The World Cup is a sporting event that is held every four years. 32 football teams from all over the world represent their country in a football tournament. They are divided into groups of four and every team plays the other teams in their group and the top two teams qualify to the next stage.
To celebrate this event the middle and the senior rooms drew out a country and did a project based on that country. The project had to include: Capital, Currency, Map, Language, Population, Tourist attractions, Food, Culture, physical Features, World Cup History and players to watch. For example Edel got Morocco, Eimear got Portugal and Grace got Nigeria.
Our Dream Team for World Cup 2018 is as follows:
Neuer
Alves Pepe Ramos Piqué
Coutinho Iniesta Neymar
Messi Ronaldo
Aguero
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On the 29th of May, around 20 athletes from Kiltiernan National School travelled to Dangan running track in Galway to compete in the schools Athletics Competition for 2018.
We competed in many events including 60m, 400m, 100m, 800m and relay runs. We were to be in Dangan for 08:00 to stretch and to get ready to run. We had pupils from 2nd class up to 6th class competing. We did run offs to decide who went to compete. The 1st 2nd and 3rd placing athletes in the run off went to compete in that event. We did the same run offs for anyone who was interested in being on a relay team and we then put relay teams together. There was one boy’s team one girl’s team from 2nd class up to 6th class. It was a fun day and we came back to school with several medals. We really enjoyed ourselves.
By Melanie & Emma 6th class
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On Thursday the 21st of June, 2018’s sixth-class graduated from our school. We put a lot into the preparation, like choir practice, making memory sheets, and practicing our readings. Each child was given a job that- however small and would contribute greatly to the ceremony, including the opening precession, singing solos, and readings.
We started off with the opening precession, which had eight of the sixth-class students bring up items that acted as symbols of our experiences over the years in Kiltiernan N.S.
Then we read out the Liturgy of the Word. Following that we had the Gospel, the Blessing of the Young People, a parent’s Reflection, a Blessing of the Parents and Guardians, the Statement of young People, and finally the Prayers of the Faithful.
We followed this with the presentation of the Certificates of Attendance and the performance of two songs from the incredibly inspiring musical ‘The Greatest Showman’
Before the ceremony we were told to write letters of thanks to our parents and vice versa. We exchanged them and read them later. Subsequently we were given prayer rocks by Elaine Cunningham.
Afterwards our principal, Miss Leech, gave her address, We received had our special Kiltiernan blessing and we finished with our symbolic balloon release on a beautiful summers’ evening.
On Friday, 22/6/2018 sports day and ice-cream day was held in Kiltiernan N.S. We were instructed to bring in a sack, spoon and potato, tights and hurls if you wanted to participate in púc fáda. All children from Sunflower Montessori to 6th class pupils in Kiltiernan participated in a eventful sports day.
We started off the day with a eager 60m sprints from the junior infants to sixth class. As soon as Ms.Leech blew the whistle we saw the hopeful looks on all girls and boys faces as they sprinted for the finish line! After that we had some fun races including sackrace , egg and spoon race (but yet we used potatoes) , three legged races, wheel barrow races and also piggy back races.
After a few races we had a little break and we were told that you could get our two euro for the fundraiser for down syndrome Ireland, so when we got our two euro we all went to get ice-cream in the hall . It was a really nice award from all those races we ran and we raised one hundred and 85 euro for Down Syndrome Ireland!
Without delay the break flew by and we were back in action. Tug of war took place then and lots of students took part. We started with the lower classes and reached are way up to the older classes as the rivalry grew. Shortly afterwards we stared up relay races. All ages could take part. We had an over dose of fun. Suddenly it was 2:00pm and children started to go home early. There was only an hour left of school and 10 pupils left. We began a round of Púc Fada. After Púc Fada we played hurling and lots of soccer.
Unfortunately Sports day had to come to an end and we went home wondering would are school tour be as exciting as today sports day!
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On the 14th June the Kiltiernan hurlers had a county final in Loughgeorge, Claregalway. The team was all set when we left the school at nine thirty. The match started at eleven o’ clock. We had plenty of supporters from 2nd to 6th to cheer us on. Laurencetown NS were our opponents for the match. We changed and started our warm up to prepare for the game. When eleven o’ clock came we were ready to try our best.
The referee threw the ball in and the game was underway. At the start we both exchanged 2 points each and the game was beginning to really be a great game of hurling. But then, Sean picked out Stephen with a great pass who rounded his man and scored an amazing goal. It was 1-3 to 0-2 to Kiltiernan at half time.
When the second half came round we knew the opposition would come out hard. We started quickly and scored another thanks to Stephen to bring his tally to 2-4. We kept going as a team and everyone on the panel put in great effort to help win this game. We kept going and scored another goal and a point from Stephen. When the final whistle blew we started to celebrate to our victory.
