Kiltiernan National School
Kilcolgan
Co. Galway
2nd March 2017
Dear Ms Mairead McGuinness
My name is Emma. I’m a fifth Class pupil in Kiltiernan National School. Since September we have been working on the Blue Star Programme.
As part of the programme, we have completed PowerPoints on EU countries, fact files on EU countries, artists and inventors, historical EU events and we researched how the parliament works. Recently, we all cooked foods from EU countries and brought them into school for everyone to try. I made Cypriot kebabs called souvlaki. As part of the programme we are asked to invite an MEP to our school to talk about your job and the daily life of an MEP.
So as part of the Blue Star Programme, Kiltiernan National School would like to cordially invite Ms Mairead McGuinness, to come and visit our school to talk about your job and the daily life of an MEP.
We would also like to remind you that you have been at our school before in 2014, when you were touring south Galway for the flood relief. I remember that you wore your green wellies!
We hope you are able to make it and we look forward to seeing you.
Yours Sincerely,
Emma
Kiltiernan National School.
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Letter to Mairead McGuinness
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbKiltiernan National School
Kilcolgan
Co. Galway
2nd March 2017
Dear Ms Mairead McGuinness
My name is Emma. I’m a fifth Class pupil in Kiltiernan National School. Since September we have been working on the Blue Star Programme.
As part of the programme, we have completed PowerPoints on EU countries, fact files on EU countries, artists and inventors, historical EU events and we researched how the parliament works. Recently, we all cooked foods from EU countries and brought them into school for everyone to try. I made Cypriot kebabs called souvlaki. As part of the programme we are asked to invite an MEP to our school to talk about your job and the daily life of an MEP.
So as part of the Blue Star Programme, Kiltiernan National School would like to cordially invite Ms Mairead McGuinness, to come and visit our school to talk about your job and the daily life of an MEP.
We would also like to remind you that you have been at our school before in 2014, when you were touring south Galway for the flood relief. I remember that you wore your green wellies!
We hope you are able to make it and we look forward to seeing you.
Yours Sincerely,
Emma
Kiltiernan National School.
Order of Malta
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbOrder of Malta talk
On the 20-1-17 Maura Lyons did a talk on the Order of Malta. Maura is a cadet officer for the Order of Malta Craughwell. Maura is a medical scientist during non officer days. In the Order of Malta Craughwell,we meet every Monday from 7:15-8:15. Maura explained where you would see the order of malta ambulance. We also learned how to do C.P.R ,tie bandages and also put people in recovery position. The Order of Malta started when tourist travelled to Jerusalem by boat and became ill. St Gerard came up with the idea of the orderof St John to care for ill people on the boat. The Order of Malta trainers compete in competitions in order to gain badges for your uniform. At competitions you have to scan the scene you come across and say if it is safe or unsafe. If the scene is safe then you go over to your patient. The first thing Maura told us to do was call 999/112 then you have to see what’s wrong with your patient followed by trying to help your patient and so on. After all that she told us what the meaning of F.A.S.T was.It means face arms speech and time. We learned how to use a panic button.
Engineers Week
/in 6th Class /by emerbThis year Engineer’s week is running from March 4th to March 10th. The aim of engineer week is for everyone to learn all about what engineers do and for some people it might inspire them to become an engineer.
In Kiltiernan we have already had a visit from Rory, an electronic engineer. He showed us what is inside an Xbox, tablets, ipads and so on. I found it very interesting for us to learn all about his job as an electronic engineer.
We also had another visit from Jerry, a software engineer who works for HPE. He showed us a PowerPoint presentation where he showed us pictures of his work and his daily routine in his job also as today was also international women’s day he had a slide all about a very talented engineer from Galway. He answered all of our questions. It was a very interesting and informative visit.
Ms. Leech has also organised another visit from Mat, Sean’s dad and we are all very excited to meet him and to see what it is like to work as an engineer.
Engineers week is always an exciting week in Kiltiernan N.S. and we always have some very interesting engineers who come in to talk to us and who knows maybe one day I might decide to be an engineer.
By Hannah
6th class
Junior Room Blog
/in 1st Class, Junior Infants, Senior Infants /by emerbSince the start of 2017, we in the Junior Room have been as busy as little bees. In January, we had birthday spins on the chair for Sophia, Emma, and Sarah. We recovered well from Christmas and really enjoyed performing our Nativity in the church. If you have not seen it yet, it is available thanks to Pat Heffernan on the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/j72e22p
We had visits from Maura from the Order of Malta and a lady from Trocaire who filled us in on the important jobs they do for the community.
Our Fab February birthdays are Eoghan and Daniel. Our Write a Books were sent off to another school and we read some books written by Junior and Senior Infants from different schools. We had lots of fun writing our books and are delighted to be able to call ourselves published authors once again. We are very proud of our books and we learned a lot in the process.
