As next year, 2016,  is the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Rising, Navan Education Centre are holding an art competition where by the children have to produce a piece of art work where they imagine what Ireland will be like in the year 2116. The children in Kilbride National School are very busy producing their pieces of art work for this competition.

Work is underway in relation to the school calendar! All the pictures have now been taken of the children. A note will go home in the coming weeks to inform parents when the calendars will be available for purchase and how much the calendars will cost. We cannot wait to see the finished product!

We had the Cathechist visit Kilbride National School on Friday the 13th of November 2015. The children in Kilbride National School are always working hard at their religion and Maureen was very happy with all the religion work that they children are doing in Kilbride National School. Well Done everyone!

The Book Fair was a huge success this year in Kilbride National School. Thank you to everyone who purchased books and we hope everyone who bought books are enjoying reading them!

Practice is well underway for our Christmas Concert this year. The play we are doing is called Jesus' Christmas Party. The children are busy practising the songs for this play with Ms. Kealey. We are all looking forward to performing this play for our parents. The date of the Christmas Concert will be sent home in a letter in the coming weeks. We cannot wait to perform it for you all!

Mrs. Crosby is continuing to read the children "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". The children are really enjoying listening to this story and are learning lots about what life was like in Germany during World War Two. As one activity surrounding this story for The Blue Star Programme the children in Third and Fourth Class had to design a poster to launch this book. They really enjoyed this activity and these posters will be on display in the school during Europe Week in May 2016.

The children in Third and Fourth Class are continuing work on the Blue Star Programme. Last week they started projects on Famous Europeans in pairs. They are busy researching and reading about their person. They will start putting their project together this week. The pairings are as follows:

Anna & Elle - Mai = Hans Christian Andersen

Annie - Jane, Tara & Alessandro = Vincent Van Gogh

Megan & Cormac = Ludwig Van Beethoven

Ellie & Paraic = Isaac Newton

Ronan & Shane = William Shakespeare

Jane & Lucy = Christopher Columbus

Ellie & Mark = Leonardo Di Vinci

Rachel & Nathan = Napoleon Bonaparte

Fionn & Conor = Albert Einstein

Sara & Joseph = Marco Polo

Joshua & Rian = Oscar Wilde

Cormac & Chiamaka = Mary Robinson

The children in Kilbride National School have all received an order form to order the educate.ie Christmas Annuals this year. The annuals are €2 each. The order forms along with the money has to be in before 2:30 pm on Tuesday the 17th of November as Mrs. Crosby is placing the order that evening.

The children of Third and Fourth Class attended the Futsal tournament in Gormanstown College yesterday, Tuesday the 3rd of November 2015. They all played very well. The girls came third in their group. The boys on the other hand won every game in their group meaning they won their group stage and were put straight into the final. In the final they played exceptionally well and they went on to win the final 1 - 0! We are so proud of them here in Kilbride National School. Well done to both teams but a special congratulations has to go to the boys team; Nathan, Paraic, Rian, Conor, Mark, Cormac, Alessandro, Cormac, Shane, Joseph, Joshua and Fionn. Well Done Boys!

As a special reward for how well everyone played there will be no homework for the boys and girls in Third and Fourth Class on Monday night, the 9th of November. Also Mrs. Crosby is treating  the children in Third and Fourth Class to a celebratory party on Friday afternoon, the 6th of November!

As you know a raffle was held on the day of the Halloween holidays, Friday the 23rd October 2015. This raffle raised €650 which was given to Denise Molloy for the Trust. Congratulations to Denise who completed the Dublin City Marathon in aid of Lorraine. Many thanks to those parents who donated prizes for the raffle as they were much appreciated and were for a very worthy cause. Thank you also to everyone who bought raffle tickets.