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💪🎉 Active School Week – Day 1! 🎉💪 We had a fantastic start to Active School Week today with lots of energy, fun, and movement throughout the school! Junior Infants to 2nd Class enjoyed exciting line dancing sessions with Ann Murphy, learning new steps and showing off some brilliant dance moves along the way 🤠🎶 Our senior pupils took part in energetic kickboxing sessions with Tony from West Cork Kickboxing Club, developing coordination, balance, fitness, and teamwork while learning lots of new skills 🥊 There were plenty of smiles, laughter, and fun throughout the day! A huge thank you to all of the instructors and staff who helped make Day 1 such a success. We are already looking forward to another active day tomorrow! 😊

✨ A Beautiful Surprise for Our Pupils! ✨ Our pupils arrived to a wonderful surprise this morning — a beautiful new mural painted by the talented artist Saeeda 🎨🌼 Featuring colourful flowers, butterflies, rolling hills, and a bright sunny sky, the artwork has brought lots of colour and joy to our school yard. We are so grateful to Saeeda for sharing her creativity and talent with our school community. The mural has already brought so many smiles and lots of excitement to the children 😊 A huge thank you to Saeeda for this wonderful addition to our school! 💛

🎭✨🌟 SNB Connections Shine on the National Stage 🌟✨ 🎉 A huge congratulations to all involved with Kilmeen Drama Group on their incredible success at the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Finals 2026! 🏆👏🎬 Amateur Drama Council of Ireland We are especially proud of our wonderful teacher Laura Connolly, who was part of the award-winning production Ballyturk 🎭⭐ An incredible achievement — and surely a rare honour to hold both the One Act and Three Act All-Ireland titles at the same time! 🏆🥳🎭 The group enjoyed an incredible night of success and recognition, receiving multiple awards and accolades for their outstanding production 🏅🌟👏 We are very fortunate in SNB to have such a strong connection with Kilmeen Drama Group, with many of our staff having treaded the stage with the group over the past number of years, including Elaine Connolly, Eilish McSweeney, Noreen Collins and Laura Connolly 🎭✨ We are also lucky to have Nora Scannell supporting elocution work within the school 📚🗣️ This is a wonderful celebration of creativity, talent, teamwork and community spirit ❤️👏✨ Congratulations to everyone involved on bringing such an outstanding production to the national stage 🇮🇪🎭🌟 #KilmeenDramaGroup #AllIrelandDramaFinals #ProudSchoolCommunity #SNBClonakilty

🔴⚪️ Congratulations to Seán Kennedy, who proudly represented Scoil na mBuachaillí in the Rebel jersey at today’s Primary School Games half-time exhibition in Killarney! ⚪️🔴 A proud moment for Seán, his family and our whole school community! 👏🔴⚪️ Sciath na Scol Chorcaí Clonakilty GAA Club

🎉🧡 AMAZING NEWS FOR SCOIL NA mBUACHAILLÍ! 🧡🎉 We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Scoil na mBuachaillí has officially joined the Pieta Amber Flag community and has been awarded the 2025/2026 Pieta Amber Flag! 🌟 This is a hugely proud moment for our entire school community and a wonderful recognition of the positive, caring and supportive environment that exists in our school every day. Throughout the year, our pupils and staff embraced a wide range of wellbeing initiatives and activities that promoted kindness, inclusion and positive conversations around mental health and emotional wellbeing. 🧡 We are also incredibly proud to have raised an amazing €795 for Pieta, helping to support the vital services they provide for children and young people across Ireland. It feels especially fitting that we received this wonderful news on the same weekend that the people of Clonakilty came together in such huge numbers to support Darkness into Light Clonakilty — a powerful reminder of the strength, compassion and community spirit that exists all around us. 💛 This achievement simply would not have been possible without the enthusiasm, support and encouragement of our fantastic pupils, dedicated staff, supportive parents and wider school community. THANK YOU to everyone who played a part in this special achievement 🎉 Clonakilty Notice Board I Love Clonakilty 🧡 #AmberFlag 🧡 #Pieta 🧡 #DarknessIntoLight 🧡 #Wellbeing 🧡 #ScoilNaMBuachaillí 🧡 #SchoolCommunity

✨ First Holy Communion 2026 ✨ Congratulations to all the children who made their First Holy Communion today. ⛪💙 It was a very special occasion for the children, their families, and our whole school community. 🌸 A sincere thank you to the class teachers, Laura Connolly and Ciarán Crowley, for their wonderful preparation and support throughout the year. 🍎 Thank you also to Fr Fergus Tuohy for all his help and guidance, to Karen O’Regan for the beautiful music and choir preparation 🎶, to Ms Regina Fitzmaurice for organising the sound crew 🎤, and to the altar servers for their important role in the ceremony. We were delighted to share this special and meaningful occasion with our colleagues and friends in St. Joseph's Girls NS Clonakilty. 🤝✨ Clonakilty Family of Parishes

🌟 Junior Entrepreneur Project 2026 🌟 Our 5th Class pupils in Scoil na mBuachaillí are delighted to be taking part in the The Junior Entrepreneur Programme 2026! The JEP gives pupils the opportunity to experience practical, real-life business learning in a fun and engaging way. Throughout the project, the boys are developing important skills such as creativity, teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making and confidence as they work together to create their own product or service from scratch. Today, the boys took part in the exciting “Meet the Dragons” stage of the programme. Working in groups, they confidently presented their business ideas and pitches to our panel of Dragons: 🐣 Caroline Murphy – West Cork Eggs 🎶 Ray Blackwell – DeBarra's Folk Club ⭐ Ms Regina Fitzmaurice – Scoil na mBuachaillí The Dragons asked thoughtful questions, offered valuable feedback and encouraged the pupils to think like real entrepreneurs. The boys should be extremely proud of the imagination, effort and enthusiasm they showed throughout their presentations. A huge thank you to our 5th Class teachers, Ms Carol Ann O’Donovan and Mr Seán Daly, for their guidance, encouragement and support throughout the project so far. #JEP2026 #MeetTheDragons #YoungEntrepreneurs #ScoilnamBuachaillí #Creativity #Teamwork #FutureLeaders

🥰Lovely to see Scoil na mBuachaillí so well represented in today’s The Southern Star 🥰

Preparing for a Very Special Day ✨ Our 2nd Class boys from Scoil na mBuachaillí took part in a special Mass this morning with St. Joseph's Girls NS Clonakilty as they prepare for next week’s First Holy Communion 🙏⛪ The boys carried out the offertory with great confidence 👏. Thank you to the parents for their continued support 💙A special mention also to our altar servers, Wiktor, Cameron, Jacob and Odhran for their important role in the ceremony. Sincere thanks to Fr. Fergus Tuohy for his guidance and support. We look forward to the special day ahead next Saturday ✨ Clonakilty Family of Parishes