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Awards Night

Congratulations to all who received awards at this year’s Awards nights. This year’s 6th class award winners were: PA award: Ava o Donovan & Jakub Trachonowicz Kathleen Kelly award of Academic Excellence: Sophie Evans & Kevin Chen Georgie Power Award for Excellence in the Arts: Coleen Brennan & Pierce Phelan Sports Person of the Year: ...

End of year celebrations

A great day was had today down the field for our end of year mass and concert. The children and parents really enjoyed the day and we were once again blown away by the talent of the children (and teachers) in our school. Click the link to see a snippet of the concert.

Superstan Musical

At the end of March, 59 children from our 5th and 6th classes put on a show-stopping performance of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Superstan’ in the CWMS hall. Performing 3 matinee and 3 night shows in total, directors Ms. Egan, Ms.Boyle and Ms. Daly began the process by holding auditions for interested children in December. The staff ...

Eason Spelling Bee

Congratulations to Matthew Guia from Ms Burke’s 6th class for representing the school so well this week in the County Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. We travelled to Scoil Mochua in Celbridge for the event. The competition was tough and the spellings were tougher, but Matthew remained calm and steady throughout! Unfortunately we didn’t ...

Supporting Women’s Refuge

2nd, 3rd and 4th Peace Proms choir got another outing today in Kildare Town singing to support Teach Tearmainn’s fundraising effort for Go Purple day, a Garda initiative to raise awareness of Domestic Abuse and the local support services.

Firefighter Visit

Ms oCallaghan organised a visit from our local fire fighters, Andy and John Paul, from Newbridge Fire Station. The children from 3rd class learned about the numbers to call in the case of a fire emergency. We also learned about the dangers of leaving appliances plugged in over night. The children will be going home ...

Athletics

Well done to the team of athletes who performed magnificently in competition during the week. We had two runners in the top 10 which is a great achievement but well done to every child who took part and kept going to the end.

Chess Tournament

Two chess teams from our school recently took part in Féile Ficheall. Féile Fichille is a one-day, fun and friendly, meet-and-greet style chess tournament. Our teams of 8 students “Promoting Pawns” and “Kings and Queens” had a great day out. They played amongst 12 other schools on the day. Having ranked in the top three ...

Superstan

The scene is set, the costumes are on, dress rehearsals are in full flow. Come along and join us in what is going to be another fantastic show this Thursday, Friday & Saturday. Tickets are available at the school office.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Bhí an craic againn sa chlós ar an Déardaoin – Lá Glas 2023. The cast of Superstan also enjoyed a visit from Dancing with the Stars judge Brian Redmond ahead of their performances next week.

Leinster house

Ms. Hutchinson & Ms D Burke took their 5th classes on a virtual tour of Leinster house this week. We were shown where the Dail sit and who sits where. We saw where the Upper House (Seanad) meet and learned the role they play in creating legislation. Hopefully some of our children, especially the girls, ...

A look back on the week 3/3/23

A busy week was had this week with our annual Scholastic Book Fair and World Book Day. Some classes engaged in buddy reading and book walks. We had author visits and zoom calls. Love letters were written. Some classes explored the school garden and examined and planted spring flowers. More engaged in procedural writing and ...

Peace Proms 23

Some of our 2nd 3rd and 4th Class pupils took part in Peace Proms 23. After lots of preparations and hard work we attended the Peace Proms in the RDS on Sunday 5th February along with our teachers Mr. Dunne, Ms. O’ Neill, Ms. Henry, Ms. Flynn and Mr. Fleming . It was an amazing ...

The Amazing Adventures of Superstan Poster Competition

While the cast are busy getting ready to present this years musical “The Amazing Adventures of Superstan” we put the rest of the school to work designing the poster for the show. The standard was very high and it was a difficult decision to pick out just one winner. Well done to Alesandra in Ms. ...

Credit Union Quiz

We’d like to congratulate the children of 5th and 6th class who represented the school in the Kildare Credit Union quiz this week, under Mr. Whelan’s tutelage. They did themselves and the school proud.

St. Brigid’s Crosses

The pupils in Ms. Berry’s (2nd) and Ms. Daly’s (6th) class came together today to make some St. Brigid Day crosses. They were very grateful for the help of Martin aswell. While making the crosses they shared stories about the life of St. Brigid.

St. Brigid’s Primary School Band

Our school band gave many wonderful performances on the lead up to Christmas. Click on the links to have a listen.

Christmas at the Friary

The pupils of 6th class got everyone in the Christmas spirit with a lovely performance along side the adult choir in the Friary this week.

