On the 27th of October it was the Halloween dress up in Kiltiernan N.S. There were skeletons, superheroes and a whole lot of fun for everyone! Every class came in dressed up in scary outfits but there were some superheroes to save the day. All of the school was excited for the reveal of the overall winners but everyone was a winner thanks to their amazing costumes. Everyone wanted to win, but there were only a few overall winners. These are all the winners: Eánna and Dylan, (Junior Infants) Lilly and Sophia, (Senior Infants) Conor and Emma, (1st) Mathew Quinn and Grace, (2nd) Corey, (3rd) Orlaith, Erin and Lauren. (4th) Sadhbh and Andrew (5th) and Stephen, David, Adam, Toby and Grace.
Halloween was great fun for everyone and everybody enjoyed Dressing up!
By Diarmuid and Meadhbh 4th Class
Tommy Baker’s Puppet Show
On Tuesday the 24th of October 2017, Tommy Baker made a visit to all of the pupils and staff of Kiltiernan NS. We all gathered in the hall. He performed the show of the ‘Salmon of Knowledge’. It was about Fionn Mc Cumhail and Finnegas, who owned the Salmon of Knowledge. The puppets looked amazing. He did one other show for 3rd class up. It was played by handmade puppets. They were made from wood. It was a wonderful show. It was a great way to spend one afternoon!!!
By Orlaith and Eoan 4th Class
CHRISTMAS CARDS
Every year in our school we make Christmas cards. We get a piece of paper to draw on and we draw what we’d want on the front of our Christmas cards. Then we send them out to get printed. About a week later we get our Christmas cards back. We can get cards with our picture on the front or teddies with t-shirts that have our pictures on them. We always have great fun making our cards. Everybody made great cards. I can’t wait to make them again next year!
By Ellie Leyden4th Class
Grandparents Day at Kiltiernan N.S
On the 6th of October Kiltiernan celebrated Grandparents’ Day by inviting them to our school. On Grandparents’ Day it was very exciting. All the students made sure the hálla was decorated in interviews, drawings and many other projects all made by us children.
When they arrived the grandparents were invited to take a seat in the hálla.
Ms Leech made a heart-warming speech talking about how much we appreciate our grandparents coming and the happiness of us kids when we see them.
Mr O Doherty came in and talked to us about old artefacts such as and old schoolbag, and old doll, a foot warmer and even a coat of arms used in the Battle of Aughrim which took place in 1691. There was also an old receipt and a curling tongs holder.
We then sang our hearts out and brought back our grandparent’s memories by singing songs that they might have heard when they were young.
Soon after we went back to our classrooms and asked questions about our grandparent’s lives. It was very interesting.
I think Grandparents’ Day was a big success with everyone!
By Erin and Lauren 4th Class
Grease
We went to see Grease in Kilcornan on Thursday the 16th of November which was produced and staged by Seamount Secondary School.
It was great fun seeing all the older boys and girls dress up and sing and dance their hearts out. We saw a few past pupils on stage and thought about how much we’re going to love being on stage in the near future!
Origami Workshop
For Science Week, we were lucky enough to have a workshop on the skills of Origami. Tom showed some samples of shapes that he had folded and explained the role of Origami in Maths, Science and Engineering.
He showed the class how to create an ancient Japanese envelope and after, we made lovely birds too. It was very educational and great fun too.
Liam McCarthy Visit
We were delighted to welcome the Liam McCarthy cup to the school on the 21st of November. We were all dressed up in Galway gear and we were honoured to touch, take pictures with and ask questions to the members of the panel.
In School this Term
Our class has been having great fun learning music from the 1960s this term. We have so far learned ‘California Dreamin’, With a Little Help From my Friends’ and Happy Together’. We could provide great Christmas entertainment this year!! Lots more trips down memory lane to come next year!
We will be continuing to practice for the Christmas Choral Evening with Ms. Fenlon and we have a nice surprise song planned for you.
We have recently being doing lots of Bar Graphs and charts in Maths. We have also studied multiplication in 4th, addition, time, fractions and lots more.
Only a few more sleeps til you know what!!!!
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To get us students of Kiltiernan into the Christmas spirit our teachers thought it would be a good idea to give us Christmas cards! But not just any Christmas cards…. we get to design them ourselves!
Mid October, our resource teacher told us that a company called Christmas Cards for Schools would be producing our Christmas cards that we designed and that we could draw anything we wanted -as long as it was Christmas related- on an A4 piece of paper. We had to give it back to our teacher before the following Friday.
