It's wellbeing week this week in St Brigid's! We are so excited to get stuck into all of the activities that our wellbeing committee have planned! 

Mindful Monday: 

As part of Mindful Monday our students took part in some mindfulness colouring. Many of the classes listened to some relaxing piano music or engaged in guided meditations. Our senior students engaged in a competition where they designed a mindfulness colouring sheet. The winners will have their colouring sheet photocopied and given to all of the classes. 

Some of the classes had the opportunity to take part in a Tag Rugby session with Ray from Leinster rugby and John our Dublin City Council sports partner. 

 Talk on Tuesday 

On Tuesday the 5th and 6th class girls took part in soccer. All of the classes enjoyed reading picture books and engaging in circle time. 

The girls in St Brigid's love playing with Lego. 

Last week, the girls in Ms. Sheils Junior Infant class got together with their 6th class buddies to create Lego Houses.

Check out some pictures here...  

Ms. McDonald's class also took some time to construct Lego houses, buildings and cars. 

Check out some cool images below..

We were very excited to have Molly from News2Day visit our school today, to talk all things Trashion! 

After months of hard work our Trashion Show was finally showcased this week. News2Day from RTE came to visit our school to capture the event. We also welcomed the Regional Coordinator with The Arts Council's Creative Schools Programme, Nora Nic Con Ultaigh, to our school to witness the coming together of the project. In celebration of all of the students hard (and super creative) work, every student received a Trashion Show portrait that they can keep. This was made possible by fundraising from our wonderful PA! A huge thank you to Annie Holland, Karl Quinn and in particular Ms Linda Flynn for organising this super project!

Check out our Trashion Show Video here! 

Trashion Show - St. Brigids GNS from Annie Holland Photography on Vimeo.

As part of our amazing Thrashion Show project we wanted to raise awareness about overuse of plastics. Our senior students wrote letters to Mr Tayto Ireland. Today we received a reply from Tayto Snacks Sustainability Team informing us about their end goal to make their packaging 100% recyclable by 2025. 

Check out the letter here: 

Our third to sixth classes have started learning Spanish as part of the Government's initiative "Languages Connect." Our

school has engaged the wonderful services of Brady Languages for the next eight weeks.

We are very excited to be apart of the Languages Connect programme which aims to - 

• Generate awareness among pupils of the range of languages used by their peers, including Irish Sign Language, in their schools and communities which may help support greater inclusion and appreciation of diversity in society,

• Encourage uptake of languages at post-primary level,

• Provide opportunities for increased levels of collaboration among the school community with regard to the celebration of languages and cultures,

• Support implementation of Languages Connect, Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017–2026

We are now enrolling for September 2023! 
Click the link to download out enrolment form and to read our admissions policy - https://www.stbrigidsgns.ie/index.php/parents/enrolment