Credit Union Art Competition

Pictured below are some of the winners of the Credit Union art Competition some of whom went on to chapter level.

Halloween walk 2023

Thank you to the parents and community for once again supporting our Halloween walks this year.

Spooky Halloween Spectacle

Come along to the Presentation hall over the next few days to witness all kinds of ghoulish and wickedly delightful displays of art. The children have been very busy cooking up all kinds of paintings & potions and will spellbind you with their brilliance. Thank you to Ms. Hogan, Ms. Page and Ms. Ryan for ...

National Tree Day Planting

Ms. Merrin’s 1st class and Ms. Whittle’s Junior Infants planned a holly tree in the school garden with the help of Martin last week for National Tree day. They also had a visit from Harvey the hedgehog during the week.

Intergenerational project

Ms. Nugent’s 6th class engaged in an intergenerational project in association with the local arts and crafts group at Kildare Library. Local poet and illustrator Tessie Barret aged 90 was star of the show. Some participants pictured below.

Green Schools

We won our 6th Green Flag this year.  This flag is a renewal flag.   It is called Global Citizenship/Litter and Waste.  Our work focused around raising awareness on how looking after our environment aids people all over the world.  We helped the children to see the connection between our actions in Ireland and how they affect people in ...

Cumann na mBunscoil Champions

On the 1st of June the SBPS camogie team were crowned Cumann na mBunscoil champions after a triumphant team performance against Patrician Primary school, Newbridge. The girls started the match at a blistering pace and early scores from Isabelle Kelly, Sarah Finn and Eva Donlon settled us right into the game. The girls worked very ...

Challenge to Change

Ms. Nugent’s 6th class took part in the Challenge to Change project this year. Click the link to see their journey. https://www.canva.com/design/DAFDIFbvRTw/iJ9z4EYDl8l7h8k-HViK_A/watch?utm_content=DAFDIFbvRTw&utm_campaign=celebratory_first_publish&utm_medium=link&utm_source=celebratory_first_publishhttps://www.canva.com/design/DAFDIFbvRTw/watch

Easter Chicks

The computer room in DLS was taken over by very strange visitors for the past couple of weeks. These fluffy creatures made a very welcome appearance and were well cared for by Ms. Everard’s class. Ms. Hutchinson/ Ms Heffernan’s class were delighted to welcome them in to their room as well during the week.

Community Spirit

Jenny from Mr. O Carroll’s class was busy baking this week in order to raise money for a hospital in Dublin. She brought in some delicious baked goods today and raised over €75. It is lovely to see the children being so proactive and civic minded.

Lá Glas

Pancake Tuesday Celebrations in Ms. D. Burke’s 5th Class and Ms. Phelan’s 3rd Class

Fun Run returns

The sun shone today as we enjoyed our first whole school fun run since 2020. The boys and girls were delighted to run, jog and walk the route. Thank you to all parents who came out to help as stewards and ensure the safety of all the children. Thanks also to Brian McGowan for leading ...

Cash4Clothes Parent’s Association Fundraiser

St. Brigid

Some of Ms. Daly’s 6th class helped @intokildare make a tiktok to celebrate St. Brigid’s day this week.

Traditional Irish Music

Listen to the members of the Traditional Music group who meet and practice each Wednesday in the Presentation PE hall. New members are always welcome. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ht6p6ueieoc?playlist=Ht6p6ueieoc&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&modestbranding=1&start=

Christmas Greetings from Student Council

http://www.sbps.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Student-council.mp4

School Band

The school band has been busy raising Christmas spirits over the past week visiting Daycare centres and playing in the square in Kildare Town. The band is made up of children from 3rd to 6th class and includes a wide variety of instruments from tin whistle and accordions to drums and bell ayres. The band ...

War Horse

Ms. D. Burke’s 5th class have been reading the novel War Horse this month. Mr. Fleming talked them through the different elements of tack that a horse needs and brought in his own to show the class. The class also explored the book through drama creating a still image/ tableau of a miserable, wounded group ...

Back to school 2021

We are all delighted to be settling back in to school life. The infants are settling in and the older classes are welcoming new members to their class and getting to know their new teachers. Classroom walls are slowly being adorned with children’s art and project work, a small selection of which can be seen ...

Summer term 3rd class

It was a super busy last few weeks in school. Well done to all the children. We had great fun participating in all the various activities- Escape rooms, where the children have to solve various cryptic clues to escape each room and progress to the next level. We had our last fun run, Sports Day, ...