St. Brendan's Boys Primary School

Visit of YOU TUBE Award winner—Luke Lynch

Delighted to welcome back past pupil Mr Luke Lynch to the school on foot of his recent YOU TUBE award for 100,000 subscribers –
( he now has over 250,000 to his channel ! ) fnafboi1278
Luke spoke to the 5th and 6th class boys about his channel , his award , the equipment he uses , the long hours of content creation and editing , the issues with copyright , how to get paid by YOUTUBE and finally how he deals with success and how he deals with negative and hate comments in such a positive way –
The classes were spellbound by this as lots already know of channels or have their own accounts. Thanks Luke for being such a positive role model and inspiration and we hope to have you back when you reach 1 million!!

Grandparents day 2024 was a lovely occasion at our school hall. It has always been a success in giving the opportunity to parents and grandparents to come into our school to see the boys of 2nd and 4th classes sing a few tunes and enjoy some tea / cake – well done to the classes and their teachers and SNAs who prepared them with Ms Killeen – Massive thanks to our HSCL Ann Hennelly and Betty Hogan for setting up the hall with tea coffee and buns so beautifully. Finally thanks to our audience who came in such great numbers ( over 100 in the hall ! ) and we are glad you all enjoyed it.

Fantastic win in the Offaly Cumann na Mbunscoil final today against a young and determined Dromakeenan team -full match report to follow well done to all 33 boys on the training panel and the 30 that togged out today with 26 getting on to play – Thanks to Mr Kennedy as head coach and all the staff who supported with the team / with the early hot lunches for team / with the supporters at the match and with covering classes today -Real team effort and much appreciated to achieve days like this and memories for a lifetime ! Birr Gaa

School will support a no- uniform ( rainbow day ) this Friday . Boys and staff asked to bring donation of €1/€2 which goes to LOFFA but the main focus really at our school will be developing awareness and understanding around autism – see picture ( SEEING THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY) ❤️

Easter 2024

VEX Robotics 2024
An amazing performance at the Offaly championships in February saw the St Brendans team win the Offaly title for the 2nd year in a row! The 6th class boys then travelled to Cork in March for the All Ireland finals where they came 3rd overall out of 24 teams who were champions in their county. Massive credit to Mr Cunningham and Ms Makim who gave so much of their time to support the boys in teaching them programming and design of the robot and to the boys for a great performance on the day!

Teacher artist programme success
Fantastic finale to our TAP ( teacher – artist – programme ) this week as artist Monica O Meara came to school to organise the display of the children’s work – Here’s a photo of the ‘Sculpting Smiles – Clay-laborative Wellbeing’ artwork collaboration under the TAP programme with support from Laois Education Centre – The boys in 3rd and 4th classes had an amazing time over the past number of weeks and great credit to class teachers Ms Wyer and Mr Kennedy for their work supporting this –
It’s a fantastic piece of art which all the boys can view each day and see their work and little initials in engraved in the hands – We are proud that this pupil art creation is displayed proudly at our school and will hopefully inspire generations to follow—
Thank you so much Monica O’Meara ( Artist) and Laois Education centre.

Dance with Lisa
Thanks to Gravity Dance Academy for our final dance session with Lisa Hogan- huge thanks to Offaly County Council Arts Department for their grant support with this programme. The theme of this years programme was called “ Dance boost” “ and was designed especially for our boys, we aimed to provide them with a unique opportunity to explore a different form of self-expression and physical activity.