Newsletter – November
Active Flag
Great news ! Kilruane NS has been awarded an Active Flag! This is a fantastic achievement for our small school and we now join a very small percentage of schools in the country who have received this prestigious award. The Active School Flag is a Department of Education initiative which recognises schools that strive to achieve a physically active school community. The overall goal is to increase physical activity and extra curricular activities in our school and to promote a healthy lifestyle.
The awarding committee was particularly impressed with our commitment towards introducing children to a wide range of sporting activities including yoga, judo, athletics, cross country and of course hurling and gaelic football.
We hope to have our Active Flag flying before the New Year and we plan to have our second ‘Active Week’ later in the school year when we will officially celebrate this prestigious award.
Well done to Ms.Lawlor, our Active Schools co-ordinator, the Active School Committee and indeed all School Staff who came on board so enthusiastically to make this possible.
Auction/Cake Sale/Bric a brac
Please do your best to support our BOM and PA by providing some home baking (buns, cakes and bread etc ) and items for our bric a brac stalls at the Auction on Sunday 7th . The hall will be open from 10am-12 noon on Sunday morning where members of the BOM, PA and staff will be present to receive items. Doors open officially at 2.30pm.
Art Exhibition
The children have just completed their Art Work for the upcoming Art Exhibition which will be held together with the Auction on Sunday, 7th December in the Fr. Niall O’Meara Memorial Centre, Kilruane. Just some of the themes explored included ‘Under the Sea’, ‘Space’, ‘Landscapes’ and ‘Flowers’. The children’s art is being framed by ‘Images School Art’ and will be available for purchase on the day at €10 each. It will be possible to purchase extra prints if any parent/grandparent would like to purchase an additional copy. Please enquire on the day.
Raffle Tickets
Please continue to return sold raffle tickets together with money to the office as soon as you can. Thank you all for the fantastic response to date. Extra books are available from Mary.
Green Schools
Mrs O’Meara and her Green Team are busy working towards the schools fifth Green Flag. The Green Team together with Mrs O’Meara’s class are manufacturing paper briquettes from old newspapers. Please send in old newspapers so that we can recycle them here at the school.
Nenagh Olympic
Over 30 children from 4th to 6th class recently attended Nenagh Olympic Athletic Clubs annual indoor event for primary Schools. A fantastic ,fun filled day was had by all the children . A big thank you to Nenagh Olympic AC. Well done to the 4th, 5th and 6th class girls and boys relay teams who all won medals at the event –
4th class girls (bronze ): Caoimhe Conroy, Mollie Kennedy, Sarah Loughnane and Amy McCarthy.
5th class girls (bronze): Megan Dooley, Lynn Farrell, Aoibhín Kenneally and Kate Ryan;
5th class boys team (bronze): Adam Cleere, James Tanner Garrett, Georgie O’Leary and Conor Tierney
6th class boys team (gold): Rory Grace, Jamie Kennedy, Aaron Morgan and Paul O’Neill.
A special mention to Paul O’Neill and his fine performance in the 600m, where he came 2nd.
Thank you to Ms.Maguire and Ms. Lawlor for facilitating our After School Training sessions and to parents Bríd Morgan and Michael Grace for their help on the day.
Tin Whistle
The standard of the tin whistle at our school is second to none and with this in mind the senior pupils at Kilruane NS hope to launch their own CD in the Spring of next year. The children are busy working on a collection of Irish and popular tunes at the moment under the direction of Katie O’Sullivan , our tin whistle teacher, together with class teachers Ms.Kirby, Mrs O’Meara and Ms. Maguire . More details in the New Year.
PT Meetings
Parent teacher meetings at Kilruane NS will take place in the New Year.