Day 11 of the 12 Musical Days of Christmas is a group from the 3rd year Music Short course performing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”.
There will be a ten-minute ceremony 'Blessing of the Family Crib' on Christmas Eve at 7.30 pm.
Go to skibbereenandrath.ie and click on webcam.
We begin with placing the Baby Jesus in the Crib followed by the prayer of Blessing of the Crib.
We look forward to you being able to join us.
Fr. Michael & Fr. Evin.
18th December, 2020.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Due to Department of Education guidelines, we are unable to have Parent/Teacher meetings in the school. Instead, a Progress Report has been compiled for your son/daughter which you may access through VS Ware.
The dates for the issue of these Progress Reports are as follows:
1 st year March 2021
2 nd Year February 2021
3 rd Year December 2020
4 th Year March 2021
5 th Year January 2021
6 th Year December 2020
How to access your Progress Report:
Prior to the release of the Progress Report for your son/daughter you will be issued with a username by text message, whereby you will be able to access the reports.
Please click on the link in your text and you will get access to VS Ware You will then be able to set up your own password
Please click on your son(s) / daughter(s) name.
Under Assignments, please click on “Learn More” and you will gain access to the Progress Reports here.
If you have any issues please email the school info@skibbereencommunityschool.ie or telephone 028/51172
Yours sincerely,
Anton O’Mahony – Principal.
An early Christmas gift from the Science Department!
We would like the School Community to be aware that Monday night after sunset the great conjunction of the celestial world will occur in our night skies. Jupiter and Saturn, two of the slowest planets to orbit the sun are to align tonight. Jupiter takes 12 years to orbit, as Saturn takes 29.5 years to orbit making their visible alignment very rear. The pictures give you the idea where to look out and enjoy this spectacle if the skies are clear.
The School Community would like to wish the Cork Senior Ladies Football Team the very best of luck against Dublin this weekend in the All-Ireland Final. Pictured below are our students who play for Cork across the years. Up the Rebels!
Day 10 of the 12 Musical Days of Christmas is a beautiful version of the Fleet Foxes “Winter White Hymnal” performed by five talented 4th year students.
Day 9 of the 12 Musical Days of Christmas is the 2nd Year Music class performing Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida”.
The gift of giving with 2nd Years
Christmas 2020 isn’t going to be the same as other years but that doesn’t mean we can’t show those who mean the most to us we care, even if it is at a distance.
2nd Year Home Economics students created “edible gifts” to share with loved ones that they may not be able to visit this Christmas.
What a lovely idea…. Well done 2nd years!
Attached is a performance of a 1945 radio adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'.
Performed by Mr Doherty's 3rd year drama class.
Edited by Mr Doherty.
That’s a wrap on Food & Hospitality Artisan Food Production for 2020!
4th year Food & Hospitality students would like to thank all their customers for their support over the past few weeks.
They have been very busy in full production fulfilling orders received via their company Instagram pages and via their stall, “The Pantry” at reception, so much so that many items are now completely sold out.
They were delighted to be able to create two bespoke hampers to gift to Skibbereen Community Hospital and Skibbereen Residential Care Centre.
Well done to all involved on some super products created under challenging circumstances.
Wishing all our customers a very Happy & Safe Christmas.
Day 8 of the 12 Days of Christmas is “Fairytale of New York,” an instrumental performed by Caitriona Keohane, Amy Harte, Margaret Murphy, Aoibhinn O’Connell, Anna Collins, Lisa O’Mahony, Maeve Kingston and Aidan O’Dwyer.
We hope you enjoy!
Many thanks to the staff and students of our local National Schools who took part in our recent Zoom Call visits. Our First Year Students were fanatstic ambassadors in promoting our school to their former school mates from last year.
The Green Schools Committee and their teacher Ms. Una Mc Nulty are currently running a Water Conservation Campaign in the school to encourage everyone to be mindful of wasting water. They are asking everyone not to let the tap run when brushing your teeth as it wastes 6 litres of processed/cleaned water each time. They recently ran an environmental poster competition among First Years and some of the winners are pictured below.
Day 7 of the 12 Musical Days of Christmas is “All I want for Christmas is You” sung by one of our 4th year students.
Enjoy!
Pictured are some of our TY students with their teacher, Ms. Deirdre Hennigan hosting an online bingo game for the residents of Skibbereen Residential Care Centre on the Baltimore Road. In normal circumstance the students doing this Community Care Module would be able to perform music, chat and entertain the reisdents in person. Many thanks to the Staff of the centre for their support with this initiative.
Day 6 of the 12 Musical Days of Christmas is “Jingle Bells” performed by a large group of students from 1st year to 6th Year. Enjoy!
Keeping schools open since September has been an amazing achievement. Today an NAPD initiative saw President Higgins, the Taoiseach and other leaders and celebrities say a big thank you to all school communities for their efforts.
Pictured below are some of our students in the LRC who designed individual posters to mark the occasion.
Here is one of our 6th year students with her beautiful version of the Picture This song “This Christmas”.
We hope you enjoy!
Here is an instrumental version of “Carol of the Bells” played by the students of 3rd year Music Short Course.
Here are the 5th Year Music Class performing their version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”.
We hope you enjoy!