Well done to all of the attendance champions so far this month! One more week to go to finish out November.

St. Bernadette’s JNS is accepting applications for admission into our Early Start, Junior infants and Special class for September 2026 from Monday November 10th to Thursday December 18th.The application form is available in the admissions section of the website here. Hard copies of the form can be collected from the school office from November 10th.

We are so happy to say that all the children achieved their goal and got to have their Halloween disco today. We hoped to reach 400 weeks over the past month and we did so much better than that, we got 526 WEEKS!!!! Well done everyone! Have a well deserved break. 🙂

This week Hunter, Kobi & Braxton went around the school to collect the attendance data. We are delighted to say this was our best week yet with 133 children being in school all 5 days this week. This brings our total to 381 weeks!! This means next week we only need to get 19 weeks. AND next week is a short week so it should be even easier. There will be an announcment on Thursday morning after the roll has been taken to let everyone know if the disco is going to go ahead. Well done to all the children and parents!! Fingers crossed we can keep up the fantastic work.

Congratulations to Edward Higgins, Alex Geoghegan, John O’Brien, Kenzi Carpenter, Dexter Byrne, Heidi Doherty, Myah Parke, Sophia Harcourt, Max Glynn & Logan Geraghty on being this weeks Attendance Champions. Well done!!

Braxton, Kobi, Simon & Hunter went around the school today to collect this weeks attendance data. They recorded 127 students were in school every day this week. This brings our total weeks so far up to 248. We have 2 weeks left to get 152 weeks. Let’s go!!!

Congratulations to Bonnie McMahon, Millie Rose Ellis, Moe Fleming, Hanna Gasmi, Daisy May Byrne, Cara Gillespie Kerfoot, Jacob Pietocha, Myah Pietocha, Marcus Lynch, Theo Hannon & Oscar Reddin on being this weeks Attendance Champions. Well done!!

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!!