“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
Linking home and school.
Eanáir/ January 2014
Volume 19, Issue 05
Many thanks to all who supported our
Remembrance Tree again this year. Spiller’s Lane looked magnificent and really
captured the spirit of Christmas.
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Thanks especially to Patrick Murphy, John
Coleman, Pat Murphy, Elzbieta Krawczyk,
James Cullinane, Tim O’Donovan, Tim
Murphy, Shay Murphy, Cian O’Donovan,
Canice O’Regan, Joe Price and Billy Crowley - who erected the Spirit of Christmas in
Spiller’s Lane.
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Thanks to Collette Twomey for her cooperation throughout.
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Thanks also to Liz O’Regan and Thelma
Barry for all their hard work.
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Thanks to Finbarr O’Connor and Gavin
O’Riordan for their work on the new Christmas Tree. Thanks to all the sellers
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This year’s Christmas pageant was a great success. A lot of work by the teachers, SNAs and boys bore fruit on the night. The church was packed and everyone enjoyed the show.
Many thanks to everyone who made the night such a success: Ms. Elaine Connolly (organiser), all the teachers who prepared the parts for their own classes,
the SNAs, Finbarr and Thelma, the musicians and Josie Files, the sound and the
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Open Night for Clonakilty
Community College - usually takes
place in January for boys in Rang 6
(date not confirmed yet).
Enrolling for next year: Tuesday 11th
and Wednesday 12th of February @
2.00 p.m. This will also include Open
Days on both days with tours of the
school etc.
Midterm break: Thursday 20th and
Friday 21st of February
Parent / Teacher Meeting: Junior Infants (only) 3.15 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. 6th of
March
School closed: Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of March
Easter Holidays: Friday 11th of April
@ 12.00 p.m. Back to school Monday
28th of April.
School closed: Monday 5th of May.
Tickets for sale for summer musical
on Tuesday 6th of May.
First Holy Communion: Saturday 24th
of May at 11.00 a.m.
School closed: Monday 2nd of June.
Summer Musical: June 17th,
18th and 19th, 2014
Summer Holidays: Thursday 26th of June
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Attached to this Links for some classes are the following:
Swimming Notes for Rang 1 and Rang 2
Stay Safe Notes for Seniors (and booklets) / Rang 3 / Rang 6
Milk from Monday next 13th until Easter costs €12.00.
If you have a Smart phone
just scan the QR Code on the
right and it will bring you
straight to our website.
Photocopying (Term 2) : €10.00
French: Term 2 - (2nd - 6th) €6.00
Elocution: (Ms. Crowley’s, Ms. O’Neill’s, Ms. Horgan’s, Rang 1 and Rang 2 (not Rang 2/3)) €7.00
Most parents paid for the above (except milk) in September.
Last day is Friday next the 10th of January.
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who braved the very bad weather this year to sell the lights on the
tree.
Thank you to the very large crowd who attended the lighting of the
tree on the 6th of December. Thanks to the Mayor, Ms. Phil O’Regan, Mrs. Noreen Minihan and Fr. Collins for their words of encouragement. Thanks to John McCarthy for his help with the Sound /
Lighting equipment after the ceremony.
This year €3700 was collected. This brings the total collected since
Christmas 2004 to €72,052.35.
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lighting crews. As you know a collection was held on the door for
the local St. Vincent de Paul Society and over €900 was raised please see page 8 for more details on the collection.
There are photographs of the production scattered throughout this
Links and of course on new Photo Site.
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:
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a note in your child’s bag/lunchbox
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telephone the school on 8834487
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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.
Thanks to the Parent’s Association for all their help and for inviting
Santa to come to the school again this year.
Thanks also for providing the “goodie” bags for the children - this
year all children in all classes received a present. The work in preparing these presents in quite onerous and is very much appreciated.
Photographs of Sana’s visit are up on our school website.
This very popular scheme has started again, for all
classes except Junior Infants. Stamps cost €1 each.
Junior Infants may start collecting later in the year. Thanks to Máiréad Coombes for her assistance.
Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their Surfing
If you would like to book an ad for the
coming school year 2013-2014 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.
“Just One” Cent boxes is doing
very well this year. Rang 4 are in
charge for organising the collection each week.
So far we have collected €297.82. This includes money from
Carol
Singing
outside
O’Donovan’s
Hotel.
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Pictured below: Remembrance Tree lighting up ceremony | Carol
Singing outside O’Donovan’s Hotel | Construction | Drumming
with Laurie | Rugby with Ian
There are loads more photos going with this Links
online >>>>>>>>
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Pictured below: Preparing for Pageant and Carol Service | Xmas
Magazine assembly | Magazine published!
