BINGO NIGHT    -    THURSDAY 26TH OCTOBER IN THE G.A.A. HALL AT 8.00 P.M.

CHRISTMAS MARKET – 3RD DECEMBER IN THE G.A.A. HALL AT 11.30 a.m.

Rusheen N.S. attended the Muintir na Tire School Garden Awards Ceremony in the Vertigo Suite in the Cork County Hall recently.  Once again we were delighted to receive an award this time for the Best Food Production Garden.  Pupils Michael O’Riordan and Liam McSweeney and S.N.A., Jessie Murphy, received the award on behalf of the school.

6th Class Pupils receiving Certificates of Graduation on their last day in Rusheen N.S.

Front Row. L. To R.  Robbie Cunningham, Danielle Twomey, Rachel Kelleher, Clodagh O’Riordan, Moira Leahy

Back Row. L. To R. Finn Stevenson, Ryan Leahy, Thomas Morgans, Mollie O’Driscoll and Eoghan O’Brien.

Pupils receiving Tusla Certificates of Merit in recognition of their full attendance for the school year 2016/17.

Front Row. L. to R. – Sarah Kelleher, Will Wiseman, Eoin O’Connell, Jacob Barry, Aiden Lee.

Back Row. L. to R. – Michael O’Riordan, Ellie Deasy and Leah Kearney.

On Wednesday 5^th of April we held a skipathon to raise money for people in Senga Bay, Malawi.  We included this in Our World Irish Aid Awards Project.  We skipped throughout the day using different techniques, e.g. running race, front skip, backwards skip, criss cross, long rope, paired, one leg.

• ^·         In the run/skip race Moira came 1^st, Thomas 2^nd and Ròisìn 3^rd.
• ^·         Robbie was the fastest front skipper with 83 skips in 30 seconds.
• ^·         He was also the fastest Criss Cross skipper with 56 in 30 seconds.
• ^·         Nora-Kate was the one leg champ with 56 in 30 seconds.
• ^·         In the one in the middle category, Ryan came out tops with 55 skips in 30 seconds.
•           The fastest pair were Thomas & Ryan who achieved 33 in 30 seconds while Rachel was the queen of the backward skip getting 48                in 30 seconds.
•            Ailbhe and Nora-Kate were the fastest front to front pair with 39 in 30 seconds.

We had a great time doing all the different types of skipping and raised €820.00 We used €600 of this to send a box of Solar Lamps to Senga Bay Primary School, Malawi.  We are at present deciding what to do with the remaining funds raise.

Recently 5^th & 6^th Class of Rusheen N.S. have been working on a number of projects for “The Our World Irish Aid Awards 2017”.  During the last number of weeks we have studied all about Ireland’s 8 partnering Countrys involved in “Irish Aid” such as Zambia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Malawi,Vietnam, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique.  We learned information from “Google”, “Irish Aid” website and our “Irish Aid” Magazine.

In our project we compared the lives of Moira and Clodagh from Ireland to the life of “Grace” who lives in Malawi.  We also compared the Irish Primary School to the Senga Bay Primary School.

We got an interview from Victor Moyo who was born and raised in Senga Bay, Malawi.  Victor Moyo told us what life is like in Senga Bay and he told us that the children have to get up at 5:00a.m. in the morning because their school starts at 7:00a.m.  It takes 2 hours to walk to school and if you were at school late you would get a severe punishment.

Victor also told us that electricity is very expensive in Malawi and few families have it, so we decided to do something to help.  Julian O’Leary had told us all about Village Boom Solar Lamps powered by the sun.  We held a “Skipathon” recently and raised approximately €826.  We have now sent  a box of 25 solar powered lamps to Senga Bay Primary School, Malawi.  We really enjoyed doing this project.

Victor Moyo from Senga Bay Malawi visits our school

Rusheen N.S. played a Sciath na Scol Mhuscraì indoor hurling blitz on Thursday, March 2^nd, in the Sports Complex in Macroom.  They won three matches and drew one.  They trained hard in school and got a good result.  The other teams participating were Rylane, Terelton, Kilnamartyra and Ballyvourney.  They really enjoyed their day.

By:  Mollie O’Driscoll

All pupils in Rusheen N.S. recenlty took part in the Operation Transformation 10 at 10 to promote physical activity.

