World Book Day - Dress Up & Book Fair by Scoil Naomh Barra PA

Come visit the book fair and raise funds for books for our school.

Open to Parents: Thursday 7th from 2 to 4 pm

Open to Pupils: Wednesday, 6th March during school hours.

Get a sneak preview of the highlights at the Book Fair by browsing the age-ranged bookcases on this page.

Payment for books can be made in cash.  If you don’t want to give cash to your child you can purchase a Book Fair Gift Voucher online, print it and give it to your child to exhchange for their books.

World Book Day tokens will also be accepted towards purchases.

On World Book Day, Thursday 7th, the children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character or in their pyjamas to celebrate.  

Remember, the school will earn rewards for every purchase made.  Thanks for your support.

 

To raise some much needed funds for the development of a new AstroTurf pitch at our school we are running a Big Money Draw. We hope that everyone will support this fundraiser.  The pitch will be a huge asset to our school – it will provide an all weather terrain for lots of sporting activitites for all of the children. See this page for more details and how to enter.

Christmas Raffle

We had our Christmas Draw on Wednesday, 20th during the Christmas Performance.  We need to say a huge thank you to all of our sponsors who generously donated prizes with an overall value of €3000. 

The lucky winners are listed opposite and the full list of sponsors is on the graphic below.

Thanks to the following businesses who sponsored prizes in our raffle:


Christmas Raffle Winners 2023 by Scoil Naomh Barra PA

Cash 4 Clothes November 6th

Cash4Clothes Collection

Thanks to everyone who donated their unwanted items to this collection, which raised €460 for the school.

We will be running another collection in May of 2024 so keep the date in mind for future items you might want to dispose of.

The AGM of the Scoil Naomh Barra Parent Association took place in the school on

Wednesday, 11th of October at 8pm.

Thanks to those of you who attended and to Mr Minnock for attending, and delivering the Principal’s Address to update the meeting on progress in the school. 

The meeting was followed by the election of 2 parent representatives to the Board of Management. Congratulations to Emma Caffrey and John Finney who were elected to the board.  And thank you to Ciara McQuaid who stepped down from her position after serving a 4-year term.

Quiz Night Flyer by Scoil Naomh Barra PA

 Quiz Night Fundraiser

We decided it was time the adults got a chance to have some fun for a change. And that we did!

We had a great night at our table quiz with lots of laughs, a drink or too and we even answered some quiz questions!

Thanks to everyone who took part. We appreciate the participation and look forward to making this a regular event in our fundraising calendar.

A special word of thanks is due to The Kilberry who looked after us so well and even provided food for the occasion.

Thanks also to Andy O’Reilly who was our quiz master on the night. And thank you to those parents who sponsored a quiz round.

We managed to raise €1405.

 

Thanks to everyone who supported our recent Bake Sale in Wilkinstown Community Centre where we raised a total of €1009.45.

Thanks to the bakers and everyone who donated treats for the sale. Thanks to the loom band makers who sold bracelets and raised €122.10 for their efforts.  Thanks to the children and parents who helped with sales and to the teachers and SNAs who brought all the children up to the sale during school time. And thanks to the parents who bought treats or sent in money with their children. We really appreciate the help and support.

Book Fair

Thank you to everyone who bought books at our recent Celtic Travelling Book Fair at the beginning of March. Because of your generous support we have raised €1698.83 for our school to spend on books for your children.