There was great excitement on Tuesday 8th October when an ice-cream van pulled up at the school gate! This was a reward for really great attendance by the children for the month of September and used up the last of the once off grant provided by the Department last year to improve attendance nationwide. Have a look at our happy children waiting for their ice-creams! 

On Friday 27th September we celebrated Relays Take Over Day.  All the children in the school took part in relay races at the same time. We had a great afternoon. Take a look at some of our photos of the event. 

We had a great day on Thursday 26th September when we had a visit from John Doran. John is a woodturner and there was great excitement as he brought in box upon box of wooden toys and items made from wood. Each classroom had a slot where they were able to play with the toys and look at all the items that can be made from wood. John then did a demonstration where he showed the children how he could turn the wood and make keyrings, spinning tops and even little people. Take a look at some of the photos from the day! The children are already looking forward to his next visit!

Our children from Third Class up to Sixth Class headed to Avondale on Tuesday 24th September to take part in Athletics relays along with loads of other schools in Wicklow. They all did a fantastic job and we are so proud of them. A special mention to one of our teams who managed to get medals on the day. Congratulations to Adam, Casey, Donnacha and Patrick. Well done everyone!

We had our Graduation Mass and Ceremony with our Sixth Class Pupils and their families on Tuesday 25th June 2024. A big thanks to Fr Gahan for saying the mass for us. We are so sorry to see them go. They have played a huge part in the life of our school for the past eight years and it is always very difficult to say goodbye. We know that they are ready for the next step of their journey in life and we are incredibly proud of them. It has been a pleasure to teach them and to watch them grow into the fantastic young people they have become. We made some presentations to them on the day and they and their families presented the school with a beautiful bench for our school grounds along with a cherry tree. The pupils themselves planted this tree the following day, their very last day of school, in the school grounds. They also presented all the teachers and staff with the most beautiful bouquets of flowers. We are going to miss you Sixth Class. We wish you the very best!

Our parents joined us on Tuesday 22nd June to celebrate their children's sporting and attendance achievements. We had a great afternoon which was followed by our End of Year/Graduation Mass in Crossbridge Church. What a year it has been. We are all looking forward to our holidays. Take a look through all the pictures on our website to see some of the things we got up to this school year. A big thanks to all of our wonderful children, teachers and parents for another great year. 

We celebrated our sports day on Wednesday 19th June and we had a brilliant day. The sun even came out and everyone enjoyed the day. Take a look at some of the action from the day. 

We were so proud to see our boys donning the Wicklow jersey to play hurling in Eire Óg on Thursday 13th June. They joined 12 other boys from Wicklow to take part in the Cumann na mBunscol Lift and Strike competition. They showed great determination and enthusiasm on the day and took on teams from all over, including Kilkenny and Wexford. Big thanks to Celine for accompanying them on the day. Well done Ciarán, Luke, Adam and Donnacha! You did brilliantly!

The children said goodbye to Miss O' Connor today by singing her a song that Mrs Murphy Phelan had written especially for her and by presenting her with flowers and with a card from each classroom. We will miss her but we hope to see her back subbing in the future. She did a brilliant job covering Mrs Egan's job while she was on maternity leave. We are looking forward to welcoming Mrs Egan back with us on Monday morning. Thanks again Miss O' Connor!

There was great excitment in school today, Tuesday 16th April, when the children arrived to school and found horizontal climbing frames installed. They couldn't wait for break time and the frames were very busy! A big thanks to RTL ltd for their donation to the school. We are so thankful!

'Have a look at some of the things we got up to for 'Seachtain na Gaeilge' ending with our 'Lá Glas' on Friday 15th March just in time for St Patrick's Day! Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! 

Our children from Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Class took part in Athletics in Avondale today 12th March 2024. They had to run a distance of one mile and every one of them completed the full mile. We are just so proud of them. We also had two children who finished in the top ten and received a medal and one child who finished in the top three! Congratulations to Aoibheann, Ciarán and Patrick! Congratulations also to Emily, Maria, Khloe, Kiara, Fia, Luke, Adam, Casey, Adam, Evan, Ruairí, Beth, Jack and Daniel! 

