Credit Union Quiz

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Credit Union Quiz

Every year we put our knowledge to the test and participate in the Credit Union quiz. First we have a preliminary quiz to decide the teams. On my team were Ava, Aly and Stephen. To prepare for the quizzes we practised with two superb Mums; Michelle and Bridget. The first quiz we attended was the Kilchreest NS table quiz which took place in the Meadow Court Hotel. We did well and finished third.

We kept on practising and we prepared for the Credit Union quiz held in Sullivan’s Hotel. We concentrated and by half way two Kiltiernan teams were joint first. In the second half the questions got harder. In the end we won by four points! We were all very excited for the next round which was held on March 3rd in the Galway Bay Hotel.

In the space of time between the 2 quizzes we practised and practised and we nearly knew every question in the book! Finally the day came. I had butterflies in my tummy. This time round the questions were a lot more difficult and tricky. At the end of the round the quizmaster said there would be a tiebreaker for second and the teams were: “Kiltiernan NS and Gaelscoil Tuam”. We started getting slightly nervous and tense. If the other questions were hard, the tiebreaker questions were really hard.

In the tiebreaker we got two questions right out of four. The other school got one. We were delighted when we finished second because first and second progresses to the national quiz finals held in the RDS in Dublin on April 2nd. We still are revising questions and finding more to challenge us. All of us are very proud of our achievement. We would also like to thank Michelle and Bridget for all their help in finding questions and giving us sheets to learn. Thank You!

By David

5th Class

Letter to my local M.E.P. Mairead McGuinness

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Letter to my local M.E.P. Mairead McGuinness

Kiltiernan N.S.

Kilcolgan

Co. Galway

2/3/17

Dear Mairead,

My name is Toby MacAdam. I’m in 5th class in Kiltiernan N.S.

Our school is taking part in the blue star programme, which involves lots of different activities and projects. The Blue Star programme is an initiative to teach us about the European Parliament and how it affects our lives.

One of the projects was we had to complete was fact files on different countries. I researched Holland. We also did projects on historical events in Europe such as The Cold War and The Fall of the Berlin Wall. We learned lots of information from this project.

Another thing we researched was a famous European artist. There were lots of painters to choose from.

For our blue star project, we would like you to come to our school. We would like to ask you questions about the European parliament and your job. Just to remind you, you came to our school in the times of the flooding in February 2014. I hope you can come.

 

Yours sincerely

Toby MacAdam

F.A.I. 5 a-side schools Soccer

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F.A.I. 5 a-side schools Soccer

 

 

Our school is participating in the SPAR F.A.I 5 a-side schools competition. We are going to be training very hard. The blitz will take place on the 21st of March 2017. The coaches are my dad (Rory) and Jerry. We can only send 8 people to the blitz. I have confidence we will win!!!

 

By Toby

5th Class

Engineers Week

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Engineers Week

Engineer’s week takes place from the 4th of March to the 10th.
You can visit the engineersweek.ie website for lots of fun games.
The week has two sponsors- OSTEPS Ireland & SFI Ireland.
Today; Monday
Rory, Sarah & Mary’s Father came in today. He is an Electronic Engineer. Rory showed us the inside of your tablets and your PC’s. He showed us the motherboard of a desktop laptop. He explained how the charging ports go into the small areas in the bottom of the circuit board. Rory also showed us a Defibrillator for beginners. Once turned on, a speaker will transmit instructions on how to preform CPR.
Wednesday
Edel’s dad will come into our school. He works for H.P and will tell us all about his daily life as an engineer.
Thursday
Mathew, Sean’s Father will come on Thursday. He has a selection of roughly 30 experiments to show us. He will be showing us the vital things you need to be an Electrical Engineer. Mathew works in the ESB as an Area Manager for Athlone & Galway

Pantomine 2017

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Pantomime 2017 6/3/17

This years pantomime is alace in blunderland.We started the pantomime in January and we casted the play in February. The play has four different seens containing  Goldielocks and the three bears, Cinderella,Snow white and the seven dwarfs and last but not least all the characters come together. We have been very busy with preparation for the pantomime. Ouir play will take place on the 7th of April at 06:30 in Labane hall and we would realy appreciate if you attened. We prommise it to be a night to remember.

