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Volume 21, Issue 06

Feabhra 2016 / February 2016

Linking home and school.

Enrolling for September 2016: 9th

and 10th of February, 2016 Midterm Break: 18th & 19th of February. General Election: Friday 26th of February. School

Closed. Easter Holidays: Closing 12.00 p.m. 16th of

March, return to school 4th of April. Tea Party in Ahamilla on Friday 8th April, 8p.m. School Closed: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

2nd to 4th inclusive of May, 2016. First Holy Communion: date is set for Saturday

28th of May, 2016. School Closed: Monday and Tuesday 6th and 7th

of June, 2016. Summer Musical Macbeth - the Musical 2016:

Tuesday 21st, Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th of June 2016. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE. Summer Holidays: Thursday 30th of

June @ 12.00 p.m.

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The Credit Union Quiz Sean Hargaden. 6th Class On the 31st of January 2016 the U13 and U11 quiz team went to Fernhill House Hotel to compete in the credit union quiz. The U13 team was Liam Knowles, Chris Kenneally, Dan Twomey and myself. The U11 team was Jude Mc Car-thy, Cahal Curtin, Jack O’ Crowley and Conor Daly. The team manager was Daniel Daly. U11 were in competition A and U13 were in competition B. There were 12 rounds in all with 6 questions in each round. The U11 team did very well and we were delighted when we heard we were in a tie breaker with 2 other schools for 1st place in the U13 competition. The three tie breaker questions were really hard. One of the questions was ‘In what year was an assassination attempt made on Ronald Regan and Pope John Paul?’ We couldn’t believe it when they called us out as winners of the overall competition. We were delighted. We had to wait to get our photo taken and the four of us got a certificate and 25 euros! We would like to thank Ms Fitzmaurice for coaching us and we are real-

ly looking forward to the next event which is in February in Cork.

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

A total of €3638.28 was raised this past Christmas from the Remem-brance Tree.

The fundraising committee is meeting next week to review the initiative. Many thanks to everyone who supported again us this year. It was very much appreciated.

Enrolment for next school year is on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th 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. The tour will start promptly at 1.30 p.m. and there will only be one tour each day. Please bring PPS number, Birth Certificate and a Bap-tism Cert (if your son is a Catholic) with you on the day. If your child has Special Educational Needs please bring all relevant reports with you on the day. Please tell your neighbours and friends about the tour. It is well worth taking if you don’t know about our school and is conducted by the boys in Rang 6.

This year there will be a Tea Party instead of the usual Cake Sale. This is the brainchild of Mrs. Eileen Collins and it will take place on Friday 8th of April at 8.00 p.m. in Ahamilla. All parents will be written to on the 15th of February with further details.

Late News: Orienteering Success in Cork Championships. Well done to Rang 5 who came 1st and Rang 6 who came 3rd on Friday last. Thanks to Ms. Fitz-maurice for coaching the teams and to Ms. O’Neill & Ms. O’Keeffe.

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Following on from the wonderful success of last year’s Lego exhi-bition, the Clonakilty Games Festival 2016 will again celebrate the joy of Lego. This one day event will occur on Sat Feb 20th from 10am to 4pm (entries may be dropped from 9.00am). The exhibition seeks to celebrate all of those out there who enjoy the possibilities and creativity inspired by that most recognisable of little plastic bricks ‘Lego’. This ‘toy’ initially began in the 1930’s in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen and its name referred to the Danish phrase ‘leg godt’, which means ‘play well’. By 1949 Lego had begun producing an early version of the famous interlocking bricks. This event seeks to inspire all creators out there to bring and dis-play their work as a means of inspiring others of the possibilities. Whether the creations are from a set or original designs all will be welcome. Both children and adults are invited to participate. This event is not a competition but instead seeks to celebrate the unique creativity of each individual. All participants will be invit-ed to partake in a draw for prizes which will take place at 4pm at the end of the exhibition by members of Clonakilty Games Festi-val Commitee. Happy Building! Denise Lynch (085 1901706)

Our Visit to the Water Forum On the 22nd of January 2016 myself, Donnacha Walsh, Nathen Hanra-han and Cian O’Regan represented Scoil na mBuachaillí at the Wa-ter Forum in the Quality Hotel. Ms O’Regan accompanied us there. We arrived at the Quality Hotel at 10:00am on the morning of the Forum. There were also six other schools represented at the Water Forum. The first thing we did were activities based around water conservation. One school at the Forum then gave a presentation about what they did during the year to save water. It was very interesting and we learned new ideas from listening to them. Then the people in charge of the Water Forum did a couple of science experiments. After that we had our lunch at around 12:00pm. After our lunch we had to design our dream school but the design had to involve the saving of water. Then towards the end of the Forum everyone there got a goodie bag. The Water Forum ended then and we ar-rived back at school at about 1:00pm. Many thanks to Ms. Sinéad O’Regan for organising Green Schools in our school and to all the committee. By:David Price, 6th Class.

