BUNSCOIL FUN!

SCIATH NA SCOL 2016

The Sciath na Scol camogie team
started in the middle of April.
Our first match was against
Rushbrooke, but sadly we lost.
Our second match was against
Carrigtwohill, and we won. Our
third match was against Riverstown, we won that match too.
Our fourth was against Ballyvolane, we also won that. Then we
played against Ballincollig and won.
Then Youghal, Ballincollig and
Rushbrooke were tied in second
place, so we had to have a blitz.
Rushbrooke beat Ballincollig and
we beat both teams, so we were
through to the final. In the final,
we played against Riverstown in
Pirc U Rinn, but sadly we didnt
win. The score was 6-5 to 1-1,
scored by Avril Cashman. We
were disappointed we lost, but at
least we got to the final. Good
luck to the girls next year, hopefully theyll get to the final again
and win!

We faced Scoil Oilibhir in a

three. Sen Fitzgerald scored an

close match until the great Conor

excellent point, we were back in it

O Shea got the winner in the

but down by a point. Conor Sav-

closing minutes. Next we faced

age, our captain led us on but

North Mon. The final score was 8-

again Jack hit the ball into the

7 to 0-1. We beat Carrigaline; 8-7

square and Wisdom whipped it in

to 0-2. Then, St. Finbarrs 3-7 to

but Scoil Nioclis got two more

1-3 with goals coming from Sen

points and it was extra time.

O Riordan and Conor O Shea.

Conor Savage chose to play down

Our Semi-final was against Scoil

and in this game our midfielders

Nioclis. It started great for us

were working very hard in the

with Jack Corcoran scoring 1-3

first half. Jack Corcoran scored a

after five minutes with no reply

free but they cancelled it with

from Scoil Nioclis. Then they

one themselves in the second half.

scored a few points and were

Scoil Nioclis scored a free, then

ahead. Sen O Riordan got a yel-

us, but Scoil Nioclis scored two

low card for fouling his man. Then

more points from frees and one

another free from Jack Corcoran

from play. We were beaten. We

which took a deflection off Ben

were heartbroken but we tried

Bulman and we were in the lead

our best. We would like to thank

again but Scoil Nioclis came back

our trainers and coaches Johnny

again and at half time it was level.

Bulman, Mr. White Mr. Hickey and

By Victoria Machie and Lori

The second half started again

Mr. Walsh. By Jack Corcoran &

with a free from Jack Corcoran

Conor Savage (Ms. Conways

but Scoil Nioclis came back with

Sixth Class)

Hayes (Ms. Conways Sixth

Class)

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22 June 2016

Sciath na Scol

Cooking

Karate Kidz

Communion

Chess Tournament

School Closures

Graduation!

Inside this issue:

Spelling Bee Champ! 4

MUSIC MAKERS BIG WIN!

Last month the school choir

ent musical instruments . Later

workshop with Seo Linn. We

entered a music video competi-

in the video the choir per-

won the competition and they

tion. We made a music video of

formed live for the school. It

came to our school! We had

ourselves singing Music Makers

only took Mr. White one night to

workshops and they put on a

by Seo Linn. Altogether it took

put it all together. We were all

concert for us!! It was really

two weeks to make . First we

so excited when the video went

exciting!

had to record the sound. When

up on YouTube. So far it has

that was done, Mr White rec-

over 1600 views. The winners of

orded some of us playing differ-

the competition have a music

First Communion

Our Memories!

Badminton Champs!

Cork City Sports

The Cinemobile!

11

School Closures

12

(By Niamh OKeeffe & Niamh

Delaney Mr. Whites Fifth

Class)