We went over and lifted the trophy and took some pictures and enjoyed every bit of it. After, we went to Supermacs and thanks to the school for that. We would also like to thank Ms O’ Doherty and Barry Duffy for coaching us a helping us. It was a great day for Kiltiernan NS.
By Stephen and Adam
6th Class
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On Monday 25th we went on our school tour. Juniors to 1st went to Loughwell farm and 2nd to 6th went to AIT in Athlone for a lets go camp. When we arrived at AIT we were split into groups. The Middle and Senior room were split into two groups. The Senior room was called group 9 and the Middle room was called group 8. The senior room then went on the KMX’s and the Spider tower. After those fun activities we had a small break.
Soon we went to the hall and we ran some relay races. After we did races on a bouncy castle slide. Later went outside onto the astro turf and played a game of lacrosse. Next we had our lunch and a talent show.
Up next was loads of fun going down a slide in a zorbie. We each had two goes. Two people were in a zorbie at one time. Shortly afterwards we went back into the main hall and went on the inflatable wrecking ball. We had our goes in fours on the wrecking ball. Next we went on a bouncy castle mountain.
Following that we went back on the astro turf and played a game of rip tag. We had to put a Velcro tag on our arm and we had to try and rip it off the other people. Sadly after our time was up and we had to leave l but we still had to go Shopping! We headed to the Golden Island shopping centre. We were split into groups and we had 35 minutes to go around the shopping centre and spend our hard earned cash. After shopping we headed home happy and content.
It was a great day and we had so much fun!
By Erin and Clodagh
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Our very best wishes to Timmy who is taking part in the Special Olympics this weekend in the Aquatic Centre at Abbottstown. We hope you go all the way to Abu Dhabi Timmy. Kiltiernan NS are very proud of you.
**********UPDATE************
Congratulations to our superstar Timmy who won his heat on Friday evening, beating his own personal best by 6 seconds. On Saturday this amazing young man won a bronze medal in The Special Olympics All Ireland Final. To say we are proud is an understatement. All your hard work and determination paid off Timmy and we at Kiltiernan NS are so delighted for you! Pho
Congratulations to our U13 and U11 quiz teams who both placed 2nd at the Meadowcourt Quiz recently. 72 teams participated so we are very proud of our teams on their superb achievements. All the hard work paid off!
Then it was off to Gort where our U13s proved victorious in a hard fought battle for first place in the Credit Union Quiz, which ended in a tie-break! We held our nerve and were very excited, and relieved, to be announced winners. Our U11 team came a very respectable 3rd place. Now it’s back to work for the next round of the quiz, in Galway, in March.
On the 7th of October 2016, it was Mark Fordham’s birthday. We had a big celebration at school! There was a bouncy castle, face painting and some treats for the kids that our wonderful parents council provided. We got to dress up in costumes of all the things Mark liked. Mark was 9 years old on that day. At big break, we got dressed into our costumes. I was a fairy fluttering through the woods. We had a fashion show when everyone showed off their costumes. Patricia and Donal were there and I think they had a very happy day. They gave us lots of jellies and there were refreshments in the hall for adults. Tara and Hannah did the face painting – and did a good job! We all had an absolutely brilliant day just like Mark would have wanted us to have!
On the 7th of October, we were all happy to wake up to a warm, sunny day to celebrate our good friend Mark’s Birthday. It was a special day and we wanted to let Mark know that we were thinking about him. We got a big yellow obstacle course bouncy castle, which had a huge slide at the end, and loads of places to climb. Our classrooms were let out one by one on to the bouncy castle until 1 o’clock, when the party started. Hannah, Meadbh, Tara and I were on face painting duty. We made a poster and put it on a tree near our workshop at the back of the yard. We weren’t getting too many customers, so we moved to the basketball court. Then our business took off and we painted the faces of almost all the people in the whole school, even Ms Fenlon! Meanwhile, the adults were stuffing their faces in the Halla before the kids found out about the tea, coffee and goodies that were in there. We found out after a while, and although the adults tried to keep us out, most of us managed to sneak in and take some brownies, cupcakes and biscuits. We also got goodie bags with crisps and sweets that were kindly given to us by the parents’ council. I think it was a really nice, happy way to celebrate Mark, and I think he would have loved to be there.
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Junior Room Blog
World Cup 2018
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbProjects: Edel, Eimear and Grace
The World Cup is a sporting event that is held every four years. 32 football teams from all over the world represent their country in a football tournament. They are divided into groups of four and every team plays the other teams in their group and the top two teams qualify to the next stage.
