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“This school should be used as a model for other schools around the country” - The Minister for Education and Science

“I get the sense that this is a school that really ‘gets’ boys.” - Catherine Shanahan, Irish Examiner

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School Closed: May 25th

for Referendum. First Holy Communion:

Saturday 26th of May, 2018 @ 11.00 a.m. School Closed: June 4th,

June 5th. Booklists: 11th of June Fundraising Blitz: Thurs-

day 13th of June Car Wash in Clonakilty

Car Centre: 9th of June - proceeds going to Running Track.| Church Gate Collection:

9th and 10th of June De Barra’s Gig: 16th of

June @ 1.00 p.m. End of Year Reports:

18th of June

Prizegiving: 26th of June Summer Musical: Tues-

day 19th, Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of June. Summer Holidays: Friday

29th June @ 12.00 p.m. 6th Class Party: 29th of

June - times and venue to be confirmed

Our A and B teams have qualified again for

the finals in the Evening Echo Cork City Chess League. In fact the B team came first on the day and the A team came second.

Thanks to Mr. Gavin O’Riordan and Ms. Niamh MacAuley for teaching the boys

chess throughout the year. Thanks also to

Marie Flood for bring the boys to Cork on the day.

Congratulations to Eileen Collins (Parent’s

Association Chairperson) and all the organising

committee, coordinators, anyone who helped in

anyway for organising an excellent Tea Party

again this year. Ahamilla was packed to capaci-

ty and everyone enjoyed themselves. Well done

to the parents of Rang 6 who won the “Best

Table” award.

Thanks to Ger McCarthy, Timmy Anglin, Car-

mel Calnan and Jerry O’Sullivan of Clonakilty

GAA club for all their help and providing the

venue.

Thanks to Caitriona Kennedy (Floor Manager)

and all at Inchydoney Lodge and Spa who pro-

vided the tables etc for the night. Thanks to all

her helpers who ferried all the tables and linen

from Inchydoney.

In short - thanks to everyone who helped! More

photos on page 5 and on website.

On the 12 April 2018 after all our hard work we finally achieved our green school travel flag. Unfortunately on the 24th January 2017 the get in gear, parent’s cycle lessons were can-celled due to rain. All

the others were com-pleted. On the 14th of February the 3rd and 4th cycling was cancelled and on the 31st of Janu-ary the 5th and 6th class cycle was cancelled also due to rain. We also have energy (Continued on page 3)

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On Tuesday the 17th a debate was held between SNB and St.

Josephs, the debate took place at 10 a.m. The debating team from SNB were [captain] Fionnón Bennet, Mario and

Gearóid and the girls schools team was Alannah, Sinéad and Rhiana. Both teams were tremendously close but SNB were the victors. The debate finished at around 10:30 and the de-baters got crisps and chocolates at the end. We thank Mrs. Marie Hayes for coaching the team and Ms. Regina Fitzmau-rice and Ms. Niamh MacAuley for their help.By Pranav Prakash

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Adam O’Regan played in the West Cork School boys selection against Clare in the final of the SFAI Sub-way Munster Final Plate. Adam who only started playing in goal in March and with minimal training debuted in goal and kept a clean sheet!!!He is the proud winner of a Mun-ster U13 medal.

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All cans gratefully re-ceived. Please contact Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice if you have any queries 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 Carlos, Cillian and Emmet for organising the cans this year.

Well done to Ryan on his recent suc-cess with Clonakilty Rugby.

supervisors in our school to check if all the lights and monitors are off. We also swapped all our lights to LED to save more energy. We have 4 Green school flags Litter

and waste, Energy, Water and Travel.

By Maks Garbacz and Michael Birlea

(Continued from page 1)

Basketball 17/18: Basketball training is on Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8.50 a.m. None after school due to musical rehearsals.

Quizzard ‘17/18: Classes from Rang 3 - Rang 6 are participating. We are now at the semi final stage.

Chess: is finished for the year for all boys except for the A and B team.

Soccer Competitions

Senior Infants Soccer Held on Monday, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays. No Soccer on Thursday or Friday.

