News Archive
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...