The girls have been doing lots of fun activities and exercises at home to help them stay fit and active during lockdown.

The Active Committee invited all families to get involved in 'St. Brigid's Active Week' by taking part in the 'Active Home Week Challenge'. In order to complete this challenge the children had to find four different ways of being active each day. They had to engage in 60 minutes of exercise a day!!

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All classes had great fun engaging in various activities,experiments and workshops for engineering week. Junior and Senior Infants engaged in an engineering workshop as part of their school tour in imaginosity. 1st class participated in an SEAI workshop and got to meet Guzzler. 2nd class did a workshop with Ms. O'Neill where they made structures using spaghetti and marshmallows. 3rd class used Wedo Lego kits to make robots and used the ipads to code them to move. 4th class participated in a SEAI workshop where they learned all about how energy can be changed from one form to another. They did some fun experiments to prove this. 5th class did a rocket workshop with Ms. O' Neill and 6th class created their own games. Some classes did extra engineering activities during the week.bThe girls learned lots and thoroughly enjoyed the week. 

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Since the announcement of school closures all the girls in St. Brigid's GNS have been working very hard by engaging in distant learning. Some girls created posters to encourage us all to stay safe during this difficult time. 

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On Friday the 6th of March the girls in 1st class and 4th class got the opportunity to participate in a SEAI workshop where they explored the topic of energy and sustainability in a fun and engaging way. 1st class met GUZZLER the puppet who loves to waste energy. Through a series of games and activities the girls learned all about where our energy comes from. They also learned about the importance of saving energy and how we can make simple changes to help save our environment. 4th class learned all about energy too and the importance of conservation through carrying out a variety of experiments. The workshop focused primarily on: the principals of energy, the current global problems and what we can do to help and the science of energy and climate change. The girls really enjoyed the workshop and picked up a few practical tips that we can do in our school to save energy. 

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Bhaineamar an-taitneamh as an tseachtain seo! 

We had a great week of craic agus spraoi sa scoil as each of the classes made a huge effort for Seachtain na Gaeilge. Throughout the week the girls made an extra effort to speak as Gaeilge in their classes, in the corridors and in the school yard. 

There were lots of activities in the school to celebrate SnaG. A pupil from each class was chosen as a winner in our St.Patrick's Day Art competition. A 'Cainteoir na Seachtaine' was also selected from each of the classes and presented with a prize from Ms. Diffley. On Tuesday we had a trad group 'Airneáin' visit the school to give workshops to all the classes. On Wednesday 'Cluiche Gaeilge' were organised for the children to participate in which they thoroughly enjoyed. On Friday we had young musicians from Ceoltas Ceoltóirí Éirinn visit the school. They performed a variety of traditional Irish songs and the children sang along. They also talked about the different instruments they played and what they were made from. Unfortunately we didn't get to have our 'Lá Glas' and 'Céilí Mor' which was planned for Friday due to the school closures. All in all the children had a great week and learned lots of new phrases. 

'Míle Buíochas' to Ms.McDOnald for coordinating the week and to all the teachers and pupils for making it an enjoyable week!

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The girls from 6th class have been learning about photography with Michelle La Grue. Michelle asked the girls to show off what they had learned and submit a photograph of their choice to a special photography competition. The photographs have been on display in the school hall this week and on Thursday our visiting judge John Ohle picked three winners! Congratulations to Ciara Picard, Jules Murphy O’Grady and Freya Kelly whose photographs were picked for prizes. Well done to all the 6th class girls for entering the competition and a big thank you to Michelle for running these brilliant workshops. 

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