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Volume 17, Issue 04 December | An Nollaig 2011 Linking home and school. “This school should be used as a model for other schools around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science Email: snbclonakilty. [email protected] | [email protected] Website Address: www.snbclonakilty.com Telephone/fax: 8834487 Christmas Carol Service/ Lighting of the Remembrance: Tuesday 6th of December at 7.30 p.m. in the Parish Church. No school: Thursday 8th of December. Christmas Magazine out: Monday / Tues- day 12th/13th of December. Early closing: Thursday 22nd of Decem- ber, 12.00 p.m. Back to school after Christmas Holidays: Monday 9th of January, 2012. Mid Term Break: Thursday 16th and Fri- day 17th of February. Parent/Teacher Meetings: Thursday 1st of March. School Closed: Monday 19th of March. Easter Holidays: Friday 30th of March, closing at 12.00p.m. Back to school: Monday 16th of April. First Holy Communion: Sat. 19th of May. Please send in a copy of your child’s Baptis- mal Certificate if he was bap- tised outside of Clonakilty. Click here What is the Remembrance Tree? The Remembrance Tree is an opportunity to remember your loved ones - be they de- ceased, living away from home, in hospital or just a gift with a difference - in a special way this Christmas. For just €10 you can add your light to the tree. Each subsequent light will cost just €5 e.g. one light €10, 2 lights €15, 3 lights €20 etc. Your light can now be purchased from Scoil na mBuachaillí or from any member of the Par- ents’ Association. In December, the lights will be on sale on the streets of Clonakilty. Ribbons: This year you can write the name of the per- son you wish to remember on a ribbon which will also be placed on the tree. There is no extra charge for this. What are the funds for? The funds raised by this ven- ture are being used for our new extension (i.e. to pay back the (Continued on page 3) Click here The final event of the Cork Schools’ Orienteering League was held in Tramore Val- ley Park in Cork on Wed 23 rd of October. Once again the school had a very successful day out with the 5 th Class boys coming second and the 6 th Class winning. Maurice Shanley and Tristan Walsh came 2 nd and 3 rd respectively in the 6 th Class competition and Colm Brennan and Jamie Latimer did best in the fifth class section. The overall league results for 2011 now show that both 5 th and 6 th classes were the overall win- ners of the competition with Tristan Walsh achieving 2 nd individual place. The boys now look forward to Munster (Doneraile) and All Ireland (Kilkenny) competitions in the New Tear. Well done to a great start to the year !!!!

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Volume 17, Issue 04

December | An Nollaig 2011

Linking home and school.

“This school should be used as a model for other schools

around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science

Email: snbclonakilty. [email protected] |

[email protected] Website Address: www.snbclonakilty.com

Telephone/fax:

8834487

Christmas Carol Service/ Lighting of the

Remembrance: Tuesday 6th of December

at 7.30 p.m. in the Parish Church.

No school: Thursday 8th of December.

Christmas Magazine out: Monday / Tues-

day 12th/13th of December.

Early closing: Thursday 22nd of Decem-

ber, 12.00 p.m.

Back to school after Christmas Holidays:

Monday 9th of January, 2012.

Mid Term Break: Thursday 16th and Fri-

day 17th of February.

Parent/Teacher Meetings: Thursday 1st of

March.

School Closed: Monday 19th of March.

Easter Holidays: Friday 30th of March,

closing at 12.00p.m.

Back to school: Monday 16th of April.

First Holy Communion: Sat. 19th of May.

Please send in a copy of your child’s Baptis-

mal Certificate if he was bap-

tised outside of Clonakilty.

Click here

What is the Remembrance Tree?

The Remembrance Tree is an opportunity

to remember your loved ones - be they de-

ceased, living away from home, in hospital

or just a gift with a difference - in a special

way this Christmas.

For just €10 you can add your light to the

tree. Each subsequent light will cost just

€5 e.g. one light €10, 2 lights €15, 3 lights

€20 etc.

Your light can now be purchased from

Scoil na

mBuachaillí or from any member of the Par-

ents’ Association. In December, the lights

will be on sale on the streets of Clonakilty.

