What a week it has been! Both our boys and girls teams have qualified for the Cumann na mBunscol A finals. These games will be held next week in the Centre Of Excellence in Fenagh on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evening. We have not been given exact times and dates yet but we will keep you posted. All support would be greatly appreciated. Go n-éirí libh a bhuachaillí agus cailíní. 

Congratulations to all of our pupils who participated in the Summer Stars Reading Challenge over the summer holidays.  As part of the challenge the children were asked to read eight books before the end of the holidays. All the children form Bennekerry N.S. are invited to the Summer Stars Celebrations on October 11th at 8.15p.m. in the Seven Oaks Hotel.

 The Cumann na mBunscol football competition is underway at present and both our boys’ and girls’ teams had great wins over the Gaelscoil on Wednesday 19th September. They have several more games to play so we wish them continued success. Once again, they are under the expert guidance of Ms. Deirdre Tomlinson and Mr. Danny Curry.

On Tuesday 25th September several pupils from the school were invited to a prize-giving ceremony in Tullow Community School as they had each won prizes in the schools’ category in the Tullow Show. The winners were Anya Li (1st class) Poetry-  Gavin McDermott (3rd class)Handwriting Sean Breen (6th class)Handwriting Emily Long (2nd class) Art Juliet Powell Essay(4th class) Alannah O'Dwyer (6th class)Poetry and Essay  Fionn Dowling (4th class)Poetry. Comhghairdeas libh go léir!

Bennekerry N.S. Newsletter

St Laurence O’Toole Athletics Club held their annual School Athletics Day for 4th, 5th and 6th classes on Wednesday 26th September in Carlow Town Hurling Club. Fifty-one pupils from the school took part and all behaved impeccably. They returned to the school with quite a haul of medals including 4 team gold medals, won by 4th, 5th and 6th class boys and 6th class girls, and a team silver and bronze for 4th class girls and 5th class boys respectively. Since there were up to 160 athletes in each race, medals were awarded to those who finished in the top ten places. From our school the following pupils were awarded individual medals; Mark Buggy, Cormac McConnan and Síofra Harvey (4th class) Sam McHugh (5th class) and Marc Mulhall, Seán Breen and Marie Cranny  (6th class).   Comhghairdeas libh go léir! Thanks also to the múinteoirí, Ms. Tomlinson who did most of the organising and Mr. Finnegan, Ms. Kelly, Mrs. Doyle, Mr. Curry and Ms. ...

Páirc Nua: Our pupils were both excited and delighted when we were given the go-ahead to use our brand new all-weather pitch. We assembled to watch Ms. Tomlinson, who was chosen to kick the inaugural ball, launch it into the air and the 6th class on the far end of the pitch each attempted to catch that very first ball. What a spectacle it was and what a fantastic facility it is.  We feel both proud and privileged to have it. Great credit goes to the Board of Management and successive Parents’ Associations who consistently work hard and are dedicated to providing the best possible facilities for our pupils. We expect that the ground works will be finished shortly, and we will then have use of the walking track and better access from the courts via a new ramp.

There was great excitement in the school on Tuesday June 19th when the 'Beat Fleet' arrived having escorted Christine Cassidy and her friend Aoibhínn Cadinot to school. Christine was the winner of the Junior section of the 'Fairytale Creative Competition' and the visit of the princesses from Beat FM to her home and school was part of the prize. Christine was interviewed on the radio and she also won a family ticket to the 'Fairytale Festival' which will be held in Woodstock Garden on July 22nd. 

Congratulations to Ali Donoghue (3rd Class) and Ella Hendricken (1st Class) who were both winners in the Carlow Credit Union GR8 Savers Competition. Well done girls !