Dear Parents/Guardians,

We are looking to improve, replenish and update some of our school resources and we are asking you to donate any items listed below if you no longer have use for them in your home.

Please note all the items need to be durable, in good working condition and clean. They will be used within the classrooms listed below and resource settings.

We will be accepting donations of these items until Friday 8^th December.

Junior/Senior Infants (Aistear Programme)

Small Lego Vehicles: cars, trucks, Figures – people,

Lego Duplo vans, buses, diggers, characters etc. Small/

Mobilo tractors, fire engines, wooden play people.

Stickle Bricks planes, helicopters,

Boats.

Small toy hospital Exotic animals – lion,

Small toy shop Cash Register tiger, elephant,

Small toy farm/sheds Mobile Phones giraffe, snake, hippo,

Small castle buildings Laptops (pretend/ not rhino, etc.

Small furniture for all Working)

of the above. Fact books for young

Clothes: items for Seaside items; swimsuit children.

dress up hats, glasses goggles, snorkel, arm

particularly uniforms; bands, kite, sunhat. Insects

nurse, doctor, garda etc. Dinosaurs

Resource (Social Skill Development)

Snakes and Ladders Jenga Bingo Guess Who Pictionary Hedbanz Scrabble Yes No game Hangman Story cubes Ludo Puzzles

3^rd and 4^th Class Library (supplementary reading suitable for 8-10 years)

Novels by:

David Walliam’s Non-Fiction Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Holly Web Books Dark Diaries

Roald Dahl Horrible Histories

Many thanks.

The Teaching Staff

Open Morning, St. Brigid’s National School, Ballysax

Friday 20^th October 2017

11.30am to 1pm

Come and visit and meet our school community. If you have a child who will be ready to start Primary School in the next few years, why not see if St. Brigid’s National School, Ballysax is the school for you and your child? Meet teachers, children and members of our Parents’ Association & Board of Management. All welcome! Tea, coffee and refreshments will be served.

Friday 20^th October 2017, 11.30am to 1pm

ballysaxns@gmail.com 045-441829 www.brigidsballysax.webnode.com

Raising the 5th Green Flag - Awarded for Biodiversity - June 2017

Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017

Céilí sa Chlós!

Lá Glas

Chickens in Ballysax!

We have a hatching programme in school. The Nore Valley Farm brought us an incubator with seven eggs. Just three of them hatched and we were so delighted to welcome these little chickens.

Basketball Finals

The boys' and girls' Basketball Teams with members from 4th, 5th and 6th classes have been training after school since September. They have played some very challenging matches at venues both home and away and were thrilled when both teams reached the finals of the Cumann na mBunscol League of Co Kildare! The finals were held in Newbridge on February 15th. We had two exciting and skillful games. The boys worked really hard and were pleased to come home with silver medals. The girls went on to win their match and bring home the cup and gold medals. Well done to all. The teams are pictured below with teachers Esther Reddy and Elaine Downey. Mr Ronan Elliffe was another teacher who worked with the team. Parents, Mrs Susan Byrne and Mr Ger Crowley also helped out. Thanks to all for their investment of time and encouragement of the teams.