Linking home and school.

“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

Feabhra 2020 / Feabhra 2020 www.snbclonakilty.com Volume 25, Issue 06

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

Isa Khan - first ever class pres-ident - elected recently.

School Closed: Monday

16th & Tuesday 17th March School Closed: 18th of

March for Staff Inservice. Easter Holidays: Friday

3rd of April at 12.00 p.m.. Return 20th of April.

Tickets for Don’t Give Up! go on sale on Tuesday 5th of May, 2020, on the Aladdin App.

School Closed: May 4th. School Closed: May 28th

for Staff Inservice. School Closed: May 29th,

June 1st. Summer Musical: 16th,

17th and 18th of June. Summer Holidays: Friday

26th June @ 12.00 p.m.

Sixth Class Par-ty: Friday 26th of June.

On the 30th of January 24 skilled chess players from Scoil na mBuachaillí travelled to Dunman-

way Parkway Hotel by bus. Both learners and players teams did extremely well winning the competition in both leagues. In the individuals Eoghan Moynihan and Emmet Nolan came first in the league with Dylan Harrington, Mattie Lyons, Darragh Murphy, Finn O Mahony and Aled Finney in second place. In the Leaner’s league Marwan Ali and Rockas Pocevicius came first with Patrick Slone in second. Thanks to Ms O’Boyle and Mr Harrington who came with us on the day. Big thanks to Ms Mac Auley and Mr. O’Riordan who stayed until 4 o’clock on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. And of course huge thanks to Mr Harrington who taught 4th , 5th and 6th class how to play chess and stayed Tuesdays and Wednesdays until 4 o’clock. Congratulations to both teams on their success in the West Cork League. Overall it was a great day out! Both teams have now qualified for the Cork Chess Competition we wish both teams well in the next round. By Dylan Harrington On the 30/01/2020 all of the Scoil na mBuachaillí chess team went to the Parkway Hotel in Dunmanway. When we got there we all got our bibs. We played two matches then had small

lunch after we played two more matches then had big lunch after we played two more. We finished a small bit early so we waited for the bus when the bus came we handed back the bibs and got into the bus on the way home we were given the results. The learners came first by twelve points. Our older A team came first and our B team came second. At the end of the day eve-ryone was very happy with their results. by Darragh Murphy

JEP FOR 5TH CLASS On the 7th of February, 5th class was presenting

their idea for JEP. There were 9 ideas: Mindfulness

Balls, Supreme Storage, Fantastic Feeders, Tic Tac

Go, Clon Poms, Luminous Letters, Jazzy Jars, Bum

Bag Buddies and Stylish Stones. JEP stands for

Junior Entrepreneur program. The Judges were

Lawrence Coughlan from Coughlan’s, William

Allsher from Rosscarbery Black Pudding, Caroline

from West Cork Eggs and Edna Heart. The judges

chose Tic Tac Go based on Shourya, Nicholas and

Alex’s presentation and their idea. Many thanks to

our teacher Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan for organis-

ing JEP in our class this year.

By Nicholas and Shourya.

2 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

Over the past few years we have tried - in vain - to recycle our Green Waste and unfortunately it hasn’t worked out, probably because the only waste was fruit. The Recycling bins have being at-tracting visitors that we don’t want! Because of this we are asking boys to bring home their apple cores, banana skins (organic waste) etc from now on. Tin foil and uneaten lunches will be brought home also. Many thanks for your cooperation.

On the 9th of January 2020 we host-ed a debate in our school against Dundurrow N.S. The motion of the debate was “That social media is a force for good”. It was an excellent competition and the teams were well matched. We knew we were close but we were delighted when the ad-judicator announced that we won the debate. Dundurrow put up a good fight with valid points and good speeches. Well done to Paddy White, Patrick O’Brien and Illan Smith and the entire debating team. For the first time Scoil na mBuachailli we have made it to the semi finals. We are all very excited and are looking forward to representing our school. It will be held on the 28th of January in the West Cork Education Centre Dun-manway. The motion is “We’re not doing enough for food waste”. We wish the team the best of luck.

By Ryan Twomey

3 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

The only sport to have been played on the moon was golf - in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepherd hit 2 golf balls to see how far they might travel. Square watermelons can be found in Japan and they are often very expensive, with prices as high as $100. In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let them play barefoot. Hippos can run up to 30 km/h even though they weigh 1,500 kg

Green news by Jack Cronin and Bill Bennett

On Tuesday the 14 th of January, Ms. Forristal’s Junior Infants were work-

ing really hard to make bird feeders for the birds that live near the school.

