St. Conleth's Parish Newbridge - Newbridge Parish
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<strong>St</strong>. Conleth’s Infant School<br />
- 60 th Birthday Concerts<br />
On the evenings of April 29th & 30th<br />
and May 1st, <strong>St</strong>. Conleth’s Infant<br />
School celebrated its forthcoming 60th<br />
Birthday with a series of Celebration<br />
Concerts where pupils from the school<br />
performed for parents and friends. Guest<br />
artists also performed and these included<br />
parents, past pupils, friends of the school<br />
and staff members.<br />
The pupils performed pieces ranging<br />
from Eddie the Penguin saves the World<br />
to the Alternative 3 Little Pigs and<br />
much much more. Guest performers<br />
included Inna Yeremchuk (parent) on<br />
violin, Elliot and Peter Nolan, Eimear<br />
and Aoishe Dempsey, Paddy Sullivan,<br />
Tammy Browne, Ciara Taheny, Declan<br />
Conlon - all past pupils and appearances<br />
by Sean Nós dancer Liam Scanlon,<br />
Laura Nee and performances by teachers<br />
Fiona O Driscoll, Emma Fahey, Elaine<br />
Kavanagh, Siobhan Deasey, Carol<br />
O Sullivan and James Tooher. The<br />
Local Authorities Choir performed on<br />
Wednesday and a special thanks to all<br />
Members of staff and parents<br />
association in <strong>St</strong> <strong>Conleth's</strong> Infant School.<br />
who gave their time for this great event.<br />
This was a great success thanks to the<br />
support of the <strong>St</strong>aff, Parents’ Association,<br />
Parents, Board of Management all in the<br />
school community and of course the<br />
children of <strong>St</strong>. Conleth’s Infant School.<br />
A brief history of the school<br />
The Holy Family Sisters, a French Order,<br />
set up this school. The first sod was<br />
turned in June 1952 and the new Infant<br />
Primary school, which cost £65,000,<br />
opened its doors on October 4th 1953.<br />
The pupil intake at that time was 520<br />
students and there were 12 classrooms<br />
constructed in the whole building. Sr.<br />
Rose Fennessy was the school’s first<br />
Principal. At that time, <strong>St</strong>. Conleth’s<br />
Infant and <strong>St</strong>. Conleth’s and Mary’s was<br />
one school. Prior to the opening of this<br />
school, students attended the Patrician<br />
Brothers School across the road.<br />
Sr. Colette Keegan was the last Holy<br />
Family Principal and in 2000, the<br />
(see photos on back page)<br />
running of the school was transferred<br />
to lay people when Mrs Ann Dempsey<br />
was appointed as Principal. The school<br />
now has an intake of 446 pupils with 16<br />
classroom teachers, 5 Learning Support<br />
Resource teachers, 2 EAL teachers and<br />
one Special Class teacher in our ASD<br />
pre-school which opened in 2010. We<br />
have currently a staff of 5 Special Needs<br />
Assistants and a 6th part-time SNA and<br />
of course Mary, our secretary, Bernard<br />
our caretaker, and Teresa and Rosaleen<br />
our cleaning staff. Our pupils come<br />
from many countries around the world<br />
including Ireland, Britain, Poland,<br />
Latvia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and<br />
Romania.<br />
Many famous people have passed<br />
through the school - RTE’s Brenda<br />
Donoghue; singers and musicians Luka<br />
Bloom, Tammy Browne and Eoin<br />
Lynch; footballers Dermot Earley Junior<br />
and Padraic Brennan to name but a few.<br />
Margaret Harnett.<br />
School Principal.<br />
Did you ever ask yourself these questions?<br />
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little <strong>St</strong>ar<br />
have the same tune?<br />
Why did you just try singing the two songs above?<br />
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's<br />
face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a<br />
car ride, he sticks his head out the window?<br />
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know<br />
the batteries are dying?<br />
Why does someone believe you when you say there are<br />
four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is<br />
wet?<br />
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?<br />
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on<br />
your first try?<br />
<strong>St</strong>ageAcademy<br />
<strong>Newbridge</strong><br />
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087 2020348 & 087 7930906<br />
Dance & Drama Classes<br />
Aged 4 upwards<br />
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11<br />
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