Congratulations to our students who received their First Holy Communion on Saturday, 28th May, in St.Teresa’s Church, Labane. Their friend Mark was remembered fondly on the day and his memory included in all parts of the service. They are pictured here with their teacher Ms. Fenlon, parish priest Fr. Joe Roche and Lauren’s uncle Fr. Donal Kilduff.
Best of luck to our camogie team who are through to the Schools County Finals in Loughgeorge, Claregalway this Tuesday the 14th, June. Bring home the cup girls!
Proclamation Day
On Tuesday the 15th of March it was Proclamation Day. Tom O’ Doherty, retired principal and local historian, came to our school. Tom talked about the 1916 Rising which was very interesting. He told us about Castle Taylor and the Shaw Taylor family, the landlords. Tom also read out the 1916 Proclamation. Oisín, Ava, Abbie, Emma and Adam read out our new proclamation then Ms. Leech’s classroom played Amhráin na bhFiann on the tin whistle. During our singing James the oldest pupil and Daniel our youngest pupil in the school raised the Irish flag. It was a simple and short ceremony to celebrate and event which happened one hundred years ago. Ms. Fenlon told us that this moment was a once in a lifetime event so it was very special. This is how we celebrated the memory of 1916 Rising.
by Grace, Third Class
PROCLAMATION DAY
Ms. O’Doherty’s father came in to the school. He is a local historian He told us all about the 1916 Rising and some of the Civil War. I was most interested about Father Thomas Fahy who encouraged the volunteers to surrender at Lime Park. He told Liam Mellows that Dublin was in flames and that the rising had failed .After that we went outside. Tom O’Doherty read the Proclamation of the Provisional Government. Oisín, Ava, Abbie, Emma and I read the school proclamation for our generation.
Our school’s special phrase is “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”. I am proud to write that I came up with the line with the help of my team Diarmuid Greaney ‘Clodagh Creedon, Béibhinn Ganly .At the end we sang Amhran Na bhFiann while Daniel and James, our youngest and oldest pupils, raised the national flag.
by Adam, 4th Class
We celebrated Book Week 29th. February to 4th of March. It’s my favourite time of year because I love books more than anything! My buddy reader was Alastair O’Sullivan who is in 5th. Class. I love doing buddy reading with him and I think we have a lot in common. After small break we had our first glimpse at the Book Fair!
On Tuesday Erin Fahy’s Mum came and read ‘Molly’s Diary’. I thought it was great.
On Wednesday there was a dash of excitement because we were going to Oranmore Library. I got 6 books which included ‘The Secret of Kells’, ‘Timmy Failure Mistakes Were Made’ and ‘Skylanders Universe Annual 2015’.
On Friday Rory Conroy (one of the animators from ‘Song Of The Sea’) came to visit. We watched the movie on Monday so we were all experts! He showed us a cool flip book, told us amazing animation secrets and, of course, how to draw a minion!! It took up nearly all of our break but it was worth it. (mostly because we got 5 minutes extra) When we went to Ms. Leeches Room for singing I was sad that Book Week was all over but Ms. Leech said we could carry on buddy reading. Hurray!
The highlight of Book Week was when Rory Conroy came in to visit.
By Diarmuid, 2nd Class
Christmas Raffle
Christmas Fun Day 19th December
STEM AWARD FOR KILTIERNAN N.S.
