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🌟 Yesterday, 3rd Class enjoyed a lovely walk around Clonakilty as they explored their local area and got to know their town a little better 🏘️ Along the way, they discovered different street names, spotted interesting local statues, and learned more about the history and features of their community. They also kept an eye out for their amazing summer visitors — the swifts 🐦✨ — and were delighted to see them flying overhead. A fantastic day of learning, exploring, and enjoying the sunshine ☀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

🏄‍♂️🌊 Scoil na mBuachaillí has a proud tradition of providing exciting outdoor learning opportunities for our pupils, and over the coming weeks our 6th Class boys will take part in a fantastic four-day surfing programme with Inchydoney Surf School Throughout the programme, the boys will develop their surfing skills, build confidence in the water, and experience the beauty of the West Cork coastline. Each session will encourage teamwork, resilience, and a willingness to challenge themselves — all while having great fun along the way! We are looking forward to seeing the boys grow in confidence and enjoy this wonderful experience over the coming weeks. A huge thank you to the team at Inchydoney Surf School for providing this exciting opportunity for our pupils.

🌍💚 Scoil na mBuachaillí is proud to announce that we have received our 8th Green Flag at the An Taisce Green-Schools Awards Ceremony in Fota Wildlife Park 🎉 This award recognises our work on the theme of Global Citizenship – Marine Environment 🌊♻️ and celebrates the fantastic efforts of our pupils, staff and wider school community in promoting sustainability throughout our school. A special congratulations to Jack Rea and Daniel Dempsey, who proudly represented our school at the ceremony alongside Ms. MacAuley and Ms. O’Shea 👏 A huge thank you also to our Green-Schools Coordinator, Ms. Niamh MacAuley, for her dedication and leadership throughout the programme. Well done to everyone involved in this wonderful achievement 🌱🌎 Clonakilty Notice Board I Love Clonakilty Green-Schools

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☀️🚣 What a day for our 5th Class boys in Courtmacsherry! 🚣☀️ Day 1 of our annual school tour to Gecko Adventures was packed with excitement, sunshine and plenty of kayaking fun! The boys spent the day out on the water building their kayaking skills, learning about water safety and showing fantastic teamwork throughout every activity. There were smiles, splashes and lots of encouragement as the boys challenged themselves, gained confidence and created brilliant memories together in the beautiful West Cork sunshine. 🌊😎 Scoil na mBuachaillí is proud to continue this wonderful tradition of our two-day kayaking tour for 5th Class each year. Roll on Day 2! 💪🚣‍♂️

Today we celebrated our wonderful End of Year Concert with Kay O’Flynn and her musicians. 🎶 It was a lovely celebration of music, talent, and community, featuring a wonderful mix of accordion, guitars, and tin whistles. The concert showcased the hard work and dedication of the musicians as they brought their year of lessons to a joyful close with lively tunes and memorable performances. Families, friends, and members of the community joined together to support and celebrate the performers. A huge thank you to everyone who performed, supported, and helped make the event such a special success. We are so lucky to have Kay O'Flynn teaching music in our school and inspiring such a love of music among our students. 🎵

Another huge week ahead in Scoil na mBuachaillí! 🌟💙💚 🎶 Monday begins with a special concert in the school hall as pupils learning guitar, tin whistle and accordion with Kay O’Flynn showcase their musical talents. 🛶 Our 5th Class boys then head to Gecko Adventures for their annual two-day kayaking tour — packed with kayaking, Giant SUP, archery tag, beach games and plenty of adventure! ☀️🌊 🤸‍♂️ Tuesday brings gymnastics with Aoife and elocution with Nora for Junior Infants to 2nd Class, while 6th Class begin their exciting surfing programme with Inchydoney Surf School. 🏄‍♂️🌊 🌍 Tuesday will also see Scoil na mBuachaillí proudly receive our 8th Green Flag Award at the An Taisce Awards Ceremony in Fota Wildlife Park for Global Citizenship – Marine Environment. ♻️💚 🎤✨ Scoilavision fever is taking over the school as rehearsals continue all week ahead of the biggest night of the year! Don’t forget to mark Scoilavision 2026 — Wednesday, June 10th at 7pm in your diary! ⭐🎶 🏃‍♂️ Thursday sees pupils from Seniors right up to 6th Class proudly representing our school at Cork City Sports in MTU Cork. Best of luck to all our athletes! 🏅 📌 School Reminders: • School closed to pupils on Wednesday, May 27th for staff training. • School closed Friday, May 29th. • School closed Monday, June 1st. Another brilliant week of music, sport, creativity, achievement and adventure awaits! 💙💚

Hard to believe it has already been a full year since Gloria, Rita and Betty joined Scoil na mBuachaillí! 🐔🎉 Over the past year, our hens have become a much-loved part of school life, bringing so much joy, excitement and learning opportunities to our pupils every day. From collecting eggs and caring for the hens to baking, biodiversity projects and even our Young Scientist research, the project has created wonderful hands-on experiences for the boys. 🥚🌱💚 The hens have helped teach responsibility, teamwork, sustainability and wellbeing, while becoming very special members of our school family along the way. A huge thank you to Ms O’Shea, Finbarr and Noreen for all their care and dedication to the project throughout the year. Thank you also to our pupils, staff, families and wider community for their continued support — especially Grandad David, who kindly minds the hens during the Easter and summer holidays! Here’s to another fantastic year because life really is better with chickens! 🐓

🔴⚪ WE’RE INTO THE WEST CORK FINAL! ⚪🔴 What a week for Scoil na mBuachaillí! 💪🏐 Our boys are through to the Sciath na Scol Peil West Cork Roinn 1 Final on Thursday June 4th after a fantastic campaign so far! 👏 A huge achievement for the team and a proud moment for our whole school community. It was extra special to see members of the panel cheering on Cork in their brilliant win over Meath at the weekend — perfect inspiration ahead of the final! 🔴⚪ The excitement is building already and we know the boys will give everything on final day. 🔥 📅 Thursday June 4th 📍 Ahamilla 🕒 Throw-in time to be confirmed All support welcome — let’s get behind the lads! ❤️🤍 Please share! #SNBClonakilty #SciathNaScol #CorcaighAbú #WestCorkFinal #ClonakiltyGAA Clonakilty GAA Club I Love Clonakilty Clonakilty Notice Board