Show us what you can build!

BRING YOUR LEGO CREATIONS TO THE VENUE, O’ DONOVANS HOTEL, FEB SAT 20TH

(DROP OFF BEGINS AT 9AM) PART OF GAMES FESTIVAL 085 1901706

NOON TO 4:00

Lego

Exhibition 10am

to 4.00p

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Basketball 15/16: Basketball training will start on Tuesdays and Thursdays once the Sciath na Scol competition is finished. This will probably be in November. Thanks to Ms. Carol Anne O’Brien for assisting with Basketball this year. School Team is being picked at the moment.

Quizzard ’15/16: classes from Rang 3 - Rang 6 are participating. Tim McCarthy and Cian Scally are be in charge of the quiz this year. We are now at the 1/4 fi-nals.

Chess: Boys in Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 may participate. It runs on Tuesdays and Wednesday after school. The Wednesday group has reached the Top 8 stage and are now playing off for places on the school team.

Soccer Competitions -

Senior Infants Soccer Held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thurs-days. No Soccer on Monday or Friday. Teams are on website.

Rang 1 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Teams are on website.

Rang 2 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Teams are on website.

Rang 3 - Rang 6 Mondays - Thursdays

Extra day’s soccer for the class is on Fri-days. Boys are told on Thursdays.

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons / Coderdojo - for Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 will start in October with our new laptops. .

Swimming: for Rang 6 and Rang 5/6 - started on February 5th until the 15th of April. After that it will Rang 6 and Rang 3 starting on the 22nd of April until the 27th of May

Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class train with Mr. Harte for Jun-ior Warden Duty. Many thanks to Mr. Harte. Macbeth - practices have started during school for songs. After school on Fridays 28 boys are coming and hoping to get a main part.

GAA - Timmy Anglin Rugby - Ian Rea - restarts in February. 5 a side Soccer: School team is being picked by Mr. Harte and Mr. O’Riordan at present.

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First Holy Communion: 28th of May, 2016. First Confession: Date not decided as yet. Children who were baptised outside of the parish 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. Children in other classes who have not sent in their Baptismal Certificate can do so at any time – it will be photocopied and the original returned immediate-ly. For children in Junior Infants it is the ideal op-portunity to locate and send in your Baptismal Cer-tificate – we won’t have to ask for it ever again.

Liz O’Regan has just informed us that Daffodil Day, this year will be held on Friday 11th of March More details in the next Links.

This year World Book Day will be held on Thurs-

day 3rd March 2016.

The theme will be “Story in pictures”. Your son’s

class teacher / Mr. O’Driscoll will explain what’s

involved next week. This event, as always is being

organised by Mr. Tadhg O’Driscoll. This will

again further our Literacy Work in the school, en-

couraging the children to read and discuss what they

are reading.

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Pictured below: Aistear, Lighthouse Construc-tion Rang 2, Macbeth Management - Producers, IT, Costumes & Properties, Backstage and Front of House, Pottery in Rang 6 Buskers present €265.41 to Pat Finn, St. Fachtna’s Centre

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All cans gratefully received. Please contact Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice 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 Ja-mie and Sam for helping with cans this year.

Our annual Spelling Bee will take place soon in the school. Boys from Rang 5 agus Rang 6 will participate and just one boy will qualify to go to Cork to compete in the County Competition. The competition is being organised by Ms. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Harte, Ms. O’Keeffe, Ms. O’Neill and Mr. O’Neill in our school and we thank them for giving the boys the opportunity to participate in this National Competition.

As you may know we are

now running the

LITERACY LIFT-OFF

PROGRAMME throughout

the school (from Junior

Infants – Sixth).

Part of this programme

requires a parent/carer 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

Classes 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 O’Boyle at 8834487. Please ask Thelma

to make an appointment. You will be amazed the difference your input

can make to your child’s 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 ex-tremely 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 lost ringing parents to bring back books to the school. It’s in everyone’s interest to ensure that books are returned each day and the form signed by you - the parents. WANTED: Any spare books/novels would be greatly appreciated by Car-ol O’Boyle, the boys and her Literacy Lift Off team.