A FEW WORDS FROM MR. ONEILL

Summer is finally here and the good weather reminds us that the end of the school
year is close at hand. Where has this school
year gone? The year has really flown. Yearend standardised tests are being carried
out and corrected. It will soon be time to
fill in the report cards! It has been a busy
few weeks at the school with the boys and
girls taking part in Sciath na Scol matches
and the girls winning through to the final of
their division. They came up against a very
strong team from Riverstown in Pirc U
Rinn on Monday last and we were delighted
with them. Their great team spirit and
never say die attitude was amazing. The
boys nearly made it through but were
pipped at the post. Many thanks to all the
teachers that helped both the girls and the
boys, Ms. Llewellyn, Ms. Carroll, Ms. Bennett and Mr. White and Mr. Hickey. We
also took part and brought back many medals and trophies from the cross-country
running competition in Conna. We also had
great success at the Cork City Sports held
in the CIT grounds again this year. This
year the girls stole the limelight with one
of our athletes finishing 4th in the County
finals and another getting to the semi-final.
There was even more success in the relays.
Well done to all of the team and we are all
so proud of them. We really appreciate how
easily minded and well behaved they are
when they represent the school at off campus events. Thanks to Ms. Carroll,
Ms.Bennett , Ms. Hickey, Ms. Collins, Mr.
McCarthy and Mr. Walsh for helping. It is
great to see the children looking so well in
the singlets we purchased for them last
year. Well done to fifth class and Mr.
White on the fantastic video on Mental
Health that they shot earlier on this year.
There has been great feedback from other
schools and agencies regarding this video.

It is a very brave and topical theme with

emphasis on wellbeing and mindfulness being hot topics at the moment. Maith sibh!
The video has really given us all a boost and
brought great credit to the school.

Bunscoil Mhuire also entered a competition

run by the great band Seo Linn. They make
Irish language versions of pop songs and
they also write their own music and songs.
The Irish Roar, one of their songs, has
been chosen as the official anthem for the
Irish Soccer team as they head to Paris
and the Euros! Bunscoil Mhuire made a video of one of their songs The Music Makers and alongside the usual suspects, Mrs.
Mulcahy and the school choir, Mr. White,
Ms. Hannon, Ms. Edmonds, Ms. Conway,
Ms.Nagleeveryone in the school was involved. We won and the prize was workshops and a concert given by the band! Well
that happened last Wednesday and it was a
great success. The school was buzzing! The
six members of the band were very appreciative of the welcome they received and
they were genuinely impressed by our version of their song. The concert was a great
event and the whole town of Youghal could
hear the singing and the music! First Holy
Communion and Confirmation were a huge
success this year. The singing of our own
choir and the children in general were absolutely out of this world. Many thanks also to
the Holy Family Church choir under the
baton of Mrs. Mulcahy. Both events highlighted the talent of the teachers and the
children at our school and the brilliant behaviour of our pupils when representing the
school. We have our Sports Day coming up
on the 15th of June. Hopefully the brilliant
weather will hold and be kind to us. Many
thanks to Ms. Leamy for organising it again.
On the 22nd of June we have our Gradua-

tion Mass for our present sixth class pupils.

We wish them a great evening and we send
them all our best wishes for a very successful transition to secondary school.
Many thanks to Ms. Edmonds, Ms. Conway
and Melanie for all their hard work and
care throughout the year. As numbers are a
little lower this coming year in Junior Infants we hope to redeploy a teacher to
sixth class next September so that there
will be three sixth classes, we also hope to
continue with Maths streaming for fifth
class and I will be helping there. Best of
luck to Ms. Butler on upcoming maternity
leave and a big welcome back to Ms. OBrien
and Ms. Hickey who are coming back from
their maternity leaves. I would like to take
this opportunity to thank the following
staff members who were on temporary
contracts and who were filling maternity
leave contracts with us: Ms. Hannon, Mr.
Walsh, Ms. Collins, Ms. Bennett and Mr.
McCarthy. A big thank you to all the SNAs
who provided care to our children this year
and for the extra-curricular activities
throughout the year. I want to thank Halina, Tim and Tom for all of their hard
work. The friendliness shown by them adds
hugely to our school atmosphere. We are
grateful for the excellent condition they
have the school in. A massive thank you
also to Carmel for her dedication and hard
work in the office. Her efficiency and attention to detail is second to none. I wish
to thank all the parents and especially all of
those on the Parents Association. Their
help and support with raising funds for the
school and running of cookery classes is
greatly appreciated. Also a big thank you
to the Board of Management for their dedication and hard work. Maith sibh ar fad!

PARENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS

As another school year draws to a close the

parents association would like to offer a sincere thanks to all the
parents , children, staff, the towns people
and businesses who have helped us in so many
ways in the past year. The most recent school
event which we help out in is the sports day
and this year we would like to make a special
thank you to Hilary Crowley of Crowley's
garage who has for many years donated
the bottled water and ice creams. This very
generous gift is a lovely treat for the kids
and is very much appreciated by all so thank
you Hilary .The cheque for our fund raising

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activities for the year was also presented at

the sports day and this year we were delighted to have raised 2900 which has been put
towards upgrading the school broadband network. Along with our usual participation in the
witches walk, our annual cake sale, First Holy
Communion, Grandparents Day and Graduation
Mass we would like to highlight our newest
initiative the school uniform bank. The collection of good condition uniforms and track
suits for resale will take place in the school
yard by the lift on Friday June 24th at both
9am and 2.45pm and again on Monday June
26th.The sale of the clothes will be

on Thursday July 7th from 4-6.30pm. The

cost per item will range from 1-10 with any
unwanted clothes donated to the local
SVP. As always new members are always
needed and welcomed as are any ideas you
may have to the newly added suggestion box
located in the school yard. Congratulations to
the newly graduated sixth class students and
thank you the all the teachers and staff for
all the hard work and many accomplishments you have achieved through out the
year. Fingers crossed the fine weather continues and everyone has a safe and happy
summer.

BUNSCOIL FUN!

DRUMMING UP THE BEATS WITH EAMONN CAGNEY

On Monday 10th of April Sixth

Chris, Avril, Dominika, Joao,

enjoyed it. A big to THANK

Class did a drumming workshop

Conor Mc and Eoin Mc did their

YOU to Eamonn for teaching us.

with Eamonn. We all got a drum

own solos. One of our beats was

each. He showed us a few easy

middle, edge, middle, middle,

beats. Then he gave Jack Keane

edge, middle, middle, edge, mid-

a shaker and Emily got one too.

dle. That one was a medium one.

We were split in half and half

Then we got to do our half and

played one beat and the other

half beat and then we went re-

half played another. I got cow

ally fast. Eamonn was very im-

bells and my beat was my-name

pressed with how fast we went.

- is Bri-an. We also got to play

Then it was time to go so

our own solos . We got to do

Eamonn just let us go crazy on

anything we wanted on our solo.

the drums. I think everyone

By Brian Colman (Ms. Conways Sixth Class)

SOCCER TRAINING WITH MR. CONOR ROCHE

Anthony Kelly comes in to do soccer training with us every week.
First we do a warm up, then we go
into drills. After that we play a
soccer match for half an hour. For
the drills we pass the ball and
dribble. I love playing the matches.
I scored three goals in the last
one. We won three two! I scored
all the three goals.I actually did!!

I won a free for the first one because I was fouled. For the second
one Steven kicked it out and got a
touch and then I kicked it into the
bottom corner. For the third goal
Brian Kampire passed the ball to
me and I megsed to Panos and then
I scored the goal. Anthony is a
good trainer. I know Anthony. We
would all like to thank Anthony for

his very hard work.

By Mr. Conor Roche (Ms. Edmonds Sixth Class)

OUR SPELLING BEE CHAMP...PANOS!!

As I woke up on the morning of

the Spelling Bee I was full of excitement. I raced downstairs and
got my dictionary and started
reading like mad. I got dressed in
my school uniform and left. As we
were going up in the car I was
reading spellings out of my dictionary. When we got there I was
buzzing with excitement. I got out

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of the car and I immediately

started taking selfies beside the
Rochestown Hotel. When we got
inside we were sent to a massive
room two floors up. I received a
yellow t-shirt with Spelling Bee
written on it. Finally when the
competition started I was unbelievably excited. There were about
six participants. As the Spelling

Bee went on slowly people got

knocked out. I was knocked out on
the fourth out of seven rounds. I
was on the last B completion. In
the end it was a great day.

By Panos
Karousos (Ms.
Edmonds
Sixth Class)

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MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

When I grow up I want to get a fun and

exciting job that Ill enjoy. If I get a job I
hope to get it in one of these four fields
Medical, Business, Military or Aviation. I
would love to live in a fine house with lots
antiques and paintings. I would love to own a
Lamborghini and a Ferrari and a small helicopter, maybe a private jet too. I would
love to live in a mountainside town. I really
hope that I can go to the US before 2019
so I can go visit my cousin there and live
with him. I really hope I get full marks for
my Leaving and Junior Cert so I might get a
chance to go to Oxford University. One
hope I have is to fly a helicopter, a jet
fighter and an A80-800. I want to go on
holiday to Florida and New Jersey. I want
to make a model Spitfire and learn to drive.
I want to make new friends, have a family
or become a priest. I want to live for over
101 years. I want to enjoy my life and have

fun at everything I do. I want to become

more generous when I grow up. All of the
things I said are a long way in the future
except the Spitfire model making and being
more generous, but for now Ill just think
about the present.