If you have any old uniform jumpers, shirts, trousers, tracksuits - top or bottom that
you no longer need we would be delighted to have them.
Also please check with the school before you buy any new uniforms as we may have
them in the school - at no charge of course.
Due to the very large number joined up for Chess this year in Learners we have had to
split the group for the remainder of the year.
From Tuesday the 14th of January the Crocodiles’ group are attending for 4 weeks.
By then their competition will be completed except for the player who ends up No. 1
and then the Elephant’s Group will run for 4 weeks.
Please keep an eye on the School Homepage - Dates for Your Diary Section which is kept up to date wrt to what activities are on / cancelled / etc.
Players Chess groups carry on as normal on Wednesdays starting on Wednesday the
15th of January.
Many thanks to Ms. Michelle O’Neill and Ryan Coombes for their help with chess
this year.
There are loads more photos going with this Links
online >>>>>>>>
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023 88 35595
Mobile: 086
8315744
Bantry: 027 50713
Mobile: 087
9081273
David O’Regan & Co.
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Our services include: Financial Accounting &
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Please contact:
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Email: [email protected]
Web: www.dor.ie
First Holy Communion: 24th of May, 2013.
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 immediately. For
children in Junior Infants it is the ideal opportunity to
locate and send in your Baptismal Certificate – we
won’t have to ask for it ever again.
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Congratulations to Cian Collins, prizewinner in the Credit
Union Art Competition in December. Thanks to Ms.
O’Keeffe for organising the competition in our school.
Quizzard ’13/14: continues next week.
Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be participating. Darragh O’Neill / Oliwier Krawczyk are in
charge of the quiz this year.
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Chess: Learners’ play each Tuesday (see
page 4 for more details) and Players play
each Wednesday. Keep an eye on homepage
- Dates for your Diary for confirmation of
days. 75 boys are doing chess this year.
Thanks to Ms. Michelle O’Neill and Ryan
Coombes for their help.
Basketball - has started. It is on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Thanks to Ms. Grace O’Shea
for her help with Basketball this year.
Keep an eye on homepage - Dates for your
Diary for confirmation of days.
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Soccer Competitions
Senior Infants Soccer
Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or
Thursdays. No Soccer on Friday. Teams
are on website. Same days as before Xmas
Rang 1
Held on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Extra
day’s soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1
and Rang 2. Teams are on website.
Same days as before Xmas
Rang 2
Held on Mondays or Thursdays. Extra day’s
soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and
Rang 2. Teams are on website.
Same days as before Xmas
Rang 3 | Rang 4 | Rang 5 | Rang 6
New Competition devised by Brian White
and William Chen. Matches are on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Boys
have been assigned a particular day and they
will play their games on this day right up to
the Easter Holidays. Extra day’s soccer on
Fridays. After Easter the day may change
depending on the results. Please check site
for days.
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January
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If you are on a Monday for example wear your tracksuit on
that day.
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Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons /
Coderdojo - for Rang 2/3, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 has
started with our new laptops.
Swimming: Rang 2 and Rang 1 start on the 10th of Jan. until the
14th of February
Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class will train with Mr. Harte for
Junior Warden Duty. Many thanks to Mr. Harte.
Rugby - Ian Ray comes each Friday
GAA - Timmy Anglin comes each Wednesday.
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Pictured below: Christmas Projects for Rugby Coach Ian | Construction / Aistear
Junior Infants | Santa | Waterfront Marathon Runners
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As you know at every Christmas Concert / Pageant we have a collection
for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. This year the collection at the pageant was organised by Mr. Coman Duke. €902.75 was collected for the
local SVP society.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this very worthy cause.
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Thank you to Mrs. Elaine Connolly, Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice and Ms.
Grace O’Shea for preparing the boys who sang at the recent Intermezzo Concert in the parish church.
Thank you to Ms. Karen O’Regan for preparing the boys in her class who represented Scoil na mBuachaillí at the Parish Carol
Service just before Christmas.
Thank you very much to Sinead O’Crowley and Tommy Murphy for their very generous donation to the school recently. This
will be used to provide books / resources for the Literacy Lift Off Programme throughout the school.
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 Conor and
John Donnel for helping with
cans this year.
Kickboxers
Photos on
right: Trying
out for the
school’s debating team
in Rang 5 / 6
Christmas Crossword winners and creators
Congratulations
to
Ms.
Kathryn O’Shea who recently
married Donagh O’Loughlin.
Pictured here are boys from
her class with a special card
they made for her which was
presented to her at her wedding.
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Pictured below:
Prizewinner Rang 2 | Christmas Pageant (thanks
to Karen Coughlan for the Photos.
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December
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 be aware of this when organising your child’s 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.
p.s. Please give your children water to drink coming to school - not
sweet or fizzy drinks.
