WOW!!! What can I say? What a day it has been! From speaking in our school library as six very shy students who knew nothing about each other or the journey we were about to take,to speaking in a large hall filled with hundreds of people as the best of friends. There's nothing we can say except that our quest for a happily ever after has been one hell of a fairytale, from tears to laughter, to a bit of conflict and being each others enemies to always going back to being teammates and working hard to continue our search for our happily ever after. We have learned so many new things and improved and grown so much over the past 7 months and to go to the national final and compete against 47 other amazing banks and impress the judges to come out in the top 6 in the whole of Ireland is one outstanding achievement! We couldn't have completed our fairytale and found our happily ever after without some very important people. You, our supporters, for your likes, shares, comments and continuous support the past few months. Our family & friends, the support from our family amd friends has been outstanding we cannot thank you all enough. To our parents/guardians who at 5/6 in the evening would drive to collect us from the school and even during our midterm breaks and get us what we needed for our meetings. Our sponsors , for the help to fund prizes for our competitions and launch night and to help keep our customers satisfied. Ms.Coffey and Mr. Daly, for the use of the school facilities, after school everyday!! And the huge amount of support and help you have given us,big or small no matter what we needed you always had it for us or an alternative to it. And last but not least to our student officer Deirdre Crowley and our teacher Ms.Denmead,you have given us an overwhelming amount of encouragement, support and guidance throughout our journey and we cannot thank you enough,without you we would not have gotten to where we did in our journey today. From us to you, from the bottom our hearts we thank you all so so much. Our journey may end here but we always be a team and in our school and our community we will always be the best team.

We have arrived !!! Best of luck to all teams😊😊

And we're on our way!! Once upon a bank would like to wish all teams taking part in todays national finals the very best of luck !! #backingstudents #nationalfinals #oub

It's the final countdown!! Jut one more day to go and our journey will end ☹️ we have our final practice today to make sure everything is 110% ready for tomorrow!! We can't wait😊

Throwback to our launch night, what an anazing night this was we had such great fun and it was a very good experience!! We continue to learn new things and have great experiences on our journey!! 😊#backingstudents #2daystogo #nationals

Just four more days to go !! We are getting nore and more excited and nerves are starting to build up now !! But we cannot wait 😊😊 #backingstudents #onceuponabank

Final countdown to nationals.. just one more week to go😅

Woah !!😳😳how time flies !! Just 9 days to go til nationals !! We cannot wait !! We are so excited to continue are journey as a team and making new friends along the way 😊#9days #backingstudents #nationalfinals

From all of us here at Once upon a bank we hope you have a happy easter.. dont eat too many eggs 😊😊 #backingstudents

Some snaps of our journey so far.. we as a team have grown so much in the past few months. In the beginning we were just six very shy students who knew nothing about each other or who would never have thought they'd be standing in front of people teaching them things they have learned. Our confidence has increased so much since our interview in October, and without the supposrt of our family, friends, class mates and each other, we wouldnt have gotten this far. From our team to you , we thank you and we appreciate it so much😊 #onceuponabank #thankyou #backingstudents

Some more pictures from regionals taken by the photographer there. #backingstudents