Entries by emerb

Chickens

Hatching Chickens On the 23rd of May 2017, Kiltiernan had some new arrivals in the school supplied by John Dempsey. They were in an incubator for two weeks at about 35 degrees Celsius and John had to keep some water at the bottom and make sure it didn’t dry out. John came in one day […]

Kiltiernan’s Cute Chicks

Chickens. Chickens are an important part of our community. Whether it’s for their meat or their eggs or to be kept as pets, we definitely need them! A farmer by the name of John D thought that it would be a good idea to bring in some freshly laid chicken eggs to show the pupils […]

Seashore Safari with Brendan Allard

On the 24th of May Brendan Allard from the Marine institute came to visit. He brought us to Traught beach to discover marine life. We came into school armed with our nets and buckets and we went on a bus to Traught. First we went to the rocks. We got into groups and started searching […]

Drumcondra Tests

Drumcondra Tests strike again! For the past weeks we have been working very hard for the Drumcondra tests. We completed the first test which was the English test in late May. We also completed the spelling test in May but some classes were set aside to June. We finished the Maths in June and that […]

Blogs Debating

In the senior room over the last couple of months we have been undertaking debates in our classroom. We have worked on numerous motions including ‘Cats make better pets then dogs’, ‘Homework is a waste of time’ and ‘All students should be required to take a cooking class’. We were set into 2 teams and […]

Swimming with a Splash

  Swimming is a milestone in the year that everyone enjoys, so on the 28th of April everyone came in with swimming bag under their arms. At 11 o’clock every Friday for 6 weeks we would get a bus down to Kilcornan Swimming pool. We were all so excited about it when it came to […]

Des & Bosco’s Training Sessions

Des and Bosco-awesome training sessions   Every Tuesday we hurling trained with Bosco. The middle room did it from 12 o clock till 1 o clock. The senior room played from 1 o clock till 2 o clock every Tuesday. In the training sessions we sometimes did drills and in the drills we did jab […]

Mini 7’s

Championship Mini 7s On Thursday the 25th of May the Kiltiernan boys had a hurling blitz. We played Kilbeacanty N.S and Lurga N.S. We played Kilbeacanty N.S first. It was a very good game- very tight until the last minute…. Bang Kilbeacanty score a goal we were now down 4 points. We kept our heads […]

Des & Bosco’s Training Sessions

Bosco and Des   Hurling Every Tuesday after Easter pupils from 3rd to 6th class went out to Bosco to train for hurling. We started by doing some small drills and at the end we all played a match that everyone enjoyed. The middle room went with him from 12 O’clock to 1 O’clock and […]

Girls Camogie Championship 2017

On Thursday the 1st of May 2017 girls from 4th to 6th class attended a camogie competition .The competition was at St Thomas’s Pitch. We had been practising on the pitch at school and we felt that are skills had improved! Ms Leech and Ms O’Doherty had the privilege of picking the starting team. We […]