May 2017

May 18, 2017June 2, 2017 Bernadette Daly

Silver Circle Draw: A big thank you to all the parents, boys, girls, neighbours, friends and families who supported the draw. Over €7000 was raised. The money raised will go towards the resurfacing of the Junior Yard. The draw was held on May 17th. Congratulations to all the lucky winners!

Fifth Class, Junior Entrepreneurs were in Lyrath Hotel to showcase their product, Squishies, on May 17th. It was a very enjoyable and worthwhile experience. A big thank you to Ms O’ Meara for all her work. Congratulations and well done Fifth Class!

First Holy Communion -May 21st 2017

First Holy Communion took place on Sunday May 21st for our Second Class girls, and the boys from CBS. It was a lovely ceremony, the choir sang beautifully, and everybody looked great. A big thank you to Mrs Millea and Ms Mc Carthy ,our second class teachers, for preparing our girls for the sacrament and to Mrs Fitzpatrick for her work with the choir. We hope you all had a great day with your families.

Second Class girls-Rooms 10 and 13, looking wonderful!

New Junior Infants: we welcomed our new Junior Infants and their parents to the school on May 24th.

Senior Sports Day 2017

Sports day was held on May 26th. It was a brilliant day. The sun shone and parents and pupils enjoyed the event.

Well done parents! Your children are proud!

Congratulations to the winning teachers. Your classes are proud of you!

Sixth Classes with their teachers Ms Carrigan and Ms Maloney ,and our principal Ms Deasy

Ice Cream

What a lovely surprise we all got when Billy arrived with his ice cream van! Thank you very much Parents’ Council for such a lovely treat, on a hot and sunny day, after all that running and racing.

Parents’ Council Tablet Draw

A big thank you to Ms Bolger, Mrs Moran, The Parents Council, Ms Deasy and to all the teachers involved and to the boys and girls who took part. Thank you to all the parents who came to support and cheer on their boys and girls. Bhí lá iontach ag gach duine.

Wassa Wassa : drumming classes took place on May 29th and 30th. They were great fun.

Spikeball

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Tag Rugby

We had a very exciting international tag rugby championship at the end of the season in March 2016. Our coach Noel and his son Ben refereed it. France and Spain were finalists, France were the winners. Congratulations!

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Go raibh míle maith agaibh, Noel, Ben, Ms Bolger agus na foirne. We all loved this sporting event.

Spikeball

Our winning team — Regional final Winners-March 2016 . Well done girls!

Music

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We have a great variety of music in the school.

Kilkenny youth orchestra puts on concerts for us regularly.

June 2014

june 14 013 — Philip and friends entertaining us.

Music 2010

2010_easter_01 — Kilkenny Youth Orchestra

On February 17th we enjoyed a very informative talk and enjoyable performance from Philip and the musicians.

Our choir accompanied the orchestra. Thanks to Philip, Margaret and everybody involved.

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MUSIC 2009

All classes enjoy a vibrant music programme and

parents are treated to lunch-time concerts in June and December.

16_christmas2009 — Our choir, trained and conducted by Ms. Margaret Murran, performed for the school and their parents before the holidays. They were wonderful.

summer09_10 — Lunch time concerts June 12th. 2009 conducted by Ms. Cathy Kenny

summer09_11 — First classes, who were awarded 2nd place in the Kilkenny Music Festival 2009.

summer09_12 — Second and Third Classes, playing their recorders, who were awarded first place for singing in the Kilkenny Music festival 2009.

summer09_13 — Concert June 17th. 4th. 5th and 6th choir conducted by Ms. Margaret Murran

Art

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Spring Art and Projects 2016

There is a wonderful range of art and project work to be seen all around the school.

Here are some examples.

Junior Infants have learned all about the farm.

Summer Art 2014

Spring Art 2014

Pottery with Shona Flood

Here we have a selection of the very

interesting art to be seen in the classrooms and corridors around our school.

winter art t2010 003 — Room 18 Third Class created mice after reading The School Mouse

winter art t2010 005 — Sixth class art inspired by Tony O’ Malley Exhibition

Summer Art

Summer_011 — Some of the art that is to be seen around the school.

ART DECEMBER

There was some beautiful art work to be seen around the school in December.

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See here some of the art work on display around our school.

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Artists in Schools Programme

Deirdre Mc Carthy worked for 20 hours with our 6th. class pupils and teacher. The project was D.N.A.

summer09_09 — Live size portraits on display for exhibition in the hall.

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JUNE

Here are some examples of art work done in the school.

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Speech and Drama

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Drama

Cinderella – A Pantomime was a very entertaining event in June 2014

Goldilocks and the Five Bears and The Six little pigs were the 6th class musicals of 2013.