Already in March, we have been as busy as ever. We had a taste of Europe in our classroom with food from Italy, Spain and more. We nibbled on breadsticks and crackers from Italy, had mango and pomegranate and of course, some Madeira cake which sounds like it should come from ahem, Madeira! Yummy!
Thanks to Rory Divilly, Gerry Fahy and Matthew Cunningham for coming in to talk about their work for Engineering Week.
We have a visit from Mary Dillon who is doing a Heritage Workshop with us in March and we will be continuing to learn about Biodiversity in our school habitat.
Book Week is from the 13th until the 16th of March. We will see local author Pauline Scully and her daughter Meghann who writes blogs and DJs on Spin South West so we will be full of questions and new information.
We also are looking forward to our drumming workshop which is a planned activity in Book Week. Our favourite part of Book Week is the Buddy Reading which we do every day. It is a great way for us to get to know the older boys and girls in Kiltiernan and the buddy reader is always a buddy to us.
Senior Infants will have their Early Intervention Testing (formally known as MIST) in Maths and English at the end of March. First Class will be tested in May.
Happy birthday to our mad March Hares Matthew, Sheila, Grace, Keelyn, Cian and Síofra.
Happy Easter everyone!
The Blue Star Programme
/in 5th Class /by emerbBlue Star Programme
Since September our school have been working on the Blue Star Programme. We have had lots of fun completing PowerPoints on EU countries, EU artists and inventors, to learn about the culture of EU. We all made a European dish to bring in for everyone to taste. We also researched the foundation of the parliament and how it works. The goal of the programme is to teach everyone to understand and know how the EU affects our lives through projects and activities.
We have completed a series of tasks and projects in order to complete the programme. We are also asked to invite a local Irish MEP to come and visit our school to talk about what it’s like to be a member of the European Parliament.
At the end of the year we are also asked to have a European day to showcase our projects that we have completed during the year.
I really enjoyed completing the projects to go with the Blue Star Programme and I think everyone enjoyed making EU cuisine from EU countries and I enjoyed tasting everyone else’s dishes.
By Emma, 5th Class
Write a book
/in 5th Class /by emerbBlog
I wrote a book about scouts. I go to scouts in Oranmore. I typed the book and Bridget put in the pictures. I love my book. I am very proud.
By Timmy 5th class
Order Of Malta
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbOrder of Malta
On the 18th of January Maura from the group called the Order of Malta came to our school. The Order of Malta is an association that knows and teaches first aid. The order of Malta was generated in Jerusalem.
Maura’s job is a medical scientist. She has a part time job working for the Order of Malta. She showed us her badges and her symbol and her uniform. She also told us that they have to wear gloves when treating a patient. She told us that you have to ask the patient “Can I treat you “
Maura told us that the order of Malta goes to rugby matches and other events. They contact through radios and walkie talkies. She told us the history of the Order of Malta. The reason the order of Malta was formed was because a tourists were going to Jerusalem and picking up diseases. It was set up by St. Gerard because he felt bad for the tourists that had passed by. The Order of Malta meets every 2 weeks. Maura loves her job.
Visit from Trocaire
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbTrocaire visit
Today a woman called Alisha came to visit us at our school. She is a member of Trocaire. She came to talk to us about the global warming and how it affects us and other countries.
She said that global warming is caused by fossil fuel such as coal, oil, petrol, diesel etc. We played games on global warming.
She told us how to prevent global warming. It was a great visit.
ADAM 5TH CLASS
Engineers Week
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbEngineers Week 07/03/2017
Engineers week runs from the 4th – 10th of March. We are celebrating Engineer’s week in Kiltiernan N.S with lots of visits and science experiments. Today the 7th we had a special visitor from a computer company in Galway. His name is Rory and he loves to take apart computers. He brought in the inside of an Xbox. Rory explained the different types of engineers. We will also have a visit from Gerry, Matt. Engineers Week will be a very enjoyable week.
By Patrick
Helen Butler Visit by Ross
/in 6th Class /by emerbHelen Butler Visit
On Thursday the 19th of January, a youth worker called Helen Butler came in. She was doing a workshop about transitioning to secondary school.
She came in first thing in the morning and we got to work straight away.
The first thing we did, we were handed out two sticky notes. We were instructed to write some things we were looking forward to on one and we wrote something we weren’t sure about or not looking forward to on another. She then read some of them out and gave us some advice.
She then split us up into groups and she asked us to come up with some rules. They were listen attentively, respect each other, hands up and have fun!
Next we were given a self reflection sheet and we had to answer questions. Throughout the day we also played some games to keep us on our toes.
After that we had a a bullying segment where we were given a scenario and on each wall of the hall there was a solution. You had to walk to what you thought was the best option. There was also the ‘Open Corner’ were you could come up with your own. We then wrapped up the day with a game that helped you learn how to read a timetable quickly and effectively.
Overall I really enjoyed the day and found it very informative.
By Ross,
6th Class