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Nollaig 2016|Eanáir 2017 December 2016 | January 2017 www.snbclonakilty.com Volume 22, Issue 04_05

Email: info@snbclonakilty.com | Mobile site: m.snbclonakilty.com | Telephone/fax: 8834487 | Twitter: @snbclonakilty

History of the Acoustic

Guitar: 3rd to 6th @ 11.15 a.m. on 17th of January Cost: €1.00 Lego Workshops: 1st to

6th. January 24th and 25th. Cost €4.00. Enrolment Day for Sep-

tember 2017: February 8th @ 1.30 p.m. February Mid-Term

Break: 23rd and 24th. Confirmation: Ceremony

of Light - Monday 27th of February @ 7.30 p.m. Sing out Loud Concert in

Killarney: Monday March 6th. International Day: 9th of

March. School Closed: Friday 17th

of March Tea Party: Friday March

24th Easter Holidays: Boys

will get their holidays on Friday 7th of April at 12.00 p.m.. Back to school on 24th of April. Confirmation: Tuesday

25th of April @ 10.30 a.m. School remains open. First Holy Communion:

Saturday 27th of May @ 11 School Closed: May 1st,

June 5th and 6th. Scoilavision: Tuesday

(night) 20th & Wednesday the 21st of June.

Summer Holidays:

29th June @12.00

Many thanks to Mrs. Eileen Collins and her elves from the Parent’s Association for invit-ing Santa to visit again this year. The elves were very enter-taining this year .. singing and dancing and this added to the excitement on the day.

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Well done to everyone involved in this year’s Christmas Concerts - to

all the class teachers who produced the

shows, to the LSRT teachers who assisted

with make-up, direction, choreography etc and to all the SNAs. Thanks also to Thelma for her assistance. A

special thanks to Finbarr for his work on the stage and sets. The shows, every one were incredible.

Thanks to all the parents for your help with costumes and for

attending in such large numbers. Thanks to the Parent’s Asso-ciation for their help. Thanks to the Sound and Lighting

Crews for their hard work. All photographs

from all the shows are now up on our photosite. (see page 10 for some

photos). €837.72 was collected for SVP at the

door. Many thanks for your generosity.

We have a League Winner in The Cork Schools Orient-eering League. On Thursday 24th November Ms. Fitzmaurice announced the league winners. I came first in 6th class. This was first in the whole of County Cork so I was delighted. Tomás

O’Donnabháin came second overall in the league. We all did wonderful! The next course will be the champion-ship in January. Best of luck to everybody. Mikey Alvarez Age : 12

Orienteering in Doneraile (Continued on page 3)

Our Remembrance Tree fund-raising initiative was very successful again this year. Many thanks to everyone who assisted in any way. This year thanks to an idea from the Parent’s Association many more parents became involved and this helped us very much. Thanks to everyone who erected the tree, the crib in

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Spiller’s Lane, folded Christmas Cards, made the Santa bags, sold lights on the street (this includes staff , former staff, BOM mem-bers and parents), or who helped out in any way. We very much appreciate you help at this very busy time of year. The total collected was €3155.40. A special thank you to Eileen Collins (Chairperson of the Parent’s Association) for all her help and encouragement. Putting up Crib John Coleman Robert Walsh Pat Murphy Don Coakley Tim Murphy Shane Murphy Colin Wedlock Seán White Paddy Rose Canice O'Regan Putting up Xmas Tree Sean White Donal O'Regan Rita Morrissey Ann O'Regan

Bagging Santa Bags Ann O'Regan Elaine Knowles Marcelina Kusal

Folding Christmas Cards Samantha Kelly Fiona O'Brien Teresa Kelleher Caitriona Coakley Sylvia Cregan Martina O'Donovan

Decorating the school Thanks to Finbarr, Mr. Michael Harte and Mrs. Elaine Connolly for decorating the school again

this year. It looked magical! Also Thanks to Mrs. Colette Twomey

for the use of Spiller’s Lane

again this year. Thanks also to

Mrs. Noreen Minihan,

Monsignor O’Driscoll, Fr. Col-

lins and Mayor Anthony McDer-

mott for attending our Lighting

Ceremony. Thanks to Margaret

Deegan for playing at many

events. Thanks to Mrs. Eileen

O’Regan (Treasurer of the

BOM) for looking after the mon-

ey for the Remembrance Tree.

