If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €3,300 and took place on Friday 12th October. This weeks winners of the €50 were F Morris and S Whelan. The numbers drawn were 10,14,23 & 28.
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We held a Blue and White Day today in support of Mr Curtin and the Celbridge team playing in the County Final on Saturday. Well done to all the boys, the colour was amazing throughout the school and to the 6th class boys who captured our special 'GOOD LUCK' message below for the team. Enjoy. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €3,200 and took place on Friday 5th October. This weeks winners of the €50 were D Smart and C Bradley. The numbers drawn were 2,4,15,17 & 21.
If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €3,200 and took place on Friday 28th September. This weeks winners of the €50 were M O Donoghue and J Tobin. The numbers drawn were 11,16,15 & 22.
6th Class boys today placed a Scoil na Mainistreach sticker over Brussels on our Tour Of Europe Challenge Map. Today marks the end of the European Week of Sport and we felt it would be best to run to Brussels on the final day.
Our Tour of Europe has been a great success with boys from Infants to 6th Class running the 330m Lap of the school every day. So far the boys have together run 9,876 laps of the school which is a total of 3,292Km. We have completed the distances from Dublin to London, Dublin to Paris, Dublin to Madrid and over the last 2 days Dublin to Brussels. We will continue this Challenge as a school into the future. Suzanne Brosnan from Celbridge Library called to boys from 3rd to 6th classes yesterday to talk about the benefits of joining the Library. The Library host many events which are available to members on a regular basis. Attached below is a list of the events taking place in Celbridge throughout October. 
On the 26 of September the boys from 6th class competed in the cross country and came 2nd place!!!
Adam set 1st place and got a gold medal, The schools who competed in the cross country were , St Patricks, Sallins, Aghards, St Bridgets Scoil Na Mainistreach and Maynooth school.The team had a great time. Thanks to Tracy and everybody in the Celbridge A.C. for organising this event every year.  The Boys from Senior Infants to 6th Class are engaging in a daily program of Physical Activity for the next 3 weeks. The Tour of Europe Challenge is an initiative promoted by Sport Ireland, encouraging pupils to put on their running shoes and visit some famous landmarks around Europe. In Scoil Na Mainistreach, Boys run a lap of the school which equals just over 330metres. Droichead, Infants and 1st Classes run 1 Lap, 2nd Class 2 laps, 3rd Class 3 laps (1Km), 4th Class 4 laps, 5th Class 5 laps and 6th Class 6 laps (2Km). The boys in 6th class have taken on the organising of the Tour and are recording the no. of laps run by each class and converting into Kilometres. Each European city has been measured from Dublin and daily targets are set by the 6th class boys. Our Tour of Europe Map is on display on the school corridor and the cities reached are marked. 
If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €3,000 and took place on Friday 14th September. This weeks winners of the €50 were P Murphy and J Tobin. The numbers drawn were 3,12,16 & 21.
Congratulations to our 6th Class pupils who graduated on Wednesday night. Lots of great memories recalled on the night from 8 funfilled years in primary school. The highlight of the night was a picture compilation video, that captured many of the memories from the boys 8 years. Thanks to Mr. Mulreid for all his work putting the video together. The video is attached below for all to enjoy.  The 6th Class History Squad under the guidance of Ms Holmes were crowned All Ireland Champions for 2018 in an essay writing competition commemorating the Decade of Centenaries. Having researched the Celbridge Roll of Honour during World War 1 the boys were crowned champions at a ceremony in University College Cork recently. It's a huge honor for the school and reflects the great effort put in by Ms Holmes and the boys. Our historians received tremendous support from many people within the community who provided so much information, artifacts and facts about their relatives who were involved in World War 1 and we are very grateful for that support. A copy of the winning essay is attached below. feel free to share with people who may be interested. We would welcome your comments in the section below.The essay will need to be opened in Word. History Squad 2018: Cian Byrne, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Saket Cilaveni, Conor Casey, Sean Corduff, Lee Wallace, Robin Whelan, Conall Carey, Conor Liscombe, Brian McBride
 Celbridge AC hosted their now annual, Celbridge AC Sports day for primary schools in the area in glorious sunshine. Like all the schools of the area, the boys of Scoil Na Mainistreach did themselves and the school proud, both on the track and off. Medals were won on the day by a number of boys but their sense of togetherness and teamwork throughout the day was a joy to watch. The support they gave each other in the various competitions was only matched by the exemplary effort put in by each boy in their respective events. Great thanks to Tracy and all the committee of Celbridge AC who were out in force. Their grounds are fantastic and reflect the huge community spirit in the club. We are fortunate top have built up a great partnership with the club over the last few years and that partnership continues to grow. Below is a collection of pictures that capture just some, of the many glorious moments from the day. Well done everyone and we look forward to next years Sports already. The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 8th June. This weeks winners of the €50 were J Darcey and F Morris. The numbers drawn were 1,4,16 & 16.
