This January we welcomed a hopeful new year and a prosperous school year. Let us welcome you with displaying some of the month`s activities...Check out our photos!
 
 
Firstly, the junior room explored Africa`s interesting facts and animals. In relation to this they read a book called the hunter by Paul Geretty, painted sunset silhouettes on the Savannah and wrote fact files and reports about interesting wildlife. They learned all about the Masai Tribe of Kenya and practiced Djembe drumming.
 
The senior room covered “The Boy at the Back of the Class” as their novel and learnt about sustainability.
 
On the 25th, January we all celebrated Grandparent`s Day in the hall, as part of Catholic Schools Week. Children made art work, wrote poems and said a prayer in harmony, which linked with our Catholic school week. All children and grandparents thoroughly enjoyed the sweet treats and cheerful atmosphere.
 
Keep in touch for more upcoming events...
 
 
This February we sprung into a month brimming with affairs. Here are some brief examples....
 
 
On St Brigid`s Day, the children investigated the history behind St Brigid, and both class rooms completed either drawings or decorated a piece of fabric representing her cloak.
 
The infants explored the theme of "Spring and New Life" in Aistear.
 
Mid February, a delightful teacher from Cork visited us named Liz ó Brien. Broadening the children's minds, she displayed picture books in each classroom. Looking past their simplicity, we discovered the meaning of these books in depth. 


This month, the school had 2 brand new interactive smart screens installed in both classrooms.  We have really enjoyed using these in our lessons. 
 
On the 14th of February, Valentines Day, we held our open evening for prospective pupils. It occurred between 5 and 7 o`clock. An encouraging amount of parents and guardians attended and the young children enjoyed the stations organised by the senior room pupils including, making of slime, animation and games.
 
 
We unwound on the 16th -17th for our mid-term break, returning the following Monday.
 
 
On Tuesday,  21st of February the children flocked to school in anticipation of a pancake. To give this day recognition we baked a pancake and wrote a procedure as to how. The senior room used a crêpe maker and the juniors, a hotplate and pan. Everyone enjoyed their pancakes and selection of toppings. 
 
The following day we marked Ash Wednesday and greeted Fr. Lazarus who blessed our foreheads with Holy Ash.
 
 
We have been privileged as of late because Joe Sheehan from the Munster Development team has been coaching us in tag rugby. All of the children have already flourished and are whole heartedly enjoying the drills and games every Thursday.
 
The 6th class recently completed their entrance exams. This really exemplifies this school year and the speed it's slipping past. See you soon for another fun filled month!
 
By Rebecca Dunne 

                 
                 
On Monday 28th of November we began practising the bongo drums with Ms Meagher. We only had two days to accomplish our bongo drums. We practised all day Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday 1st December at seven o`clock we all arrived happy and content but also anxious. Everyone in the audience burst out with excitement when we started to play the drums. It ended with applause from the audience. Then the junior room went on stage and performed     “Prickly Hay” and they all did amazingly well. After that, the senior room proceeded to use the chimes and bells. The songs we played were “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and “We wish you a Merry Christmas”. Then the senior room sang “ The Glory rap” and “Grandma got run over by a Reindeer” and for this song Lucy, Rebecca and I lifted up Robyn O’ Reilly and instantly everyone gasped with shock. Another song that was sang was “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas “. When the show was over the audience applauded. They all really enjoyed it and so did we. It was really nice to have all the parents at our Christmas show as we had not been able to present one for three years.  
                                By Alannah Brunnock

The month of November this year was a very exiting month.
First of all the whole school did gymnastics classes with Sharon Pyke. We all had an amazing time with Sharon and we hope she can come back again soon.
We were also very busy preparing for our Christmas show with Gillian. We learned three songs “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” and “The Glory Rap” and also Ellie O’ Donnell, Lucy Meagher, Caitriona Tobin, Robyn O’Reilly and Judy O’Donnell performed “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”. The Junior Room were also very busy preparing for their Nativity Show “Prickly Hay”.
The sixth class had a big decision to make deciding on what secondary school they wanted to go to. But now we have all decided where we are going to secondary school and are really happy with our decisions.
As you all probably know the Late Late Toy Show was on Friday 25th of November so the teachers decided to surprise us with a Late Late Toy Show quiz. The overall winner was Lucy Meagher’s team the “Christmas Cabbage’s”. We were all delighted with our surprise.
For science week we made chocolate bark. The experiment was that you need to use oil based food colouring so that it doesn’t rise to the top of your melted chocolate.
 For science week in the Junior Room they did experiments investigating the effects of static electricity and magnetism.
The infants did Aistear with the theme “The Restaurant” or “Sa Bhialann”. They also did role play and made menu’s in English and Irish. All the Infants had a great time and learned lots of new things.
 