Final thank yous:

Thanks to Ms. Regina Fitzmau-

rice, Mr. Gavin O’Riordan and

Ms. Mary Horgan for their help

with the events this Christmas.

Your help was very much appre-

ciated.

Eugene Brosnan (local musician) is giving a workshop to boys in 3rd to 6th classes on the 17th of January. The price of the workshop is just €1.00 and should prove to be a very in-formative and enjoyable performance. We would encourage all boys who are interested in music - no matter what instrument - it doesn’t

have to be the - to attend. The final day for the mon-ey is the day of the

concert: Tuesday next.

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International Day will be held on the 9th of March. If you wish to assist please email me at in-fo@snbclonakilty.com or ring Thelma on 8834487.

Our Tea Party, organised by the Parent’s Association will be held in Ahamilla on Friday 24th of March. Letters to all parents will be sent home on Monday, 30th of January. As space is limited please don’t wait around, book your tickets from your coordinator immediately or you may be disappointed. This year there will be a past parents table.

Ms. Sinead O’Regan organised a person to come into us and tell us about the flag. On the 11/11/16 Cath Russell came into our school to talk to us about the Green School flag and how we can help get it for our school. She then told us the seven steps which are 1 Forming a committee 2 Environment review seeing how we all get to school, how safe the roads are for cycling/walking to school and so on. 3 Action plan, we have to write out what we are going to do to encourage people to walk/cycle/car pool to school. 4 Monitoring and evaluating, we have to check that we ae progressing on our active plan. 5 Curricular work, all classes have to

do a lesson about travel, in history or science etc. 6 Involving and informing everybody in the school committee must be in-volved and informed, through the “links” the green schools notice board and so on. 7. Green Code, this is a catchy slogan, we have a whole school committee to see who comes up with the best slogan. Cath Russell is going to do a Dr. Bike and cycle class session for all the classes of SNB. Third class have already done it. On the 14th of February 5th and 6th class are cycling to Inchydoney with a Garda escort and the parents association are going to provide food and drinks for everyone we would like to thank them

very much. On the 31st of January 3th

and 4th are cycling to Beamish Lagoon. In April the Whole school will have a COW day, Cycle on Wednesday, where we will all cycle to school escorted by the Garda. Jim Twomey and Thomas O’Donovan

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It was a cold morning on Tuesday the 22nd of November on the long bus ride up to Doneraile. When we got there we were dying to get on the course. It was a great place to go because it was full of scenery. At first we had to cross a bridge and it was simple to get to the first one but lots of people got stuck on number six because it was in loads of bushes. Every one found their way through and there was a great lunch after. Well done to everyone who par-ticipated in the course. We had a great day. Darragh Mc Donald.

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All cans gratefully re-ceived . 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 Robert, Robert, Darragh and Christopher for helping with cans this year.

92 boxes collected. Many thanks to

Shay and Tom and everyone who brought in boxes.

Basketball 16/17: Basketball training has started on Tues-days and Thursdays Thanks to Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan for assisting with Basketball this year. Quizzard ’16/17: started in November. Classes from Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be par-ticipating. Fionnán Bennett and James Murnane are in charge of the quiz this year. Chess: has started. There are now 80 boys playing every week. It runs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays after school. Thanks to Mr. Gavin O’Riordan for his continued assistance with the Chess Club. Thanks also to Ms. Máire O’Neill who is helping with

the Learners this year. Soccer Competitions Senior Infants Soccer Held on Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. No Soccer on Friday. This is the same league as before Christmas. Rang 1 & Rang 2 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The boys have been told which team they are playing on and which days they are playing. All teams are up on our school website. Extra day’s soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and Rang 2.

Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 & Rang 6 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The boys have been told which team they are playing on and which days they are playing. All teams are up on our school website. Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons / Coderdojo - for Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 started in October with our new laptops. Thanks to Margaret Deegan for her continued support each week in Rang 2. Rang 5 are doing lessons with Mr. Harrington on Thurs-days at lunchbreak.

