Swimming in 4th Class
4th Class really enjoyed our first swimming lesson of this year. All the boys and girls had a great time while working on such an important life skill. We have five more lessons for this year and are so looking forward to them.
Christmas Concert 2023 Recording
See below link to all of our wonderful Christmas Concerts https://youtu.be/tTQV4-CSBiE?si=W7meyWM_1xj71XBL
Happy Christmas from Juniors
Junior Infants would like to wish everyone a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have had lots of fun in our first term at "big school" and even took to the stage to take part in our very first Nativity, The Twinkly Nativity. Mr Curtin, our...
Killoughteen NS Christmas Concerts
LINK TO VIDEO RECORDINGS: https://youtu.be/tTQV4-CSBiE?si=W7meyWM_1xj71XBL This Christmas the children at Killoughteen NS performed Christmas concerts for their family & friends. The talent was astonishing and we are so proud of all their effort. We would like to...
Tony Noonan Visits Killoughteen NS
Tony Noonan brings VIP to Killoughteen NS On the 20th of December, Tony Noonan brought along a very important visitor to Killoughteen NS, Santa Claus. The boys and girls were delighted to see him. The pupils sang him songs and Santa visited the classrooms to meet...
4th Class Christmas Activities
After our Christmas Nativity play last night, 4th Class had a lovely relaxing day today with some Christmas art, Christmas Annuals and Christmas Carols. Thank you to everyone who came to support us. Killoughteen National School is so proud of all of our amazing...
Irish Port Safety Week
Before the October break some of our classes entered a colouring competition & quiz for the older classes, as part of Irish Port Safety Week. As a founding member of the Irish Port safety Forum Shannon Foynes Port Company ran the competition with the school....
Fun activities for Christmas in Mrs Curtin’s Class.
Miss Curtin’s Class visit Liskennett
Mrs Curtin's class visited Liskennett during the months of September, October and November. They really enjoyed the horse riding and playing in the outdoor playground and indoor arena.
Late Late Toy Show for Shane Logue
Tonight our very own Shane Logue from 2nd class will be appearing on the Late Late Toy Show. We are all so excited - if not a little jealous - of Shanes big adventure. Yesterday the pupils did a guard of honor for our little celebrity & Shane pulled the winning...
Visit from Newcastle West & Monagea Footballers
Today Newcastle West mens & Monagea Ladies senior football teams came to visit the school this morning. Both teams were successful in winning County Finals recently. Newcastle West Senior Mens Football team beat Adare in the Gaelic grounds recently to win the...
Shape Monsters in Senior Infants
Ms. Gleeson's Senior Infants have been super busy learning about 2-D shapes in Mathematics this week. They were given the opportunity to make 2-D Shape Monsters with student teacher Ms. O'Sullivan. They used triangles, squares, rectangles and circles to create...
6th Class Projects
We recently completed our Projects in Sixth Class. We each picked a country and had to study that country and find out as much as possible and make a presentation to our fellow classmates. We found out so many new and interesting facts about each of our...
STEAM Engineering – 6th Class
Steam Engineering We started the STEAM engineering programme in 6th class at the start of October. Oisín was teaching us about all the various types of engineering and started by describing his own job as an Aeronautical engineer and later showed us the various other...
Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal
A big thank you to all the families that supported the Team Hope Christmas shoebox appeal, both with physical boxes and online donations. The school received 100 shoe boxes that were greatly appreciated by Team Hope, who will deliver these gifts into the hands of...
First Class Fun
Our fantastic First Class students have been very busy this first term. Here is a snapshot of some of the fun and active learning our pupils have been enjoying. In First Class, we have used paper crafts to build rockets for space week. We love using headbands to...
Halloween Fun in Juniors
We are so excited for Halloween in Juniors and we had the best day today. We were busy making potions, mixing brews and building haunted houses. We served up our tasty delights to our friends in the Witches’ Kitchen and finished off the day with a little party. We...
Happy Halloween from 4th Class!
Happy Halloween from everyone in 4th class! We had such a fun week with some spooky activities, such as our dress up day, Halloween quiz and carving pumpkins. Enjoy the mid-term!
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...
Table Topper Competition Halloween
Each Halloween & Easter we hold a Table Toppers competition. Three pupils are chosen from each class in 1st – 6th class, after many rounds of tables questions from their teachers prior to the competition. The participants are put through to represent their class...
Halloween In Senior Infants (Ms. Gleeson)
Our Senior Infants were very busy getting ready for our Halloween Day at school. They were so creative and were really scary! We paraded around the school showing off our cool creations. Happy Halloween from all in Ms. Gleeson's Senior Infants.
Rapping as Gaeilge, Maths Trails, Soccer Champions and Much More in 3rd Class!!
3rd Class have been very busy this year! Have a look at the pictures below to see what we have been up to! 3rd Class were busy solving maths riddles, completing maths trails in the school car park and playing multiplication bingo for Maths Week last week! You will see...
School Football Teams
Cumann na mBunscoil County Football Shield 9th November 2023 - !! CONGRATULATIONS !! to our girls football team who won the County Final in the Cumann na mBunscol Celtic Image Shield this week. Well done to this fantastic team on representing their school and well...
Glantine FC’s Schools World Cup
Our 3rd class pupils had 4 teams entered into Glantine FC's Schools World Cup tournament at the weekend 15th October. Over 70 children from 9 schools participated. The children had a wonderful day of soccer and team work. Well done to all teams involved and thanks...