By Jeiden Siby (Ms. Edmonds Sixth

Class)
My hopes for the future are to become a
soccer player for Barcelona. I hope to have
a family and have mansions in Ireland, Spain
and England. I hope to win many cups with
Barcelona, PSG, Manchester City and the
Irish national team and be top scorer in all
tournaments. Another job I want to be is
an actor after I get over my fear of being
on stage. Ill buy five more mansions in Co.
Cork Co. Kerry, Co. Dublin, London and Madrid. I hope to get enough money for the
newest cars and fashions. Then after a few

years I will retire buy a hotel and call it

Seaside Resort. I hope the hotel becomes
very successful and I become rich, sell my
mansions and buy a private island to live on
with my family unharmed then hire lots of
bodyguards. Then Ill build a bridge to New
York so my children can go to school. I hope
to live my life to the fullest.

By Coran Smith (Ms. Edmonds Sixth

Class)

FABULOUS FASHION SHOW FOR IZZY

Touch of class Boutique in Youghal

held their annual fashion show in
The Walter Raleigh Hotel on April
4th. This year Tess and Teresa
from the shop decided to choose
Get Bizzy for Izzy as the charity
that would receive all the proceeds
of the show. The fashion show was
a great success this year raising
7,345! Izzy was there on the

night and had the very important

job of cutting the ribbon to open
the show. Thank you to everyone
who supported this event. Special
thanks to those who sold tickets,
organised raffle prizes and helped
out on the night. We were very
lucky to have fantastic sponsors
who gave us lots of raffle prizes,
thank you all. Of course the most

important thank you of all must go

to Tess and Teresa who put so
much hard
work into
making the
night a huge
success. Go
raibh mle
maith agaibh!

SWIMMING LESSONS FOR FOURTH!

Every Tuesday Fourth Class

go swimming. We go swimming in Aura. There are different levels. At the start
we get tested on how well we
can swim. Then the swim
teachers tell us what group
we are in. After that we get
into the water and give our

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names to the instructors.

They teach us basic skills
that we should already know.
Then they teach us skills we
do not know. Every week it
gets harder and harder. At
the end of the lesson we get
five minutes play time. We
love swimming!

By Sorcha Kilgannon & Tara

Daly (Ms. Hurneys Fourth
Class)

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FUN AT THE ANIMATION WORKSHOP

Sixth class had an animation

workshop in school. The people came and showed us a
short film and it was really
good. After that we had to
go into groups of five people.
In my group there was Jack
Keane, Eoghan Long, Conor
Savage, Leon Kenneally and
Wisdom. They had costumes
for us if we did not have
them. They bought their own
laptops and we got to use
them as well. We made a lot

of stuff like one of them was

eating weird food like tape,
bottles, sheets and hats,
etc. Then we had a ten minute break and when break
was over they had all of the
animation on all the laptops.
We got to go and edit it all.
One of them was putting
words into the animation. We
cant wait to see it all on
film. Last year they had the
film they made up on
YouTube and we got to see it

before we started making

our own.

By Miss Emily ONeill (Ms.

Conways Sixth Class)

AUTISM AWARENSS COFFEE MORNING!

April was Autism Awareness

Month. On Wednesday, 13th
April, Tim and Cecilia Kingston
held a coffee morning in the
Methodist Hall and, because of
the month that was in it, decided that the money raised would
be given to our class Solta
Beaga. We were very excited

by the news and went along to

the coffee morning to lend our
support. Some of our Mammies
and Daddies came too. Tim and
Cecilia had bought light-up balloons for us and we had lots of
fun playing with them. There
were toys to play with too and
chocolate buttons to eat. A

great morning was had by all.

We want to say a huge THANK
YOU to Cecilia and Tim who
raised the amazing amount of
550 for our
class.

(Ms. Conways Solta

Beaga)

FIFTH CLASS GO TO PITCH AND PUTT

Our class recently went to

pitch and putt and we all
loved it. We all thought it
was a very good experience.
It was one Euro but our
school paid for the first
two weeks. It was very nice
of the school to do that.

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We walked to pitch and

putt every week. The first
week Mr. ONeill came with
us. The second week Mr.
Walsh came with us and the
third week Mr. ONeill came
again. That was nice of

them to come along with

our teachers.

(By Mr.
Whites
Fifth
Class)

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OUR FIRST HOLY COMMUNION!