To celebrate this event the middle and the senior rooms drew out a country and did a project based on that country. The project had to include: Capital, Currency, Map, Language, Population, Tourist attractions, Food, Culture, physical Features, World Cup History and players to watch. For example Edel got Morocco, Eimear got Portugal and Grace got Nigeria.
Our Dream Team for World Cup 2018 is as follows:
Neuer
Coutinho Iniesta Neymar
Messi Ronaldo
Aguero
Galway County Sports
/in 6th Class /by emerbOn the 29th of May, around 20 athletes from Kiltiernan National School travelled to Dangan running track in Galway to compete in the schools Athletics Competition for 2018.
We competed in many events including 60m, 400m, 100m, 800m and relay runs. We were to be in Dangan for 08:00 to stretch and to get ready to run. We had pupils from 2nd class up to 6th class competing. We did run offs to decide who went to compete. The 1st 2nd and 3rd placing athletes in the run off went to compete in that event. We did the same run offs for anyone who was interested in being on a relay team and we then put relay teams together. There was one boy’s team one girl’s team from 2nd class up to 6th class. It was a fun day and we came back to school with several medals. We really enjoyed ourselves.
By Melanie & Emma 6th class
Graduation 2018
/in 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbOn Thursday the 21st of June, 2018’s sixth-class graduated from our school. We put a lot into the preparation, like choir practice, making memory sheets, and practicing our readings. Each child was given a job that- however small and would contribute greatly to the ceremony, including the opening precession, singing solos, and readings.
We started off with the opening precession, which had eight of the sixth-class students bring up items that acted as symbols of our experiences over the years in Kiltiernan N.S.
Then we read out the Liturgy of the Word. Following that we had the Gospel, the Blessing of the Young People, a parent’s Reflection, a Blessing of the Parents and Guardians, the Statement of young People, and finally the Prayers of the Faithful.
We followed this with the presentation of the Certificates of Attendance and the performance of two songs from the incredibly inspiring musical ‘The Greatest Showman’
Before the ceremony we were told to write letters of thanks to our parents and vice versa. We exchanged them and read them later. Subsequently we were given prayer rocks by Elaine Cunningham.
Afterwards our principal, Miss Leech, gave her address, We received had our special Kiltiernan blessing and we finished with our symbolic balloon release on a beautiful summers’ evening.
By: Erin, Adam, and Grace
Sports day and ice Cream day 2018
/in 1st Class, 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, Junior Infants, Senior Infants /by emerbOn Friday, 22/6/2018 sports day and ice-cream day was held in Kiltiernan N.S. We were instructed to bring in a sack, spoon and potato, tights and hurls if you wanted to participate in púc fáda. All children from Sunflower Montessori to 6th class pupils in Kiltiernan participated in a eventful sports day.
We started off the day with a eager 60m sprints from the junior infants to sixth class. As soon as Ms.Leech blew the whistle we saw the hopeful looks on all girls and boys faces as they sprinted for the finish line! After that we had some fun races including sackrace , egg and spoon race (but yet we used potatoes) , three legged races, wheel barrow races and also piggy back races.
After a few races we had a little break and we were told that you could get our two euro for the fundraiser for down syndrome Ireland, so when we got our two euro we all went to get ice-cream in the hall . It was a really nice award from all those races we ran and we raised one hundred and 85 euro for Down Syndrome Ireland!
Without delay the break flew by and we were back in action. Tug of war took place then and lots of students took part. We started with the lower classes and reached are way up to the older classes as the rivalry grew. Shortly afterwards we stared up relay races. All ages could take part. We had an over dose of fun. Suddenly it was 2:00pm and children started to go home early. There was only an hour left of school and 10 pupils left. We began a round of Púc Fada. After Púc Fada we played hurling and lots of soccer.
Unfortunately Sports day had to come to an end and we went home wondering would are school tour be as exciting as today sports day!
County Hurling Champions 2018
/in 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbOn the 14th June the Kiltiernan hurlers had a county final in Loughgeorge, Claregalway. The team was all set when we left the school at nine thirty. The match started at eleven o’ clock. We had plenty of supporters from 2nd to 6th to cheer us on. Laurencetown NS were our opponents for the match. We changed and started our warm up to prepare for the game. When eleven o’ clock came we were ready to try our best.
The referee threw the ball in and the game was underway. At the start we both exchanged 2 points each and the game was beginning to really be a great game of hurling. But then, Sean picked out Stephen with a great pass who rounded his man and scored an amazing goal. It was 1-3 to 0-2 to Kiltiernan at half time.
When the second half came round we knew the opposition would come out hard. We started quickly and scored another thanks to Stephen to bring his tally to 2-4. We kept going as a team and everyone on the panel put in great effort to help win this game. We kept going and scored another goal and a point from Stephen. When the final whistle blew we started to celebrate to our victory.
