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Food Dudes

This week the Junior Room completed the Food Dudes programme. The children have been great at tasting and eating lots of different types of fruit and vegetables in school, and are delighted with their rewards – everyone has a lovely new lunch box to bring in their own fruit and vegetables as part of their lunch each day.

The Middle and Senior Rooms finished their part of the programme last week and have been bringing in lots of healthy and tasty fruit and vegetables as part of their lunches – keep up the great work everyone!

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Postal Bible School prizes

We were very excited to receive our Postal Bible School prizes today – there were lots of bottles, notebooks, torches, pen sets and calculators in each classroom. Thank you very much, Postal Bible School!

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Heritage in Schools visit

We had a fascinating visit from Ross Cochrane from the Heritage in Schools programme today. Ross took each class on a walk and we looked at the plants growing in the hedgerows and in the forest.

We learned so much about the names of some of these plants, how to identify them, which ones are edible, plants that can be used in medicine and some of the folklore surrounding them. We also had time for a few games and got up close with the trees!

Thank you Ross for a most interesting day!

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Coaching with Sasha

Today was our last day of coaching with Sasha – we really enjoyed the 6 sessions and have learned new skills, played new games and had great fun! Thank you very much Sasha!

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Aistear in the Junior Room

For the month of February, the Junior Room were very busy in the Post Office. We made cards, we built lots of post offices and we even filled out our passport applications!

In March, we visited the dentist. We made tooth fairy boxes with a note for the tooth fairy. We learned how to brush our teeth properly and we wrote about how to keep our teeth clean and healthy.

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Confidence Day – 24th March

Today is National Confidence Day. Each classroom enjoyed watching some of the I believe in me show, and thought about how we can have confidence in ourselves.

We were delighted to receive a special message from An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin – instead of homework tonight, we have to do something kind. There were lots of happy faces going home with their homework passes today!

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Food Dudes

We were very excited to start our Food Dudes programme today. Everyone will get a portion of fruit and a portion of vegetables each day to try. Today we had peppers and bananas – we look forward to seeing what we get tomorrow!

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St Patrick’s Day Art Competition

We were invited to take part in the Killeshandra Community Council’s Art Competition. Well done to everyone for entering – the committee were impressed by the high standard of work entered. Special congratulations to Penelope, Pierre, Ruth and Lily who were winners in each category!

You can look out for all the entries displayed in the shop windows around Killeshandra on St Patrick’s Day.

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Tree planting

On Monday afternoon, we welcomed some members of the Killeshandra Tidy Towns committee to school to plant some trees for us as part of their biodiversity project. They explained the process for planting the bare root trees, and a few of us got to help – well done to the boys who put the tree in the hole and helped fill in the soil! We hope that in a few years, we will be able to enjoy the apples, pears and plums that will grow on our trees!

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Non-uniform Day

We had a non-uniform day on Friday to raise money to support those affected by the crisis in Ukraine. Thank you so much to everyone for their generous donations, we raised €585 for the Irish Red Cross .