Firstly they cut oranges in half and poured out all of the oranges bits and

juice. They did this so they’d be able to put the bird food into the oranges

for the birds to have a container to eat out of. They got a bowl of seeds and

started taking turns pouring seeds into the oranges. They also had skewers

to keep all of the food inside without any of it falling out but still leaving

space for the birds toeat from. It was about a spoonful of seeds that the boys

put in so they would all have turns to pour the seeds in and feel what the

seeds felt like. Now they will be able to put the bird feeders out so the birds

won’t have to worry about gathering food because it’s normally hard

around this time of year due to the temperature and lack of available food.

Basketball 19/20: Basketball is on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. After Easter it will be on @ 8.50 a.m. Thanks to Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan and Mr. Seán Daly for assisting again with Basketball this year.

Quizzard ‘19/20: has started. Clas-ses from Rang 3 - Rang 6 will be participating. Cillian White and Isa Khan are in charge of the quiz this year. We are reaching the quarter final stage.

Chess: is over for all classes except the school teams. The finals are taking place in Ovens on the 19th of March. That is the final day for Chess this year. Thanks to Ms. Niamh Mac Auley for her help with the Learners. Thanks to Mr. Gavin O’Riordan for his continued assistance with the Players Chess Club.

Soccer Competitions

Senior Infants Soccer Held on Monday, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays. No Soccer on Thursday or Friday. Rang 1 and Rang 2 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It depends on which team you are on. The Teams are on the school website. On Thursday, Monday’s teams will have soccer and the following week Tuesday etc.

Rang 3 - Rang 6 Held on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes-days and Thursdays. It depends on which team you are on. The Teams are on the school website. On Friday, teams who may have missed soccer due to the weather will play.

Multi-Media Authoring / Video Ed-iting / Computer Lessons / Coderdo-jo - for Rang 2, Rang 3, Rang 4, Rang 5 and Rang 6 will start in October with our new laptops in our new computer room. Thanks to Mrs. Margaret Dee-gan for teaching Coder Dojo to Rang 2 each week. Swimming: for Rang 4 and half Rang 6 - started on 7th of February and it will finish on the 20th of March. Next up is Rang 5 and the second half of Rang 6. Junior Warden Duty Many thanks to Mr. O’Driscoll. Thanks also to Chris Hinchy for his

help.

GAA - Timmy Anglin and Co-nan O’Donovan Rugby - Finbarr O’Regan is coaching until the end of March. Summer Musical - rehearsals are underway (just the songs) and interviews for all positions are almost complete.

4 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

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 6th 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 David and Kacper for look-ing after the cans this coming year.

Photos on page 6 Recently we held our Open Day and en-rolling for next school year 2020/2021. It was a great success and huge numbers attended. The boys were great! The boys gave the tour and manned all the stalls and spoke in each classroom along the way. The parents and children got an oppor-tunity to see what life in SnB is like and got a glimpse of some of our curricular and extra curricular activities. We then finished our tour in the hall where there were different exhibitions that the parents could look at. Thanks to the Tour Guides, the sound engineers, all the boys who spoke on the day - from Juniors to Rang 6. A special thanks to their teachers who prepared them and also to Thelma, Noreen and Finbarr for their help. Thanks also to Ms. Regina Fitzmaurice, Mrs. Elaine Connolly and Ms. Niamh MacAuley for their work with the tour guides. Thanks also to Margaret Deegan. So far 33 boys have enrolled for Junior Infants next year. More children have enrolled in other classes, in our Early Years and Second ASD class for next year also. Our Early Years class now has 5 boys attending and one boy - the last boy - is enrolling in the coming weeks.

5 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

“Cent” boxes will continue this year. Rang 5 (Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan) will be in charge of organising the col-lection each week. Last year €1500 was raised last year for The Thorntree Project. So far the boys have collected €661.66.

Gum Shields must be worn for Football, Hurling and Rugby

GAA with Timmy An-glin and Co-nan O’Dono-van on Wednesdays

Classes Junior Infants, 1st, 3rd A and 3rd B February 26th, March 4th, 11th, 18th Classes Juniors / Seniors, Senior In-fants and 2nd March 25th, April 1st, 22nd, 29th

Tuesday 18th of February – 31st of March 2020 Juniors-Rang 3

Recently the school Basketball team travelled to Neptune Stadi-um to participate in the Cork Bas-ketball Tournament. They were accompanied by their coach Ms. Carol Ann O’Dono-van, teacher Ms. Regina Fitzmau-rice and parent Ms. Sinéad O’Crowley - who all provided lifts. The boys won all their games and had a fantastic day. Thanks to Ms. Carol Ann O’Donovan and Mr. Seán Daly for coaching basketball after school each week.