Ribbons:

This year you can write the name of the per-

son you wish to remember on a ribbon which

will also be placed on the tree. There is no

extra charge for this.

What are the funds for?

The funds raised by this ven-

ture are being used for our new

extension (i.e. to pay back the

(Continued on page 3) Click here

The final event of the Cork Schools’ Orienteering League was held in Tramore Val-

ley Park in Cork on Wed 23rd of October. Once again the school had a very successful

day out with the 5th Class boys coming second and the 6th Class winning. Maurice

Shanley and Tristan Walsh came 2nd and 3rd respectively in the 6th Class competition

and Colm Brennan and Jamie Latimer did best in the fifth class section. The overall

league results for 2011 now show that both 5th and 6th classes were the overall win-

ners of the competition with Tristan Walsh achieving 2nd individual place. The boys

now look forward to Munster (Doneraile) and All Ireland (Kilkenny) competitions in

the New Tear. Well done to a great start to the year !!!!

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Jamie O’Donovan - Junior Infants

Luke Henry - Junior Infants

Charlie Cronin - Senior Infants

Leon Krawczyk - Rang 1

Duncan Rose - Rang 2

Cian Collins - Rang 2

William Chen - Rang 2

Diarmuid Caverly - Rang 3

Joshua Mensah - Rang 4

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David O’Regan & Co. Chartered Accountants

Registered Auditors

Our services include: Financial Accounting &

Bookkeeping

Audit & assurance – Taxation Consultancy

Small & Medium Business Support

Contractor Solutions HR & Payroll

Company Secretarial & Formation

Strategic & Business Planning

Please contact:

David O’Regan on

Mob: 087-2043800

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.dor.ie

Hire some fun for any occasion

Phone: Clonakilty

023 88 35595

Mobile: 086

8315744

Bantry: 027 50713

Mobile: 087

9081273

Our Christmas Annual is due out on

Monday / Tuesday 13th / 14th De-

cember. If your son wishes to put

something into it please email the

joke / puzzle etc to the school asap.

Ensure you have your child’s name

and age at the top. Last orders to

book Magazine is this Wednesday. It

costs just €4.00. Please support.

Many thanks to Mr. Harte for or-

ganising the Homework Club again

this year.

Homework Club ends on Thursday

15th of December.

There is no Homework Club in the

last week of December.

money borrowed for our fabulous extension) and for a local Chari-

ty. The local Charity this year is the St. Vincent de Paul

Society.

Thanks to this tree - all children are being taught in permanent

accommodation!

And........ If you are free to sell lights between 8th of December

and Christmas (for approx. two hours) please contact Thelma at

the school - 8834487.

Lighting Up Ceremony

The Lighting up Ceremony will be held on the night of the Christ-

mas Carol Service, 6th of December.

Thanks to Justin England, Séamus Daly and his staff, Aidan Hayes

Seán Cowhig and recently retired Johnny O’Reilly for their sup-

port in this venture.

(Continued from page 1)

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Robert Downey - Rang 5 Dylan O’Mahony - Rang 5 Ben Crowley - Rang 6

Swimming Champion - Rang 4 Aged 11 on the 11th of 2011 Credit Union Poster Winner

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If you would like to book an ad for the coming school year 2011-2012 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.

Click here

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Following IT Workshop by Ian Jackson, Conor creat-

ed this comic about Mr. Dumd! Click here

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Basketball: Basketball is on every Tuesday and Thurs-

day. Over 50 boys are in the league! It will

continue right up to the summer holidays.

Quizzard ’11/12: has started recently. Clas-

ses from Rang 3 - Rang 6 are participating.

Cormac Coleman and Darragh O’Neill are in

charge of the quiz this year.

Chess – Boys in Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6

are participating. It runs on Tuesdays and

Wednesdays after school.

Soccer Competitions -

Senior Infants Soccer

Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or

Thursdays. Fridays will be raffled between

the four teams. Teams are on website.

Rang 1

Held on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Extra

day’s soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 /

Rang 1/2 /Rang 2 Teams are on website.

Rang 2

Held on Mondays or Thursdays. Extra day’s

soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 / Rang

1/2 /Rang 2 Teams are on website.

