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Volume 16, Issue 03

November | An Samhain 2010

Linking home and school.

“This school should be used as a model for other schools

around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science

Email: snbclonakilty. [email protected]

Website Address: www.snbclonakilty.com Telephone/Fax: 023-8834487

Christmas Carol Service/ Lighting of the

Remembrance: Tuesday 7th of December

at 7.30 p.m. in the Parish Church.

No school: Wednesday 8th of December.

Christmas Magazine out: Thursday 9th of

December.

Early closing: Thursday 23rd of Decem-

ber, 12.00 p.m.

Back to school after Christmas Holidays:

Monday 10th of January, 2011

Staff Meeting: Wednesday 16th of Febru-

ary, home at 1.30p.m.

Mid Term Break: Monday 21st and Tues-

day 22nd of February.

Parent/Teacher Meetings: Thursday 3rd of

March.

School Closed: Thursday 17th and Friday

18th of March.

Confirmation: Tuesday 22nd of March

10.30a.m.

Easter Holidays: Friday 15th of April, clos-

ing at 12.00p.m.

Back to school: Tuesday 3rd of May.

First Holy Communion: Saturday 21st of

May.

Many thanks to the Parents’

Association who recently at

their A.G.M. donated €12000

to the school. €5000 of this

was use to purchase the Liter-

acy Lift Off Books and the

remainder €7000 will be put

towards our new building. As

you can see from above we

now owe €64,000.

Pictured on the right is our

new Parents’ Association - Majella Latimer

(Chairperson), Pat Murphy (Vice Chairperson),

Ray Daly (Treasurer), Linda White (Vice Treas-

urer), Louise Cullinane (Secretary) and Ber

Scally (PRO).

Best wishes to our outgoing committee (pictured

on top) for all their hard work and commitment

to Scoil na mBuachaillí.

Hire some fun for any occasion

Phone: Clonakilty 023 88 35595

Mobile: 086 8315744

Bantry: 027 50713

Mobile: 087 9081273

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Pictured above: Parents’ Association AGM, Successful teams in Ahamilla football competition, Tae

Kwondo winner, Sciath na Scol competition and Learner’s Chess starts.


All cans

g r a t e -

f u l l y

received . Please contact the school if you have any query

re. this matter. The money that is collected by this scheme

is used in the school garden.

This is our 15th year of our Christmas Annual and we are extremely

grateful to all the businesses in Clonakilty who support us every year

by placing advertisements in the publication. The money raised by

the Annual is used to pay for ink etc for our printer which is used by

all the children and staff of the school.

Please encourage your child to put something into the magazine - it

could be a joke, a puzzle, a story, a poem, a picture, a crossword - in

fact anything at all will be considered. Just please follow the rules

below:

1. Please put your name and age at the top of the article.

2. If possible write your article in Times New Roman, size 10.

3. When naming your story put your own name in the file name

- in case another child has the same story.

4. Don’t have the story too long - as there is limited space.

5. Send in your story - by email if you wish - to …...

[email protected] or type it in your classroom

and the boys in Rang 6 will help you to save it.

Thanks to the boys in Rang 6 who are helping each class with the

magazine, thanks also to the teachers, SNA, Finbarr and Thelma for

their assistance. Below is a list of the boys who are helping the class-

rooms:

Editor: Paul O’Regan

Assistant Editor: Jack Lynch

Junior Infants: Colin and Shane Sexton

Junior and Senior Infants: Stephen Skinner, Páraic Halligan and

Senior Infants: David Spearman, Dylan O’Driscoll and Jake Cronin

Rang 1: Conor Hourihane and Chris O’Donovan

Rang 1/2: Tom O’Donovan and James Hegarty

Rang 2/3: Cathal O’Regan and Peter O’Donoghue

Rang 3: Ruairí Coughlan and Nathan Holding

Rang 4: James Hayes and Joe Hughes

Rang 4/5: Cathal O’Sullivan and Robbie Matthews

Rang 5/6: Colin Deane and Bradleigh Williamson

Rang 6: Declan O’Sullivan and Matthew Ferguson

Reminder:

As we told you recently 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 NUTELLA!!!!

Please give your children water to drink coming

to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks. Also please

avoid crisps and chocolate products.

This year’s First Holy Communion will be held on

Saturday 21st of May at 11.00 a.m. in the Parish

Church. No date yet for First Confession or Class

mass.

Confirmation is being held on Tuesday 22nd of

March.

If your child has been baptised outside of the parish

of Clonakilty you must send in a copy of his Baptis-

mal Certificate.

If you have not done this already (most people did it

at enrolment) please do so immediately as the child

cannot receive the Sacrament of First Holy Com-

munion or Confirmation without this document.

This year due to the fact that the hall is out of action until after the Christmas Break (because of

our new classroom being built) we are unable to hold Christmas Concerts.

Instead we are going to hold a Christmas Carol Service in the Parish Church on the 7th of De-

cember at 7.30p.m..

It will be organised in the following groupings:

Juniors and Seniors Infants

Rang 1, 2, and 3

Rang 4, 5 and 6

Thank you to Elaine Connolly | Karen O’Regan | Maire Houstoun | Sarah O’Brien for coordi-

nating the service and to the staff of the school for preparing the children.

Children will be asked to wear appropriate costumes and it would be appreciated if you could

assist with this.

