltycom | Twitter snbclonakilty

is enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children onis enrolling new Junior Infantsnew children on

Tuesday 10Tuesday 10thth and Wednesday 11and Wednesday 11thth of February 2015of February 2015