There was huge excitement in the Junior Room playground last Friday, when James Keogh from Rathwood arrived with an outside kitchen, a sandbox and two basketball hoops along with the basketballs for our Junior Room court. James donated them to our school and we are very grateful for this wonderful gift!

We are so proud of one of our students, Owen, who came second overall in Ireland in the Summer Programme Art competition. Cathy Goss from the NCSE came to the school to present Owen with his certificate and fantastic prize and his Mam and Dad and one of his brothers were there to watch him receive his prize along with the rest of the school. His teacher on the summer programme, Ms Byrnes was also delighted to hear the news! Well done Owen! He was very popular when he got an extra break for everyone!

The happiness of Christmas holidays were tinged with a little sadness as it meant we had to say goodbye to Carlos who joined us in September from Madrid in Spain. Carlos quickly became part of our school family and it felt like he had been with us all the time. There were tears all round when we said goodbye to him. The children sang one of the songs from our show called 'There's no Place Like Home' (which Mrs Murphy Phelan had changed some of the words to fit in), for Carlos and they made cards for him. The school gave him a little presentation and a photo book to remind him of some of the things he took part in while he was with us. Adios Carlos, we will miss you!

We were so proud of all our children on Tuesday 19th December when they put on, not one but two performances of 'The Wizard of Oz'! Shillelagh N.S., who are part of our Small Schools Cluster came to a daytime performance of the show, along with Kilcommon N.S. Anne Kennelly, our small schools co-ordinator also attended the show and the feedback was brilliant. This gave the children great confidence going into their night time show for their parents and families. Our parents were super impressed with their children as were we! Huge thanks to all of our teachers for all of their great work with the children and for creating the costumes, props and backdrop. Special thanks to Mrs Murphy Phelan for directing the show. Huge thanks also to Nicky Murphy, one of our Dads, for providing all of the music accompaniment free of charge. We are so grateful to him. Thanks to Ciarán Fitzgerald who did a great job on sound and lighting and to Billy Winders for recording the performance. Big thanks also to our Parent's Social Club, Lorraine, Celine, Sarah, Aisling and Roisín, who manned the door on the night and also organised the raffle. Thanks to Noelle, Elaine and Ciara for doing the face paint on the night. Big thanks also to Damien Murphy for doing his usual wonderful job as MC. The final thanks must go to our whole parent body who sent in enough items to make about eight hampers for our raffle along with vouchers and then bought tickets and gave a donation coming into the hall so that we were able to raise a whopping €1712.99 for our school! We are so, so grateful!

Our children are really seeing the benefits of attending swimming lessons in Courtown pool every Friday. All of our children can attend from Junior Infants all the way to Sixth Class. It is amazing watching them progress through the years. 

Fifth & Sixth class are taking part in JEP! They worked in groups to come up with a business idea. They then had to pitch their ideas to a panel of Dragons - Ms. O'Connor, Ben Chambers & Rebecca Hadden. We had the Cinema Snacks, Sticker Wickers, CCL Coasters & Baker Birds Bake Sale. 

Crossbridge N.S. officially welcomed Christmas on the 4th December when two of our children, from Sixth Class and Junior Infants turned on our Christmas tree lights and we put our beautiful wooden Nativity Scene in place. We sang a couple of Christmas songs and are looking forward to our trip to the Gaeity now!

There was great excitement on Wednesday last, when Colin Travers arrived with his hawk and his owls to teach the children about these beautiful birds and allow them to hold an owl if they wanted to. They asked loads of questions and learned so much. We are all crossing our fingers now that the owl box beside our school will become a home for some owl family in the near future. 

Some of the children from Sixth Class, Fifth Class, Fourth Class and Third Class took part in Athletics today, 26th September, in Avondale. There were over twenty three schools there and we were absolutely delighted when one of our Fourth Class teams came third and brought home the medals. All of the children did a fantastic job on the day and we are so proud of all of them. 