Once againthis year Santa paid us a visit on the day of our Christmas Holidays

Well done to Roisìn O’Riordan 5th Class who won a prize in the Macroom Credit Union Art Competition.

Windows decorated by the pupils

On the 24th of November 2016, the Cork Quitar Quartet visited Rusheen N.S.  The music they played took us from the Renaissance to the current day.  The group has been together for three years.  At the start it was just Jerry Creedon, David Keating and Colin McClean.  A month beforehand Aengus Kirakowski had joined the trio.  Jerry Creedon had taught the other three about music in The Cork School of Music in UCC.

My personal favourite piece was “Loose Canon” which was a four part round.  It was quite unpredictable with a sense of hecticness.  We listened to many pieces, one of which was “Lotus Eaters” by  Andrew York (b. 1958).  He was a classical guitarist and composer.  We also listened to “Quiccan”.

Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born the 21st of March, 1685 and died 28th July, 1750.  He was a German composer.  He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.  He wrote “little Fugue”.

Another composer, Johann Pachelbel, was born on September 1st 1653 and died on March 9th 1706.  He composed a large body of sacred and secular music.  He composed “loose canon”.

We all thoroughly enjoyed the music.  We thank the Parents’ Association for funding the Irish Guitar Quartet Seminar.

This year the Cork ladies Football Team visited our school.  Briege and Mairead Corkery, Marie Ambrose and Sinead Cotter are all on the Cork Panel and won All-Ireland Medals again this year.  Ciara McCarthy was on the Minor All-Ireland winning team.  They brought all the cups they have won during the year.  We are extremely proud of them.  Briege Corkery, former pupil of Rusheen N.S., has won 17 All-Ireland Medals.  Briege and Marie both won All-Stars.  Cork played their arch rivals, Dublin, in the All-Ireland Final.   No doubt they will go down in the history books. They are all legends and we are looking forward to supporting them again next year.

This year Rusheen N.S. were in Group F7 of Sciath na Scol.  In our group we faced Cùil Aodha, Inchigeelagh and Cloughduv.  Cùil Aodha suffered a defeat to us in our first game 5-7 to 4-2.  Our second game was an easily won game against Inchigeelagh, winning 4-7 to 0-0.  The third game V Cloughduv brought a tough start but we won comfortably 4-7 to 3-3.  Our final group game was against Blarney who suffered a heavy defeat 6-8 to 3-0.  We finished top of the group with 12 points and Cloughduv following up behind us with 9 points.  In the semi-final we clashed with Vicarstown.  We started poorly, loosing 1-1 to 0-0 at half time.  We came through in the end, winning 2-4 to 1-3.  Cloughduv lost to a strong Aghabullogue team 4-7 to 4-2.  The final was held in C.I.T. with Robbie Cunningham leading the team.  We started with high hopes, but Aghabullogue were leading at half time.  We came back in the second half, sadly and unluckily hitting the post twice.  In the end, Aghagullogue were the better team winning 2-3 to 1-0.  We were distraught with the loss, but did receive a memorable plaque and medals.  We still have the football blitz at the end of the year, in which we are two year reigning champions.   Hopefully it will be 3 in a row and a good year ahead.

The Rusheen N.S. athletics team competed in the West Muskerry Cross Country which was held in The Town Park in Macroom recently.  Thirty Five  pupils from the school competed in the competition which was held in good conditions.  All performed admirably and finished their races.  Congratulations to Seàn Cummins who came first in the Under 9 Boys  race and Jacob Barry who came first in the Boys Under 7 race.  Others to win medals were James Twomey, Rachel Kelleher, Lily O’Shea, John Kelleher, Sarah Kelleher, Danielle Twomey and Moira Leahy.

The winners of our Euro 2016 competition were Belgium

The runners-up were England

In 3rd & 4th place play-off were Germany and Republic of Ireland

Our Senior School Tour was to Dublin this year.  We visited the G.P.O., National Art Gallery and Natural History Museum.  We headed off on the 7.30a.m. train from Kent Station, Cork and arrived back to Rusheen at 9.30p.m.  It was a long day but well worth it.

Our annual sports day in June this year was most enjoyable, helped in no small way by the beautiful weather.

Our football blitz teams who did very well in the West Muskerry Blitz held in Aghinagh G.A.A.pitch on the 8th of June.  Both our boys and girls teams defeated Kilnamartyra in their respective finals.

