Ms. Gleeson’s Senior Infants Self-Portraits
Senior Infants have settled really well back at school. Our theme for the month of September was 'Myself'. We decided to paint self-portraits in one of our visual art lessons. We discussed what a self-portrait is, imagined we were looking in the mirror and painted a...
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School Admission Notice for the School Year 2024 2025
Please see below the school's Annual Admission Notice in respect of admissions for the 2024/2025 school year. Please note the final date for applications to the school was 27th October 2023. If you wish to make an application to the wait list you can do so using the...
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Junior Infants First Day of School 2023
Our Junior Infant class had a fantastic first day with their teacher Miss Corbett. We have 24 pupils in junior infants this...
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3rd & 4th Class School Tour 2023
Our 3rd and 4th class pupils had a great time at Mary Immaculate college with Just4Fun Tours. [video width="480" height="848"...
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1st & 2nd Class School Tour 2023
First & second classes were at the University of Limerick for their school tour with Adventure World Camps. [video width="848" height="480"...
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Senior Infant School Tour 2023
Our senior infant class headed off to Ballybunion this June to Checkers Cafe for some baking and mini golf. All the children had a fantastic...
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Junior Infants School Tours
On 15th June our 2 junior infants classes along with the junior infants in Miss Sweeneys class went to the Woodlands House Hotel for their school tour. They all had a fantastic day doing arts and crafts, walking the fairy trail and feeding the animals & a disco to...
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Killoughteen Fundraiser Dance
On Friday 9th June Killoughteen NS held a fundraiser dance at the Devon Inn Hotel to raise funds to go towards a new school playground, as part of ongoing development at the school. The night was a great success and all who attended thoroughly enjoyed themselves....
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5th and 6th Class School Tours 2023
June saw the start of our school tours, with our 5th and 6th classes heading off to Ballyhass Lakes on 2nd June. They had a great time enjoying zip line, high ropes and the aqua...
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Autism Friendly Schools Project- AsiAm
As we come towards the end of this school year we are delighted to announce that we have completed Year 1 of AsiAm's Autism Friendly Schools Project. This is a continuous project to strive towards inclusion for all children in school especially Autistic students. This...
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Analog Robotics 2023
'Written by Ella McAuliffe, 6th class 2023' Analog devices came to our school to build robots out of Lego with us. We were divided into groups with three or four people in each group. I was with Kieran Keogh and Charlie Quinn. We were set a task to build and...
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Killoughteen Fundraising Dance
Link to buy tickets Killoughteen National School are delighted to announce this year, for our Annual School Fundraiser, we are reviving the Killoughteen School Dance! All members of our school’s community are most welcome - be it friends, parents, grandparents,...
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Autism Acceptance Month
This April we celebrated Autism Awareness Month at Killoughteen NS and our pupils participated in a range of fun activities. On 31st March our pupils wore blue to celebrate autism throughout the school. Last week at Killoughteen NS our pupils participated in events...
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Table Toppers Easter 2023
Today 30th March we held our Easter Table Toppers. Well done to all our fantastic pupils and congratulations to our overall winner Nessa Carr. There were 3 children from each class, 1st - 6th class who competed for the title and they all did an amazing job....
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Daffodil Day
On 24th March the school participated in a collection for Daffodil Day in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. The children wore yellow on the day, which made the school extra bright! The school, along with a lovely contribution from the children of Killoughteen Kids...
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Cois Sionna Desmond Credit Union Art Competition
Congratulations to our 3rd class pupil Paula Zderciuc who won 2nd place in the 8-10 year old category of the Cois Sionna Desmond Credit Union Art Competition, themed ' Its a Wonderful Life'. Paula was presented with a certificate & prize money from Patrick Ranahan...
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Multi Cultural Day in Killoughteen NS
On Friday, 24th of February, Killoughteen NS celebrated MultiCultural Day. This day was to celebrate and learn about all the different cultures within our school community. We hoped to deepen our knowledge and therefore further foster respect and open-mindedness for...
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World Book Day March 2023
We celebrated World Book Day in Killoughteen NS today, Friday March the 3rd. Well done to all the staff and pupils who dressed up and made the day a great success. We had Elmer the Elephant, Mr Bump, Harry Potter, Charlie Bucket, Miss Trunchbull and so many more. The...
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Surgeon Noonan Collection
On 14th February Killoughteen National School held a non uniform day in aid of two of our past pupils, Sinéad and Sarah Woulfe, who are currently in 4th year studying medicine in UCC. They are volunteering for the U.C.C. Surgeon Noonan Society, which is run entirely...
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Lá na bPancóg
Miss Flannery's class celebrated Pancake Tuesday today with lots of Nutella, strawberries, lemon, sugar and marshmallows. The children had an amazing time making their own pancakes on our little pancake maker. We made small fluffy pancakes but of course how could we...
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Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine's Day to all of you from Miss Flannery's class. We celebrated the day of love in school by understanding ways we can show our love to our friends and family- saying kind things, showing acts of kindness and exploring the wonderful different meanings of...
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Peace Proms 2023- Miss Flannery’s Class
Some Students from Miss Flannery's class along with 4th, 5th and 6th class spent months practicing songs and dances to preform at the Peace Proms concert in the University of Limerick on the 29th of January. The concert was led by the Cross-Border Orchestra of Ireland...
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Festive Cheer in Killoughteen NS
Today our pupils sang some Christmas songs beautifully in their classrooms. They were all dressed up in their Christmas attire and did themselves proud. See below the links to the different classes. We hope that you enjoy watching them at home. Junior Infants Bualadh...
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3rd Class History Trip to the Library!
3rd Class went on an interactive journey into the past recently in Newcastle West Library. The show was called 'Irish History Live' by Michael Moylan. Michael told the children all about the ancient people from the Neolithic period right up the Romans! The children...
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