Rang 1 agus Rang 2 Held on Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. Extra day’s soccer on Fridays - between Rang 1 and Rang 2.

Rang 3 - Rang 6 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. The boys have been told what day they are playing. Debating: is finished for the year.

Swimming: for Rang 5/6 and 1/2 Rang 6 runs until 15th of June. Wardens – Boys in fifth/sixth class are being super-vised by Mr. O’Driscoll for Junior Warden Duty.

GAA - Timmy Anglin is now finished for the year. Summer Musical: Rehearsals are underway at present and run right up to the

18th of June. Chorus rehearsals are held each Wednesday after school until 4.10 p.m. Tickets for the Musical

Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th are now SOLD OUT!

There are 15 tickets left for Thursday night.

All ordered tickets must be paid for by the 31st of May.

Surfing Group 2 are now on their 3rd day.

Kayaking takes place at the end of May.

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only €16.00 p.p.

only €9.00 p.p.

By James Deegan Every Monday night I go to CoderDojo at the Quality Hotel. I entered the National Scratch Competition this year. My project is called “Wanazoozoo”. I made the game in Scratch. To play the game you have to press the arrow keys. You must catch 10 Violins in each level within 20 seconds. Otherwise you lose. Don't eat the bears or you

will lose points. Don't eat the stripy bears

or you will lose lives. They start to appear from Level 6. If you lose all lives before end of game you lose. You have 120 seconds to beat the game. I got picked out of hundreds of entries to get to the National Scratch Final. It is going to be on

next Wednesday 25th April at University of Limerick. I will get the day off school to go. You can play the game here - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203437663. I can’t wait. Wish me luck.

Pictured above: James’ mother Margaret teaching Coderdojo to Rang 2.

Heritage in School Scheme in SnB recently

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“Cent” boxes will continue this year. Ms. Karen O’Regan and Ryan, Cameron and Callum will be in charge of organis-ing the collection each week. Last year €1,193 was raised for Rapid Response. Ryan O’Leary, Cameron Rose and Callum Hurley will try and beat last year’s record as they are now in charge for the coming year. So far the boys have €626.15 collected. The money this year is being given to the Samburu Tribe / Thorntree Project (Butterfly Child).

*Michael Jackson was the highest earning dead celebrity last year. His estate earned $75 million. *The first partially successful pho-tograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce. *Saint Patrick is believed to have died in 461 AD and his final resting place is at the Hill of Down where his gravestone is now situated. *No two people have the same set of teeth - your teeth are as unique as your fingerprint. *Antilia, a 27-story skyscraper in Mumbai, is the most expensive home in the world, valued at $1 bil-lion.

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On Tuesday 10th of April 2018, 6th class went for their first surfing lesson at Inchy-doney Beach. We first came up in cars who were driven by volunteering parents and teachers who were thankfully willing to give up their spare time to bring us down. When we arrived we were put into a single file line outside the Inchydoney Beach Hut and waited for an instructor called Brendan to ask us for our foot size. When we gave him our sizes he gave us pro-tective boots for surfing. Af-ter receiving them we went into the Hut and Colm

McAuley, another helpful instructor, gave us our wet-suits which was a hard job due to the fact that he had to estimate the size we would need. We then went to the rigorous task of putting on the wetsuits which in my opinion was far longer than I had anticipated. After finally putting the wet-suit and boots on we got to the fun parts! We got to de-cide our partners and we took two boards down at a time. When we reached the beach, we took an invigorating jog to warm up our bodies. We were taught about the different

parts of the surf board and Brendan gave us a small but helpful tip that if you stay to the tail of the board you would have a better chance of staying on the board and stay-ing on course. After all that we finally got submerged in the water and we took several attempts at standing on the board which most of us gladly managed. On behalf of the 6th Class Surfing Group, I would like to thank all the teachers and the parents who helped either organize the trip and/or bring us and I would also like to thank Ms Fitzmaurice for supervising us on the day. Last but by no accounts least,

I would like to thank Bren-dan, Colm and Liam for help-ing us. We hope to have more enjoyable sessions in our re-maining lessons. Charlie Cronin and Aleksei

Binzar, Age 12

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CS First | Rang 5 / 6

CS First | Rang 5 / 6

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Junior & Senior Infants Date: 21st of May

Venue: Mardyke Arena

Leaving school at 8.45 a.m. and return-ing 2.00 p.m.