Swimming: for Rang 4 and Rang 4/5 - until the 3rd of February. Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class will train with Mr. Harte for Junior Warden Du-ty. Debating: School Debating will start soon in Rang 5 and Rang 6. Thanks again to Ms. Marie Hayes for coaching the boys and Ms. Maire O’Neill for assisting. GAA - Timmy Anglin - see timetable below Rugby - Ian Rea - see timeta-ble below

GAA Training Half football / half hurling It is compulsory for boys to have and wear gumshields when play-ing G.A.A. with Timmy. If they forget they cannot participate on that day. Please see calendar below for the year. Wednesdays 1st, 3rd & 6th December

7, 14, January 11, 18, 25, Feb 1st

5th, Seniors (Michelle),

4th/5th: Feb 8, 15, 22, Mar 1, 8, 15

2nd, Seniors (Máire), 4th

Mar 22, 29, Apr 5, 26, May 3, 10

Rugby Training It is compulsory for boys to have and wear gumshields when play-ing Rugby with Ian. If they forget they cannot participate on that day. Please see calendar below for the year.

Fridays 4th / 5th class for 5 weeks

up to 13th of January 6th class: January 13th

until the 10th of March (Blitz after) @ 11.15 a.m.

Rang 3 January 13th until 10th Feb @ 10.30 a.m.

Rang 2 February 17th until 10th of March @ 10.30 a.m.

Rang 1 24th of March until 7th of April | unsure of the time.

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only €16.00 p.p.

only €9.00 p.p.

Ms. Karen O’Regan invited

Jason and his Jeep to visit SnB in November and he spoke to the Senior pupils

about his work and how im-portant local support is.

Adam O’Regan, Jack O’Shea

and Eoin Harte presented him with a cheque for €1673.00.

This money was raised by the boys last school year through

various initiatives they ran throughout the year.

Each week the boys gather

the proceeds of the “Cent Boxes” in each classroom.

Adam Crawford, Sam Daly and Cormac Hall are doing

their utmost to top last year’s amount and they are well on

their way to doing it.

See above.

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If you would like to book an ad for the com-ing school year 2016 - 2017 please let Thel-ma know as soon as possi-ble. The num-ber 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 dis-count of €150 for the entire year! Please ring 8834487 if you are interested.

Thanks to everyone who supported our Penny Dinners Col-lection Point. It was organised by Phil Calnan, ably assisted

by Darragh and Christopher.

“Cent” boxes will continue this year. Ms. Karen O’Regan is in charge of organising the collection each week. This year the money will be given to Rapid Response. Adam Crawford, Sam Daly and Cormac Hall had a very successful Novem-ber and December and their total so far this year is €422.86. This includes the money raised at the Carol Singing outside O’Donovan’s Hotel.

Pictured on the left is Liam with his “Trump Sculpture” depicting President Elect Donal Trump and his wall! This is just one of the projects in Rang 4 / 5.

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Thank you to everyone who supported

our Christmas Annual again this year.

There is a great deal of work involved

in producing it - especially at an already

busy time of year, but it is very worth-

while.

Thanks to the staff, the editors, to Thel-

ma and Finbarr and to all the businesses

in Clonakilty who place advertisements

in the magazine year after year. We are

extremely grateful.

As always the magazine was sold out

and unfortunately some people were

disappointed.

We would like to express our thanks to all the boys and the staff who helped out with our Carol Services this Christ-mas. As you can see from the list be-low it was a very busy time and many boys attended all the events. A special thanks to the Sound and Lighting Crews who came early and left late at many of the events. SnB sang at the following events: Remembrance Tree Lighting Up

Ceremony - 3rd of December. Lions Club Concert - 7th of De-

cember. Carol Singing outside O’Dono-

van’s Hotel - 8th of December. G.A.A. Annual Christmas Mass

- 13th of December. Astna Square Carol Singing -

16th of December. Parish Carol Service - 18th of

December. Bushmount - 19th of December.

