Post on 21-Aug-2018
Bhur gcéad fáilte go dtí nuachtitir na Nollag 2015 Welcome to the Christmas edition of the school magazine. I hope you enjoy reading about our school and all the activities which take place here, both inside and outside the classroom during the past number of months. I would like to take this opportunity to thank staff and students for all their hard work during the course of the past year and to wish staff, students and parents/guardians a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. I would also like to thank the members of the Board of Management, the Parents’ Council and the Students’ Council for all their hard work during the year. On behalf of the school community, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to all in the school community who have been bereaved in the past year. Yours Sincerely, Mr. Joyce
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
College open Days 2
BT Young
Scientist
2
Olympian Pentath-
lete visits TY’s
2
Positive Mental
Health
3
U-18 GAA 3
Volunteering at Rath
Abbey
3
TY Mini companies 4
School art sculpture
Tony Buzan visits the
school
Top 10 Songs
Must see Movie
4
4
4
4
Fantastic performance on The Late Late Toy
Show by TY Student
The Bush Bulletin D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2 School contact
info:
Telephone:
042-9376246
Email:
bushpp@lmetb.ie
www.bpps.ie
.
The staff and students of Bush Post Primary would like to offer a huge congratu-
lations to singing duo Leah Kirwan and her adorable brother Noah who melted
the hearts of the nation with their beautiful rendition of Titanium on The Late
Late Toy Show. The Kirwan siblings went viral earlier this year when TY student
Leah posted a video to Facebook of the pair singing Noah's favourite song which
attracted over a million hits. We are all so proud of Leah and Noah and we wish
them every success with their new found stardom.
Leah Kirwan and her
brother Noah with
Ryan Tubridy after
their performance on
the Late Late Toy
Show
Welcome Note
P A G E 2
Natalya Coyle visits TY Students of Bush Post primary
BT Young Scientist 2016 We look forward to 4 groups of TY Stu-
dents representing Bush Post Primary
School in The National BT Young Scientist
Competition and we wish them the best of
look going through to the RDS in January.
Factors that influence people’s opinions
on refugees. –Clara Lynch, Tara Duffy and
Ciara Gregory
This project is to see the public’s opinion
on refugees coming into Ireland. In this
project they hope to find out which factors
influence the public’s opinion the most on
refugees. They suspect that race, religion,
wealth of their county, political opinion
and nationality will be big factors in their
findings.
Muck Yeah-Conor McEneaney, Sami
Miled, Jason Clarke
This project is a rubber scraper that scraps away cow manure in cattle sheds. The aim is to make the life of the farmer easier and a
more hygienic farm. Hand Break Alarm-Mark Quinn, Paudi
Ryan and Aaron Reihill
The aim of this project is to alarm you
when your hand break isn’t engaged. The
students aim to make this during school
time.
The impact of same sex marriage on the
economy on both sides of the border in
Ireland.– Ryan Duffy and Evan Cronin
The aim of this project is to show, in
depth, what impact same sex marriage
may have on the economy on North and
South of the border in Ireland.
Natalya Coyle, Olympic mod-ern pentathlete visited the TY class on Wednesday 9th of December. The class were taught the 'six keys of success' and completed a series of tasks and activities relevant to the six keys.
The six keys are:
1.Mental toughness
2. Hunger to achieve
3. People skills
4. Sports & life knowledge
5. Breaking barriers
6. Planning for success
T H E B U S H B U L L E T I N
Upcoming College open days
Pentathlete Natalya Coyle with
the TY students
RCSI Open Day 2016 05/01/2016
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
UCC School of Phar-macy Open Day
08/01/2016
University College Cork
Open Day 13/01/2016
Blackrock Further Educa-tion Institute - BFEI
General Open Day 13/01/2016
Dublin Busi-ness School
Open Day 15/01/2016
Liberties Col-lege
BIMM Dublin Open Day
16/01/2016
BIMM Insti-tute Dublin
Drop in Day - Open Day (Sat)
16/01/2016
Maynooth University - Kilkenny Cam-pus
January Open Day (Sat) 16/01/2016
University of Limerick
Open Day 19/01/2016
Crumlin Col-lege of Further Education
Open Day 20/01/2016
Griffith Col-lege Dublin
Open / Careers Day 22/01/2016
Bray Institute of Further Edu-cation
Open Day 22/01/2016
Galway-Mayo IT - Letterfrack
Open Day - CAO Op-tions Info Morning - Incl Matures (Sat)
23/01/2016
Galway-Mayo IT - Galway
January Open Day (Sat) 23/01/2016
Mary Immacu-late College
Open Day (Saturday) 23/01/2016
National Col-lege of Ireland
Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy Open Day (Undergraduate)
23/01/2016
University College Dublin
UCD Architecture Open Day
23/01/2016
University College Dublin
Open Day & Evening 26/01/2016
Greenhills College
Open Day 02/02/2016 Inchicore CFE
Open Day 09/02/2016
St. John's Cen-tral College
Open Day 02/03/2016
Griffith Col-lege Dublin
Sports:
Last year, the boys U-16 gaelic team won both the North
Leinster and East Leinster Schools Titles. They also won the
Louth U-16 competition, the “Flood Cup”
This year the under18s boys reached the Lennon cup final but
unfortunately lost by four points.