We had a wonderful afternoon on Wednesday 21st June when we celebrated achieving our tenth Green Flag. Our children in Fifth and Sixth Class led by their teacher Ms Meunier spearheaded the initiative throughout the whole school. The theme was Global Citizenship and Sustainable Travel. They managed to get everyone on board and were responsible for the introduction of W.O.W (Walk on Wednesday) for the whole school year. We had Scoot on Wednesday, and Scooting Skills,  we celebrated National Bike Week. They did surveys on topics such as 'Car Idling' and Air Pollution and they even used a speed gun one day to log the speed of cars passing the school. They also carried out a weekly competition among the classrooms to see which classroom was the most environmentally friendly for the week. They looked at things like recycling paper and plastic, turning off taps and lights, picking up litter, telling others about being green, walking/cycling/scooting to school. We are so proud of them for showing great leadership skills and the rest of the children in the school for getting so involved. We had a really lovely ceremony where a lot of our parents were able to join us and we had guest speakers to say a few words to the children. John Mullen was there representing Wicklow Co Co, Lorraine Flanagan represented An Taisce and Lorraine Fox represented Tinahely Tidy Towns. We also had Lucy Mulhall as a special guest to help us raise the flag. Lucy remembered raising our first one many years ago. The whole Green School committee surrounded her as she raised the flag and Joe Byrne from the Wicklow People was there to record the event. The rest of the children in the school sang our Green School school which had been written especially for the occasion by Mrs Murphy Phelan. We followed all of this with tea and cakes for the parents after we had cut the amazing cake made for us by one of our parents, Pauline Donegan. Big thanks to her for the cake and buns, we really appreciate them. Thanks also to our guest speakers, to Lucy, to Robert Byrne for getting our flag pole ready for us, to some of our Fifth and Sixth Class pupils for baking and providing cakes and to our parents for joining us on the day. Finally, big thanks to all our teachers for their great work with the children with regard to creating a Green School and of course to all our children for their fantastic work. We are incredibly proud of all of you!

There was great excitement in the school on Wednesday 21st June when Lucy Mulhall, a past pupil of ours, who is Captain of the Irish Womens Sevens Rugby Team, paid us a visit. The team have recently qualified for the Olympics and Lucy has just been named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Player of the month for May. She also received this honour in January of this year.  The children greeted her with a song which Mrs Murphy Phelan had written about her for the occasion and they were all delighted when she went back down to the same pitch where she played football every day of her school life and played a game with the children. She spent loads of time with them and signed autographs for any of the children who wanted them. She also gave an inspirational talk to the children and left with them with the message - "look after the people around you and surround yourself with good people." She promises us she will be back to take a P.E. lesson with them. We will look forward to it! 

We had a great time taking part in Sports Day 2023. The children really enjoyed themselves and we even got beautiful weather for most of the day. Take a look at some of the things we did. 

The children from Third and Fourth Class took part in the Coogan Cup today 26th April 2023. They played four matches and won the four of them! We are absolutely delighted for them. They got a hero's welcome from the Junior Room when they returned to school. Well done!

Marathon Kids had an event for the children of Fifth and Sixth Class from a number of schools in the Wicklow area, in the running track in Arklow, on Wednesday 26th April.  David Gillick was there to run a few laps with the children and to have a question and answer session with them. Fia represented our school and went up on stage to ask him a question. Well done Fia! All the children had a great time. Take a look at the photos of the day. Big thanks to Marathon Kids Ireland!

We had a car-boot sale and fair today to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The children from the Middle and Senior rooms did a tremendous amount of work to make the day such a huge success. They gathered their old toys, books and bric-a-brac, they baked cakes and buns, they made waffles, they sold sweets, popcorn, crisps, coffee, ice-cream, plants, they sold tickets, had penalty shoot-outs, played darts competitions, popped a ball into a cup, sold teas and they did it all themselves! We are just so proud of them! Our Junior Room played their very important part as well! They arrived with their purses and wallets of money and they kept buying! A big thanks to all our parents who helped with the stalls on the day, who came to support the cause or who sent donations. Special thanks to Marcus, Stephanie and Mary who were a great help to us. A very special thanks to Kilcommon N.S. who arrived in busloads to support us. Thanks to everyone from the locality who arrived on the day. We are very grateful to everyone. Finally big thanks to all our teachers. We are absolutely delighted to let you know that we raised a whopping €1725.59 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. What an achievement! Well done children!

