St. Brendan's Boys Primary School

Feb 2012 Friendship Week

niall01 (online) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:40:55 +0000

Friendship Week starts on Monday 6th of Feb. The school will be promoting many initiatives to promote friendship throughout the week. Classes will make friendship posters for display around the school. There will be a friendship stop in the Jnr. Infant yard. Friendship bracelets will be on sale in the school and a variety of anti-bullying lessons will be taught in the classrooms. Other initiatives include Gotcha Cards where the pupils are rewarded for doing acts of friendship, joke/thought/poem of the day will be broadcast from Mr. Crofton’s office.

Feb 2012 Futsal Competition

niall01 (online) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:28:50 +0000

Mr. Cunningham and Mrs. Fitzgerald brought two teams to Portlaoise to participate in a Futsal Soccer Competition. The boys enjoyed the competition and represented our school very well on the day.

Feb 2012 Dodge Ball League

niall01 (online) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:24:21 +0000

Mr. Crofton is running a very successful Dodge Ball League at lunch time in the school gym. There is great interest in the league and participation is at a very high level. The league is ongoing with the semi finals and final coming up soon.

Feb 2012 St. Brigid’s Day Ceremony

niall01 (online) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:06:26 +0000

To commemorate the passing of Winter and the arrival of Spring we held our St. Brigid’s Day Ceremont in the school gym. Mr. Crofton told the story of St. Brigid and Mr. Carroll’s class played traditional Irish tunes on the tin whistle. Mr. McCann’s class read the prayers and all the boys celebrated this grear Saint’s feast day by ” Singing a Song to Brigid “. The altar was adorned with fresh spring flowers and many classes made St. Brigid’s Crosses all adding to making the celebration a wonderful occasion.

Jan 2010 Fifth Class Knitting Project

niall01 (online) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:56:09 +0000

The 5th class boys from St. Brendan’s P.S. participated in a class Knitting Project. The aim of this project was to knit an Irish Rugbu Scarf. The project was a huge success due to the involvement of parents, grandparents, class teacher Ms. Tooher and the enthusiasm of the boys. Well done to all involved.

Jan 2012 Community Games Art and Craft Prizewinners

niall01 (online) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:28:27 +0000

This year was our best year ever in the Community Games Art and Craft Competition. Receiving Bronze Medals were Darragh McNamara, Maxwell. Boyd, Darragh Mooney Sam. Smith, and Thomas Byrne. Receiving Silver Medals were Darren Lally, Darragh Cleary, Andrew Coakley, Ciarán . Abbott. Receiving Gold Medals were Pádraig Kelly, Alex Smith, Morgan Watkins, Nicolas Turtak, Blain Lynsky and Aaron Corcoran. The gold and silver medalists will go forward to the county finals . Well done to our prizewinners and all the boys who participated in the competition.

Jan 2012 Attendance Certificates

niall01 (online) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:33:12 +0000

Early in January Attendance Certificates were awarded to pupils who had full attendance, very good attendance and to pupils who had improved their attendance record. Mr. Crofton presented the boys with their awards at a ceremony held in our school gym. The boys were very proud of their awards and received great applause from the rest of the school community. We hope it will inspire the boys to keep up the good record and encourage others to improve their attendance record.

Dec 2011 Christmas in St. Brendan’s

niall01 (online) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:39:25 +0000

Christmas is always a wonderful time in St Brendan’s and there is a great atmosphere in the school. As Christmas approached we had our Advent Ceremonies. Our wonderful Crib was visited by all classes and the Jesse Tree stands as a reminder of what Christmas is about. Christmas trees can be seen throughout the school with beautiful art work decorating both inside the classrooms and in the main display areas. Hallelujah Concert, Christmas Plays ,Santa Letters, Christmas Logs, Cribs, Santa Stockings, Snowmen and Christmas pictures were all done to celebrate the festive season. We celebrated a Christmas Mass with the Mercy Convent School and the boys sang Christmas Carols in the Sandymount Nursing Unit. Santa’s arrival by motorbike caused great excitment in the school and he visited all classrooms with gifts. Many thanks to our Parents’ Association for this project. At our Christmas Assembly the boys sang songs and paid tribute to Mrs. De Forge for her long and dedicated service to the school. We would like to wish our whole school community a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

Dec 2011 Christmas Play

niall01 (online) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:28:53 +0000

Mr. Kennedy’s class performed a wonderful play for Christmas. The pupils dressed up in costumes and performed in the play which gave a very funny insight into the very popular show The X Factor. The play was colourful, funny and they performed it in front of a school audience in the gym.

Dec 2011 Visit to Sandymount Nursing Unit

niall01 (online) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:24:18 +0000

Sixth Class visited the Sandymount Nursing Unit and sang carols, played music and brought Christmas cheer to the residents. Well done to all involved for spreading some Christmas cheer.