On the day of my Communion I got

up very early. First I went for a
shower and washed my hair. Then I
got my hair done. After that I put
on my dress. Then we took a few
photos and went to the church. At
the church I sang the first verse of
the psalm with Sen. We all had different jobs to do during mass. When
mass was over we went into the hall.
In the hall we took a class photo and
had a drink and biscuits. Our artwork was up on the walls. Then we
went home and played on the bouncy
castle. We had food. My uncle sang a
few songs. It was a great day!!! By

th

Kellie Flavin (Ms. Llewellyns Second Class)

I got my First Holy Communion on

April 30th at 11:00. I was so excited. We sang Communion songs. I had
a lovely suit. I had a job on my Communion. It was to go to the altar and
say Our Father. Some children
brought bread, wine, flowers and a
basket of fruit. I enjoyed my Communion. I got photos after Communion. Then we had a little party at
home. It was a lovely day! By Kris

At our First Holy Communion everyone was dressed up nice. The choir
sang lovely. We all had a great time.
After we all got our photos taken.
Fr. Winkle broke the Bread of Life.
Everyone stood up on the altar. On
Friday we all had a half day so we
could get ready. There were four
priests for the mass.

By Alicia
Meehan Kahn
(Ms. Nagles
Second Class)

Jagielski (Ms.Coynes Second

Class)

FAITH FRIENDS

On Wednesday 27 April, sixth

lessons we had our confirma-

leave though. It was really fun.

class had a party with some

tion. After three weeks they

Thanks to the Faith Friends

students from Pobalscoil na

came back and we had a party.

and Fr Lynch for coming down

Trionida. They helped us learn

We played games and had

to help us prepare.

more about religion and help us

sweets everyone had a Kit Kat,

By Brian Colman & Dylan Ly-

prepare for our Confirmation.

Capri Sun, crisps, jellies and we

ons (Ms.

They helped us for five weeks.

played music and talked for a

Conway

When we were finished all our

while the faith friends had to

Sixth

SUPER EXCITING TRIP TO THE FARM!

This year the Junior Infant

classes are travelling to Leahys
Open Farm. It is the first time
the Junior Infants will travel
there and we are SUPER excited!!!!! We just cannot wait. It
will be great fun to travel together on the bus and if the
weather is nice we will all get to

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have a picnic together when we

get there. How fun will that
be?! Some of us have been
there before but it will be so
much fun to go with all our
school friends. We are going to
get to see lots of different animals, some will be big and some
will be small, some will be from

the farm and some will be VERY

unusual. We have heard that
there will be lots of things to
do and play
with. ROLL
ON THE
SCHOOL
TOURS!!

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MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

I hope to enjoy the last few weeks in Bunscoil

Mhuire. I also hope that I have a great summer
and can play outside with my friends and family. I hope on starting secondary school that I
enjoy it, make a good impression on my teachers, make new friends and join the school
sports teams. I also hope from first year to
leaving cert I get good results in my tests so I
can go to college and study to be a teacher and
in my spare time I hope I will be a professional
sportsperson. I also hope to have a nice family
and live a long healthy life.

By Avril Cashman (Ms. Conways Sixth Class)

Hi my name is Melissa and my hopes for the
future are to have a great last few weeks in
primary school and graduate. After I graduate
I would like to enjoy my summer holidays and in
September go to secondary school. I would
like to have a good education make new friends
and get along with the teachers there and do
great on my exams. When I am around sixteen
years of age I want to get my drivers licence

so I can drive myself around the place without

always asking my parents. Once Im finished
secondary school I want to go to a college and
get a fantastic job I love, like right now I
want to be a chef but I will have to see when
Im older. So if I become a chef I might get
my own restaurant and it would be great. While
I am waiting for that to happen I would rent an
apartment so Id have a place to live in. Once I
finish my college years I would of course get a
huge house and I mean huge and it would have
three or four or even five bedrooms. It would
also have a sitting room with lovely coloured
couch, nice wallpaper, a fire place with a flat
screen TV above it and in the kitchen there
would be a dishwasher, washing machine, a
kettle, a toaster of course, lovely wallpaper
and well, all the stuff a kitchen is supposed to
have. In my back garden there will be a huge
amount of space for the two dogs that I will
have. One of them will be a Yorkie and the
other one would be a Shihtzu. Thats the stuff
I want when I have my own house. Finally at

last when Im older and that wont be for a long

while, but anyway what Im saying is when Im
older I want to meet a nice caring man and get
to know him maybe after two to three years
being together we will get married and have
around three to four children. If we have four
children then I want two girls and two boys so
the two boys would look after their two little
sisters. My childrens names would be Lola,
Helen, Brad and Zack. Maybe I might not even
like those names when Im older so we will see.
In my garden Id have to buy swings and a lot
of toys and of course bikes so they wont be
bored and I hope they grow big and healthy.
Also, I hope that I live an enjoyable long life. I
know my hopes for the
future are a lot but a girl
can dream.