We are celebrating National Scoot to School week this week. We all met at the bottom of the road again and the children scooted, cycled and walked up to school. Take a look! We have a few more things planned for the week ahead, so keep checking in!

Our Green Schools committee are doing great work making our school grounds look well. One of the projects they took on, in their break times, was to clean up an area beside our little wood. In the process of doing this, they have managed to find a few buried treasures! Take a look at what they have found. 

We had a great time celebrating 'Seachtain na Gaeilge'. Take a look at some of the things we got up to. Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!

We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day today, Thursday 2nd March. There were a lot of different characters at the doors when we opened them this morning! We had a parade of characters in our local hall and some of our Fifth and Sixth Class students took the opportunity to interview all the characters and find out who they were and where they came from. We also had a visit from Mary Carty, the recently retired librarian from Tinahely library. She very kindly answered all the children's questions about being a librarian and we also took the opportunity to thank her for all her help and support over the years. The children presented her with flowers and cards and a book they had written about her!  She left us with the words, 'Don't forget to keep using your local library!' Happy World Book Day everyone! Keep reading!

Big thanks to the children of Fifth and Sixth Class and their teacher Ms Meunier who made pancakes for the whole school today. Everyone got a pancake with whatever topping they liked. They were delicious!

We had a beautiful graduation mass for our Sixth Class children followed by a presentation and some pizza and cake back at the school. The children planned their mass themselves and did a beautiful job. We would like to thank their teacher Ms Meunier for all her work preparing for it and also Mrs Murphy Phelan for leading the choir at the mass. A big thanks to Fr Gahan for saying the mass especially for us. We really appreciated it. We are so proud of all the girls. They have played such an important part in our school and we are going to miss them so much. We have no doubt that they will go on to do great things. We would like to say a special thanks to one of the children's Mam's for the beautiful cake and buns that she made especially. We would also like to thank all of their parents for their lovely presentation to the school. 

We were so proud of our children who put on a wonderful performance for our parents on Tuesday 14th June this year. They sang, used percussion instruments and played the ukulele and they did a brilliant job! Well done everyone and big thanks to Leslie Dowdall and Frankie Lane for all their great work with the children throughout the year.

We know how important it is to be active to keep ourselves healthy. Here in Crossbridge N.S. we tried to do something active every day this week to celebrate Active School Week. Here are some of the things we got up to. 

We had a great two weeks leading up to St Patrick's Day for 'Seachtain na Gaeilge'. The children took part in Irish dancing, songs and poems in our native language. They looked at Irish stories and 'Seanfhocail' and illustrated them to show their meaning. They learned their National Anthem and spoke as much Irish as they could throughout the couple of weeks. We finished the couple of weeks off by turning the school green. The children all wore green to school and decorated their classrooms with as much green as they could find! We had a Mass for peace and sang some Irish hymns. We had a little Céilí outside and finished our day with a Tráth na gCeist. Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!

The children from Fifth and Sixth Class had a really enjoyable day today in Ballyvaloo in Co Wexford. They took part in a retreat for their Confirmation. The verdict from all of the children was a big thumbs up!

There was great excitement throughout the school when the doors opened this morning. A whole different set of characters had come to school! We had a great day hearing about everyone's favourite books and everyone's favourite character in their books. We got to listen to some real life authors and also some illustrators who gave a few tips on how to do some drawings. Ideas for books were discussed, book covers were designed, children drew their favourite book covers and children drew some characters from published books. Every child left school with their free book voucher which will allow them to get a free book in their nearest book store.