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.
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Pictured below: Christmas Wreath making in Rang
5/6 | Glass making and Pottery in Rang 5 / 6 and
Seniors/1st | Thomas McCarthy past pupil
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Pictured below: Santa visits Scoil na mBuachaillí |
Christmas Magazine prizewinners | Construction in
Junior Infants
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January
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Pictured below: “Gentlemen of the Week” during the month of December
Week 2
Week 1
Week 3
Pictured above you can see our “Gentlemen of the Week”. These
boys have made an extra effort to be polite and “gentlemanly” during the month of December. The following are deemed
to be
Gentlemen of the Month: Eoin Collins (also an athletics winner recently) - Rang 2. Well done to all
and
many thanks to you the parents and staff for supporting this initiative.
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January
Scoil na mBuachaillí is in the second year of working towards a
green school flag for energy. The Green Schools Committee is
made up of boys from 2nd to 6th Classes, Finbarr our caretaker,
Miss Crowley, Ms. Fitzmaurice and Ms. Sinéad O’Regan, the coordinator.
The committee carried out an energy audit in the school and all classes are turning off lights during break times and turning off computers and other electric appliances after school. Energy wardens check each room every day to ensure appliances and lights are turned
off.
All classes have learned about energy in our homes, in the community and in Ireland. Fifth and sixth classes have learned about different forms of energy and done projects on the energy theme.
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Thank you to boys who sang / played / worked on the Sound & Lighting crews just before Christmas at the following occasions - Ahamilla Christmas Mass | Lighting of the Tree in Spillers Lane | Carol Singing outside
O’Donovan’s Hotel on the 8th of December | Christmas Carol Service (Parish Church) | Carol Singing in Clonakilty Hospital
(Ms. Karen O’Regan and her class) | Carol Singing in Bushmount | Christmas Pageant.
Thank you to Mrs. Elaine Connolly for organising the Christmas Pageant again this year.
Thank you to all the staff who prepared all their classes for the pageant.
Thank you to Josie Files for playing piano on the night.
Thank you to Christine and Richard (sacristans) for their help with the practices for the pageant.
Thanks to Mrs. Noreen Minihan for her encouragement to all the staff and the boys.
Thank you to Monsignor O’Driscoll and Fr. Collins for attending and their cooperation throughout.
Thanks to Mrs. Noreen Minihan for her work with the altar boys in 2013.
Thanks to all the parents and past pupils who help out every day with the Literacy Lift Off programme in the school - organised
by Ms. Carol O’Boyle.
Thank you to Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice and Ms. Grace O’Shea for all their work with the debating teams this year. The boys did
themselves, their teachers, parents and school proud!
CLASSIFIEDS
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SITUATIONS VACANT
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A. Producer for “the brothers Faust - The
Musical | 2014” (6th Class only)
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B. Assistant Producer for “the brothers
Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th / 6th Class
only)
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C. Front of House Manager for “the brothers Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th / 6th
Class only) [From existing crew only]
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D. Backstage Manager for “the brothers
Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th / 6th Class
only)
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E. Lighting Crew - Manager for “the brothers Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th / 6th
Class only) [From existing crew only]
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F. Sound Crew - Manager for “the brothers
Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th / 6th Class
only) [From existing crew only]
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G. IT / Sound Effects Manager for “the
brothers Faust - The Musical | 2014” (5th /
6th Class only)
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Application
Form
All applications must be
submitted on the form below:
Please use back of page if you
need more space.
Final Date for Applications is
Friday 17th of January at
12.40 p.m.
t he b r o t h e r s
1. Position applied for (see list on the left):
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2. Why have you applied for this position:
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H. Costumes and Property Manager for
“the brothers Faust - The Musical | 2014”
(5th / 6th Class only)
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I. Drummer, Percussionist and guitarists
for “the brothers Faust - The Musical |
2014” (4th/ 5th / 6th Class only)
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J. Backstage / FOH Crew members for “the
brothers Faust - The Musical | 2014” (4th/
5th / 6th Class only)
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K. Sound Crew / Lighting Crew members
for “the brothers Faust - The Musical |
2014” (4th/ 5th / 6th Class only) [From existing crew only]
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Please don’t apply for these positions if you
are going to apply for Acting / Chorus Positions later. If you are successful in getting one
of the above positions you will not be cast for
acting or chorus parts. Of course if you are not
successful you may apply for parts/chorus.
3. Please sign below:
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4. Applicants must have parent’s permission.
One parent must sign below.
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All Applications for Manager / Assistant Manager /
Producer/Assistant Producer must enclose a reference
from your class teacher or Support Teacher.
Date: _________________________________________
Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.