Once we started drawing you couldn’t stop us! The classroom was nice and quiet as we drew Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus. Everyone in the class let their creativity loose and we have made beautiful Christmas cards to give to their relatives!
Our sample Christmas cards were given back to us just before the Halloween break and we were told that we could order more of our cards if we wanted to.
Getting Christmas cards with our own designs was a great treat. We really enjoyed it and would love to do again. And remember, folks, the weather outside may be frightful but the Christmas cards are delightful!
Every Wednesday all of students who would like to do Irish dancing go to the halla at the allocated time for Irish dancing. The person who teaches us Irish dancing is called Louise. Louise is very generous to give a time out of her busy day to teach us how to Irish dance and we are very grateful. My group is the oldest group which is the 5th and 6th class boys and girls. This year we do not have a show but every second year we do. This year the 5th and 6th class group are doing the 8 hand reel followed by the 3 hand. We also worked on the brush dance. I always enjoy going to Irish dancing and hopefully you would too!
On the 21st of September Kiltiernan N.S held their coffee morning for the Galway hospice. We had loads of sweet treats such as buns, cakes, cookies and many more. Pupils were asked to bake and bring in as many cakes and buns as possible. My nana and I baked treacle cake. It was delicious. Lagan Construction supported us all the with the coffee morning. Outside the gates of the school we had ‘a coffee to go’ table so if you didn’t want to come in you could stop get a coffee and hit the road fast! At the end of the busy day all our pupils got little goody bags full of jellies and crisps. We raised about 900 Euro for the Hospice which is a great cause. By Adam 6th Class
On the 16th of November 2017 kiltiernan N.s went to see Seamount’s production of grease lightning. We got on a bus at 10 o’clock in the morning. We took the five minute journey to Kilcornan hall. The play started off with two groups singing – a group of boys and a group of girls. The main character was a girl named sandy. She was new and didn’t have many friends. The play was very good at moving from scene to scene. They even had an old car that was stripped down as Grease Lightning. It had no wheels and they painted it themselves. There was a lot of singing with songs including ‘Summer Loving’. They could do the American accent very well. It was very cool with all the LED lights and flashing lights .. My favourite part was at the start when the light shone on the group of boys- the girls would stop talking and moving and if it shone on the girls the boys would stop moving and talking. I thought it was very good. They were all good at what they did including the adults and teachers because it must have taken ages to rehearse and get it perfect. I was sitting beside a huge sound system with loads of buttons and dials. There was also a setup behind that; this one was used to control the lights. At the end of the performance all the performers stood at the front of the stage and took a bow to a standing ovation. We had a great morning.
On the 17th of November 2017 an origami expert, Tom Cuffe came to the classrooms of Kiltiernan N.S. to teach us the ways of Origami. Tom is also a birdwatcher and uses that to help with his origami. Origami is the art of folding paper. First he taught us how to craft an ancient Chinese envelope. He told us that paper was very expensive back then and that people would write on a piece of paper and they would use Origami to fold it into an envelope. Secondly he taught us how to make a tetrahedron. This took a lot of precision and time. Finally he showed us how to make a cube out of six small pieces of card. During break I stayed in and made what is called a level two cube which uses hundred and twenty pieces of small card or twenty cubes. I really enjoyed the workshop and I would love to do it again.
On Friday the 20th of October Kiltiernan National School got a visit from Tommy Baker. Tommy Baker is a local puppeteer who is going to be performing in Borneo this month, in a puppet festival. He was chosen to open the festival. He came to our school to perform for us. The show he would put on in Borneo. He had chosen the salmon of knowledge. When he arrived we were all so excited.
The show was very exciting. It started when Fionn, the main character looking for someone to train him to be a warrior. He found two old ladies called Grainne and Aoife. They were to train him to be a warrior and a fighter. They asked him to do tasks. The first task was to put Fionn in a sack and throw him in the lake. There were two more tasks to find the hare of Ardrahan and not to get burnt by the salmon. Tommy also put on a second show for the middle and senior room. They were handmade puppets, made out of sticks and wool. It was about finding his courage and helping his friends to find something they needed.
I really enjoyed the puppet show. It was a lot of fun and we were greatly entertained.
By Emma, 6th Class
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This Term at kiltiernan N.S we are singing 60’s music. We are singing the music for our own enjoyment. We have sang songs such as…….