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

Click here

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Editing / Computer Lessons - for

Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 has started. All lessons are on

Website (for Rang 4 - Rang 6).

Swimming: Rang 1/2 and Rang 4/5 are swimming from 9th of De-

cember.

Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class are training with Mr. Harte and

Chris Hinchy for Junior Warden Duty. Many thanks to both.

Rang 3

Held on

Mondays

Rang 4

Held on

Tuesdays

Rang 5

Held on

Wednesdays

Rang 6

Held on

Thursdays

Click here

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Santa envelopes are still on sale from

Thelma as the office for €1.00.

These are stamped and addressed to the

North Pole for Santa. All proceeds go to

the Cork Simon Charity.

Computer Drawings by

Chinedu Okoye, Jack

Conway, Jakub Mar-

czeyski, Mark Allman,

David Harte, Ryan Tobin

Click here

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Thanks to the Parent’s Association

for organising the Christmas Raf-

fle again this year.

As in the past all monies raised by

the class will be spent by the class

teacher for the classroom.

Prizes for the raffle are as fol-

lows

1st Nintendo DS 3D

2nd Shannonvale Foods Voucher €100(sponsored by Shan-

nonvale Foods)

3rd Ripstick

4th Quality Hotel meal voucher for 2 (sponsored by Quality

Hotel)

5th Voucher for An Sugan €50 sponsored by( S.Crowley).

Each child will be given 2 books of tickets, price €5 per

book.

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.

Thank you for your response for our appeal for Tennis Balls

(old) to put underneath the chairs in some of the classrooms.

However more are still needed and we would appreciate

them at any time.

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.

This very popular scheme started in September

for all classes except Junior Infants. Stamps cost €1 each.

Junior Infants may start collecting later in the year.

Children in Rang 6 will use this scheme for saving for their

Surfing lessons and boys in Rang 5 will use if for Kayaking.

This is compulsory - all children must save each week for

Kayaking / Surfing if they wish to go.

Thank you to all the boys who have volunteered to sing car-

ols on the 8th of December outside O’Donovan’s Hotel at

1.00 p.m. approx.

Boys will assemble at O’Donovan’s 1.00 — 1.15p.m. and

will sing for approx. 30 mins. Bring Santa hats if you have

them and warm clothes.

Please note change of time.

GAA Mass: 14th of December at 8.00 p.m. for those who

can attend.

A Christ- mas Carol Service in the Parish Church on

Tuesday the 6th of December at 7.30p.m. in the Parish

Church. Thank you to Karen O’Regan for coordinating the

service again this year. Thanks to Elaine Connolly, Regina

Fitzmaurice, Josephine Files and Grace O’Shea for assisting

her. Thanks to the staff of the school for preparing the chil-

dren. Thanks to the Sound Crew and John Fitzgerald.

All children should be in their places by 7.15 p.m..

There will be a collection at the door for the St. Vincent de

Paul Society.

On the night we will also light the Remembrance Tree

near the Wheel Pump.

The new Board of Manage-

ment is now in place. The

members chosen are:

Parent’s Nominees: Liz O’Regan and John Coleman

Staff Nominee: David O’Brien

Bishop’s Nominees: Noreen Minihan and Eileen Minihan

Community Nominees: Elma O’Mahony and Jerome O’Sullivan

Principal: Barth Harrington

Thanks to Mim Hill for decorating the windows in the

school. Thanks to Finbarr and Michael Harte for decorating

the school foyer and corridor for Christmas.

We have just been in- formed by the Dept. of

Education that the grant we get every year for Minor Works will no

longer be given to schools.

This grant has been used over the past few years to change the floor

covering in many of the classrooms, to floor and develop the up-

stairs in the school, to assist in the purchase of the photocopier etc.

The loss of this grant will make a huge difference to the upkeep of

the school in the coming years. We are extremely fortunate that we

have replaced the flat roof (last summer), windows and doors (the

summer before).

Please mention this to your local T.D. / Councillor the

next time you meet him. It seems to have gone unnoticed

in the media. This will impact on children, staff and par-

ents in the coming years.