Author: Bernadette Daly

Kilkenny Christmas Tree Festival St Canice’s Cathedral

The Christmas Tree Festival which is part of Yulefest Kilkenny takes place from the 5th to the 10th of December. Our school has three wonderful enteries.

Team Hope: Christmas Shoebox Appeal

A big thank you to all the boys and girls, and their families who brought in Shoebox gifts for children in need in areas of conflict and poverty. There was a huge response to the appeal, and the children who receive these gifts will be thrilled.

Our Senior pupils went around the school and collected all the shoeboxes, which were ready for collection on November 12th. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.

Pizza Making in Supermac’s

Mrs Brennan’s 3rd and 4th class had a great treat on Thursday November 21st. They went to Supermac’s and made their own pizzas! Congratulations to Lexi Mc Cormack, who won the Supermac’s Halloween colouring competition and the prize was yummy!

A big thank you to Lexi, Mrs Brennan and the staff of Supermac’s. The girls had a lovely morning. they learned how to make pizzas and then got to enjoy them !

Congratulations

Congratulations to Ms Davis and Ms Hennessy and their families on the birth of their beautiful baby boys. We hope Ms Carrigan and Ms O’ Meara are enjoying their leave with their gorgeous babies.

Scary Show

Everybody looked amazing on Friday October 24th. Our “Scary Siulóid” became a Scary Show instead. Adults and children made a huge effort with very little notice, and entertained everybody with songs, poems and dances.

More Scary teachers

We hope everybody has a great time during the Halloween break. Enjoy your “trick or treating”,dressing up and Halloween parties. See you all back at school on November 4th.

Events 

October is a very active month here in The Pres. On October 8th,our  3rd to 6th classes took part in the  Annual Primary Schools Cross Country Challenge in the Castle Park. The training, which has been going on since September, has greatly improved fitness. Third class ran 500m, 4th class ran 800m and 6th class 1000m ! Well done to you all, we are proud of you!

Presentation Football Team

Our girls’s football team is back in action and competing in their second season. They had a wonderful win against a Competitive Goresbridge team on October 8th. The first match of the season was against St Canice’s and then the Gealscoil was next.  The girls showed tremendous spirit in those matches. The team is going from strength to strength since last year. They learned the skills, like hand passing, kicking, tackling and blocking and the solo at lunch time. Briain Riain very kindly came to do a session with the girls and talked about inclusion, participation and enjoyment. We appreciated that. Thank you Briain. They had great fun last year playing a league and everybody enjoyed the “All Ireland Final” at the end.  Míle buiochas do na muinteoirí freisin. Don’t forget all new players are welcome. We wish the team and their coaches all very the best for the rest of the year.

Welcome back everybody! We hope you had a great Summer and are ready for the new school year. We would like to extend a special welcome to new members of staff, to our new Junior Infants and to all the boys and girls who are new to the school this year. We hope you will all be very happy in The Pres.

Junior Infants Rooms 1, 2 and 3

Our Junior Infants have settled in well and now know all the routines of the school day. Here are some boys and girls from Rooms 1, 2 and 3.

Learning our sounds with Ms Dwyer

We love looking at books and listening to stories.

May 2019

First Holy Communion 2019

On May 19th second class girls from Rooms 10 and 13 and 17 made their First Holy Communion.  It was a wonderful occasion. Father Scriven said Mass. The choir sang beautifully. After Mass there was coffee, tea and treats in the school. After that everybody celebrated with their proud parents and families. A big thank you to Fr Scriven, Sr Maria, Mrs Millea, Ms Mc Carthy, Mrs O’ Shea and Mrs Fitzpatrick for all their work and preparation, which ensured that the day was a great success.

On Monday May 20th the girls came in to school in their finery to get their photographs taken by Ben Power from hotzphotography. Everybody was looking fabulous as they did a parade around the school. You will treasure your group photograph of your friends and classmates, when you get older!

 More May Events

May is a really busy month in school. We have had Jabba Jabba  Jembe drumming workshops, African dancing, cycling safety and  skills, flower planting, school tours and the Book Fair.

Book Fair : the book fair took place in the hall on May 2nd and 3rd. It was a great success. All the classes visited it and got some lovely books. Thanks to Miss Moran for all her work on the Book Fair and We are Writers project.

May Flowers: girls in Room 10 were busy planting flowers. We look forward to seeing them come into bloom.

Jabba Jabba Jembe

African Dancing

Godfred Asare aka Simon introduced us to some great African dancing.

Let’s follow Simon.

Cycling Ireland

Coaches from Cycling Ireland have been providing lessons on cycling and road safety this month.

Sprocket Rocket

Coaches from Sprocket Rocket came to our school and provided a foundation cycling skills  programme . After completing Level 3 of each skill, boys and girls were presented with a Sprocket Rocket certificate. Races were held on the final day too. It was great fun and everyone learned a lot.

Junior Infants First School Tour

Friday May 17th was a big day for the boys and girls in Rooms 1, 2 and 3. They headed off in big busses to Nore Valley farm. Some little people were up since 6am! By all accounts the chicks were the favourite, followed by the donkeys and of course going on the bus!

The best seats are at the front!

Senior Infants have been buzzing with excitement learning all about bees.

New Junior Infants: on Wednesday May 29th we welcomed our new Junior Infants and their parents to our school. We look forward to seeing you all next September.

Dates For Your Diary:

School closed Monday 3rd and Tuesday June 4th.                                                                                                                                              Sports Day and Official opening of the Junior Yard at 2pm after Sports on June 7th. Teachers and Parents Council have been  working hard on these events. It will be a great day!                                                                                                                                                  Annual Cake Sale: June 11th, we look forward to all the treats.

Welcome back everybody. We hope you all had a lovely time during the Easter holidays, and are all set for another busy term.

Bunny Breakfast was a brilliant success, lots of money was raised for the sensory area in the school. A huge thank you to all the teachers involved. Thanks also the The Easter Bunny who made a guest appearance, boys and girls, and their parents who supported it, and to our very generous sponsors: Supervalu Market Cross, Aldi, The Gourmet Store, Tess’s Home Bakery and The Cathedral Ca

Confirmation: Congratulations to the Sixth Class girls who made their Confirmation on April 6th.

First Holy Communion  will take place on Sunday May 19th.

We Are Writers book is here, and we hope you are all enjoying the Pres collection of poems and stories. Treasure it.

Health Promotion Activities 

There are lots of activities going on in school this month to promote a healthy lifestyle for all of us. Classes are doing Go Noodle Dancing,   10 @ 10, 12 @ 12 Operation Transformation , Teddy Bear Rock n Roll, yard laps, mindfulness and rethink your drink, to name a few.On Fridays we have Yard Dancing. It’s a great fun and good for everybody.

There are lots of clubs in the locality with a huge variety of enjoyable activities going on, see the list for details.

Health Promotion Committee January Activity