The Junior Room went on their annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic yesterday. Everyone had great fun bringing their teddies around the playground, and some of them were even used as a cushion! We enjoyed some yummy rice krispie buns, sweets and crisps. We all had a great day!
Performance Day
The pupils in the Senior Room did some amazing perfomances this week – it was so wonderful to see such a variety of talents and skills. Well done to everyone for their amazing work – a very talented bunch!
Sponsored Walk
We took advantage of the dry weather today and headed off for our Sponsored Walk. The Junior Room turned right at the school gates and the Middle and Senior Rooms turned left – we all headed off on the Killeshandra Loop Walk and met somewhere around the middle! Well done everyone, there are lots of tired legs this evening!
Fred the Party Professor
We had a visit from Fred the Party Professor on Friday – we were amazed and impressed by his many tricks and talents! Thank you Fred for a very entertaining show!
School Tour to Funtasia
For our School Tour this year, we headed to Funtasia in Drogheda to their indoor water park and bowling alley.
We left Killeshandra bright and early on the bus and were ready to get into the water as soon as we arrived at Funtasia. We spent a fun-filled 2 hours in the water park – everyone had a great time on slides of all shapes and sizes! A special thank you to lots of the older boys and girls who were so encouraging to the younger children and made sure that they all had the chance to have a go on the big slides!
Everyone was ready for lunch after all that exercise and we enjoyed our packed lunched provided by The Lunch Bag.
After lunch, it was time to head to the bowling alley for a game of ten pin bowling. There were a few strikes and lots of spares as we tried our best to knock down all the pins! Again, the seniors made sure that everyone was able to enjoy their game. Well done everyone!
We boarded the bus again and headed back up the road to Killeshandra, tired but happy. It was a great day – one of the “best tours ever”!
May News
Last Friday, our Creative Schools associate Ultan came to school to record the folklore we had collected. We were also joined by a grandparent, who we interviewed about farming in the past, and Leila Beattie who told us about school both when she was a child and a teacher.
We will be working with Ultan over the next few weeks to prepare for a special event as part of Cruinniú na nÓg on Saturday 15th June. Everyone is very welcome to join us in the Martin Memorial Hall from 3-4 pm for our Folklore Exhibition, Hidden Gems. This event is part of a national day celebrating creativity for young people – details can be found at https://cruinniu.creativeireland.gov.ie/event/hidden-gems-2/
On Wednesday this week, the Parents’ Association organised a Break the Rules Day. We could choose which rules to break and pay €1 per rule – lots of us decided to break them all! We had a great day sitting beside a friend, having an unhealthy snack, not wearing our uniform, having a night off homework and getting double playtime!
We presented our awards for Excellent Effort, Reader and Handwriter of the Month for April at assembly recently – well done everyone!
Some of the children in the Senior Classroom were involved in preparing artwork to be displayed in Killeshandra as part of the Fleadh in the town next weekend. They worked with local artist Rosie Cole to create images of traditional Irish musical instruments. They look amazing – we will keep an eye out for them around Killeshandra over the next few days!
Today we had the first matches in our Killeshandra Soccer Blitz. The Active School Committee worked together to organise teams and each team will play 4 matches over the next week. Today’s matches were very close – The ACKs beat LiverMan by 1 goal, and it was a scoreless draw between Goals FC and the Hit the Differs. The 5 Amigos are looking forward to getting started with their first match on Monday. There was great support from the sidelines too!
Drumming Workshop
Peter Crann from We Drum Ireland joined us at school today for a drumming workshop as part of the Creative Schools programme. Peter had a huge array of drums and percussion instruments, and we had the opportunity to play lots of them as well as listen to his performances. Each class joined in with lots of different rhythm and music making activities, then at the end of the day the whole school came together and we and made our very own Killeshandra Drum Band – it was very noisy, but great fun! Thank you very much Peter, it was a great experience for us all.
Killeshandra Community Library
Today was our first visit to the new Community Library here in Killeshandra. They have a wonderful selection of books and we were made very welcome by everyone. Each class enjoyed browsing the shelves and some of us borrowed books to read at school and home. We are really looking forward to lots more visits in the future!
Active School Week 2024
Monday
We started Active School Week with our first swimming lesson of this year. Everyone headed off on the bus to Cavan Leisure Centre on Monday morning and we had a great time.
After lunch, we got into our teams and went outside for some relay races. There was lots of running and fun involved!
Tuesday
It was raining on Tuesday morning, so we did some movement and dance breaks in the classrooms for our Wake up, Shake up!
After break, we had GAA coaching with Karen, then after lunch we went to the hall for a few games of dodgeball.
Wednesday
First thing on Wednesday morning, we went outside for our Wake up, Shake up! The Active School committee spun the wheel and led us in different exercises, then some of the girls in the Senior Room taught us a dance to Texas Hold ‘Em.
The weather was much better on Wednesday, so later on in the day we played some games in our teams – Rob the Nest, parachute games and Farmer’s Land.
In the afternoon, we ran our Mile then split into two groups for some very competitive hockey and basketball matches.
Thursday
We started Thursday morning with our Wake up, Shake up and dance.
During Active School Week, we are encouraged to try lots of different sports and activities. This year, we were delighted to welcome MÃcheál Watters from Cavan Kenpo Karate Academy to do a taster session of karate with us. It was brilliant! We had so much fun learning some karate moves – lots of us would love to learn more in the future! Thank you so much MÃcheál!
To finish off a lovely sunny afternoon, we had the choice of hockey or tennis – it was a great end to a very active day!
Friday
Friday was another beautiful day and we started the morning with our Wake up, Shake up. We have also been enjoying music on the yard at break and lunch time every day.
After break, we went down to walk and run laps of the pitch, followed by some time in the playground.
We finished Active School Week in style with some team challenges – hunt the pea, cross the river, gutterball, turn the sheet and some cup and straw games. We also stopped for an ice-lolly break! It was a great end to a fantastic week!
Hot School Meals
Today was the first day of our Hot School Meals programme – as you can see from our faces, they went down a treat! We can’t wait to try all the other meals we ordered for the rest of the week!