The girls U-16 basketball team came third in the league this
year.
The girls under 16 girls gaelic football team are through to the
Lenister quarter final.
V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 2
This story can fit 150-200 words.
One benefit of using your newslet-
ter as a promotional tool is that
you can reuse content from other
marketing materials, such as press
releases, market studies, and re-
ports.
While your main goal of distrib-
uting a newsletter might be to sell
your product or service, the key
to a successful newsletter is mak-
ing it useful to your readers.
A great way to add useful content
to your newsletter is to develop
and write your own articles, or
What can I do to help maintain posi-
tive mental health?
1. Eat well, be well. The right food and
drinks can help keep your mind hy-
drated, active and energetic
2. Get a good night’s sleep. Most peo-
ple need at least 7 hours of quality
sleep to function properly.
3. Exercise for at least 30 minutes a
day.
4. Talk it out. Chatting about things
that bother you can help reduce the
problem.
5. Stay in touch with friends. Maintain-
ing relationships is a great way to keep
a positive mental health.
6. Take time out. It’s important to re-
member to take time out for yourself
sometimes and do things that you en-
joy.
This story can fit 100-150 words.
The subject matter that appears in
newsletters is virtually endless.
You can include stories that focus
on current technologies or inno-
vations in your field.
You may also want to note busi-
ness or economic trends, or make
predictions for your customers or
clients.
If the newsletter is distributed
Positive Mental Health “Dry your tears, Tell
your Peers”
Bullying is ‘repeated aggres-
sion towards an individual
that can leave them mentally
scarred for life.’ It does not
come in only one form, it can
be physical, mental, cyber,
verbal and social. Cyber-
bullying is on the rise with
the increase in popularity of
social media and students are
more exposed to the threat
of being targeted online.
There are many options and
supports if you are being bul-
lied or if you know someone
who may experience bullying.
If bullied, tell your par-
ents.
Tell a trusted teacher,
counsellor, prefect, or
have your parents talk to
the school.
If it's happening online,
don't reply but print out
a copy of the posting or
message. Do not re-
spond.
If you see someone being
bullied, approach them
to see if they are okay
and see if you can talk to
them and help them in
any way.
Supports: Text the word
‘Bully’ to 50101 (10am-
10pm)
Call Childlline1800 66 66 66
(24 hours) or The Samaritans
free phone on 116123
www.childline.ie
U-18 Boys GAA
The U18 boys GAA team did really well this
year reaching the Lennon Cup final. This
was the first time in decades that the
school reached the final of the premier
competition in Louth Schools GAA. Unfor-
tunately on the night our performance
wasn’t good enough. St Josephs, Drogheda
proved too strong for our boys and ran out
four point winners.
However a consolation was that, five of our
students achieved the much sought-after
accolade – A Lennon Cup All Star. This
function was held in DKIT. Through the
combined process of a judging panel and
online voting system via The Argus & Drog-
heda Independent five of our students
were selected for the All-Star Award.
The Students are:
1. Conor
Kenny
2. Eoin
Mc Daid
3. Cathal
Grogan
4. Michael Carron
5. Emmet Hughes
Also nominated on the night were Paddy
Hanlon and Rory Duffy.
Congratulations to the team on getting so
far in the competition and well done to all
the students who were nominated for indi-
vidual All Stars. .
