Green Flag
Green-Schools is Ireland’s leading environmental management and education programme for schools.
Promoting long-term, whole-school action for the environment Green-Schools is a student-led programme with involvement from the wider community. The programme is operated and co-ordinated by the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce (FEE member for Ireland).
Green Flag News
Biodiversity Walk – 5th & 6th Class
This week 5th and 6th classes took a walk along the Greenway to check out some our surroundings & wildlife. They saw plenty of bugs and birds as well as lots of frogs and spawn. It was a lovely day out helped by the lovely weather. ...
Halloween Dress Up
Each year Killoughteen NS hold a dress up competition, which involves the children taking used items of clothing and other objects from around the home and create a Halloween costume from them. Our pupils out done themselves this year with their origional ideas and...
Halloween Dress Up 2022
On Friday the 28th October, we had lots of different creatures enter the grounds of Killoughteen NS. We had aliens in space ships, witches, pirates, hurlers, wizards, skeletons, nuns, knights, minions, zombies and spiders to name but a few. The creativity and...
Halloween in Killoughteen NS 2021
Today was a day that was full of excitement and fun in Killoughteen NS. The morning began with all kinds of creatures entering the school grounds, witches, grim reapers, super heroes, aliens and many wounded souls. The creativity and imagination of our pupils (AND...
6th Class – Team Limerick Clean Up!
The big spring clean was well and truly under way in Killoughteen N.S. before the Easter break! 6th class took part in the Team Limerick Clean Up campaign and carried out an extensive clean up of the school grounds and the surrounding areas. They had great fun picking...
First Class and Rainbow Class visit Curraghchase
On Wednesday the 6th of February, 1st class and the rainbow room visited Curraghchase with the LEAF programme. We brought our coats and our wellies and headed off on the bus. We were very lucky with the weather, the sun stayed out all day. During our trip to the...
Friends of the Earth Solar Panel Competition. Please Vote for our School
Our school has entered a competition with Friends of the Earth who are offering 4 primary schools and 4 secondary schools across Ireland who come up with a project to engage their community and make a real change on Climate Action a chance to become a solar powered...
Halloween 2019 in Killoughteen NS
Today, October 25th, the children of Killoughteen NS again made brilliant costumes from recyclable materials for our Halloween dress up. We saw everything from cereal killers, artists, army tanks, haunted houses and Mr Tayto to name but a few. The imagination and...
Active Week – School Walk
Today, Monday June 17th, To 1st to 6th classes went for a walk on the Great Southern Trail. We set off from the school with our high viz jackets and high spirits at 11:30. The sun was in the sky and it was a lovely day for a walk. We all did an 8km loop and arrived...