By Melissa Mpofu (Ms.

Conways Sixth Class)

COOKING CLASSES

In Fifth Class we get to cook

every Tuesday for a few
weeks. The Parents Association help us with our cooking
lessons. We are split into
three groups; A, B and C.
The last thing we made was
gingerbread men. They were

really fun to make and tasted amazing. We also made

pancakes, scones, scrambled
eggs and chicken curry. We
love cooking and we are going
to try out our recipes at
home.

nessy (Mrs. Shellys & Mrs.

Hegartys Fifth Class)

By Mia Lee & Tianna Hen-

SENIOR INFANTS CANT WAIT FOR SCHOOOL TOUR

Its that time of year again! June is
upon us and we are all very excited
about our upcoming school tour to Midleton. Our teachers told us all about
what we will be doing and we are super
excited. We will leave school at 9am on
a big bus. We love to sing songs and
play games on our bus trips. Our first
stop will be to the Cinema. We dont
know what we are going to see yet.
Our teachers are keeping that as a

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surprise for the day. We dont mind,

we just cant wait to be at the cinema
with our friends. When the movie is
over we will be moving along to the
awesome Jungle World. We are going
to have so much fun playing and trying
out all the cool activities that they
have there. We will have to find a minute or two to have a snack we will
need all the energy we can get! We will
probably be exhausted on the journey

back to school but it will all be worth

it! Did we mention that we are excited?!

By Senior Infants

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FIRST CLASS SCHOOL TOUR

Hi, this is First class and

we will be going on our
school tour to Run-aMuck! We cannot wait to
go. We cant wait for the
bus journey down there!
First we are going to go
in the play centre where
there is a ball pool,
slides and lots of fun
games to play! Then we
are going to paint t-

shirts! We are going to

get hot food! We cannot
wait! We are doing indoor football and there
is a big slide. Then the
bus is coming to get us
and bring us back. We
will be going home!

By Lauren Coleman &

Cleo Daly (Ms. Hickeys
First Class)

BADMINTON CHAMPS!

Every Wednesday night we go

to the G.A.A. for a sport
called badminton. It is on
from 6:00pm until 7:00pm.
Badminton is like tennis but
with a shuttle cock instead of
a ball. At the end of every
year we have an award ceremony. In 2015 Ciara Wood,

Paul OShea, Jamie Buckley

and I won medals. I won a
small trophy. Ciara won a
plaque. In 2016 Philomena won
the main silver medal. Ciara,
Paul, Bucks, Jessica and I won
gold medals. Ciara won a small
trophy. I won a plaque. Jack
Corcoran won player of the

year! We love to see new

members joining, so you
should give it a shot!!

By Martin
Farrell (Mrs.
Carrolls
Fourth Class)

THE AMAZING JOURNEY BY AARON!

On the Friday 17th of June ,
2nd class are going on their
school tour to Lets Go in Cork.
We will need to bring two
lunches and plenty of drinks
because we might get thirsty
from all the fun. The way to get
there is on a bus. The journey

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will be long. When we get there

we have to listen to the rules. I
think we might go on the Karts
and Zorbee ball and a big slide.
Im very excited. After all the
playing we get a break and get
a snack. When it is over we go
home on the bus again. I think

it will be a fun day and I can

not waittttttt!!!

By Aaron
Kienge
(Miss
Nagles
Second
Class)

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GREAT SUCCESS AT CORK CITY SPORTS

This year twenty eight

children from our school
qualified for the Cork
City Sports. There were
fourteen girls and fourteen boys. This event
took place in the C.I.T. on
Wed 1st June. Some of
the parents came to support their children when
they were running and
doing their relays. The

girls did really well this

year. Sorcha Kilgannon
from Fourth class and
Victoria Machie from
sixth class came first in
their sprints. Vicky, Avril, Julia K. and Erin
Joyce came second in the
over 11s girls relay. The
boys took part in the
evening on this hot sunny
day .They represented

the school well on this

day. Well done to all who
took part. We look forward to the Cross Country in Conna in September.