Happy together-The Turtles
California dreaming-The Mamas & the Papas
With a little help from my friends – The Beatles
Golden Slumbers-The Beatles
For California dreaming as some of you know the mamas and the papas featured two boys and two girls so Ms O Doherty came up with the idea of sending up two boys and two girls and the rest of the class sang the seconds.
We came up with the idea of Golden Slumbers from the new John Lewis ad on YouTube as our next project for Christmas. It is second on the trending list. We practice these songs on Tuesday every week.
I really enjoy doing these songs every week and look forward to it!
On Friday 9th of November we had athletics. Lots of schools were taking part. The length of the track was 1k. It was behind the Galway hospice on Renmore pitch. We had four boys from our class taking part. Stephen won the race and David came second. I came 29th and Diarmuid wasn’t far behind. After we went to the shop Diarmuid and Stephen and David had a roll and I had rashers and chips. When we got back to school we went into the staff room and our teacher made us tea while we ate our food. When we ate all our food we had to go back to class. We had a fun filled morning.
On the 17th of November for science week Tom Cuffe, an origami expert came to teach us the art of origami. Origami is the art of folding paper. Firstly, Tom showed us his bird origami. Tom is also a birdwatcher and ties in origami and birds together. He made beautiful swans, eagles and cranes. Next he showed us his large origami collection such a massive cube and a batman mask. The batman was life-size meaning you could put it on your face! Next, Tom taught us how to make an ancient Chinese envelope. He said paper was expensive so they made the letter and the envelope in the one piece of paper. Secondly we made a tetrahedron. You use two small pieces of paper and combine them together. Finally, we finished by using six business cards to create an origami cube. Over break Toby made a level two cube, a bigger cube. He used twenty small cubes. I would like to thank Tom for an amazing workshop and I really enjoyed it.
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Middle Room Blog for Term 1
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Halloween Dress up
On the 27th of October it was the Halloween dress up in Kiltiernan N.S. There were skeletons, superheroes and a whole lot of fun for everyone! Every class came in dressed up in scary outfits but there were some superheroes to save the day. All of the school was excited for the reveal of the overall winners but everyone was a winner thanks to their amazing costumes. Everyone wanted to win, but there were only a few overall winners. These are all the winners: Eánna and Dylan, (Junior Infants) Lilly and Sophia, (Senior Infants) Conor and Emma, (1st) Mathew Quinn and Grace, (2nd) Corey, (3rd) Orlaith, Erin and Lauren. (4th) Sadhbh and Andrew (5th) and Stephen, David, Adam, Toby and Grace.
Halloween was great fun for everyone and everybody enjoyed Dressing up!
By Diarmuid and Meadhbh 4th Class
Tommy Baker’s Puppet Show
On Tuesday the 24th of October 2017, Tommy Baker made a visit to all of the pupils and staff of Kiltiernan NS. We all gathered in the hall. He performed the show of the ‘Salmon of Knowledge’. It was about Fionn Mc Cumhail and Finnegas, who owned the Salmon of Knowledge. The puppets looked amazing. He did one other show for 3rd class up. It was played by handmade puppets. They were made from wood. It was a wonderful show. It was a great way to spend one afternoon!!!
By Orlaith and Eoan 4th Class
CHRISTMAS CARDS
Every year in our school we make Christmas cards. We get a piece of paper to draw on and we draw what we’d want on the front of our Christmas cards. Then we send them out to get printed. About a week later we get our Christmas cards back. We can get cards with our picture on the front or teddies with t-shirts that have our pictures on them. We always have great fun making our cards. Everybody made great cards. I can’t wait to make them again next year!
By Ellie Leyden 4th Class
Grandparents Day at Kiltiernan N.S
On the 6th of October Kiltiernan celebrated Grandparents’ Day by inviting them to our school. On Grandparents’ Day it was very exciting. All the students made sure the hálla was decorated in interviews, drawings and many other projects all made by us children.
When they arrived the grandparents were invited to take a seat in the hálla.
Ms Leech made a heart-warming speech talking about how much we appreciate our grandparents coming and the happiness of us kids when we see them.
Mr O Doherty came in and talked to us about old artefacts such as and old schoolbag, and old doll, a foot warmer and even a coat of arms used in the Battle of Aughrim which took place in 1691. There was also an old receipt and a curling tongs holder.
We then sang our hearts out and brought back our grandparent’s memories by singing songs that they might have heard when they were young.
Soon after we went back to our classrooms and asked questions about our grandparent’s lives. It was very interesting.
