Fire officers called to the school last week to talk to our 3rd and 4th class students about fire safety. The children really enjoyed it and had lots of questions for the officers.
There will be an Army Veteran’s Mass on Thursday 28th April at 10am. All of the community are welcome to attend. The veterans will be calling into the school to talk to the children about their experience of life in the army afterwards.
This weeks winner of Split the Pot is Junior Infants pupil “Ryan Bowe” winning €190.
Congratulations Ryan!
As part of our Green School’s program all of the children at Kiltealy National School will be taking part in a whole village clean up. Starting at the school the children will pick up litter around the village, improving our environment and how our village looks. 
We Made Butter!!!
(April 2016)
First and Second Class have been learning all about farming. They learned how butter was made in the past. They made their own butter.
We but cream into a jar and shook it as hard as we could. We saw the buttermilk seperate from the butter. We even got a chance to taste the butter on some crackers! Yummmmy……
First Confession
(March 2016)
Congratulations to the boys and girls in Second Class who made their First Confession on the 15th of March. All their hard work paid off and they did brilliantly on the night, well done!
A big thank you also to all the children who participated on the night in the choir and also all the teachers who were on hand to help during the ceremony.
Welcome ” Incredible Edibles” to Kiltealy N.S.
Third and Fourth Class are taking part in the Incredible Edibles Programme. Incredible Edibles is a healthy eating initiative for Primary School pupils. It encourages schools across the country to get busy growing carrots, lettuce, potatoes, strawberries and turnips. Schools are supplied with grow packs containing everything they needed to grow a veritable feast of healthy foods!
Bricks 4 Kids is coming to Kiltealy N.S. on Friday 29th April.
Bricks for kids workshop uses lego bricks that kids love, to deliver hands on lessons which are correlated to cross- disciplinary curriculum objectives.
The Bricks 4 Kids approach to learning is imaginative, multi-sensory and fun!!!!
Celebrations were in full swing in Kiltealy N.S. on Tuesday March 15th for the raising of Our Tricolour and to commemorate the 1916 Rising. The first event of the day was the raising of the Irish flag outside our school. This great honour fell to local man Jim Cooper a former member of the Irish Defence Forces. The children, staff and Fr. Morris all stood to attention to witness the flag being hoisted and afterwards sang our National Anthem with great pride. 5th Class pupil James Aylward provided music accompaniment on the accordion.
Celebrations moved to the community hall for the afternoon where a great crowd of parents, grandparents and members of the wider community attended our commemoration of the 1916 Rising. Jim Cooper , Father Morris, Seamus Rafter and recently retired former Principal of Kiltealy N.S. Mary Kavanagh were all in attendance.
3rd and 4th class pupils gave a lovely introduction to the ceremony with a brief account of the lead up to the Rising and the care of our National Flag. Fr. Morris then spoke briefly before introducing Seamus Rafter, whos family was heavily involved in 1916 Easter Rising Events in Enniscorthy. Seamus gave a detailed account of events in Enniscorthy during the Rising. The legacy of the Rising was delivered to us by David Nolan and Dylan Purcell.
Senior pupils then read out the 1916 Proclamation and their New 2016 Proclamation which 5th & 6th Class wrote collaboratively for the celebrations.
Following this, we had music to our ears with some fantastic instrumental pieces played by all pupils from 3rd – 6th class. The crowd thoroughly enjoyed listening to our National Anthem, Inisere, The Rathlin Bog, Dawning of the Day and The Foggy Dew.
The crowd were then treated to a lovely rendition of the Song “Grace” after hearing the story and meaning behind the lyrics, read out by Niamh Armstrong.
1st and 2nd class took to the stage to recite an excellently written poem all about the Rising. They received a rapturous applause and it was well deserved.
The infants added the cute factor with their brilliantly choreographed traditional Irish group dance.
The children made some amazing art displays and there was some fantastic memorabilia from 1916, including Michael Collin’s prayer book, for everyone to enjoy.
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All the staff here in Kiltealy would like to thank the pupils, their families and the entire community of Kiltealy for attending our celebration and commemoration in what will be a great memory for all to take with them into the future.
Well done to all our pupils from infants to sixth class who took part in our 10 week Problem Solving Initiative. For this initiative everyone worked really hard to solve visual problems on an individual basis and results were very tight to find a winner and runner up in each class. Here are our worthy winners!
6th Class Winner: Aoife Pender 5th Class Winner: James Aylward
Runner Up: Saoirse Hanrahan Runner Up: Heather Boyce
4th Class Winner: Danny Fitzhenry 3rd Class Winner: Noah Mangan
Runner Up: Dannan Long Runner Up: Niamh Armstrong
2nd Class Winner: John Murphy 1st Class Winner: Kevin Armstrong
Runner Up: Qi-Qi Wren Runner Up: Bobby Watchorn
Senior Infant Winner: Lucy Nolan Junior Infant Winner: William Curtis
Runner Up: Orla Pender Runner Up: Oran Bowe
CONGRATULATIONS