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“Just One” Cent boxes continue again this year. Jack, Eoin and Adam will be in charge of organising the col-lection each week. This year we have got off to a great start with

the Hoola Hoop Coin Challenge. So far we have collected €1404.11 this year! This has passed out last year’s total al-ready. Well done, Declan Murphy was very impressed when he visited the school and saw the work going on.

Every week on a Friday the boys call to each classroom to collect the money that has been brought in during the week.

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 €20 per issue or at a discount of €150 for the entire year! Please ring Thelma 8834487 if you are interested.

This very popular scheme has started again, for all classes except Junior Infants. Stamps cost €1 each. Junior Infants will start collecting later in the year. Thanks to Eileen O’Dono-van for her assistance. Children in Rang 6 have to use this scheme for saving for their Surfing lessons and boys in Rang 5 have to use this scheme for Kayaking.

Hi my name is Harold Paulino and I am one of the members of the School Debate Team. On the 27th of January, 16 pupils from 6th class all competed for a spot on the Debating Team. The topic was “Children should be in bed by 9pm”. All gave very good points but in the end only 6 people got chosen for the team. There are 3 people are on the team and there are 3 subs and 4 researchers. The debating team will go up ahead against other schools in the coming week. We hope that we will be successful.

Good luck to Ms. Carol Anne O’Brien and the school basket-ball team who are travelling to Cork on Wednesday 9th of Feb-ruary to compete in the interschool basketball competition. Many thanks to Ms. O’Brien for coaching the boys after school throughout the year. Thanks also to Mr. Paddy Rose and Mr. Denis Murphy who are bringing the boys to Cork.

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Gentleman of the Month is Harry Ellis.

Pictured below: “Gentlemen of the Week” during the month of January 2016

Week 1 Week 2

Week 4 Week 3

Week 1 Week 2

Week 4

Lift Off Boy - is an initiative to

reward boys who do their best each

week in Literacy

Lift Off. The

boys have to have

* their sheet signed

* be polite and kind to all the

adults

* try very hard at all sessions.

Here you can see

January’s Lift Off Boys.

Lift Off Boy of the Month is Cillian White and Donncha Walsh

Week 3

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PenMan of the Month for January is Reuben Pattwell

Pictured below: “PENman of the Week” during the month of January for boys who excel in Handwriting and presen-tation of work during the Month.

Week 1 Week 2

Week 3 Week 4

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) : €10.00 French: Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) €6.00 Elocution: Infants to Rang 2: €7.00 Most parents paid for the above in September.

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 child’s bag/lunchbox telephone the school on 8834487 email the school on [email protected] We cannot allow a person who is not a parent or a designated contact person to take your child without your permission.

It would be so much safer if you did not bring children across the road by the hand at 3.00 p.m. often crossing between cars and traffic, which can be dangerous and may even encourage another child to at-tempt the same on his own with possible disastrous consequences. Please, always use the wardens, when on duty and, at the very least, the zebra crossing which is there for this purpose. Thank you.

Sustainable Clonakilty have come up with a great idea for Lent which could save us all money. What’s involved? Each night for the month of Lent before going to bed your child would go around every room in the house and turn off/plug out any appliances/lights that are not being used. Hopefully this would continue after Lent is over as you will notice the savings in your electricity bill. We are doing this in school already for Green Schools but it would be even better if it continued at home. Many thanks to Ray Lucey for this idea.

Your child will experience the following activities during his time in SnB:

Orienteering

Basketball

Chess

Athletics

D.I.Y.

G.A.A., Soccer and Rugby

Creative Drama, Musicals & Elocution

French

Music – Guitar, Keyboard, Drums, Tin Whistle, Accordion, Brass Instruments

Battle of the Bands (Scoilavision)

Sound Crew – work with Mixing desks, microphones, digital studio etc

School Garden and Greenhouse

Computers – 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

Sherpa Kids

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 1.30 p.m. 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 child’s PPS. No. | Your child’s Birth Certificate Your child’s 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

[email protected] | Web Site: http://www.snbclonakilty.com | Twitter @snbclonakilty

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Sherpa Kids were delighted to open in Scoil na mBuachaillí on November 30th 2015. Our aim is to create a safe environment in which children can not only relax after their school day but also take part in a whole host of new things, which create learning opportunities for them every single day. No need for transportation, just a little jaunt with their pals across the corridor! CONTACT DETAILS Programme Manager: Charlene O’ Toole Phone: 0868132023 Email: [email protected] Owner: Anne Marie Hegarty Phone: 0877527229 Email: [email protected]