Green Schools Cycle Initia-tive As part of the fourth Green Schools Flag we are currently facilitating bike maintenance lessons ( Dr. Bike) and Cycle lessons for 3rd-6th. Boys from Junior Infants can participate in scooter OR bike lessons. We will also have lessons for parents/teachers or other interested adults who are interested in up skilling in cycling and especially for adults who want to be more skilled in cycling on the road with young children (Get in Gear). 3rd and 4th class are having a Garda escorted cycle to Beamish Lagoon (out the Inchydoney road) and 5th/6th classes will cycle with a Gar-da escort to Inchydoney. The Parent’s Association are providing food and a drink for the boys. The boys are absolutely not allowed to bring a bag with them for safety reasons (unless it’s a safe saddle bag of course). Thanks to Eileen Collins and the Parent’s Association and to Garda Liam Ryan who visited the school on the 28th of November and spoke to all the clas-ses about his work as a Community Officer (Bike Garda). HELMETS most be worn and bikes must be in good working order, BOTH front and back brakes must work. The boys must be able to cycle 8km round trip to Beamish Lagoon and 5th /6th must be capable of cycling to Inchydoney. We will not be cycling up the hill on the Island. Please note the following dates. 7th Dec Br. Bike 3rd Class. 16th Dec 5th,Class Dr. Bike and Cycle lessons. 19th Dec 6th Dr. Bike and Cy-cle lessons. 24th Jan, Adults Cycle les-sons “Get in Gear.” 26th Jan 2017, 4th Class Cy-cle lessons. 30th Jan, Junior Infants - 2nd

scooters, plus Junior and Senior Infants cycle lessons 31st Jan, 3rd/4th Cycle to Beamish lagoon. 2nd Feb, 1st and 2nd cycle lessons.

14th Feb, Valentines’ Day 5th /6th Cycle to Inchydoney. 29th March, COW Cycle on

Wednesday Everyone who

can cycle and can get a bike,

adults included will cycle to

school with a Garda escort ,

from SuperValu carpark up

Strand Road, Pearse St.,

Western Rd., Roundabout,

Bypass Rd.

Sinéad O’Regan Green Schools Co-ordinator.

Many thanks to Ms. O’Regan

for organising such a packed

programme of events. The

boys absolutely loved the Dr.

Bike lessons.

As part of the En-gineer’s Week Ms. Regina Fitzmau-rice has organise “Lego Work-shops” for all boys in Rang 1 up to Rang 6. The workshops will run over 2 days and will last approximately 75 minutes per work-shop. It will take place on January 24th and 25th. Howev-er there is a cost involved as people

deliver-ing the pro-gramme are trav-elling long dis-tances and spending 2 days with us. The cost per child is €4.00 and this money will be collected before the first day’s workshop. There-fore the final day for collection of the fee is Monday

23rd of January. Please note: if any parent is worried about the cost of the workshop please contact Barth Harrington (Príomhoide) at 8834487.

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First Holy Communion (second class) will be held on May 27th, 2017 at 11.00 a.m. in the Parish Church. Confirmation (Rang 5 agus Rang 6): is on the 25th of April 2017 at 10.30 a.m. Confirmation Ceremony of Light - Monday 27th of Febru-ary @ 7.30 p.m. Don’t forget to send in your child’s baptismal certificate if your child was baptised outside of Clonakilty Parish - if you have not already done so.

Some photos are missing as we did not have the time to take them in December.

Also shown: Carol Singing and Aistear.

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Many thanks to Con McCarthy who visit-ed the school in November to speak to Rang 3 and Rang 4 about the Celts. The boys really enjoyed the workshop which was held partly in the classroom and the rest outside. Photographs are up on our school photosite and are well worth view-ing.

Recently we celebrated Science Week with events being held in all

classrooms in the school.

Boys from Ms. Regina

Fitzmaurice’s room visited each class and

spoke about inventors and important scien-

tific inventions.

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The following fees may now be due:

French term 2: many people have

paid for both terms in September. If

you have not please send in €6 at your

earliest convenience.

Elocution: for Junior Infants, Juniors/

Seniors, Rang 1 and Rang 2. Again

many people have paid this in Septem-

ber. If you have not please send in

€7.00 at your earliest convenience.

Milk Money: The price of milk from

Monday 16th of January to the Easter

Holidays is €11.00.

Photocopying and Printing: Term 2

€10.00.

If you have not paid your fees for this

school year yet please do so at your

earliest convenience or if you are una-

ble to do so please contact Barth Har-

rington (Príomhoide) at the school on

8834487.

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 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.

Stay Safe notes will be given out in the coming weeks. See below for details. Stay Safe Notes for Seniors and the Seniors in Junior / Seniors (and book-lets) / Rang 3 / Rang 6. Booklets are given to the Senior Infants only as Rang 3 and Rang 6 have re-ceived them in previous years. If your son is in these classes and would like to receive a replacement booklet, please contact Thelma at 88344487 or email info@snbclonakilty.com.