By Shinta Joseph and

Zuzanna Dominiczak
(Ms.Carrolls Fourth
Class secretaries!)

THIRD CLASS SCHOOL TOUR

Our school tour this year is

going to be to Cork city. We
will be going to Cork City Gaol,
the Lifetime Lab, Bowling and
McDonalds. My school tour
partner will be Sorcha and I
hope its a sunny day! I am
mostly looking forward to
Cork City Gaol because it will

be interesting to learn about

the old cells and prisoners and
what they ate. I like bowling
too, I like the bright colours
on the wall and getting
strikes. I think I will have a
burger and chips and a Club
orange. I hope Mr. Hickey
doesnt eat it on me!

By Teighan Power (Mr.

Hickeys Third Class)

AMAZING JOURNEY WORKSHOP

All of the school went on the

Amazing Journey. On the
Amazing Journey we met Noah
and a princess from Egypt. She
found Moses. We met Mary and
the last person we met was a
giant. The giant was really funny. He told us that he mocked
some people and after a while

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they sent out a boy with a sling

shot and they threw it at him
and he died. At the end we got
to dress up and eat different
kinds of food. One of them was
two pieces of this kind of
bread with honey and grapes.
Before we went they gave the
teachers this little activity

page and a sheet to order a

bigger copy of the Bible. It was
really fun!

By Emily
ONeill (Ms.
Conways
Sixth Class)

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MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

I hope that I have a good last few weeks in

primary school. I hope that when I get to
Australia this summer that I will have a
great time and enjoy it. I hope in secondary
school I will have a great time and make
loads of new friends. I hope that I get
good scores in my leaving cert. By the time
I am finished secondary school I hope that
I can drive and I have a job here and there
so I can get a car. When I am in college I
hope to play for U.C.C. hurling team and I
hope that I play for Cork in hurling as well.
I hope when I am finished college that I
get high scores on my leaving exams so I
can get a good job and get well paid and
enjoy it. I hope to go to Australia also because some of my family are over there.

By Leon Kenneally (Ms. Conways Sixth

Class)
A fireman is what I want to be. I would like

to be a doctor. My future is not today. I

would make a company. I hope I can go to
Africa to see an elephant. Well I could go
all around the world to see all the animals
who are left in the world. I want to be a
superhero

By Jack Keane (Ms. Conways Sixth

Class)
I hope I have a good last few weeks in primary school. Then near to the end of summer I will get my uniform and books. Then
when Im in Pobalscoil I want to get on well
with the teachers and the other children.
When I am in third year I want to do well
on my exams so I can go to college. I hope I

an apartment. Then I will get married to a

lovely handsome man and go to Spain on my
honeymoon. Then when Im like twenty two
I want to get three kids and then hopefully
we can get a big house instead of the
apartment. I could carry on with my job and
my husband could mind the kids or I can
get a babysitter. Then soon enough my kids
will be starting school and then I can collect them with my Audi/Passat and then
live a lovely happy healthy life. By Holly

Lyons (Ms.
Conways
Sixth Class)

do because I could always change my mind,

but anyway I want to work as a hairdresser
and get lots of money so I can get my drivers licence. Then I can go shopping and get

FIFTH CLASS HEAD FOR QUEENSTOWN!

Fifth class are going on a school
tour. We are going to the Titanic Experience. The Titanic
Experience is a really fun place
where you see replicas of lower
and first class rooms. You start
off by getting a ticket of one
out of one hundred and twenty
three passengers. Those were

the last passengers called on

board the Titanic in Cobh or
Queenstown. At the end you
know if you die or not. Then we
will go on a ferry to Spike Island adventure centre to do water sports and other activities.
We will also have our lunch
there before catching the fer-

ry back to Cobh.

By Ben Bulman & Brendan

Scully (Mrs. Hegartys /Mrs.
Shellys Fifth Class)

FOURTH CLASS SCHOOL TOUR

We are all very excited about
our school tour this year. We
are going to Trabolgan doing
Combat Lazer, Crazy Golf,
swimming and the playground!
Were going to have so much
fun. Everyone in our class has
been talking about it ever since
we got the note. We think the

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swimming pool is going to be

very big with long slides. The
Combat Lazer sounds like a lot
of fun. We imagine it will be
very similar to the Lazer Tag in
Perks and that it will be very
dark. Crazy golf will be awesome. We will have lots of fun
and to finish it off we will have

a picnic in the playground! It

will be awesome!!

