Holy Family BNS are delighted to be nominated for the Green School Award Shortlist 2010. This is a national award and it is just recognition for all the hard work that has gone into making Holy Family BNS a green school over the last fifteen years. The award winners will be announced at a function in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin on the 11th of March. Also, close on 3ooo euro were raises at masses last Sunday in Askea for the Haiti Earthquake Fund. This was an incredible response and shows the fantastic generosity of the people of Askea. . Míle Buíochas!

Welcome back everyone after a very long Christmas break! Carlow was the coldest county in Ireland last week! Everyone is now back at work and the time is just flying. Here are some of our latest news items.  1:Doodle for Google. Well done to 6th class student Diarmuid Farrell who was the only successful primary student from Carlow who made it through the first round of the Doodle for Google competition in Ireland. 2: St. Brigid Crosses. The boys from 6th class will be busy making St. Brigid crosses for the 1st of February. All proceeds will be donated to the Haiti Emergency Fund. 3: Holy Family BNS’s Parent’s council will be holding a table quiz in Éire Óg on Friday 5th Feb. Everyone welcome for what will be a very enjoyable night. 4: Holy Family BNS will also be holding a no uniform day as a fund-raiser for the Haiti Emergency Fund. 5: Soccer and Hurling leagues will  commence next week for the senior pupils.

Photo shows sixth class pupils making St. Brigid Crosses.

Christmas is rapidly approaching and we are all looking forward to the holidays. The last few weeks have been very busy. We have taken part in an FAI inter school indoor soccer tournament. We visited Carlow IT as part of National Science Week. This weekend 6-12-09 the school choir performed at Carlow’s fantastic George Bernard Shaw Theatre. The lads were just brilliant. We helped out with bag packing for the Carlow Servicemen’s association. Swimming is going great. Johnny Nevin, Carlow footballer, is training the lads every friday. Hurling training under Mr. Hanigan’s and Mr. Cole’s excellent coaching has commenced. Math’s trails went very well for the senior classes and will continue for middle classes in the new year. Third class have finished their indoor soccer league and fourth class will start in the new year. We were also delighted to have won Carlow’ Pride of Place for Carlow town’s tidiest school. The school has also been awarded a large ICT grant to update the schools computer structure. See Blogroll to view some of the excellent resources we will be utilising. We are all looking forward to the school’s Christmas concert on Dec 16th. For art the boys are participating in the Doodle for Google Art competition and the Carlow Co. Council’s Recycling art decoration competition.

Photo shows Walter Lacey presenting Ms Tully and pupils representatives from Holy Family BNS’s Green School’s Committee with a cheque of 500 Euros for winning the Tidiest School In Carlow’s Pride of Place Award

Happy Christmas everyone!

Cycle on Wednesday is a brilliant idea that promotes the idea of children using their bikes to get to school. The lads also had great fun making their COW masks.

We had a brilliant Halloween party where all the children dressed up as their favourite monsters. The children also spent a lot of time playing traditional board and card games which were just brilliant.  Have a look at our Halloween and Board Games pages for photos of all the fun we had!

Holy Family had a very busy math week. Click on above link to view all the activities we will be running over the next few weeks which arose directly from National Math week. we would especially like to the Math Magician Andrew Jeffrey who wowed all the children with his excellent math show!

Walk on Wednesday! As part of our Green School Project we are training the boys in fifth class how to cycle correctly. It is great fun.

We would like to welcome everyone back even if it is a very wet Monday. We would also like to wish Mrs Stich and Mrs Daly all the best on their well deserved retirement.

 Photo shows Holy Family BNS  board of management wishing Mrs Daly and Mrs Stich all the best.

We had brilliant weather and some great sports station days. Have a great summer and we will see you all in September!

We were delighted to be awarded a Science School of Excellence for all the work done in the area of science within the school.. Have a look at our photos from science day which the children loved.