CBS Primary School - Activities Blog

The school has been back in action since September 1st. and everyone has been incredibly busy laying the groundwork for a very busy year ahead. The staff have a lot of new initiatives planned including an increased focus on Maths and Literacy (we will be introducing a number of new programmes in both areas and parents will be invited into the school over the next few weeks to see what we have in mind) ; drama classes for all pupils (provided free of charge thanks to the School Completion Programme); Irish Dancing classes ; Tag Rugby; Soccer Skills ; Football and Hurling Skills ; etc. 

The Design Team for the new school project is due to be appointed on 28th. September.  

View our Latest Newsletter - Easter 2011

The school will be closed for the Easter Holidays from Friday 15th. April at 1.00 p.m. until Tuesday 3rd. May at 9.00 a.m. The Breakfast Club will be open from 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday 3rd. May. We wish all our families a very happy and peaceful Easter. 

The school had a Whole School Evaluation in March . During the Whole School Evaluation , a group of Department of Education and Skills inspectors visited the school to review practices and policies and to spend time with each member of staff. Part of the process was to issue questionnaires to every pupil and to every parent to ascertain what they thought of the school. 

Click on the links to download the results of either questionnaire.

Parent Questionnaire - Results

Pupil Questionnaire- Results 

Well done to the pupils on our under 11 and under 13 quiz teams who represented the school at the Credit UNion Table Quiz in the Horse and Hound , Ballinaboola on Sunday 6th. february. Many thanks to Helen Katus of the Parents’ Council who co-ordinated arrangements at the venue and made sure the boys were well looked after during the day. Thanks also to Jim Frizelle for his assistance. 40 teams took part in the event. 

The Under 13 Team

THe Under 11 Team.  

The school will close on Friday 18th. February at 2.40 p.m. for the mid-term break. The school will remain closed until Monday 28th. February. Not all primary schools in New Ross are closing for the week. The CBS, however, came back after the summer holidays two days earlier than the other schools in town and we also went into school on 8th. December. This has facilitated us in taking the full week in February. 

It was a first for the CBS Primary school last week when we had to hire the use of a snow plough to clear the school playground of snow!

The thermometer in the school grounds has been reading a fairly steady -5 Centigrade for three weeks now.  

Well done to all the pupils in 2nd. class who enacted a wonderful Nativity Play today at the school Christmas Carol Service. Well done to Ms. Foskin and to Ms. Wheland on a great job and a big ‘thank you’ to Emma Cartwright who has been assisting 2nd. class on a voluntary basis over recent weeks. 

The service was a big success and was greatly enjoyed by all those present.  A DVD will be available to parents in the New Year. 

We held a charity collection today for the Butler family who lost their house in a fire two nights ago.  We collected €1200 today in the school for the family . Well done to all and a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who contributed. 

The Christmas carol Service will take place in the Augustinian Church on Wednesday 22nd. December at 1.15 p.m. The service will include a Nativity Play by the pupils from 2nd. class and will also feature performances by our school choir. It’s always a lovely occasion and everyone is welcome to come along. The service should be finished by 2.15 p.m. 

Pupils from 6th. class are currently involved in the ‘One Read for Ross’ project. This project is organised by the Home School Community Liaison Scheme in New Ross. One book is chosen each year and as many as possible in the town are encouraged to read the book. This year, the book chosen is ‘The Ice Man’ , the story of Irish explorer Tom Crean. Pupils from the school recently got an opportunity to talk to the author , Michael Smith, pictured below.