Volunteering at Rath Abbey This is an organisation that is associated with elderly people that have Alzheimer’s. The T.Y. students go to Rath Abbey every Monday and Thursday from twelve to half three and take care of the elderly people in the Birches community. This was a task given to us by Ms. Lynch, one of our T.Y. teachers. She believed that this task would test us with our social skills. Personally I find this experience very reward-ing. I listen to their stories, I get to learn about their lives, their experiences which are very different to mine today. One of the best things about this task is just by listening, I get to make someone’s life a little brighter. The more times we visit, the bond becomes stronger with everyone at the Birches commu-nity. I find that this task teaches the T.Y. Stu-dents more than they think. Recently the T.Y. Students had a Cinema Day down at the Birches Community. The film been shown was White Christmas, and also the TY girls brought treats from their mini company 'Milseán Milis', gave out free pop-corn and sweets to the residents and T.Y. Students present. That's only one of many great events we plan to do for the Birches Community. -Darragh Woods
Must see movie! Mockingjay Pt. II picks up straight after
the first one with a wounded Katniss
reeling from a very personal attack by
Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), and
struggling to get to grips with her new
surroundings. The war between the Dis-
tricts and the Capitol is now reaching its
finale, with President Coin (Julieanne
Moore) and her army surrounding Presi-
dent Snow (Donald Sutherland) for the
final showdown. All while this is happen-
ing, Katniss is trying to figure out what
Coin's plan is for after the war and
whether or not she can be trusted. Kat-
niss has plans of her own that involve
assassinating President Snow by herself.
Watch as Katniss fights for her and her
people’s freedom one last time and go
see Mockingjay part 2 in cinemas now!
Tony Buzan visits Bush Post Primary School
Tony Buzan, the world’s leading author on the brain and learning and the inventor of Mind Maps gave a truly inspirational seminar to 3rd and 6th year students in Bush Post Primary School on Friday 25th September. He demonstrated the basics of Mind Mapping which is proven to push the memory to an entirely new level and encourage better thinking, improved concentration and enhanced recall. The students used col-our to design their own Mind Maps and Tony’s relaxed and professional approach engaged them throughout. Mind Mapping can release the potential of every student regardless of their academic ability, revolutionise study skills and maximise success in exams whatever the subject or academic level. Tony advised students about taking effective, usable and reliable notes in class and while studying at home and he also spoke about intelligence, exam stress and how students can cope with pressure. Many of the teachers attended part of the work-shop and they participated alongside their students. Tony enhanced creativity and command of brain power during his workshop and after his visit he commented that the flowers of intelligence are growing fast and tall in Bush Post Primary School.
Tony
Buzan with
6th year
students
Exam Prep Top 10 Songs to Download
James Bay - Collide
Troye Sivan - Talk me down
Coleman Hell - 2 Heads
Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive
Pure Grinding - Avicii
In your arms - Nico and Vins
Open Season - Joseff Salvat
Love yourself - Justin Bieber
School Art Sculpture
Right now the art department in the Bush are working on an art project with the artist Sean O’Dwyer.
The Media.
The Source is a mixed media work including a cast reconstituted stone figurative piece, from a handmade mould off a clay model. The work rests upon a natural stone pillar made from stone sourced nearby. The piece will be surrounded in the immedi-ate locale by found natural objects sourced by art teachers and staff through further involvement with pupils. The “Stressless Space” may also provide other opportunities for ideas to increase the appeal of the space in the future and initiate a promotion of the space for other objects that compliments the concept.
It is proposed to plaster a small area of the wall behind the installation piece and have hanging on it a small outdoor painting on a concrete panel inspired by the beau-tiful scenery of the locale as part of the overall concept. This piece is entitled “The Aether in The Blue: Mountain of Light Carlingford”.
The idea.
With the stunning setting of Bush Post Primary school and its students and staff fore-most in mind, this is a specially produced piece about the making of substance and what that might be for each of us. It’s a work about ideas and where ideas come from, it’s a piece about the source of inspiration designed to inspire the students and staff of the school as they go about their daily routine.
The Symbolism.
“The Source” contains references featuring A Woman from whose hand flows life to
the objects of form and substance. The painting “The Aether in The Blue: Mountain
of light Carlingford” is of the same scene and celebrates the schools relationship to
the local scenery as a source of diversion for the busy mind.
TY Mini Companies
B.P.D. (Bush Plate Design) – We make
customised plates to suit your request. We
design Christmas plates, birthday plates,
football plates etc. Each plate is just €5.
Custom Candles – We sell small multi col-
oured and multi scented candles.
So Sweet – It’s about providing a healthy
breakfast bar that is high in carbs and pro-
tein with no added sugar and most of all it
tastes good.
Milseán Milis – We are a candy-cart rental
service for events such as weddings and
birthdays etc. and also sell a range of
sweets.
Bia Blasta – We are creating a cook book
with a simple and healthy twist. It is full of
simple and everyday recipes that are easy
to prepare and cook.
La Mode – We are a tie-dye clothing com-
pany who sell tie-dye t-shirts, bandanas
and jumpers personally customised for
your buying. €3.50 for bandanas and €8.50
for t-shirts.