On Monday September 11th, Lisa from the Road Safety Authority (RSA) visited our school to give a road safety talk to all of the classes. The talk was very useful and Lisa gave the pupils some very useful tips when using the roads. Our Junior Infants got some high visability jackets to wear for their journey to and from school.The RSA advises that Parents/Guardians talk to their children about using the roads safely getting to and from school.

Road Safety Week takes place October 2nd - 8th 

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We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated for the #BeActive Education Award by The Irish Sport Council.  The #BeActive Education Award 2017 is one of three award categories of the #BeActive Awards, launched as part of the 2017 European Week of Sport. This award category identifies three educational establishments from across Europe that promote active educational settings in addition to sport/physical activity classes in the standard curriculum to encourage young people to #BeActive. St. Brigid's GNS was chosen to represent Ireland in this category. A massive well done to to all of our teachers, pupils and parents for this nomination.

The Irish Sports Council informed us that the selection committee were particularly impressed by the inclusive nature and overall impact of our physical activity efforts. The European Council are now in the process of selecting three finalists in the education category to attend an awards ceremony which will take place in Marseilles, France in mid-October. Fingers crossed everyone!

Check out our Active School section on this website!

Artwork created by the pupils from one of the 6th classes who just graduated from St.Brigid's in June can now be seen in an Irish movie. While these girls were in 5th class, with Ms.Farrell as their teacher, they designed Space drawings. These pictures are now featured in a film, a documentary called The Farthest (directed by Ellen Halpins). The film (GA rated) was in cinemas in August and aired on RTE last week. It is available to view on RTE player until October 5th. What a great achievement for our past pupils!

Our Jun Inf, Sen Inf and 1st classes braved the poor weather this morning to perform for their parents in the yard! The girls and their teachers sang and danced along to eight popular tunes including 'Roar', 'Bare Necessities' and 'can't Stop the Feeling'. What a performance! Well done to all involved, the parents really enjoyed it!

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A very warm welcome to all of our new Junior Infants! The girls have settled in so well already and enjoyed their first two days of 'Big School'. We are looking forward to many more fun days together. 

Our old unused yard at the back of the school has been transformed this week! Noel, our caretaker, was very busy preparing the surface for the new yard markings which include many playground games including hopscotch, a skip/balance/hop circuit, an alphabet snake and much more! Our classes are enjoying trying out the new games. Two games have also been added to an area next to our senior yard so the girls can make use of these during their activity breaks.

Click on the image below to view our Senior infants in the new yard...