On Friday October 3rd, 3 helpers from 2nd class; Braxton, Kobi & Hunter along with Ms Corbet went around the school to check the calendars and calculate how many weeks we have achieved. We are delighted to say 121 children in the school were in for the full week so we have reached 121 weeks already. Over the next 3 weeks we have to get 279 more weeks in order to get our Halloween disco. Keep up the good work everyone!!

Congratulations to Kai Brown, Eva Maria Stroie, Frazer Carroll, Emily McBride Keddy, Felicia Bobrov, Ali Berberaka, Kurian Prasanth, Bodhi Doran, Kyron Craig, Ollie Clancy & Finn Lowe on being the first Attendance Champions in October. Well done!!

For the month of October we are encouraging everyone to come to school all 5 days of the week, every week. We are calling this our Strive for 5!! It has been proven that regular attendance can boost achievement, self-esteem and confidence. Every child that completes a full week will help us achieve our goal of reaching 400 weeks. It is a big number but we can do it! We will track our attendance every Friday and will update everyone at assembly to our progress. If we reach 400 weeks the children will be rewarded with a Halloween disco on Thursday the 23^rd of October. Best of luck everyone!!

Congratulations to Logan Geraghty, Alex Geoghegan, Patrick Lynch, Avian Kenna, Reegan Norton, Avin Soltanian, Willie Stokes, Tony Navratil, Taylor Malone & Bonnie McMahon on being the last Attendance Champions in September. Well done!!

Well done to Bernie Lawrence, Reini Keane, Aniya Bushra, Bonnie McMahon, Charli Hennessy, Kendall Higgins, Connor Lynch McGrath, Charlie Metzger & Jacob Kenny for being the first attendance champions of the year!!

We were thrilled to be awarded a Gold Curious Minds Award for another year.  Huge congratulations to everyone for all their work on Science, Engineering, Technology and Maths. Big thank you to Ms Monahan for organising everything. Here’s what the Curious Minds had to say about our school!

Congratulations to St. Bernadette’s Junior NS on delivering an excellent log of your Curious Minds experiences this year. The log clearly demonstrates evidence of learner engagement across the school, while also incorporating STEM events. I really enjoyed having the opportunity to see the learners at the Dino Detectives workshop at the zoo. It was great to see your parent come to the school and get involved in the Maths week activities. Well done on the Show and Tell presenting your projects to the school, teachers and parents. .

Keep up this fantastic work and well done on your award!

Our School now has high speed broadband connectivity through the Department of Education School Broadband Programme, delivered as part of the Irish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility funded by the European Union through NextGenerationEU

All classes enjoyed celebrating World Book Week. Each child received a book token and they can visit one of our local shops to purchase a book. There were many activities taking place in our school to celebrate World Book Day including; Where’s Wally Hunt, Creating a class book, Library Visits and much more. Here are some of our children enjoying the celebrations.

Learning to read can be easy and fun!

We are all using a new app called Reading Eggs in school. It makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. And it really works! Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning. We hope you can use the app at home and help the children win as many golden eggs as possible to move to the next level.