Children doing varied activities at home during COVID 19 School Closure
Hi everyone, Please see below a selection of activities being completed at home by pupils in Killoughteen NS during the current COVID 19 School Closure. We will keep adding to this post as new pictures are emailed to the school. (info@killoughteenns.com) ...
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Boys Indoor Hurling
On Thursday March 12th our boys indoor hurling team took part in the indoor hurling competition in the community centre in Newcastle West. On Wednesday the 11th, Croagh, Askeaton, Ashford, Feenagh, Mahoonagh, Ballingarry and Kilcolman took part. Ballingarry won this...
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World Book Day
On March 6th last, pupils and staff in Killoughteen NS celebrated World Book Day. They dressed up as characters from some of the books that they have read. The children also paired up with children from other classes and participated in some Buddy Reading. Finally all...
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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...
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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...
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Rainbow Class Trip to the Library
On the 12th of February everyone in the Rainbow Room was invited to Newcastle West Library to a Sensory Story telling session. We enjoyed listening to the story of 'The Ugly Duckling' read by Simone. We all really enjoyed getting involved in the story as well...
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Presentation of football skills certificates
Noel O' Connor along with county footballer Iris Kennelly and Brian Foley (past pupil) presented all children who completed the fundamental football skills in football with their certificates. We thank Noel O' Connor who has taken all of our children to teach them...
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Safer Internet Day
On February 11th, as part of Safer Internet Day, all children in Killoughteen NS participated in very interesting workshops with Jason O' Mahony of Children of the Digital Age. The children of all classes displayed a huge knowledge of apps, games and what being online...
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Saint Brigid’s Day, Lá Fhéile Bríde
The feast day Saint Bridget of Kildare, also called St Brigid of Ireland, Patron Saint of Ireland, is February 1st, which is traditionally the beginning of spring in Ireland. Saint Brigid is associated with the making, blessing and giving of Brigid's crosses. The best...
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Grandparents Day January 2020
We welcomed grandparents of children who attend Killoughteen NS to our school today, January 29th 2020. The children were very excited to meet their grandparents. This was evident in all the smiles and hugs that were on display. All grandparents went to visit their...
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Hurling / Camogie January 2020
On the 17th of January our hurlers and camogie trainers did a good training session. Our girls had a training session with Seanie Gleeson in the Astro in Newcastle West, before heading back to school via the Demesne on foot. It was 11:45am before the girls returned to...
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Analog Devices Primary School Robotics Competition
Today January 16th 2020, our 6th class pupils had a great day at school. The children completed the 'EV3 Senior Robotics' workshop with two excellent teachers called Fergal and Cormac from Learn it. Using Lego as a tool, the children designed and programmed robots to...
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Bishop Brendan Leahy visits Killoughteen NS
Today, January 14th there was great excitement in school as we awaited the visit of Bishop Brendan Leahy. The children sang songs and played music for him including 'Circle of Friends', 'Gathering Song' and 'A Mhuire Mháthair'. Bishop Brendan also had a question and...
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Fundraising over the Christmas break
Some of our school choir and musicians had a busy time of the Christmas period. We had a number of pupils from our school choir sing some Christmas Carols in West End Service Station on Saturday December 21st. The pupils under the guidance of Miss Faye Mulqueen...
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Killeline Nursing Home visit
On Thursday 12th of December we brought a choir of children from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class to Killeline Nursing Home to entertain the residents there. We brought our musicians as well as our singers. We performed for a half an hour and chatted and spoke with our...
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Killoughteen NS is recognised as 5Star GAA Centre
Today, 11th December 2019 was a special day in Killoughteen NS. Our school was awarded recognition as a 5Star GAA Centre. David O'Dea, Games Development Administrator for Limerick presented the award to the School's Active Committee. The award was given to the school...
read moreSenior Infants made shakers
We made shakers as part of our Science activities. We were exploring sounds and which materials make different sounds. We tried to use peas, tissue, money and rice and decided which made loud and soft sounds. We then decided to use rice for our shakers. We recycled...
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Carol Service in St. Catherine’s Nursing Home
Today, Friday 6th of December our choir with children from 4th, 5th and 6th class had an outing to St. Catherine's Nursing Home to sing some Christmas carols and songs for the residents there. We sang in both visitor rooms and even made our way to the hairdressers to...
read moreWest Larkin Shield and Sarsfield Cup News
We were delighted when four of our pupils made it on to West Sarsfield Cup and the West Larkin Shield panels. The West won their respective county semi-finals and played in the county finals on Tuesday the 26th of November in the Gaelic Grounds. The Larkin Shield...
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Cork Pops Orchestra in UL
On Friday November 8th we carried third, fourth, fifth and sixth classes to the University Concert Hall in Limerick to see the Cork Pops Orchestra. We went to the morning show which began at 10:15am. Evelyn Grant (RTE lyric fm) presented the show and was the conductor...
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Team Hope Christmas Shoe Box Appeal
This year the school community of Killoughteen NS gave great support yet again to this appeal. We collected 130 boxes approximately. Andy and Karen Vampola of Team Hope were delighted with the support given when they collected the Shoe Boxes today at school. Please...
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New GAA Jerseys
We were delighted to receive a set of GAA Jerseys which were sponsored by Neil and Kelly McGowan (Munster Trade Sales). Sincere thanks to Neil and Kelly for their support. Please see a picture of Neil and Michael McGowan below wearing these jerseys. Hopefully our...
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New Basketball Jerseys
Sincere thanks to Gerard and Sinéad Sexton of Temple Tyres who sponsored Killoughteen NS with a set of Jerseys for running / basketball. Please see a picture below of Sean and Katie Sexton modelling the new jerseys received by the school. We hope all our children...
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Halloween ‘Table Toppers’ Competition
Today we had our Halloween Table Toppers Competition. Three children from all classes from 1st to 6th were chosen by the teachers to represent their classes. Today we had to get our chosen 18 down to 1, to be crowed Table Toppers Champion. We had lots of questions for...
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