Price: €25.00

Children must bring a snack, drinks, and an empty plastic bag for rubbish.

School Tracksuit must be worn on the day - including polo shirt - there is no ex-ception to this.

1st Class Date: June 7th

Venue: Woodland Warriors, Castle-freke and hike to Long Strand

Leaving school at 9.30 a.m. and returning at 3.00 p.m.

Price: €16.00

Children must bring a snack, packed lunch, drinks, sun-screen and an empty plastic bag for rub-bish.

School Tracksuit must be worn on the day - including polo shirt - there is no ex-ception to this.

Shorts cannot be worn on the day – all arms and legs must be covered as the activity takes place in the woods.

If the day is sunny please give your sun a hat to wear.

2nd / 3rd Class Tour Date: June 7th

Venue: Zip-it, Farran Woods

Leaving school at 8.50 a.m. and returning 3.15 p.m.

Price: €25.00

School Tracksuit must be worn on the day - including polo shirt - there is no ex-ception to this.

Children must bring a snack, packed lunch, drinks, sun-screen and an empty plastic bag for rub-bish.

Old clothes / run-ners / Sunscreen (entire change of clothes)

Shorts cannot be worn on the day – all arms and legs must be covered as the activity takes place in the woods.

4th Class Tour

Date: 22nd of May

Venue: West Cork Secret Garden, in-cluding Pizza

Leaving school at

10.00 a.m. and return-ing at 3.00 p.m..

Price: €25.00

Children come to school in old clothes and old shoes.

Children must bring a snack, packed lunch, drinks, sun-screen and an empty plastic bag for rub-bish.

Please bring a plastic bag for clothes.

School tracksuit in a bag / spare run-ners / towel, complete change of clothes in-cluding underclothes.

5th Class Kayaking Date: Wed/Thur

30th – 31st May

Venue: Reen Pier

Price: €50

(Details later)

6th Class Surfing Venue: Inchydoney

Children may not bring any pocket money / phones / valuables on the tour

Pictured below: Daffodil Day Cheque, Rang 4 Lego, Martial Arts Champions, Surfing Group 2

On Friday the 27th of April it

was Culture Day in

4th class. Culture day was a

day where we talked about

our cultures and brought in

posters, food and items from

our different cultures.

I was in a group with Paddy

White and Aled Fin-

ney. Altogether there were

15 groups. My group did it

on Wales because Aled is

Welsh and Paddy’s granny

owns a B&B in Wales.

The other places were places

such as Russia, Guatemala,

France, Italy, America, Paki-

stan, Syria, Lithuania, Eng-

land, Poland, Australia and

Ireland. Third and second

class visited to view our pro-

jects. We had so much fun.

-Jack Cronin, 4th class

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

Thanks to Eileen O’Donovan for her assis-tance. Children in Rang 6 have to use this scheme for saving for their Surfing les-sons 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 prod-ucts containing traces of nuts can be dangerous for example NUTELLA or Peanut But-ter!!!! Please be aware of this when organising your child’s lunch and DO NOT allow your child to bring anything contain-ing nuts to school. Please give your children water to drink coming to school - not sweet or fizzy drinks.

Please note the following events being run by our Parent’s Association in the coming weeks: Saturday 26th of

May | First Holy Communion: Parents from Rang 3 are host-ing families of First Holy Communion children in the Parish Centre after the Cere-mony. Thanks to all the 3rd class parents for helping out on the day.

Many thanks to Noel White (Texaco) who has sponsored all the “Goody Bags” for the Holy Communion.

He has sponsored this event for the past 5 years. We thank him for this.

June 9th Clonakilty Car Centre (Stephen Melynk) Car Wash: from 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. the proceeds from all cars washed on this day will go to Scoil na mBuachaillí running track. Many thanks to Stephen for his support.

June 9th and 10th: Parent’s Association Church Gate Collec-tion. Thanks to the collectors.