I think Grandparents’ Day was a big success with everyone!
By Erin and Lauren 4th Class
Grease
We went to see Grease in Kilcornan on Thursday the 16th of November which was produced and staged by Seamount Secondary School.
It was great fun seeing all the older boys and girls dress up and sing and dance their hearts out. We saw a few past pupils on stage and thought about how much we’re going to love being on stage in the near future!
Origami Workshop
For Science Week, we were lucky enough to have a workshop on the skills of Origami. Tom showed some samples of shapes that he had folded and explained the role of Origami in Maths, Science and Engineering.
He showed the class how to create an ancient Japanese envelope and after, we made lovely birds too. It was very educational and great fun too.
Liam McCarthy Visit
We were delighted to welcome the Liam McCarthy cup to the school on the 21st of November. We were all dressed up in Galway gear and we were honoured to touch, take pictures with and ask questions to the members of the panel.
In School this Term
Our class has been having great fun learning music from the 1960s this term. We have so far learned ‘California Dreamin’, With a Little Help From my Friends’ and Happy Together’. We could provide great Christmas entertainment this year!! Lots more trips down memory lane to come next year!
We will be continuing to practice for the Christmas Choral Evening with Ms. Fenlon and we have a nice surprise song planned for you.
We have recently being doing lots of Bar Graphs and charts in Maths. We have also studied multiplication in 4th, addition, time, fractions and lots more.
Only a few more sleeps til you know what!!!!
Kiltiernans Christmas Cards
/in 6th Class, Children at work /by emerbKiltiernan’s Christmas Cards!
To get us students of Kiltiernan into the Christmas spirit our teachers thought it would be a good idea to give us Christmas cards! But not just any Christmas cards…. we get to design them ourselves!
Mid October, our resource teacher told us that a company called Christmas Cards for Schools would be producing our Christmas cards that we designed and that we could draw anything we wanted -as long as it was Christmas related- on an A4 piece of paper. We had to give it back to our teacher before the following Friday.
Once we started drawing you couldn’t stop us! The classroom was nice and quiet as we drew Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus. Everyone in the class let their creativity loose and we have made beautiful Christmas cards to give to their relatives!
Our sample Christmas cards were given back to us just before the Halloween break and we were told that we could order more of our cards if we wanted to.
Getting Christmas cards with our own designs was a great treat. We really enjoyed it and would love to do again. And remember, folks, the weather outside may be frightful but the Christmas cards are delightful!
-Erin P
Irish Dancing
/in 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbIrish dancing
Every Wednesday all of students who would like to do Irish dancing go to the halla at the allocated time for Irish dancing. The person who teaches us Irish dancing is called Louise. Louise is very generous to give a time out of her busy day to teach us how to Irish dance and we are very grateful. My group is the oldest group which is the 5th and 6th class boys and girls. This year we do not have a show but every second year we do. This year the 5th and 6th class group are doing the 8 hand reel followed by the 3 hand. We also worked on the brush dance. I always enjoy going to Irish dancing and hopefully you would too!
Sadhbh O’Rourke
5th class
Coffee Morning
/in 1st Class, 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, Junior Infants, Senior Infants, What's Happening /by emerbCoffee morning
On the 21st of September Kiltiernan N.S held their coffee morning for the Galway hospice. We had loads of sweet treats such as buns, cakes, cookies and many more. Pupils were asked to bake and bring in as many cakes and buns as possible. My nana and I baked treacle cake. It was delicious. Lagan Construction supported us all the with the coffee morning. Outside the gates of the school we had ‘a coffee to go’ table so if you didn’t want to come in you could stop get a coffee and hit the road fast! At the end of the busy day all our pupils got little goody bags full of jellies and crisps. We raised about 900 Euro for the Hospice which is a great cause. By Adam 6th Class
Grease Lighting
/in 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbGrease Lightning
On the 16th of November 2017 kiltiernan N.s went to see Seamount’s production of grease lightning. We got on a bus at 10 o’clock in the morning. We took the five minute journey to Kilcornan hall. The play started off with two groups singing – a group of boys and a group of girls. The main character was a girl named sandy. She was new and didn’t have many friends. The play was very good at moving from scene to scene. They even had an old car that was stripped down as Grease Lightning. It had no wheels and they painted it themselves. There was a lot of singing with songs including ‘Summer Loving’. They could do the American accent very well. It was very cool with all the LED lights and flashing lights .. My favourite part was at the start when the light shone on the group of boys- the girls would stop talking and moving and if it shone on the girls the boys would stop moving and talking. I thought it was very good. They were all good at what they did including the adults and teachers because it must have taken ages to rehearse and get it perfect. I was sitting beside a huge sound system with loads of buttons and dials. There was also a setup behind that; this one was used to control the lights. At the end of the performance all the performers stood at the front of the stage and took a bow to a standing ovation. We had a great morning.