This year our Junior Classes went on school tour to the Mardyke Arena and thoroughly enjoyed their day out.

Congratulations to all the pupils on our athletics team who performed so well in the Cork Primary School Sports at the CIT complex held on the 1st of June.  Èireann O’Shea in the Under 13 category and Seàn Cummins and Jacob Barry in the under 9 and 7 categories won their sprints.  Rebecca Morgans, Ròisìn O’Riordan, Noah O’Leary, John Kelleher and James Twomey came second in their sprints.  Jacob and Seàn qualified from their County Quarter Finals to reach the County Final which is a tremendous achievement.  Our boys relay team of Dylan O’Riordan, Jack Kearney, Thomas Morgans and Noah O’Leary ran a superb relay to come in second place.

GIRLS TEAM

BOYS TEAM

GIRLS RELAY TEAM

BOYS RELAY TEAM

We had a very successful Book Fair in the School in May and lots of pupils dressed up for the day in their favorite Book Character.

The Sacrament of First Holy Communion was celebrated in St. John the Baptist Church Rusheen on Saturday, May 14^th.  Eight pupils from Rusheen N.S. received the Sacrament, Seàn Cummins, James Cuddihy, Lucy Hinchion, Darragh O’Shea, Michael Buckley, John Kelleher, Michael Twomey and Pierce Lynch.  The beautiful May morning set the scene for a joyful and spiritual ceremony celebrated by Fr. Joe O’Mahony.  Each of the 8 children and their parents played a special part in the Mass, in the Readings, Responses, Prayers of the Faithful and Presentation of the Gifts.

Special thanks to everybody who helped make the ceremony in the Church and party afterwards in the G.A.A. Hall such a wonderful occasion.

Ninteen pupils from Rusheen N.S. received the Sacrament of Confirmation on Wednesday 27th of April in St. John the Baptist Church, Bealnamorrive.

Well done to Niamh White, Jack Kearney, Moira Leahy, David Kelleher, Dylan O’Riordan, Adam Ring, Chloe O’Driscoll and Thomas Morgans from Rusheen N.S. who came 2^nd in the Novelty Act in the County Final of Scòr na bPàistì held in Ovens recently.  They did a 1916 drama based on the wedding of Joseph Mary Plunkett to Grace Gifford.

An Allianz Primary Schools’ indoor hurling blitz took place in Macroom Sport’s Complex on Tuesday March 8^th. Four schools took part. These were Ballyvourney, Kilnamatyra, Terelton and Rusheen N.S. Over 40 children took part. It made for a very sporting occasion with plenty of games for all. Rusheen showed great enthusiasm and skills throughout the day. The children were a credit to their schools and thoroughly enjoyed themselves throughout.

 Rusheen Panel: Catriona Buckley, Jack Kearney, David Kelleher, Rachel Kelleher, Moira Leahy, Thomas Morgans, Eoghan O Brien, Dylan O Riordan,  Eireann O Shea, Adam Ring, Danielle Twomey, Niamh White.

Well done to the pupils who participated in the Muskerry Final of Scòr na bPàistì which was held in Ovens on Sunday, March 6th.  The Novelty Act came first and is now through to the County Semi-Final which takes place in Ovens on Friday, March 11th at 7.00 p.m..  The senior and junior set dancers came 2nd and 3rd respectively and Adam Ring came 2nd in the Sean Nòs Dancing.

NOVELTY ACT GROUP

ADAM RING – SEAN NÒS DANCER

Junior Set Dancers 2016

Rusheen N.S. had a large representation at the Muskerry Semi-Final of Scòr na bPàistì held in Inchigeela and Coachford on the 26th and 27th of February.  Well done to all competitors and especially to the following who got through to the Muskerry Final which will be held in Ovens on Sunday 6th of March at 2.00 p.m  -  Senior Set & Figure Dancers, Junior Set & Figure Dancers, Instrumental Group, Sean Nòs Dancing and Novelty Act.

QUIZ TEAM

BALLAD GROUP

SOLO DANCER

SOLO SINGER

SEAN NÒS DANCER

SOLO INSTRUMENTALIST

STORY TELLER

JUNIOR SET & FIGURE DANCERS

INSTRUMENTAL GROUP

NOVELTY ACT

SENIOR SET & FIGURE DANCERS

Rusheen N.S. had a very special visitor the day of the Christmas Holidays.

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