St. Brigids

Golf Competition

On Friday 22nd of May a golf competition was held in Delgany Golf Club. This was the first year of the school golf competition in Wicklow. St. Brigid's sent in a girls team and a boys team. Kevin Smith, Clancy Smith, Niall Deeney and Conor Keown were on the boys team. Clodagh Smullen, Jessica Hunt, Dara Joyce and Kerry Carlile were on the girls team. The girls team came first and received medals, a cup and a golf bag each. The boys team came second and received medals and a golf umbrella each. Well done to all involved.

Operation Christmas Child

Once again the children in St. Brigid's have been very generous and have donated lots of shoe boxes for children in poorer countries. The children put toys, sweets and clothes in the shoe boxes and covered them in Christmas wrapping paper. These boxes will be given to children in other countries. We watched a DVD in school that showed the children receiving the shoe boxes last year. The children were really happy with their presents. For some of them, it was the only Christmas present they would get. You can find out more about Operation Christmas Child on www.samaritanspurse.ie

Kilcoole Feis - Singing Competition

Congratulations to all the boys and girls who took part in the Kilcoole Feis singing competition. Ms Ahern was very proud of all the participants and thought they sang very well. The following boys and girls got a special mention from the judges.

Under 10
Emma Coleman - commended
Molly Cavanagh - commended
Sophie Reid - highly commended
Lauren Carey - highly commended
Duran Osan - 3rd

Under 8
Lara Reid - 2nd
Iris Benny - 3rd
Rebecca Williams - 3rd
Alannah Hughes - highly commended

Thanks very much to Ms. Ahern for helping the boys and girls prepare for this competition.

Enrolment for Junior Infants - September 2010.
Monday 2nd November to Friday 13th November.
Application forms will be available from school office during this period.

Promethean (an interactive whiteboard company) and the Jack and Jill Foundation are running a campaign to collect old mobile phones. If we collect 300 old phones we will get a 78" Activboard (interactive whiteboard). If we collect 500 old phones we will get the same board, a projector, a pair of speakers and a height-adjustable frame.
Please help the school by sending in any old phones you have. We will have a box in the school shortly to collect these phones.
The Jack and Jill Foundation have a website explaining their campaign to collect old phones. This website also has some interactive games. (Please see the link page for this website).

QUIZ NIGHT
Thanks to all who came to the quiz night. We had a lot of tables and the fundraising committee were happy with how the night went. Thanks to Aidan Glendon for calling out the questions. A good night was had by all!!

GAA Week was held in the school from Monday 25th May to Friday 29th May.

Spanish Week was held from Tuesday 2nd June to Friday 5th June.

Bríd Freeney Competition

Every year we have a competition called 'The Bríd Freeney Competition'. Bríd was a teacher in the school a few years ago. She was a very talented and creative woman. The teachers like to hold this competition to remember her. This year the theme was '125 Years of the GAA'. Brendan Cuddihy, from the local GAA club, Éire Óg, came in to present the prizes. Three children were picked from each class to get a prize. The slideshow to the right shows pictures of the students who got prizes.

Sophie Breen from 6th class received the overall prize for the Bríd Freeney competition. Well done Sophie!!

There were also prizes for three very brave boys in the school. These boys are Harry (R.7), Alex (R.4) and Aaron (R.5). They spent some time in hospital and were very brave when they were recovering.

The following children were the winners of the Bríd Freeney competition from each class:

Room 1: Conor, Momo, Paris (first)
Room 2: Tom(first), Tara, Charlotte
Room 3: Sarah(first), Alanna, Aimee
Room 4: Aishling, Isobel, Dylan(first)
Room 5: Ross, Emma, Abbie(first)
Room 6: Emily(first), Cameron, Sean
Room 7: Emer, Eoin, Ella(first)
Room 8: Asher, Aoife(first), Vinu

Room 9: Amy(first), Nuala, Holly
Room 10: Sophie(first), Niall, Dagmar
Room 11: Kinga, Kevin, Isobel(first)
Room 12: Barbara(first), Paul, Sophie
Room 14: Shona, Tara, Daniel(first)
Room 15: Kaytlyn(first), Karla, Marcus
Room 16: Elizabeth, Jonathan(first), Megan
Room 17: Anna(first), Beth, Sean

Basketball Prizes

3rd Class - Sophie Reid, Eoin Lennon, Daniel Brien
Rising Stars from 3rd Class: Bronagh Byrne, Sam Grogan, Cormac Foley, Cian Mooney, Christopher Williams, Eva Moore, Marc Brady
4th Class - Jason McEvoy, Emily Carney, Cathal Smullen
5th Class - Arvin Cahatol, Úna Grogan, Aaron Byrne
6th Class - Darren Curran, Peter Lefebvre, Jessica Hunt, Ciara Lennon