Check out the website for Random Acts of Kindness this week! click here: RaK

Note: LC and JC Partent Teacher Meetings are on Wednesday November 16th at 4:15pm finishing at 6.30pm. Looking forward to meeting you. 

Congrats to our First Years who represented us so well coming second place in the Clare Schools First year Soccer Blitz.

Congratulations to Christopher and Joseph for completing the John Paul II Awards. Great achievement! 

Special word of thanks to their teacher Ms. Healy for all her support and encouragement.

Find out more about these awards on:  Pope John Paul Awards info

Memories of CBS  Incoming First Year Evening

Congrats to all involved and thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

My experience in Ireland

When I came here l was scared about what would happen. Starting a new year in the high school is not always easy but if you are in a foreign country more.

But since the first day l knew I would like it. Everybody was so nice with me, teachers and pupils, the classes were very good: very funny, entertaining and educational.

You have a lot of different kinds of classes: classes where you are sitting listening to the teachers and making homework in your notebook. And also, classes when you are moving, playing, not working just in a notebook but you are doing things with the knowledge that you have learned.

I like the facilities too. My favourite was the opened playground made with field surrounded by trees. In Vigo, where we live, it’s all buildings and noise; but here you are surrounded by little houses and trees everywhere. Your air is more pure and the sound is silent. It’s like in a fairy-tale village.

Thank you everybody for make this experience one that I’ll never forget.

Yours

Martin Vicente Fabregas 

Ireland v Rest of the World Soccer

Our Spanish students (with the help of more of our international students) played a selection of our Irish students in an Ireland v Rest of the World soccer game. The game was keenly contested with conditions being quite different to what our Spanish counterparts were used to. The game was even throughout with the CBS students taking an early 1.0 lead. However the international students struck back quickly to tie the game at 1.1. The greater experience of the difficult conditions stood to the CBS students as the game progressed and they scored 2 goals to seal a 3.1 victory. It was a great game throughout with Robbie Crowe providing excellent guidance to our Spanish students. Well done to all.

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Ms Rynne explaining hurling to Nicolas from Vigo northern Spain.

1^st Years CBS Football Blitz

We went to Miltown to play in the 1^st year football Blitz against other teams.The team were Ennistimon Vocational School, Mary Immaculate Lisdoonvarna, St Josephs Spanish Point and finally the best of the lot the Christian Brothers Secondary School Ennistimon. We split into three teams and played the schools. The most competitive one was when we played Lisdoonvarna. We won by a point. The keeper at the end of our side pulling of a great save and packed up by some great defending. It was a great match but not so much as the referee gave them a red card because he had forgotten his yellow card. We had a great time and so did the other schools. As we are looking forward to another succesful games throught out the year through 1^st year to 6^th year.

Tim Dyga

U16 Basketball

The U16 basketball team travelled to Galway to play Castlerea Community Scoil and Carraroe. In the first game against castlerea, the boys found the going difficult against their much more experienced opponents. Despite a great effort from Cillian Devitt with 10 points, their opponents were too strong and ended up winners on a final score of 32 19.

In the second game of the tournament, a much improved performance from the CBS boys almost got them their first victory. After a slow start, we found ourselves trailing 15-2 at half time. However, the second half was when this group of players finally started to play some exciting basketball and with scores from Ciarán McMahon and Ryan Barry, the CBS made a great comeback in the second half. With 2 minutes to go the game was in the balance but Carraroe finished stronger and won on a final scoreline of 30-28. This was a much improved performance from these lads and sets them up for the rest of the league where they will hopefully pick up a few wins.

U19 Basketball

CBS Ennistymon bowed out of the the u-19 schools cup today against a very talented Colaiste na Piarsaigh from Cork. The North Clare school  recorded two wins in the Western Regional league recently,but could not prevent Irish u-18 International Cian Heaphy from scoring 36 points in the Glanmire Community Hall. In the first quater both teams gave a great display of outside shooting with Heaphy showing his class from the perimeter. The Ennistymon side responded with great accuracy from Calium Burke and James Leigh also hitting 3’s. It was basket for basket right up to half time and only one point separated the teams. In the second half the Ennistymonn boys were starting to get into serious foul trouble sending Cian Heaphy to the free throw line on seven occasions. Some great skill from Giovanni Tognon scoring 15 points and excellent rebounding from Conor Dillon and Brendan Monaghan kept Ennistymon very much in the game. Early in the last quarter four of their players Leigh, Monaghan,Togon and Ross Clair fouled out and the Cork side went on to win the game by 9 points.

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Enrolment forms are available from the school and should be returned, where possible before

Friday 11th November 2016

You will receive a letter confirming your child’s place in the school before

Wednesday 18th December 2016

To secure your child’s place and allow for planning, fees should be paid on the day of the Entrance Exam

Saturday  March 11th 2017

October 6th -9th 2016

Schloss Schönnbrunn in Wien / Vienna

Ms Campbell's  Leaving Certificate German class had the opportunity to go on a School Tour to Vienna in Austria.

The group had a very full and hectic schedule including attending school in our Partner school the Wiedner Gymnasium, doing an organised tour of the UN, a Tour of the famous Ringstrasse with Gerda, a vienese history teacher, visitng Schloss Belvedere to see Klimt and  Schiele paintings as well as exploring the the Naschmarkt ,Kärntnerstrasse, St Stephens Cathedral and Mariahilferstrasse. The class also ate Wienerschnitzel in the Zwölfapostellkeller and Apfelstrüdel in Schloss Schönnbrunn. To finish the weekend the whole group attended the Raimund Theater to see the highly acclaimed Schikaneader musical. Congratulations to our CBS boys who were commended on their excellent behaviour on both Aer Lingus flights and our Partner school. 

Ms E Campbell with Leaving Certs and Ms C Miniter at The Gloriette in Schloss Schönnbrunn.

September 2016

Ploughing Trip by Darragh Cuddihy

We started our day by meeting at the grotto at 7am. We met little traffic on the way so were there quicker than we had thought. Parking took a little time though but it was the first day. We were given our tickets and headed in the gates. We split up into groups and went to explore the huge site. There was a lot to see such as the sheepdog trials, stalls, livestock and of course the ploughing itself. There’s usually lots of freebies but not so much this year. We met back around 3.30pm at the bus and stopped for food on the way home. All in all I’d give the day and experience 8 out of 10. I’d deduct 2 points owing to lack of freebies and we didn’t get into some of the machinery. The majority of points are for the livestock- there was plenty of variety and it was very interesting. 

September 26th 2016

Today we celebrated European Language Day in our school. We did a Quiz with the senior classes which informed them of the many styles of languages across the world and even the types of languages available to learn. In the younger classes we did a taster class of the different types for european foods available in ALdi to buy. For example salamis from Spain Italy and Germany as well as cheeses from Bavaria and the Netherlands. The lads all tried the famous Rye bread that is typical German and Croissants from France. Haribo Gummibears finished the tasting which left everyone very sweet!  :}