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The girls in 4th Class were busy researching, designing and building bridges during the school’s recent STEM week. They learned about all the different types of bridges and then put their new knowledge into practice when they built their own bridges in groups. I think there might be some future Engineers in our midst!

Scoil Bhríde Cailíní were delighted to welcome Minster Roderic O’Gorman, Leader of the Green Party and Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to Scoil Bhríde Cailíní. He was brought around the school by our Student Council and visited lots of our classes. The girls played music, sang songs and asked lots of important […]

The girls in 5th Class were learning all about how towns are planned – from what buildings should be built, what services should be provided, where traffic lights should go and sometimes, what cuts need to be made when sufficient money isn’t there! Following this, the girls then got to actually construct the town, as you […]

Junior Infants had great fun on their first school tour to Clonfert Pet Farm. They got to see lots of lovely animals, bounce on a bouncy castle, practice their football skills and had lots of fun in the playgrounds. Everyone had great fun and was very tired after a busy day. When the girls got […]

On Friday, May the 24th, Scoil Bhríde Cailíní celebrate Intercultural Day. Our school is blessed with so many wonderful languages and cultures and all of these were on show on the day. The girls dressed up in their traditional clothes and the whole school were treated to singing from Ms. Armstrong’s class, the school choir […]

Traditional Vyshyvanka from Ukraine, Half Saree, Chunder, Lehenga from India, Traditional Saya and Maria Clara gown from the Philippines and Tang suit from China.

The girls in Seoda had great fun planting sunflower seeds today. We are very excited to watch them grow!  

We learned all about the solar system through our report writing. We created some mixed-media paintings of astronauts to accompany our work.

Meryl was presented with the Friendship Award as she always displays the traits of good friendship.   We created friendship recipes outlining the traits of being a ‘good friend’.   

6th class made compliment boxes. 3D Origami boxes made with colourful paper and each child wrote a nice compliment for their classmate. By the end of the activity, each girl had a box full of compliments from her whole class 😊  

The girls in Scoil Bhríde Cailíní were busy practicing and using as much Irish as they could during Seachtain na Gaeilge, which ran from the 11th to the 29th of March. Seachtain na Gaeilge is an annual celebration of Irish language, music, dance, songs, games and poetry. During the two weeks, the girls had lots of fun […]

The girls from 3rd to 6th class were closely following the men’s Six Nations rugby championship this year. They guessed the score each week and got more familiar with the sport. As part of this, there was a poster competition. There were so many fantastic entries. Vyga from 5th class was a very worthy winner. You can see […]

Some girls from Seoda walked to the pet shop in Roselawn. They got to see lots of animals. There were lots of birds and everyone enjoyed looking at the turtle!

The girls in Ms Tyrell’s class designed and created this beautiful painting of St Brigid. The painting was displayed in the church to celebrate Brigid 1500, a nationwide event that marked the 1,500 th anniversary of the death of St Brigid, one of the patron Saints of Ireland and the patron saint of our school. […]

The girls in Mr. Maguire’s 5th Class have been busy for the past few months setting up their own business, as part of the Junior Entrepreneur Project. They have been researching, working out cost prices, designing labels, advertising – all in the name of slime! Their product is called ‘Slime Time’, which of course, is slime […]

Congratulations and well done to the girls in 6th Class who had their Ceremony of Light on Thursday night. A big thank you to Ms. McKay and Ms. Dudgeon for all their hard work in preparing the girls. A huge well done and thank you to the 5th Class girls who were members of the […]

Third Class created a collaborative collage based on the Van Gogh painting.

On Sunday, February 4th, the girls in both 5th Classes made their way to the RDS to take part in the Peace Proms concert. There were 2000 other children from different schools singing and dancing on the night and our SBC girls did the school proud! Take a look at the video to see a […]

Junior Infants enjoyed a visit from the Teddy Bear Hospital. The student doctors from RCSI Paediatric Society taught us about healthcare and the role of healthcare professionals. We used a stethoscope to listen to our heart beat, we learned how to feel our pulse and we looked at lots of other instruments that doctors use to help people […]

In January, Ms. Meenagh’s Fourth Class went on a walking tour of Trinity College Dublin and had a tour of the Seamus Heaney exhibit “Listen Now Again.” He is an Irish poet and we studied his poem The Forge in class. We enjoyed listening to our guide and having a chance to write something inspirational on […]

Senior Infants have been exploring the number seven in maths. We built “Houses of Seven”. Everything put into the house had to link to the number seven. The girls used lollipop sticks, links, pom poms, counters, straws, bears and more to create beautiful Houses of Seven. Some girls even used dice to make the number […]

The girls in 5th Class enjoyed some festive baking during the week leading up to the Christmas holidays. You can see some of the steps involved in making their gingerbread cookies, as well as the finished product! If you would like to try this easy recipe at home with your daughter, you can check it out […]

Well done to everyone who entered the Snowman competition. As you can see, the standard was fantastic. It is a real demonstration of the levels of creativity that exist in Scoil Bhríde Cailíní. Maith sibh agus Nollaig shona daoibh go léir.

Ms. Dudgeon’s 6th class were learning all about World War I. They were very creative and made some amazing animations based on the war. You can see some of them he Animation 1 Animation 2

SBC was delighted to be chosen to take part in this project run by Draíocht. Choirmaster Dave McGauran and singer Susan Mc Fadden have been singing with the girls in 2nd,3rd and 4th classes for the past few weeks. The girls performed in Draíocht on 30th of November. It was fabulous! Maith sibh! You can […]

News 2Day filmed Ms Golden’s 3rd Class for their STEPS Engineering projects. 3rd Class were fantastic and did the school proud. You can watch here: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/news2day/SI0000001210?epguid=IH10000965-23-0167 Well done to Ms. Golden, Houley and all of 3rd class!    

On Monday the 13th of November, Scoil Bhríde Cailíni held an open evening for prospective parents of junior infants. It was a wonderful evening with the school looking a million dollars. Everybody who came was blown away by the lovely atmosphere in the school and by the wonderful artwork decorating the corridors and classrooms. Our visitors […]

International Sign Language Day takes place this year on Saturday, September 23rd. As this is a Saturday, the girls in Scoil Bhríde Cailíní have been learning all about Lámh, the Irish Sign Language. It has been wonderful to see girls around the school saying ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ using Lámh signs. Here you can see the […]

Ms. Dudgeon’s 4th class were very creative this week and made their own birdfeeders using old milk cartons.

Congratulations and well done to the girls in Ms. Dudgeon’s 4th Class who received a ‘Highly Commended’ award in the STEPS Engineer Awards. They are pictures with their award, medals and their prize, ‘Spark’ the robot! Well done girls!