The senior classes in our school had a very special visitor today. Colm McElwain, who is a local children's book author came and spoke about his new James Clyde book. Colm shared many tips on how to approach creative writing and making writing fun and interesting. The boys and girls got the opportunity to ask him lots of different questions about his books and how he became an author. Many thanks Colm for your visit!

All of the classes in St. Brigid's National School were busy this week preparing for Grandparents Day, which we celebrated as part of Catholic's Schools Week. Each class created some lovely artwork showing their appreciation for their grandparents. We held a prayer service on Wednesday in celebration of this special day and we had a question and answer session afterwards with some of the grandparents. A huge thank you to Sr. Rita for assisting with the prayer service and also to everyone who attended the event. Here are some pictures from the day..

Third and fourth class have been learning all about report writing and have wrote their own book. We each picked an animal that we wanted to know more about and then used the laptops to do some research. We wrote some fantastic reports on different animals such as dolphins, tigers, polar bears, parrots and wolves. We found out lots of interesting facts so we decided to put them all together in a book. Here are some pictures of us at work.

Our Green School Committee are continuing the great work of last years committee and are working towards achieving our third Green flag based on the theme of water. Our committee members Noah, Nicole, Cara, Jessica, Dawid, James, Keeva, Chloe and Dylan are doing great work with maintaining our two other flags, as well as focusing on conserving water in the school.

Our annual Christmas plays were held in the Community Centre last Tuesday and Wednesday. All of the children put on a fantastic performance. Many thanks to everyone who attended the event. Here are a few pictures from the night...  

Junior and senior infants are all set for the cold weather. Don't you just love their colourful hats and scarves.. They have also been very busy painting and decorating their beautiful wooden snowmen. Have a look at their results..

Well done to 3rd and 4th class who have been working hard on their projects for the 'Young Engineers Award Competition'. They have been working hard as busy engineers over the past few weeks designing and making their project prototypes. Some of their brilliant ideas included: An environmental water pollution hoover, camouflage spy cameras, a water pollution filter machine and a Garda alert fob. Here are some pictures of them in action.

Everyone in St. Brigid's National School has been preparing for our whole school assembly which was held today. The theme of our assembly was 'generosity'. Each class completed a different task in relation to this theme. We all came together today and performed our pieces for one another. Have a look at some pictures from the performances...

Junior and senior infants have been exploring the theme of 'At the Hairdressers' during their recent Aistear sessions. Look at some of the budding hairdressers in actions..

1st and 2nd class had a great time at their very own Toy Show on Friday afternoon. Have a look at some of the pictures from the fantastic event!