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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Split the Pot
We have begun 'Split the Pot' here in Killoughteen NS to raise funds to upgrade and install the best play and recreational areas possible for our pupils. We intend to increase the area of astro turf from 600M² to 1800M². The draw is on weekly on Thursdays and the...
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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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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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Regeneron donate two refurbished Laptops to Killoughteen NS
On behalf of the community of Killoughteen NS I would like to thank Jason Cummins who managed to secure two refurbished laptops for the school from Regeneron. This is very much appreciated. See below Jason pictured with his boys Luke and Ryan. ...
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Our First Term in Miss Sweeney’s Class
We have got up to lots of new and exciting things in our first term in Miss. Sweeney’s classroom. For five of the children in our room it was their first time at Killoughteen National School. Ben, Hannah, Evie and Kalum are in Junior Infants. Joshua is in Senior...
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Tony Noonan brings Santa Claus to Killoughteen NS
December 1st was a wonderful day in Killoughteen NS for our pupils. Santa Claus came to visit us all with Tony Noonan. Santa visited all the classrooms. The children sang some songs for Santa and promised to leave him out carrots, cookies, milk and many more treats on...
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Science Week 2022
Science week in Killoughteen N.S saw all classes conducting some very interesting experiments. Both the Junior Infant classes joined together for science stations and completed 4 great activities. They made raisins ‘dance’ by adding them to sparkling water with baking...
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Girls Football
On the 17th of October the girls from Killoughteen NS set off to Mick Neville Park to play in a blitz and try to win the title of West division one champions. They played valiantly and overcame Broadford NS, Mahoonagh NS. They then played against Gaeilscoil in the...
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Christmas Shoe Box Appeal – TEAM HOPE
This year 105 physical shoe boxes were donated by the school community and many more were donated online. Sincere thanks to all who supported the TEAM HOPE shoe box appeal....
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Newcastle West County Football Champions
We were delighted to welcome team members Mike McMahon and Darren O Doherty, along with their manager Jimmy Lee to Killoughteen NS today. Newcastle West won the senior county football title (Fr. Casey Cup) against Adare in Killmallock on Sunday November 6th. They now...
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Halloween Dress Up
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...
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Table Toppers – October 2022
On Thursday the 22nd, we had our Table Toppers competition at school. The children are always very excited and look forward to the event. We had excellent tables skills on display again this year by all pupils in all classes. We had 3 pupils from each class selected...
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