Classes for Rang 2 and Rang 3 start

next week. Notes were given out on

Tuesday 10th to explain all about.

There is no charge for the classes.

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Ashrita Fur-man is a Guinness World Records rec-ord-breaker. As of 2014, Furman has set 551 official Guinness Records and current-ly holds nearly 200 records, including the record for holding the most Guinness world records.

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Name of Band: _________________________________

Band Members (Maximum 6)

1.________________________________________ 2._______________________________________________

3.________________________________________ 4._______________________________________________

5.________________________________________ 6._______________________________________________

Band Leader/Manager (may be one of the band but doesn’t have to be) ________________________________________

Song chosen: __________________________________(You may leave this blank) I agree to give 10% of all future millions made from music to Scoil na mBuachaillí, as it gave me my first start!!

ScoilaVision 2017 is coming up - on June 20th (for parents only) and June 21st (for students only), 2017. ScoilaVision is a Scoil na mBuachaillí version of the Eurovision/XFactor, held every second year, only it’s better!!!. Only boys from Rang 5 and Rang 6 are eligible to enter the competition with their band or they may enter as a solo / duet act if they prefer. Boys from Rang 4 may also fill out the form below to become the interval act. This band will not be in the competition, it will play at interval, just before the second half of the show begins. However all boys who wish to participate in the competition must fill out an entry form and give to Mr. Harrington on or be-fore Friday the 27th of January at 12.00 p.m. No late entries will be accepted! Parents: Please encourage your child to become involved. It’s great fun and builds self confidence. This year also we are interviewing for a Producer, Assistant Producer, FOH Manager, Backstage Manager, Sound Crew members, Lighting Crew members, Presenters and Judges. These positions must also be applied for. (see below). Most of the interviews for the positions will be held after school, probably in February. Auditions may also be held after school later in the year.

A. Producer for ScoilaVision 2015(5th or 6th Class only B. Assistant Producer (5th / 6th Class only) C. Front of House Manager (5th/6th) / Members (3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th Class only) D. Backstage Manager (5th/6th) / Members (3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th Class only) E. IT Managers (2) (5th / 6th Class only) F. Judge on the Panel (Any class - Infs. - Rang 6) G. Presenters of Scoilavision (Any class - Infs. - Rang 6) H. Sound Crew Manager (5th/6th) / Members (3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th Class only) I. Lighting Crew Manager (5th/6th) / Members (3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th Class only) 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th) J. Roadies (3rd / 4th / 5th / 6th Class only) K. Video / Camera Operator: (5th/6th class)

CLASSIFIEDS

SITUATIONS VACANT 001

1. Position applied for:____________________________________

2. Why have you applied for this position: (You can use a separate sheet for this answer if you prefer. DO NOT LEAVE THIS BLANK) _________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

3. What experience do you have in this area: _________________________________________________________ 4. Please sign :___________________________________________

5. Applicants must have parent’s permission. One parent must sign below.

_________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________________________________________ All manager’s applications (Positions A, B, C, D, E, H, I must have a reference from a class teacher or a support teacher attached.

2017

4th, 5th and 6th class boys may only apply on this form.

Once the form has been submitted the band cannot be

changed without the permission of all members and the Principal.

p.s. Thelma has copies of this page in her office

I have received and read the aforementioned Links. Child’s name: _________________________ Class:_______________ Signature: ____________________________

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’Donovan 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.

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 or Pea-nut Butter!!!! Please be aware of this when organising your child’s lunch and 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.

There was a marvellous turn out again this year for our Parent / Teacher meetings. If you were unable to attend or if you feel you wish to speak to your child’s class teacher / Resource or Learning Sup-port Teacher / Principal at any time, please contact Thelma on 8834487 and arrange a time that is conven-ient. Many thanks to all who helped out on the day, Eileen, Josie, Susan, Sam and Thel-ma for providing teas, Shane, Eoin Eamon and John for organising the chairs, Finbarr for all his assistance and all the staff of the school. Remember: please do not

hesitate to contact us if you are concerned about your child.

HEADLICE: Parents: now that children are back in school, please be vigilant and check your child’s hair regu-larly for headlice. If you find any please notify the school and we will send a note to all parents in that class.

Please send in Absent note explaining your child’s ab-sence from school on the day of his return or email/ring.