By Cion Jose & Emilijo

Strobeikaite
(Mrs. Hurneys
Fourth Class)

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BUNSCOIL CHESS TOURNAMENT 2016

There were a lot of good

players, both boys and girls,
in this chess tournament. We
had a lot of victories and defeats, but everyone did well,
had fun and we were all happy for each other in the
tournament. We all had a
great time and thats what
matters. The three winners
of the tournament were: 1st:
Chris Brophy, 2nd: Joao Mira,
3rd: Liam Fitzpatrick. Now
here are a few words from

the winners; Chris: It was a

very exciting experience for
me because I played a lot of
games with my friends!
Joao: I feel proud of myself
and all my friends that competed in the tournament.
Liam: It was amazing because it was the first award
I ever won! Thanks a lot to
all the Sixth Class teachers,
the participants themselves
for competing in the tournament and a special thanks to

a great teacher named Miss

Power for giving up her
break to give us a chance to
play in the tournament.

By Chris Brophy, Joao Mira, Liam Fitzpatrick (Ms.

Conways
Sixth

Class)

OLDER THAN IRELAND AT THE CINEMOBILE!

There was a Cinemobile in
Youghal. They asked sixth class
to go. We walked out to it. It
was in the Quays car park. We
got to see some of the Centenary from 1916. One of the
centenarians is a smoker and
one of them was alive when
Bloody Sunday happened in

Croke Park. We got to watch a

movie called Older Than Ireland. The Cinemobile could not
fit under the Clock Gate. The
word Cinemobile comes from
France because they love their
cinema. It was like a real cinema inside but there was no popcorn or fizzy drinks. My part-

ner was Jack K. It was really

good. We all loved it probably
because we
missed a bit of
school!

By Emily
ONeill (Ms.
Conways Sixth
Class)

KARATE KIDZ LEON AND EOGHAN!

This month Leon Kenneally and

Eoghan Long went up to Bandon. I
went for my blue belt and I got
it, said Leon. I went for my
brown belt and I got it, said
Eoghan. HURRAY!!!! Two people
from our club were there to try
for their black belts but unfortunately they didnt get them on the
day. For the next grading I will be

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going for another brown belt, said

Eoghan. I will be going for my purple belt, said Leon. On Sunday 29
May we went up to Clonmel for the
All Irelands and we did very well.
I got third place in katas (that is
when you do all the moves!), said
Leon. I did not take part in
them, said Eoghan. We both did
very well in fighting as we both

came first!

By Leon Kenneally & Eoghan Long

(Ms. Conways Sixth Class)

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BUNSCOIL MHUIRE

OBriens Place
Youghal
Co. Cork

WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO WISH

OUR SIXTH CLASS STUDENTS
THE VERY BEST OF LUCK AND
FUN IN THEIR NEW SCHOOLS!

Phone: 024 93234

Fax: 024 92700
E-mail: secbsm@eircom.net
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CONGRATULATIONS ON THE
COMPLETION OF YOUR PRIMARY
SCHOOL EDUCATION!

SCHOOL CLOSURES 20162017

Summer Holidays: School will close

for Summer Holidays on Tuesday
28th June at 12 Noon and will reopen on Wednesday 31st August
2016. School will finish at 12:45pm
on this day.

Halloween Mid Term Break:

School will close on Friday 28th October at 2:45pm and will re-open on
Monday 7th November 2016.
Christmas Holidays: School will
close on Thursday 22nd December
2016 at 12 Noon and will re-open on
Monday 9th January 2017.

Mid -Term Break: School will close

on Wednesday 22nd February 2017
at 2:45pm and will re-open on Monday 27th February 2017.

May Bank Holiday: School will close

on Friday 28th April 2017 at 2:45pm
and will re-open on Tuesday 2nd May
2017.

St. Patricks Weekend: School will

close on Thursday 16th March 2017
at 2:45pm and will re-open on Tuesday 21st March 2017.
Easter Holidays: School will close
on Friday 7th April 2017 at 12 Noon
and will re-open on Monday 24th
April 2017.

June Bank Holiday: School will

close on Friday 2nd June at 2:45pm
and will re-open on Tuesday 6th
June 2017.
Summer Holidays: School will close
on Tuesday 27th June 2017 at 12
Noon.