By Adam
Origami Workshop
/in 5th Class, 6th Class /by emerbOrigami workshop
On the 17th of November 2017 an origami expert, Tom Cuffe came to the classrooms of Kiltiernan N.S. to teach us the ways of Origami. Tom is also a birdwatcher and uses that to help with his origami. Origami is the art of folding paper. First he taught us how to craft an ancient Chinese envelope. He told us that paper was very expensive back then and that people would write on a piece of paper and they would use Origami to fold it into an envelope. Secondly he taught us how to make a tetrahedron. This took a lot of precision and time. Finally he showed us how to make a cube out of six small pieces of card. During break I stayed in and made what is called a level two cube which uses hundred and twenty pieces of small card or twenty cubes. I really enjoyed the workshop and I would love to do it again.
By Toby
6th Class
Tommy Baker’s Puppet Show
/in 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbTommy Baker’s Puppet show
On Friday the 20th of October Kiltiernan National School got a visit from Tommy Baker. Tommy Baker is a local puppeteer who is going to be performing in Borneo this month, in a puppet festival. He was chosen to open the festival. He came to our school to perform for us. The show he would put on in Borneo. He had chosen the salmon of knowledge. When he arrived we were all so excited.
The show was very exciting. It started when Fionn, the main character looking for someone to train him to be a warrior. He found two old ladies called Grainne and Aoife. They were to train him to be a warrior and a fighter. They asked him to do tasks. The first task was to put Fionn in a sack and throw him in the lake. There were two more tasks to find the hare of Ardrahan and not to get burnt by the salmon. Tommy also put on a second show for the middle and senior room. They were handmade puppets, made out of sticks and wool. It was about finding his courage and helping his friends to find something they needed.
I really enjoyed the puppet show. It was a lot of fun and we were greatly entertained.
By Emma, 6th Class
Singing
/in 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, What's Happening /by emerbSinging
This Term at kiltiernan N.S we are singing 60’s music. We are singing the music for our own enjoyment. We have sang songs such as…….
Happy together-The Turtles
California dreaming-The Mamas & the Papas
With a little help from my friends – The Beatles
Golden Slumbers-The Beatles
For California dreaming as some of you know the mamas and the papas featured two boys and two girls so Ms O Doherty came up with the idea of sending up two boys and two girls and the rest of the class sang the seconds.
We came up with the idea of Golden Slumbers from the new John Lewis ad on YouTube as our next project for Christmas. It is second on the trending list. We practice these songs on Tuesday every week.
I really enjoy doing these songs every week and look forward to it!
By Patrick Nestor
Athletics
/in 6th Class /by emerbAthletics
On Friday 9th of November we had athletics. Lots of schools were taking part. The length of the track was 1k. It was behind the Galway hospice on Renmore pitch. We had four boys from our class taking part. Stephen won the race and David came second. I came 29th and Diarmuid wasn’t far behind. After we went to the shop Diarmuid and Stephen and David had a roll and I had rashers and chips. When we got back to school we went into the staff room and our teacher made us tea while we ate our food. When we ate all our food we had to go back to class. We had a fun filled morning.
By Paul 6th class
Tom Cuffe’s Origami Workshop
/in 2nd Class, 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class, Children at work /by emerbOrigami Workshop
On the 17th of November for science week Tom Cuffe, an origami expert came to teach us the art of origami. Origami is the art of folding paper. Firstly, Tom showed us his bird origami. Tom is also a birdwatcher and ties in origami and birds together. He made beautiful swans, eagles and cranes. Next he showed us his large origami collection such a massive cube and a batman mask. The batman was life-size meaning you could put it on your face! Next, Tom taught us how to make an ancient Chinese envelope. He said paper was expensive so they made the letter and the envelope in the one piece of paper. Secondly we made a tetrahedron. You use two small pieces of paper and combine them together. Finally, we finished by using six business cards to create an origami cube. Over break Toby made a level two cube, a bigger cube. He used twenty small cubes. I would like to thank Tom for an amazing workshop and I really enjoyed it.
By David
6th Class