The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 1st June. This weeks winners of the €50 were A Henderson and A Marriott. The numbers drawn were 18,19,24 & 27.
 As part of our ‘Active Schools’ initiative and in an attempt to highlight the importance of physical exercise for children, Scoil na Mainistreach has teamed up with the globally-renowned ‘parkrun’ running event.
Castletown parkrun takes place every Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. and their Event Director, Sharon Ashmore has kindly invited the parents and boys of our school to join them for a ‘children-friendly’ parkrun on Saturday June 9th. We are very excited to have this opportunity which will be our 3rd year to run it as a school community. We look forward to lots of our students participating in this free event alongside their parents/guardians and a few teachers too. We hope to have lots of our boys (accompanied by a guardian if under 11) at this event. If you wish to take part in this event, please follow these steps:
If you or your child are unable/prefer not to run/walk this event, it would be great if you could volunteer instead. parkrun is a community-based initiative and its success depends on the support of volunteers. So all support would be greatly appreciated. If you can volunteer, please make sure that you register with parkrun and email castletownhelpers@parkrun.com to express an interest in volunteering. Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday 9th June (arrive early to warm-up). Please remember that all children under 11 must be within arms-reach of their parents during the event. The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 18th May. This weeks winners of the €50 were M O'Donoghue and C O'Carroll. The numbers drawn were 1, 11,17 & 22.
Dear parents,
Active Schools Week takes place this week in Scoil na Mainistreach. As part of this we are providing the children with many opportunities to engage in physical activities during school time. We would also love for them to be active at home so we have decided to run our very own competition to find Scoil na Mainistreach's Fittest Family! Taking part is very simple. All you have to do is email a picture and a short description of your family engaging in an active activity to snamfittestfamily@gmail.com. Each time you take part in an activity and email a picture your son's name will be entered into a raffle to win one of 25 super Active Schools Week prizes. The more times you enter with a different activity, the more times your son's name will go into the raffle! The photos we receive will be displayed in the school and on the school website. By entering and sending in a picture of you and your family you are agreeing to Scoil na Mainistreach displaying these photos around the school and online to celebrate Active Schools Week. The competition will run for the next 3 weeks from Monday 14th May - Friday 1st June. Below you will find a list of suggested activities that you and your family could participate in over the next three weeks. We are really looking forward to seeing some great pictures and to giving away our cool prizes! Active Schools Week Team Some suggested activities to take part in:
Kind Regards Matthew Heffernan Principal The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 23rd March. This weeks winners of the €50 were M O'Donoghue and Y Flynn. The numbers drawn were 14, 22, 25 & 26.
 Active Week in Scoil Na Mainistreach will take place after the Mid-Term Break from 14th – 18th May. We are lucky in the community that we have so many sporting activities available for all and the boys will get to sample some of these activities during the week. The Active Week Page on our School Website will have daily timetables and details of the activities taking place. Reports and photos of the events will be added to the page each evening. Boys are asked to wear their School Tracksuits every day during the week as they will be active every day. Scoil Na Mainistreach's Fittest Family will form part of this years programme of activities as we look to involve the boys families in Active Week 2018. Samples of the Activities taking place are some of the old favourites like Canoeing, Snooker and Golf while Rowing and Badminton have been added to the schedule this year along with many more activities. The highlight of Active Schools Week takes place on Friday with our now annual 6th Class Maynooth Cycle. What started with 20 pupils 7 years ago has grown to almost 100 taking part. It has become so popular that we are now joined by pupils from other schools from the town. Members of the Galway Cycle Committee are on board this year and have a host of surprises lined up for the boys this year. Attached below is a schedule of events. A number of events are weather dependent and as such are scheduled as T.B.C. A number of other are expected to be confirmed over the Mid Term break. Updates will be added to this page. Enjoy the Mid Term break and we look forward to sampling the many wonderful activities available to us on our doorstep when we return.
