5th Class

Rounders Workshop

On the 23^rd of June 2016, Louise came to our school. She did a rounders work shop with all the classes. In the junior room Louise brought in a stand to put the balls on it. This is called Mini Rounders. They would hit the ball and run to all the basses. At the end of the session we took a picture of the class. They had great fun.

In the middle room the 2^nd and 3^rd classes went out to do the rounders. They started with a warm up called “Beat the Ball”. Louise would throw a ball to the bases and a person would try to beat the ball around the 4 bases. To finish off they had a short match.

4^th class was next. They started off with the same exercise “Beat the Ball”.  After that they did a rounders game. They had fun.

In the afternoon it was 5^th and 6^th turn. We did the same drill. We played “Beat the Ball”. Then we did a very competitive game of rounders! We all enjoyed and we high fived each other at the end. It was a great day! We would like to thank Louise to putting her day into teaching us rounders!

By Seán and Colman

Camogie final!!!

For the past few months, the Kiltiernan Camogie team have been hard at work practising with our dedicated coaches Paul and Ann.

In the first rounds of the Cumann Na mbunscoil championships, the girls succeeded in winning all of their matches. They played three fellow school Camogie teams, including Ballyglass, Gort and Kilchreest. They played magnificently in each of the games, and went straight through to the second round of the championships.

After a few more hard weeks training, the girls were finally ready to go. The championship finals took place on the 14^th of June, in Lochgeorge pitch.

We arrived early, in order to prepare for the game. We played a mini match to get warmed up. Eventually, the clock struck 12, and it was time to play. We all had butterflies in our stomachs and we were very nervous.

We played Ballymacward. We were winning at half time, but unfortunately at the end of the second half, it turned out to be a draw.

Yet again, we ended up having to play extra time, with three minutes a half. At half time, we were up two points, and managed to score two goals, and a point in the second half.

At the end of the game, we started celebrating, as we knew we had won, but unfortunately, the other team were convinced that it had been a draw.

There was lots of discussion between the two teams and the referee over the score, but in the end, we ended up having to play golden score.

Golden score is where the first team to score a goal or point wins. Unfortunately, Ballymacward scored the first point of the game, leaving the Kiltiernan team distraught.

We were all very upset, but we were all very proud of how well we had played as a team on the day.

We would like to thank our managers Paul and Ann for all their hard work and dedication over the past two years. We have learned so much more about Camogie from them, especially the importance of working as a team, and that is the reason we came so far.

Visitors to our school

Paramedics visit

There were lots of visits this term and one of them was a visit from the two paramedics. They came on the 16^th of June and their names were Mossey and Paul. First they talked to us about their job. They said they were based in Ennis hospital and that they come out in parts of Clare and Galway. They told us about their uniform and how long you would have to train for in order to become a paramedic. We asked them some interesting questions after. Next they brought us out to show us the ambulance. Brendan went into the ambulance bed and they brought us up in groups of four to show us and demonstrate how they would treat a real patient. They showed Brendan’s heart rate and breath on the screen next to him. They showed us some of the equipment inside the ambulance and outside the ambulance. They showed us some neck holders, helmets and leg holders. Then they turned on the siren of the ambulance. It was very loud!

 

Gardaí visit

On the 23^rd of May, Philip and Aoife the Gardaí came to our school. Philip came to the senior room and he told us about fingerprints and that every fingerprint is unique. We split up into groups of eight. Philip put down some ink and rolled it on glass and we all had to put down our thumbs on the ink and put it down on the bottom of a page. Then one of us had to be the culprit and put another fingerprint on the top. After that we switched the page around and the other groups had to work out who was the culprit. Later Philip showed us his pepper spray and batons and how they used them to protect themselves. Aoife spoke to the middle room about safety and her job.

Archaeologist visit

On the 23^rd of June Jerry came to talk to us about archaeology. He showed us a PowerPoint on archaeology and he talked to us about what archaeologists do and discoveries in the area. This included a round tower near the church of Ireland and a big fort around Ardrahan village. He also talked to us about caves and that the bear bones at the Aillwee cave had sharp edges on it from spears which mean it could have been killed by early people! He said that if a motorway had to be built the archaeologists would have to search there in case there would be something of interest from our history.

By John