Cross-Country Killinkere 2025

Congratulations and well done to all 33 pupils who participated in the annual Cavan Primary Schools Athletics Cross Country Championships in Killinkere on Wednesday October 16th.  After training hard for the past number of weeks, all pupils ran brilliantly, showing great heart and determination competing in races with over 200 competitors. We were delighted to bring home some medals this year congratulations to the following;

Sophie Lynch 3^rd place in the Senior Girls 1000m.

Callie Plunkett, Katie O’Reilly, Tameara Okuonghae, Holly Gibson and Mya Byrne Mallon  3^rd team overall in the Intermediate Girls 800m.

Ryan Gibson, Seán Fitzsimons, Aaron Farrelly, Kaiden Kelly, Thomas Raybould and Drey Boshoff 2^nd team overall in the Senior Boys 1000m.

We were delighted to welcome Mountnugent GFC Shield winners  Ned, Conor, Eoin and David into the school on Friday 3rd October. We thank them for giving up their time and answering all the questions about their recent win. We hope they’ll be back next year with some more silverware! 

On Monday 23rd June we had our End of Year mass to mark our SNA Mrs Lyla Dolan’s retirement. Lyla was a part of the school community of Scoil Bhríde for 18 years and has always been a steady, reassuring presence in the lives of many children that have passed through our school doors. We will miss her but we wish her all the very best as she starts the next chapter in her life. Go n-éirí an bóthar leí!

We held our Annual Sports Day on Wednesday 18th June. It was a terrific day filled with lots of spills and thrills, thank you to Ms Rahill and 5th and 6th class who did a great job of organising all the events for everyone.  Ms Browne presented each child with a certificate and an ice-lolly for their outstanding contribution and participation. Well done to all!

On Thursday 19th June we acknowledged and thanked our EAL teacher Ms O’Reilly for her dedication and hard work over the last two years. For our EAL pupils she was a steady and reassuring presence as they navigated a new environment, school and language after leaving their home country. дякую Ms O’Reilly!

We are delighted to receive a SFI Gold Curious minds award for our engagement with Science and STEM for this school year. We are the only school in Cavan to have received the Gold Award. Here is the message we received from the curious minds team;

Congratulations to everyone at Scoil Bhr​​íde on your award! Your submission clearly shows that there was a huge amount of STEM work done in the school this year. It was brilliant to see the whole school getting involved. There was a wide range of really interesting investigations carried out, like circuit building, coding, a visit to the bee barn and an investigation into forces using raisins and fizzy water! Your engineering activities were particularly strong. It looks like the STEM Show and Tell was a great success, with very interesting presentations too! Keep up the fantastic work and well done on your award – it’s a real credit to the learners, teachers, and entire school community!

Well done to all the teachers and the children for engaging so well with all the activities. Congratulations!

Well done to both our girls’ and boys’ football teams who competed in the Cumann na mBunscoil competitions on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th May. Although no silverware is heading our way this year, both teams put in a tremendous effort and represented their school community very well. Thank you to Ms McDermott and Ms Rahill for coaching and looking after both teams this year.