 

By Melanie

5th class

 

 

Blue Star Programme

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Blue Star Programme

The blue star programme is a programme that helps children learn about the European Union and how it works. In our school we did lots of things…

We did power points on EU countries in groups. I was in a group with Ross and Sean and our country was Greece. We had to have a visual thing to do with our EU countries. You could have a flag or anything that could be passed around or put on the white board.

We put together power points on events that changed the history of Europe. I did the foundation of the EU. I learned all about Jenne Monnet and the EU headquarters. We researched European artists and learned all about their lives as an artist.

We also (in groups) put together a word document about MEPs. We learned about what they do in each of the headquarters and what Irish MEPs are in what constituency. But my favourite was the national food tasting day. Everyone in the senior and middle room made and brought in a European dish. All the French people had a desk to design and set up. I made crepes, everyone at the French table made desserts so we were very popular.

In a few weeks’ time we are going to have a visit from Mairead McGuiness. She is an Irish MEP. She is going to tell us about her job. We were asked by our teacher in our groups to write up questions to ask her. We also had to write a letter to invite her to come to our school. We are all very excited to have a visit from Mairead McGuiness.

Grace

5th Class

Letter to Mairead McGuiness

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Letter of Invitation

Kiltiernan N.S,

Kilcolgan,

Co. Galway,

2/3/17

Dear Mairead McGuiness,

Hi! My name is Grace and I am a 5th class student in Kiltiernan N.S. today I have been asked by my teacher Ms. Leech to write you a letter to invite you to our school.

You may be thinking why we want you to visit our school. Well we are inviting you to our school because we are doing a programme called the blue star programme. In this programme we learn about the EU, the history of the EU and how it works.

Our classroom has done many things to increase our knowledge about the EU including…

  • We did power points in groups about EU countries including fact files
  • We put together power points on European events that have changed the history of the EU
  • We researched European artists and inventors.

But my personal favourite was of course the European food tasting day! We had to make European dishes.

All the French people had a table with all their food and so on. I made crepes. All the French people had deserts so I think we were very popular. Any way I was asked to write you a letter of invitation so…

Would you like to come to our school and take time out of your busy day to tell us about your job as an MEP? Well my classmates and I sure hope you would!

Yours sincerely,

Grace, 5th Class

Letter to Mairead McGuiness

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Kiltiernan N.S

Kilcolgan

Co Galway

2 March 2017

Dear Mairead McGuinness

My name is Luke. I go to Kiltiernan N.S. I am writing this letter to you because I would like to invite you to our school for our work for the Blue Star programme. The blue star programme is where we do some projects about the EU. I am going to explain two projects. We did a geography PowerPoint on EU countries. My group did Netherlands. We also did an EU food dish. My dish was chicken cacciatore. Our school would to invite you to our school. Just to remind you one day you were touring South Galway and you came in and promised you would come back!

Yours sincerely

Luke

5th Class

Letter to Mairead McGuinness

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                                                                                                              Kiltiernan NS

Kilcolgan, Co.Galway

2/3/17

Dear Mairead McGuinness

 

I, Seán Cunningham am writing this letter to inform you about our on-going ‘Blue star’ programme. The project helps young people acknowledge more about MEP’s and in general the EU. We have completed

  • A PowerPoint on a given Country
  • One European Revelation
  • A European Painter or inventor
  • Explain how the EU works
  • A Food tasting day with EU Dishes

 

I really hope you will come to Kiltiernan NS. You visited here in 2014-as part of  a  tour of flooded areas in South Galway .You wrote in our visitors book that you would  come back! Hope to see you soon.

Kind Regards

Sean

5th Class

Pantomime Preparation

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Pantomime Preparation
This year we are producing a Pantomime in our school. The Panto is ‘Alas in Blunderland’. We have been practising a long time with different characters and have finally come out of audition. The plot is a few fairy tales mixed all in to one. At the start there is a fairy tale ‘Goldilocks’ then some more fairy tales and in the end they all met for one large finally.
We have not got enough people so we have some people have to double up and some people only have one character. My Characters are ‘Wolf 3’ and ‘Harry Huntsmen’. I really enjoy the preparation for the Pantomime and I love watching the parts I’m not and am in because there are some very funny jokes and parts and characters.
Everyone knows nearly all their lines but have ideas for costumes and are busy chattering about what the costumes will be like. If you gave Ms. Leech a euro every time she told them she has it under control I would say she would be a millionaire!
By Diarmuid 5th class