Dear Parents
REMINDER The school is closed next week for our mid term break and will re-open on Monday 14th May. LOTTO The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. Last weeks winners of the €50 were A McArdle and S Allen. The numbers drawn were 14, 16, 21 & 27. If your not in you cannot win! NON UNIFORM DAY A past pupil of ours, Ryan Mc Barron will be taking part in the Special Olympics in Ireland this June. We will hold a Jersey Day this Friday 4th May , where the boys can wear in their favourite jersey to celebrate sports for all. Don't worry if your son does not have a favourite team, you can treat this as a non uniform day. All proceeds will go towards Special Olympics Ireland. CONGRATULATIONS Another triumph for the History Squad! We got fantastic news yesterday. We have been awarded first prize in The All - Island Decade of Centenaries Essay Competition. Our essay entitled Celbridge Roll of Honour explores lives of some of the hundreds of men from Celbridge who fought in WWI. It was a brilliant project and we learned so much. We will be travelling to Cork on 21st May for a very special Awards Ceremony in U.C.C. A proud day for all concerned. GREEN SCHOOLS COMMITTEE Congratulations to the Green Schools Committee! Scoil na Mainistreach have just been awarded our 7th Green Flag. This flag is for Global Citizenship Energy. An Taisce will present us with our flag on 23rd May at a special ceremony in D.C U. Kind Regards Matthew Heffernan Principal The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 23rd March. This weeks winners of the €50 were A McArdle and S Allen. The numbers drawn were 14, 16, 21 & 27.
Dear Parents,
We hope you enjoyed your Easter holidays. Welcome back to the last term. IN SERVICE DAY This Thursday 12th April the school will be closed due to a staff in service day. JEP SHOWCASE As you know the boys in 6th Class have been participating in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme this year, selling Hamma Bead Art, Yo-yos and Keychains. Unfortunately the Hamma Bead Art has sold out, but there are still Yo-yos and Keychains available at HALF PRICE!!! The Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) is an entrepreneurial awareness and skills enhancement programme for Primary School children, created & developed in Ireland! The programme aims to help children recognise enterprise and entrepreneurship and to foster an awareness and understanding of the entrepreneurs role in the community therefore empowering the child to start to think and act with the initiative, creativity, independence and ideas that are invaluable in the modern world. As a result of their involvement with the JEP, the boys in 6th Class have set up their own companies to sell their products. They are having their Showcase Day this Wednesday, April 11th in the Library in Scoil na Mainistreach, from 9:00am – 11:00am. They are inviting the public on Wednesday, in particular parents and all members of the school community, to come along and to have a look at their wonderful products and to support their business endeavours! THANK YOU Before Easter we did a non uniform day for Mr Mescal who took part in a cycle for 'Friends of the Coombe' charity and over €600 was raised. Many thanks for all of the donations. We also raised €867.24 for Trócaire in the school. Thank you to all students and families for their ongoing kindness. Dear Parents
EASTER The boys are finished this Friday 23rd at 12.15 pm sharp. Can you please ensure all boys are collected promptly. School will re open on Monday 9th April. NON UNIFORM DAY Mr Mescal will be participating in a 400 km cycle to Galway (and back) in aid of ‘The Friends of the Coombe Charity’. This charity provides a counselling service for bereaved parents. Scoil na Mainistreach is supporting this event by having a non uniform day this Friday 23rd March. All donations greatly appreciated. IN-SERVICE DAY The school will be closed for a staff in-service day on Thursday 12th April. LOTTO The lotto will take place this Friday 23nd March. It is still at €10,000. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child’s name on the envelope, you must be over 18 to play. The results are posted on our website weekly. TRÓCAIRE BOXES If you have not already done so, please return all Trócaire boxes before 10 am tomorrow morning (Thursday 22nd). We cannot accept them after this time. The lotto is still at €10,000. If you wish to take part, choose 4 numbers between 1 and 28. The cost is €2 per line. Please do not put your child's name on the envelope, as you need to be over 18 to play. We would ask parents to please support the lotto. This week's jackpot was worth €10,000 and took place on Friday 23rd March. This weeks winners of the €50 were D Dooley and D Tyrrell. The numbers drawn were 3, 7, 10 & 26
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