6th class staged the musical Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in June 2012.

Some of the Red Riding Hood cast

High Drama in Pink

The plot thickens

Red Riding Hood with her pistol

All classes enjoy Speech and Drama classes and go to the theatre regularly. We also have visiting players. At Christmas time we have some great Nativity plays. In 2011 Fifth Class entertained us with Julius Ceasar, conducted by Ms. Maar Bolger.

Drama June 2011

These plays were “The Revenge of the Three Bears” & The Lady of Shallotte, written and directed by Miss Bolger. There was great audience participation. We loved the sixties music and beehive hairstyles. It was great entertainment. We wonder if any of our past pupils will have a career on the stage!

Basketball 2014

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Our Senior girls play basketball throughout the year. We hold a Basketball Blitz in the last term.

Basketball Blitz 2013

Our senior girls had a very active month taking part in the basketball blitz. Congratulations to the winners and the runners up.

The final on June 20th. Hard work on a hot day!

The lessons are given by Joe Byrne, Regional Development Officer for Basketball. We play once a week – hail rain or shine and its great fun.

Basketball Blitz 2012

Joe organized a basketball blitz in June 2012.

: Listen to Joe

Web Summer31 — Congratulations to the winners and runners up

Basketball Tournament June 2008

Ms. Sarah Lacey organised a basketball tournament between 4th, 5th & 6th classes. Games were played at both breaks.

Ms. Sinéad Maher assisted Ms. Lacey.

A thrilling final was held on June 20th between Teams 9 and 10. Well Done! It was very enjoyable and a great success.

Sports Day 2014

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Proud Medal Winners June 2014

Senior Sports Day 2014

This three legged race isn't easy, but it's fun! — This three legged race isn’t easy, but it’s fun!

Our Wonderful Parents' Council 2014 — Our Wonderful Parents’ Council 2014

At the end of our Sports Day we all got a lovely treat from Mrs Kelly and the Parents’ Council. Go raibh mile maith agaibh.

This is good I wish we had it every day!

Junior Sports Day 2014

Summer Sporting Events 2013

Summer Sporting Events 2012

Senior Sports Day for 2nd to 6th classes took place on June 1st.

Winner all right!

The sack race isn’t as easy as it looks.

Bat and Ball Race

Third Class Girls at the finishing line.

Congratulations Girls!

Three-legged race is great fun.

Parents’ Race

Teachers’ Race

Camogie

Our senior classes have been enjoying playing camogie this year.

Camogie Players enjoying the sport.

Congratulations to our camogie final winners.

Junior Sports Day took place on June 19th. It was a very colourful event.

I won’t drop this.

I won’t let the orange team down!

Colourful Participants

Senior Infants enjoying the sun and sports.

Representatives from all teams.

Blue V. Green, Ready, Steady, Go.

This is fun.

Mustn’t drop it!

Oh I can’t look!

Basketball Blitz

Joe Byrne organized a basketball blitz between 5th and 6th classes. The final took place on June 25th.

Taking advice from Joe

A very exciting final

Congratulations to the winners and runners up. Well done!

Sports Days 2011

This year we had a Junior and Senior Sports Day. Both days were great fun, even though the weather seemed to be conspiring against us, and we had to change the dates a few times!

Sports Day

Sports Day this year was a great success.

Summer_005 — Concentration is needed here.

Summer_007 — A sack race is not as easy as it looks.

Summer_008 — Congratulations to the Parent’s Race winners

Summer_009 — Winners of the Teacher’s Race

Summer_010 — Members of our Parents’ Council who were very busy on Sports Day

Mrs. Kelly and all in the Presentation Primary welcome the McCarthy Cup

hurling03 — Mrs. Kelly, our new principal, who hails from the Kingdom, welcomed Jackie Tyrrell and the Mc Carthy cup to our school.

hurling02 — Mrs Eileen Moran did a brilliant job as M.C.

hurling08 — Black and Amber from Junior Infants to Sixth Class.

hurling09 — Three enthusiastic fans from Room 1

hurling04 — The Lacey Ladies Helen and Sarah Lacey seen here with Jackie and The Cup

hurling13 — Kerry and Kilkenny Mrs Kelly, shouting for Kerry, while black and amber fans shout for Kilkenny! Comhghairdeas agus buiochas do gach duine.

Sports Day 2009

Irish Dancing

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Every Wednesday, we have Irish dancing in the hall. Our Infants go to dancing from 1.40 to 2.40 pm. First to Sixth classes have dancing from 2.40 t0 3.40. Ms. Evelyn White is the dancing teacher. It’s great fun.