Members of the came to the school with the Brendan Martin Cup. There was a school assembly to celebrate their great win in the All-Ireland Final in September. They also answered some of the girls’ questions. Here they are with our school’s GAA team who hope to be on the Dublin team themselves some day!
We had a great day on 23rd May. Whilst everyone back at school was enjoying a beautiful, sunny Sports’ Day, two wonderful girls from Ms. Pounch’s third class were at The Helix in Dublin City University at the Green School Awards. They accepted a new Green School Flag and Certificate on behalf of our school and we are most grateful to them for representing our school so well. The Green Flag was awarded for our work in reducing the number …
Have a look at the video of our Science Showcase as part of the 2017/2018 STEM award.
The adjudication date for our next green flag is drawing near and the green school committee is working very hard. The number of plastic bottles among pupils and staff has been reducing steadily. Thank you to Anna Theunissen for designing a lovely certificate to award to the classes with the least number of plastic bottles every month. The certificates are displayed proudly in the recipient classrooms. We have also replaced the plastic cups we give to girls who forgot their …
Thank you to all the girls and their parents for helping us to continue reducing the number of plastic bottles in our school. This initiative is part of our programme to help us achieve our next Green Flag. We survey every class on one day each week to see how many plastic bottles are being used in our school. More and more classes are returning a result of zero plastic bottles on the survey days. We are learning why it …
Congratulations and well done to Saoirse Down in 5th Class who presented the weather forecast on News2Day on Friday the 24th of November. You can see Saoirse in the link below from 9 minutes in. https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/news2day-30001385/10807638/
Congratulations to Ms. Michelle LeMay and St. Brigid’s Girls’ School Orchestra who won the cup at the Kilcoole Music Festival on Saturday November 18th. Double click on video to view full screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlpeB2E2qc
New Committee: At Halloween we said goodbye to our 2016-2017 Green School Committee. They were a super group. They carried out their green school duties with confidence and assurance and communicated our green school messages very effectively. Our new green school committee is as follows: Ruby Tynan, Katie Weedle (Ms. Frawley); Aoibhinn Hudson, Talya Keya(Ms. McFeely); Kasia Davis, Amelia Guiney (Ms. Kilty); Alannah Murphy, Megan Breslin (Ms. Pounch); Samantha Goode, Kirstin McGowan (Ms. Campbell); Ruby Sweetman, Fayda Murphy (Ms. McGeary); …
The St. Brigid’s GNS Student Council was established in September 2013 Student councils have long been an intrinsic part of secondary schools but the concept is quite new and necessarily different in Primary schools. The aim of St. Brigid’s student council is to promote the well fare and wellbeing of all the children in our school. To this end the student council focusses its attention on improving the social, physical and mental wellbeing of our pupils. In a typical year …
