 Congratulations to Rebecca, Chloe and Caitlin who won the competition. It was of course Brian O' Driscoll. We were totally overwhelmed with the amount of people who commented not to mention the fantastic research done to come up with so many great facts. Well done everyone:-). |  |
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 Our GAA coach from Na Fianna, Mark Mc Manus will be back next week. Mark did a block of lessons earlier in the year in both football and camogie with 3rd and 4th and the girls thoroughly enjoyed these sessions. They are introduced to skills in both codes and are so lucky to have this opportunity to develop their skills and interest. Na Fianna, our local club in Glasnevin always support St. Brigid's in any way they can through coaching, pitches for training and much more. See the slideshow for some camogie photos from earlier in the year. In the interests of increasing activity throughout the school we've changed the GAA timetable from 3rd/4th only to include Senior Infants, First and Second classes. It's wonderful so many throughout the school avail of this opportunity now. See slideshow for pictures. We'll keep adding to this. Who is this famous Irish sports star????? Comment with his name and two interesting facts please. Good luck everyone:-).   We've been working so hard on becoming an 'Active School' this year. Our parents association are joining us in helping to achieve our first active flag and have come up with a fantastic idea for their main fundraiser. It is a sponsored cycle and pedal powered cinema. The idea is to get as many adults (parents, teachers and community members) to do a sponsored cycle to raise money for the school but all the power generated by the cyclists will run the cinema for the evening. We really can't wait. Tickets available every morning this week in school. Please visit the Parents Association section of the school website for more details or click here.
 What a fantastic week for everyone. We held a hugely successful multi-cultural week full of activities and fun events. As part of our Active Flag initiative we had a sports day where different countries raced against each other in an obstacle course. We had Poland V Romania in the fourth classes, Georgia V China in 6th, Egypt V Lithuania in 1st and so on. Our ASF committee came up with the course, set it up, showed the younger classes a how to do it and tidied up afterwards. Well done everyone. We all really enjoyed it. Check out our pictures below!
 We're back at our Super Troopers programme after the Christmas break. We're committed to making it part of our homework and our committee will be checking into all classes to see how it's going. There are different, fun activities to do each nght and we want to make a big effort for the new year. This is Week 14. Check your journal each night and don't forget to get it signed at the end of the week. Next week you can also fill in your sleep diary to see if you're getting all the rest you need for an active, healthy lifestyle.  St.Brigid's only entered the Cumann na mbunscol league in camogie for the first time last year. Following a hugely successful and enjoyable league we held trials this week for our new school team. It will comprise of girls from 5th and 6th class and we wish them the very best of luck. Have a look at some pictures from our trials on two very cold, fresh January day. We certainly needed to keep moving. Well done everyone.  Congratulations to Ms Devlin's fourth class(Senior) and Ms O Donohoe's first class (Junior) on winning Active Classes of the Month. Fantastic job girls. They've alll been trying so hard with their Super Troopers programme at home. Keep up the great work!!!
 We've decided to continue with swimming this year due to the success of the initiative last year with 3rd and 4th classes. We are on week 3 of an eight week programme. This is part of the aquatics strand in our PE curriculum. We go to Finglas Leisure Centre and the children really enjoy the lessons. They have fantastic instructors and it's wonderful to see the progress they make over the eight weeks of lessons. It's a fun filled hour and fantastic exercise too!!  |
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