 
Achievements This Month
Congratulations to Lucy Meagher who has received an award from the Credit Union Art Competition.
Congratulations to Cathal O’ Sullivan who made it onto the Waterford Soccer Team.
Congratulations to Billy Tobin and John Joe Morrissey who travelled to Thomand Park with Clonmel Rugby Club and watched Munster play.
Congratulations to all the 1st and 2nd class who have had their First Holy Communion enrolment mass and are preparing for their big day in May.
 
By Lucy Burke

We have been very busy during these past few
weeks.

First, the Senior Room travelled to Newtown
primary school to play a friendly football match.
After the match we were treated to lovely
refreshments and biscuits.

The Senior Room started our new novel “The Star
of Kazan”. We are really enjoying it.

The junior room explored the theme of Hallowe`en in Aistear.

As a school we participated in The Credit Union
Art Competition the theme was “It’s a Wonderful
World”.

Some Secondary schools came to speak with the
6th class about what their schools had to offer, it
was very interesting!

We made vegetable soup as a school using
carrots, red onion, leek, butternut squash, sweet
potatoes, parsnips, chicken stock cubes and of
course some water. The Junior Room made butter
by shaking double cream in a jar until it turned
into butter. We had the soup with some brown
bread with the homemade butter, it was
delicious!

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd class had a blitz in Killenaule on
the 18th of October. 

We had a clothes collection and the Senior Room
made a human chain to the lorry. The school got
€143.

This week the Senior Room took part in Cross
Country athletics in Marlfield. In the 3rd and 4th
class girls race Judy O’Donnell came 2nd, the 5th
and 6th class girls race Robyn O’Reilly came 2nd and
in the 5th and 6th class boys race Cathal
O’Sullivan came 1st.

For Maths Week, all pupils participated in
Izac 9 cubes. We also played some fun maths board
games.

All and all we have had a wonderful term and can`t
wait for the break!

By Caitriona Tobin

​Everyone returned to school on Tuesday 30th of
August.

We welcomed Ms. Meagher as our new
principal, Ms. Hogan as deputy principal and Mr.
Looram as our SET teacher.

We welcomed two new junior infants Harley and
Louise and Harry joined second class.

The Junior room went on a scavenger hunt up to
the woods, they looked for signs of Autumn and
collected samples for their nature table. The
pupils stopped off at Mildred’s for a treat on the
way back.

The Senior Room entered the Reel Life Science
Project and used the schools green screen to
create a STEM project about the Amazon
Rainforest Brazil.
On Friday the 23rd of September a coffee morning
was held in the local hall in aid of the Hospice.
Everyone donated generously.
On Wednesday the 28th of September our school
headed to Thurles Crokes Athletics Grounds for
the Tipperary Primary Schools Championships. In
the 3rd and 4th class girls race Judy O’ Donnell
came first. In the 5th and 6th class girls race Robyn
O’Reilly came first, Ellie O’Donnell came second,
Lucy Meagher came fifth and Catriona Tobin
came sixth thereby winning the team gold medal.
In the 5th and 6th class boys race Cathal O’ Sullivan
came first.
Well done to all the boys and girls who
participated!

  By Cathal O’Sullivan

On Tuesday 14th June all classes celebrated our annual Sports Day.
In the morning we had our final swimming lesson in Clonmel pool.
The children were allowed to get a little treat in the vending machine following this, which nearly took as long as the swimming lesson itself!!

Back at the school the children were divided into four teams with each of the 6th class as captains. All children had to come up with a unique team name. 
After much deliberation the team names were: Gucci Sketchers (Fred's team), Fake converse (Alexis' Team) , 8 amigos (Gerard's Team) and the Lucky Team (Grace's Team).

All teams participated in Long Jump, High Jump, Sprint, Sack Race, Egg and Spoon Race and 3 legged races.

At the end of the day the winners were the aptly named 'The Lucky Team'.
Well done everyone!

We also had a visit from the ice cream van and everyone enjoyed a '99' at the end of the day!