There will be a collection at the door for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. On the night we will

also light the Remembrance Tree near the Post Office.


The Loft Frames & Gallery

4 Western Road, Clonakilty, West Cork

Tel. 023 | 8835625 Open Tue - Sat 9.30 - 5.30

Our Links goes to all parents in the school - 10 times a year - at the beginning of each month. The cost is €20 per issue or at a dis-count of €150 for the entire year! Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested.

Scoil na mBuachaillí Sciath na Scol team

Presentation of framed photograph by James Connolly to Duncan Stewart

Clonakilty Duathlon presents cheque for €800 to the Parent’s Association

SEI workshops recently

Many thanks to Ms. O'Keeffe, Mrs. Connolly and all the

staff who organised this year’s Fancy Dress Parade and

Art and Story Competitions. Prizes were awarded to:

Picture Competition:

Junior Infants: Cameron Rose, Gearóid Coleman.

Senior Infants: Ayo Fagbemi, Mikolaj Chudoba

Rang 1: Akram Munezero, Simon Walsh

Rang 2: Craig Bateman, Maciek Bednarz

Story Competition:

Rang 3: Florrie McCarthy, Isaac O’Sullivan

Rang 4: Seth

O’Donovan, Ian

O’Keeffe

Rang 5: Jack

Archbold

Rang 6: Joe

Hughes, Declan

O’Sullivan


Sciath na Scol | GAA Training and

Matches have now finished. Thanks to Mr.

O’Brien for organising this again this year.

The boys won 4 of their matches and played

extremely well throughout the competition.

Thanks to all the parents and staff who

brought the boys to the matches: Therése

Hughes, Nicole Cronin, Helen O’Hea, Marga-

ret O’Regan, Clare O’Regan, Denis Enright,

Maura Deane, Maurice Shanley, John Cole-

man, Jerry O’Sullivan, Kathleen Doonan,

Maurice Shanley.

Basketball training has started for 5th and 6th

classes. Basketball is held on Mondays /

Thursday evenings. Please keep an eye on the

school website for information on matches

etc.

Quizzard ’10/11 will start after mid term

break and will run right up to the summer

holidays.

Chess – The Chess Club has started with the

largest number ever taking chess lessons: 32

are in the Learner’s Club and 44 are in the

Players’ Club. Learners’ will meet on Tues-

days and Players on Wednesdays.

Soccer Competitions – are well underway.

Children from Senior Infants to sixth class are

participating in the various competitions. All

teams are on our website.

Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class have

trained with Mr. Harte and Chris Hinchy for

Junior Warden Duty. We very much appreci-

ate their help and dedication every year with

the Junior Warden Scheme.

Orienteering - for boys in fifth and sixth

classes started last week.

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing /

Computer Lessons - have started for Rang 3,

Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6.

The following items can only be recycled in school: Milk

Cartons, clean paper and plastic.

All other items e.g. uneaten lunches, lunch wrapping, tin

foil etc must be brought home and disposed of there.

Sciath na Scol Competition

Baking in Rang 2 / Rang 3

Thanks to Mr. Harte for running the Homework

Club again this year. It runs on Tuesday and

Thursday afternoons - 3.00 - 4.00 p.m.

The Homework club has been very successful

over the past few years and it’s great to see it con-

tinuing. There are 24 boys in the club this year.

Santa envelopes are still on sale from Thelma as the

office for €1.00.

These are stamped and addressed to the North Pole for Santa. All

proceeds go to the Cork Simon Charity.


Any old school uniforms or

tracksuits would be more than

welcome.

If your child loses a jumper

please do not buy a new one -

first check to see if we have

one in the school that would fit

your child.

Parents: now that children are back

in school, please be vigilant and

check your child’s hair regularly

for headlice.

If you find any please notify the

school and we will send a note to

all parents in that class.

Thanks to

the Parent’s

Association

for organis-

i n g t h e

C h r i s t m a s

Raffle again

this year.

As in the past all monies raised by

the class will be spent by the class

teacher for the classroom.

More details about this raffle in

the next Links (though the tickets

may be handed out before that).

What is the Remembrance Tree?

The Remembrance Tree is an opportunity to remember your

love ones in a special way this Christmas.

For just €10 you can add your light to the tree. Your light can

now be purchased from Scoil na mBuachaillí or from any

member of the Parents’ Association. In December, the lights

will be on sale on the streets of Clonakilty.

What are the funds for?

The funds raised by this venture are being used for our new

extension (i.e. to pay back the money borrowed for our fabulous

extension) and for a local Charity. Thanks to this tree - all chil-

dren are being taught in permanent accommodation!

And........ If you are free to sell lights between 8th of December

and Christmas (for approx. two hours) please contact Thelma at

the school - 8834487.

Lighting Up Ceremony

The Lighting up Ceremony will be held on the night of the Christmas Carol Service,

7th of December.


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Thank you to all the boys who have volunteered to sing car-

ols on the 8th of December outside O’Donovan’s Hotel at

12.00 p.m. approx.

We were hoping to get 20 boys as all the rehearsing is done

during the break times but we have more than 50!

Boys will assemble at O’Donovan’s 12.00—12.15p.m. and

will sing for approx. 30 - 45 mins. Bring Santa hats if you

have them and warm clothes.

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