6 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

7 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

On Monday the 20th January elev-en 4th Class boys went to Ballinacar-riga for a hurling blitz. We started off by playing Skibbereen. We scored first but then they came back and beat us 5-1. We still had a

chance of getting to the final. Our next match was against Bantry A. We beat them 3-1. After that we played Bantry B team. This time we were the ones who were disappointed but we still had a great day. Thanks to Mr. Daly and Ms. Fitz-maurice, Mr. Whooley and Mr. Hancock for looking after us and brining us to the games. By Tom Whooley

Children are not allowed to walk in the staff carpark - even if accompanied by an adult. Please use the main school yard for access. Also during the school day, parents are not permitted to use the Staff Carpark. It is too dangerous. Parents can park in the Clonakilty Car-park if they wish. After school - e.g. after Chess or Basketball or Sher-pa, parents may use the Car-park.

Lately a number of parents are parking on the double yellow lines outside the O’Rahilly Street entrance - endangering your child’s life in the process. Please DO NOT PARK THERE. The Board of Management has a duty of care for all the children and are presently in contact with the relevant authorities - the Gardaí, the traffic warden etc - to assist us with this very dangerous practice. Please also DO NOT PARK outside the main gate of the school on the bypass.

The star dome was amazing. It came from the Blackrock Observatory in Cork. It reminded me of a Planetari-um I once visited when on holidays in Poland. The star dome was like a cinema but the screen was in a

dome all around me. It showed all the star patterns. I learned how the northern star never moves. Each class got to spend 30 minutes in it. I really would recommend trying it if you ever get a chance. Thanks to Mrs. Marie Hayes for organis-ing the Star Dome to come to our school. by Wojtek Kusal. The Star Dome was paid for out of the money collected for drama in September.

On the Tuesday 29th January 6th class’s Debating team went to Dunmanway for the sem– fiinals of the West Cork Debat-ing League where they faced Barryroe NS. Our team consisted of Paddy White, Illan Smith and Patrick O’ Brien. Our team’s captain was Paddy White. It took place in the Dunmanway Education Centre. The topic up for debate was ‘We are not doing enough to end food Waste’. Our team had the difficult task of pro-posing this motion. We ran a mock de-bate in school prior to the real debate. Our sub team of Peter, Gary and Oisin

had many of the same arguments as

Barryroe. However, on the day our motion was defeated and Barryroe NS progress onto the final of the West Cork debating League. We wish Barryroe NS best of luck in the final. After the debate we went to the canteen where we got crisps, a chocolate bar and

orange juice. We arrived back on the bus not sad because we knew we did a great

job!!! We would like to thank all 19 boys on the team who contributed to

getting us to the Semi Finals, from speech writers to rebuttal writers to the

sub team you’re help was much appreci-

ated. Thanks to Mrs. Marie

Hayes for guid-ing us on our

path to the semi finals and who

gave us our love of debating in 4th class. Also thanks to Mr. Harrington,

Ms. MacAuley and the bus driver of course. On behalf of our class we would

like congratulate our team on their suc-cess at reaching the semi- finals. Best of

luck to next year’s team. We hope ye go all the way! By Bill Bennett and Eoin

Canapini

8 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

First Confession: Tuesday 5th of May, 2020 @ 7.30 p.m. First Holy Communion (second class) will be held on Saturday the 9th of May 2020 at 11.00 a.m. Confirmation: No Confirmation this year. Children who were baptised outside of the parish of Clona-kilty will have to send in a copy of their Baptismal Certifi-cate (unless you have already done so). Please send in this certificate as soon as you can. Children in other classes who have not sent in their Baptis-mal Certificate can do so at any time – it will be photocopied and the original returned immediately. For children in Junior Infants it is the ideal opportunity to locate and send in your Baptismal Certificate – we won’t have to ask for it ever again.

9 Volume 25, Issue 06 February 2020

After Mid term break, boys who are interested in auditioning for parts in the musical Don’t Give Up! (5th and 6th class only) will be staying after school one day a week - it may be on different days - due to Chess, Basketball, Staff Meetings etc.

In previous years parents had to sign the Links here. However from now on this will be done digitally by the Permissions section of the Connect App. It’s just a tick to say you have received the Links. Thank you for help.

Backstage Managers Front of House Managers

Producer and Assistant Producers IT / Sound Effects Manager

Costumes and Properties Managers Sound Crew Managers