On Thursday 9th June, our Senior Room pupils journeyed to Dr. Morris park in Thurles for a small school GAA blitz. Our 3rd class boys opted to play hurling and I was blown away at their hurling skills. They really worked together as a team.

Our 4th, 5th and 6th class all decided to play football and were all selected for different teams, which meant they were against their school friends at times and had to learn to work as a team with other pupils from different schools. Each team played 3 -4 matches. The students from Killurney N.S. played so well and left nothing on the pitch!!

Well done everyone!

After the blitz, we walked to Semple Stadium and were given a private tour. The children got to meet Conor Bowe, senior hurler and ask him some questions. They got a tour of the dressing rooms and the opportunity to run through the tunnel and out on to the pitch just as the players do. We were thrilled to see Killurney N.S. on the score board. The children got to lift some of this year's silverwear also. (Which unfortunately, isn't that much this year!!)

The children loved the blitz and the tour of Semple Stadium but I think their favourite part of the day was stopping for ice cream on the way home!!

All pupils were delighted to be invited back to the Clonmel Show 'Pedigree Day' on Friday 3rd June.

One of our own pupils, Fred ffrench Davis was proud to show off his chickens, pigs and mother and daughter duo, sheep Jess and Jean! 

The children were delighted to use a real spinning wheel and to hear about the inner workings of life in a bee hive with some local bee keepers!

School Tour 
8th June 2022

On the 8th June all our students from Junior Infants - 6th class travelled to Castlecomer Discovery Park for our school tour. We had not had a school tour since 2019 so everyone was so excited, including the teachers!! 

Our junior infants, 1st class and 2nd class engaged in a range of activities including the Junior Woodland Adventure Course (a low ropes obstacle course encouraging balance, agility and risk), the bouncing net, Woodland Bug detectives (A habitat study of woodland invertebrates) and Water Scientists. (A habitat study of water-based invertebrates).

Our 2nd - 6th class pupils completed the Tree-Top Adventure Walk (14 challenges set among the sycamore trees, 7m off the ground), the 10 meter climbing wall, Water Scientists (Ecology) and Team challenges (which included Team-building games and challenges). 

The children then enjoyed a picnic and some time in the playground. Thankfully the weather stayed fine for most of the day and a great day was had by all!

​May in the Senior Room
The senior room had a busy May and have started preparations for Confirmation this coming June. To coincide with this, the Confirmation pupils visited Glencomeragh Retreat Centre on Wednesday 11th May. Here they had a very fun day team building, re-connecting and building resilience. They really enjoyed the quizzes, talks and time spent outside in the good weather.
In class this month 3rd to 6th class  had a visit from Clonmel Fire House. They learnt about fire hazards around the home and what to do in the event of a fire. Children got to see a real-life fire experiment to demonstrate how smoke rises and also received fun safety packs to bring home.
As part of our visual arts this month the children have been learning the cup song in music and in art class  have been looking at photography and installation art.
 
May in the Junior Room
This month, the junior room have been celebrating the beginning of summer by learning all about seasonal flowers and sewing seeds. They planted cress seeds in class which grew into silly haired monsters. They explored the theme of “The Garden Centre” in Aistear, in which they constructed different types of flowers from bun cases and straws, designed and built a garden centre using small world materials and created their own flower shop for role play. 
In visual arts, children focused on natural still life this month. They drew sunflowers and parts of different types of leaves and plants from observation while developing their knowledge of line, scale, blind drawing and shading.
In SESE children learnt all about the digestive system and had great fun carrying out a gross experiment. They used cream crackers, coca cola, sandwich bags and a pair of tights to demonstrate what happens to food as it travels from one end of the body to the other.
 
May 9th-May 13th , we celebrated Creative Schools Week. As part of this, the whole school took part in one final podcasting workshop with Muireann our Creative School’s Associate . The senior room children put their knowledge to use and in small teams they went about creating and designing a slot for a radio station while learning about using microphones and audio technology. Meanwhile, the junior room pupils names and created their own Q and A podcasts around the theme of biodiversity and gardening. They had great fun listening back on themselves, editing their pieces and inserting sound effects.
On 10th May, we resumed swimming lessons in Clonmel pool for a block of six weeks. The children were thrilled to be back in the water, having been unable do go as part of a school group for the past few years. All pupils are also continuing to enjoy Zumba lessons with Kool School each Friday afternoon. They are learning new moves and routines each week.