Our school is participating in the SPAR F.A.I 5 a-side schools competition. We are going to be training very hard. The blitz will take place on the 21st of March 2017. The coaches are my dad (Rory) and Jerry. We can only send 8 people to the blitz. I have confidence we will win!!!
By Toby
5th Class
Engineers Week
Engineer’s week takes place from the 4th of March to the 10th.
You can visit the engineersweek.ie website for lots of fun games.
The week has two sponsors- OSTEPS Ireland & SFI Ireland.
Today; Monday
Rory, Sarah & Mary’s Father came in today. He is an Electronic Engineer. Rory showed us the inside of your tablets and your PC’s. He showed us the motherboard of a desktop laptop. He explained how the charging ports go into the small areas in the bottom of the circuit board. Rory also showed us a Defibrillator for beginners. Once turned on, a speaker will transmit instructions on how to preform CPR.
Wednesday
Edel’s dad will come into our school. He works for H.P and will tell us all about his daily life as an engineer.
Thursday
Mathew, Sean’s Father will come on Thursday. He has a selection of roughly 30 experiments to show us. He will be showing us the vital things you need to be an Electrical Engineer. Mathew works in the ESB as an Area Manager for Athlone & Galway
Pantomime 2017 6/3/17
This years pantomime is alace in blunderland.We started the pantomime in January and we casted the play in February. The play has four different seens containing Goldielocks and the three bears, Cinderella,Snow white and the seven dwarfs and last but not least all the characters come together. We have been very busy with preparation for the pantomime. Ouir play will take place on the 7th of April at 06:30 in Labane hall and we would realy appreciate if you attened. We prommise it to be a night to remember.
By Melanie
5th class
Kiltiernan N.S
Kilcolgan
Co Galway
2 March 2017
Dear Mairead McGuinness
My name is Luke. I go to Kiltiernan N.S. I am writing this letter to you because I would like to invite you to our school for our work for the Blue Star programme. The blue star programme is where we do some projects about the EU. I am going to explain two projects. We did a geography PowerPoint on EU countries. My group did Netherlands. We also did an EU food dish. My dish was chicken cacciatore. Our school would to invite you to our school. Just to remind you one day you were touring South Galway and you came in and promised you would come back!
Yours sincerely
Luke
5th Class
Kiltiernan NS
Kilcolgan, Co.Galway
2/3/17
Dear Mairead McGuinness
I, Seán Cunningham am writing this letter to inform you about our on-going ‘Blue star’ programme. The project helps young people acknowledge more about MEP’s and in general the EU. We have completed
I really hope you will come to Kiltiernan NS. You visited here in 2014-as part of a tour of flooded areas in South Galway .You wrote in our visitors book that you would come back! Hope to see you soon.
Kind Regards
Sean
5th Class
Pantomime Preparation
This year we are producing a Pantomime in our school. The Panto is ‘Alas in Blunderland’. We have been practising a long time with different characters and have finally come out of audition. The plot is a few fairy tales mixed all in to one. At the start there is a fairy tale ‘Goldilocks’ then some more fairy tales and in the end they all met for one large finally.
We have not got enough people so we have some people have to double up and some people only have one character. My Characters are ‘Wolf 3’ and ‘Harry Huntsmen’. I really enjoy the preparation for the Pantomime and I love watching the parts I’m not and am in because there are some very funny jokes and parts and characters.
Everyone knows nearly all their lines but have ideas for costumes and are busy chattering about what the costumes will be like. If you gave Ms. Leech a euro every time she told them she has it under control I would say she would be a millionaire!
By Diarmuid 5th class
Dear Ms McGuinness,
How are you keeping? My name is David from 5th class in Kiltiernan NS. This name might ring a bell because, yes, you have been here before on a tour of South Galway.
At the moment we are currently working on the Blue Star programme that engages young people to learn more about the EU and MEPs.
Currently we have done a geography project on EU countries. We have also done projects on Historical European events such as World War I and World War II. We have also researched European artists/inventors and how the EU parliament works.
Finally, we have hosted an EU food tasting day. We chose food from the EU and cooked it. Then on one Wednesday we served in small portions to the school. Everybody really enjoyed the day.
Mairead, we would love if you could come to our school and tell us about your job. We would love to know about a ‘day in the life of an MEP.
Thank you for taking the time to read the letter.
Yours Sincerely,
David
Order of Malta
On the 18th of January 2017, a lady named Maire from the Order of Malta visited our school. She is an officer in charge.
She is a medical scientist. The order of Malta is a volunteer ambulance service. They are mainly seen at GAA and Rugby matches, road races and local events. They contribute immediate first aid. Each member of the order of Malta carries around a medical bag.
The order of Malta originated when tourists travelled to Jerusalem to see where Jesus was born. They were called ‘crusaders’. It was setup by St Gerard to help sick children and adults.
They first settled in Malta which is now the headquarters. The order of Malta meets once every two weeks to learn first aid.
Maire showed the class many procedures including how to bandage and do CPR. There are many cadet units around Ireland. The ones in Galway are in Craughwell and Mervue.
I really enjoyed Maire’s visit. I hope I could join the order of Malta in the future.
By Toby
5th Class
Trócaire Visit
Trócaire is the overseas development agency for the Catholic church of Ireland. It was set up in 1973 as a charity to express the concerns of the ICC for the suffering of people living in the poorest regions/country. Today Trócaire works with the churches and local organisations in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Trocaire too responds to humanitarian crisis in countries where natural disasters or conflict/war have put people’s lives at risk. They take care for women’s rights, help families grow crops and access clean water. They also cater for all human rights.
Kiltiernan N.S,
Kilcolgan,
Co Galway
Dear Mairead McGuinness,
My name is Ross and I’m a 6th class pupil at Kiltiernan NS.
In our school we are in the process of completing the ‘Blue Star’ Programme. It is a project set up so kids would learn more about the EU and how it affects us.
So far we have done many different things across all subjects, in our quest for EU knowledge. We have learned about everything from the geography of the EU and how the parliament works to the cuisine and delicacies enjoyed by EU citizens. We even hosted a special day to celebrate the food where we sampled the dishes. The food day in particular was my favourite. I made Patatas Bravas a potato dish from Spain. We were paired up with the people who chose a dish from the same country. We were assigned a table and we were told to decorate it the best we could because the best table would get a prize and we love our prizes down in Kiltiernan. The following day the tables were plastered with pictures, balloons, banners and even moustaches over in France!
Another one of my favourites was when we were assigned to write a biography of a famous European Inventors, I chose Leonardo da Vinci. I was fascinated by his inventions and sketches. He sketched helicopter and tank prototypes, years before anyone else! He really was a man ahead of his time.
I don’t know if you’d remember but you’ve actually visited our school before back in early 2014.You were touring South Galway at the time and came to our school which was greatly affected by the floods of that year. In the visitors book you wrote that you’d come back to Kiltiernan one day and we’d like you to follow through with that promise!
I, on behalf of Kiltiernan N.S. would like to invite you to our school to talk about the goings-on in the EU. It would be the final piece of our project so we’d love to see you.
Kind Regards
Ross O’ Donnell
On behalf of the pupils of Kiltiernan N.S.
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