COLÁISTE BRÍDE NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER 2025 Dear Parents/Guardians, Can you believe it is mid-term and Halloween is upon us. A chance to take a breather, rest and get set for the next few weeks to Christmas. It has certainly been a busy start to the new academic year and by now we have already achieved so much together. So many students are working away engaged in learning activities, adapting to new curriculum, preparing for CBAs, coursework projects at Senior Cycle or as we will know them “Additional Assessment Components” – AACs. Students are continuing to develop skills of leadership, communication and accountability in a huge variety of ways, from involvement in extra-curricular activities to being mentors, prefects, class captains, learning leaders, library assistants, members of the student council, playing on school sporting teams or organising fundraising or awareness raising campaigns. In this way we live the school motto @To Teach – To Guide – To Form’ on a daily basis and make our mission statement become a reality where our students are encouraged to become active citizens with a role to play in the world. A huge Comhghairdeas to our students who have received Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate Applied results in recent weeks. It was lovely to see the smiling faces opening the envelopes. Congratulations also to you their parents/guardians who journeyed with them and play your supporting role. Coláiste Bríde was delighted to welcome our recent visitors from Poland, 50 students and their teachers, it also gave our new first year Irish dancers an opportunity to show their skills and display our Irish culture and heritage. It is wonderful to see all the activities that are happening at lunchtime or after school, the numbers of students who get involved and go One Step Beyond in building our school community. I wish to commend our students on their behaviour overall this term. With nearly 1,000 students, it is fantastic to observe that the majority of students show respect, kindness, behave appropriately, uphold the school rules and wear the correct uniform at all times. We set high expectations and expect our students to meet these. So well done everyone, a special shout out to all the students who have achieved Well Done Cards, Green Commendation Sheets and received no dockets. I always applaud a student who can say to me that she never got a docket in all her years in CB! It happens a lot – I am proud to say! This year we continue to place a strong emphasis on the importance of being on time for school and daily attendance. Nationally there is a campaign encouraging parents and students to be in school every day as the statistics for days of school missed is way above the numbers of days absent pre-Covid. So let us turn this around and get students to have less days absent and stop them from going home early as this is also how classes are missed.