We went over and lifted the trophy and took some pictures and enjoyed every bit of it. After, we went to Supermacs and thanks to the school for that. We would also like to thank Ms O’ Doherty and Barry Duffy for coaching us a helping us. It was a great day for Kiltiernan NS.
By Stephen and Adam
6th Class
School Tour 2018
/in 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbOn Monday 25th we went on our school tour. Juniors to 1st went to Loughwell farm and 2nd to 6th went to AIT in Athlone for a lets go camp. When we arrived at AIT we were split into groups. The Middle and Senior room were split into two groups. The Senior room was called group 9 and the Middle room was called group 8. The senior room then went on the KMX’s and the Spider tower. After those fun activities we had a small break.
Soon we went to the hall and we ran some relay races. After we did races on a bouncy castle slide. Later went outside onto the astro turf and played a game of lacrosse. Next we had our lunch and a talent show.
Up next was loads of fun going down a slide in a zorbie. We each had two goes. Two people were in a zorbie at one time. Shortly afterwards we went back into the main hall and went on the inflatable wrecking ball. We had our goes in fours on the wrecking ball. Next we went on a bouncy castle mountain.
Following that we went back on the astro turf and played a game of rip tag. We had to put a Velcro tag on our arm and we had to try and rip it off the other people. Sadly after our time was up and we had to leave l but we still had to go Shopping! We headed to the Golden Island shopping centre. We were split into groups and we had 35 minutes to go around the shopping centre and spend our hard earned cash. After shopping we headed home happy and content.
It was a great day and we had so much fun!
By Erin and Clodagh
Good Luck Timmy
/in What's Happening /by 5ch00lAdm1nOur very best wishes to Timmy who is taking part in the Special Olympics this weekend in the Aquatic Centre at Abbottstown. We hope you go all the way to Abu Dhabi Timmy. Kiltiernan NS are very proud of you.
**********UPDATE************
Congratulations to our superstar Timmy who won his heat on Friday evening, beating his own personal best by 6 seconds. On Saturday this amazing young man won a bronze medal in The Special Olympics All Ireland Final. To say we are proud is an understatement. All your hard work and determination paid off Timmy and we at Kiltiernan NS are so delighted for you! Pho
Quiz Winners
/in 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by 5ch00lAdm1nCongratulations to our U13 and U11 quiz teams who both placed 2nd at the Meadowcourt Quiz recently. 72 teams participated so we are very proud of our teams on their superb achievements. All the hard work paid off!
Then it was off to Gort where our U13s proved victorious in a hard fought battle for first place in the Credit Union Quiz, which ended in a tie-break! We held our nerve and were very excited, and relieved, to be announced winners. Our U11 team came a very respectable 3rd place. Now it’s back to work for the next round of the quiz, in Galway, in March.
Mark’s Birthday
/in 3rd Class /by 5ch00lAdm1nMark’s Birthday
On the 7th of October 2016, it was Mark Fordham’s birthday. We had a big celebration at school! There was a bouncy castle, face painting and some treats for the kids that our wonderful parents council provided. We got to dress up in costumes of all the things Mark liked. Mark was 9 years old on that day. At big break, we got dressed into our costumes. I was a fairy fluttering through the woods. We had a fashion show when everyone showed off their costumes. Patricia and Donal were there and I think they had a very happy day. They gave us lots of jellies and there were refreshments in the hall for adults. Tara and Hannah did the face painting – and did a good job! We all had an absolutely brilliant day just like Mark would have wanted us to have!
By Orlaith
3rd class
Mark’s Birthday
/in 6th Class /by emerbMARK’S BIRTHDAY
On the 7th of October, we were all happy to wake up to a warm, sunny day to celebrate our good friend Mark’s Birthday. It was a special day and we wanted to let Mark know that we were thinking about him. We got a big yellow obstacle course bouncy castle, which had a huge slide at the end, and loads of places to climb. Our classrooms were let out one by one on to the bouncy castle until 1 o’clock, when the party started. Hannah, Meadbh, Tara and I were on face painting duty. We made a poster and put it on a tree near our workshop at the back of the yard. We weren’t getting too many customers, so we moved to the basketball court. Then our business took off and we painted the faces of almost all the people in the whole school, even Ms Fenlon! Meanwhile, the adults were stuffing their faces in the Halla before the kids found out about the tea, coffee and goodies that were in there. We found out after a while, and although the adults tried to keep us out, most of us managed to sneak in and take some brownies, cupcakes and biscuits. We also got goodie bags with crisps and sweets that were kindly given to us by the parents’ council. I think it was a really nice, happy way to celebrate Mark, and I think he would have loved to be there.
By Ava