There have been lots of Christmas activities happening in Killeshandra N.S. over the last few weeks!
6th Class started off the Christmas period by putting up our Christmas tree.
The Junior Room were helping Santa in his workshop, making a stable for baby Jesus and sewing some beautiful stockings.
The Middle and Senior Rooms made beautiful cushions with Mrs Comiskey, as well as some other festive crafts.
We also visited the Focus Centre where we enjoyed playing games and making some beautiful stockings, as well as some delicious treats. Thank you very much to the Focus Centre for making us so welcome.
Today was our Christmas party and we had a fantastic day!
We spent the morning in the hall playing lots of different games – last over the mat, stocking relay, musical statues, card hunt, musical chairs, puzzles, pass the parcel – we had lots of fun!
Everyone was looking very Christmassy today!
After lunch, we went back to the hall for some treats and a very special visitor! Thank you very much Santa for all our lovely gifts! We sang a few songs for Santa before it was time for him to head off – he’s a very busy man at this time of year!
To finish off a very busy day, we enjoyed a Reindeer Drive back up in school.
Well done everyone – it was wonderful to see all the boys and girls working together, listening carefully, helping each other and having fun!
The children in the Middle and Senior Rooms made and wrote Christmas cards for the senior citizens who meet in the Resource Centre here in Killeshandra. We hope they like their cards and have a lovely Christmas!
We love having Simon and Jayne Gibson from CEF in school for assembly. This morning was a special Christmas assembly as we went on a baby hunt! There was lots of dressing up, actions and songs as we worked through the Christmas story – we met Mary and Joseph, the shepherd, angels, wise men and finally baby Jesus!
Thank you so much Simon and Jayne for sharing with us each month, and also for the lovely calendar and Christmas treats you left for us today!
Last night was our Nativity Play – we performed The Hoity-Toity Angel in Killeshandra Parish Church. It was a fantastic night! Everyone sang, danced and performed their very best as we told the story of the birth of Jesus. All the hard work in rehearsals paid off – we are very proud of you all!
There was lots going on in Killeshandra N.S. this week! We had the dress rehearsal for our nativity play. We can’t wait to perfom The Hoity Toity Angel next Tuesday evening at 7.30 pm in Killeshandra Parish Church.
The Middle and Senior Rooms were in Dublin on Wednesday for their Peace Proms rehearsal. We headed off on the bus to the National Indoor Arena at the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown. It was a very interesting to have look around the amazing sports facilities there!
There were over 1000 children at the rehearsal, but there will be more than 2000 in the choir at the Concert in February! Greg Beardsell, the Peace Proms conductor, lead us through the songs we will be performing.
We still have lots of learning and practising to do before the big day, but we picked up lots of tips and advice from Greg to help us along the way. We’re really looking forward to our Concert on Sunday 4th February 2024 in the Simmonscourt Arena at the RDS!
We also completed our 4 week Olympic Movement Breakschallenge today – we have really enjoyed learning more about some of Ireland’s Olympic athletes and their sports, as well as getting active every day.
During Assembly this week, we presented our awards for the Reader and Handwriter of the Month for November, as well as our Excellent Effort award – well done everyone!
As a fundraiser for our Parents’ Association, today was Sock Day in school! We had odd socks, fluffy socks, Christmas socks – all kinds of socks!
We have also been very busy rehearsing for our Nativity Play over the last few weeks. We will be performing The Hoity-Toity Angel in Killeshandra Parish Church at 7.30pm on Tuesday 12th December. We are really looking forward to showing off all our hard work!
Last Thursday we had a fantastic day with Dr. Naomi Lavelle. She set up her Eccentric Energy Show in the hall and each classroom joined her for a workshop. There were lots of of different experiments for us to get involved with as we learned about some of the rules of energy. Thank you so much Dr. Naomi, we had lots of fun!
Thank you very much to Barry Carson from Cavan Rugby Club who started rugby coaching with the children today. The children really enjoyed learning lots of different skills. We can’t wait for next week’s session. Thanks again Barry, we really appreciate you giving up your time to come and coach us.
