December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
Literacy Lift Off
1st & 2nd Class completed a 6 week Literacy Lift Off Reading Programme designed to enhance reading skills at that particular age group. Well done to all on their own individual success and to all the teachers for co-ordinating this really worthwhile initiative.
January 2024
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
1st and 2nd class enjoyed a Teddy Bear’s picnic this month.
March 2023
1st and 2nd class had lots of fun celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge.
February 2023
1st and 2nd class and their brilliant bird projects.
January 2023
1st and 2nd class had lot’s of fun in science this month.
December 2022
1st and 2nd class created lovely art this month.
November 2022
1st and 2nd class created beautiful art this month.
October 2022
1st and 2nd class had lots of fun learning to play the glockenspiel during their music lessons.
September 2022
1st and 2nd Class made paper helicopters as part of their science lessons this month.
June 2022
- Finished Clay Animal Projects
- Music Generation
- Scratch
- P.E. – Range of strands
- Projects
School Tour
- The National Reptile Village
- The PlayStation
May 2022
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- SESE: Planting Seeds
- Food Dudes
- P.E. Outdoor & Adventure
- Active Breaks
- Fundamental Movements – Throwing
- Art – Clay animals
- Football
April 2022
- Readathon Dress Up
- Easter Fun!
- P.E. Games/Fundamental Movements
- Funky Kids
- Football Coaching
March 2022
- Maths:3D Shapes
- STEM: Leprechaun Traps
- Speed Gun Workshop
- Fire Engine Visit
- Mother’s Day Artwork
- Spring Clean
- Leprechaun Art
- SnaG – Ceili Dancing
- Lá Glas
February 2022
- St. Brigid’s Day
- Valentine’s Day Art
- Picker Pals
- Music Generation
- Literacy Lift Off
- Gymnastics
- Spring Daffodils
- Lego Wedo Creations
- (See our school Facebook page for Lego Wedo videos)
January 2022
- Happy New Year Artwork
- P.E. Gymnastics
- SESE Topic: Clothes (from the past)
- Art: Design a pair of socks/an outfit
December 2021
- Santa Visit
- Christmas Talent Show
- Christmas Tree Decorations
- Magnets
- Funky Kids
- Christmas Art
- STEM – build a Christmas Tree
November 2021
- Science Week
- Bubble Fun
- Pop the Bag
- Jelly Bear
- Skittle Colours
- Coke & Mentos
- In November, We Remember
October 2021
- STEM – Measuring our lung capacity
- Halloween Art
- Witch Walk and Halloween Games
- STEM – Heat and change experiment
- STEM – Vomiting Pumpkin Experiment
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September 2021
- Maths Stations
- Roald Dahl Day – Fantastic Mr. Fox Art
- Hurling with Jim & Jim
- STEM – Testing our Senses
- Funky Kids
- STEM Bins – Building Houses
Life Cycle of a Butterfly!
Life Cycle of a Butterfly – Parts of a Butterfly
Painted Caterpillars & Symmetrical Folded Butterflies
Vegetable Patch Update!
Our May Altar
First Confession 2021
Happy Mother’s Day!
Away with the birds!
1st and 2nd Class learned all about birds this month. They researched a common garden bird and created a project on it. They wrote a procedure on how to make a bird feeder and they kept watch both in school and at home to see if they could spot any of the birds that we learned about. We also made bird feeders and hung them in our school garden.
Christmas Art!
All About Teeth!!!
1st & 2nd Class learned all about teeth this month. They learned how to look after their teeth, how to brush their teeth, what foods/drinks are bad for their teeth and the different types of teeth. Have a look at the photos below. They even made their very own teeth out of play dough.
RSA – 1st & 2nd Class
Seatbelt Sheriff & Hi-Glo Silver awards!
County Board Football Coaching
Football coaching has returned and the children are loving it!
Halloween Fun!
Fancy dress, artwork, witch walk and Halloween games!
1st & 2nd Class – Print Making
Print making with Tunde Toth as part of Creative Schools
1st and 2nd Class
We learned all about the life cycle of an oat tree. We collected lots of Autumn leaves and learned how to identify them.
World Book Day!
Bricks 4 Kidz!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Bee Mine!
Living Arts – Collage Faces!
Living Arts – Puppet Show!
Living Arts – Puppet Show Backgrounds
Living Arts – Tinfoil Figures
Living Arts – Picasso Clay Faces!
Living Arts – Print Making!
Wonderful Windmills!
Snowmen!
North & South Poles!
Magnets!
Christmas Craft Fair!
We made snowmen!
Living Arts – Puppets!
Science Week!
Friday: We took our experiments outside today! Diet coke and mentos! Watch out everyone!
Thursday: We made bubble prints using paint, water and washing up liquid!
Wednesday: We made slime using corn flower and water! Time to get messy!
Tuesday: We measured how far marbles travelled on different surfaces using ramps at different angles.
Monday: The nutty scientists taught us all about solids, liquids and gases!
Halloween Fun & Games!
Creative Schools – Living Arts!
Here is some of the work so far in the 1st and 2nd class room! Collages with Mary Claire and Anne!
Maths Week!
Table Quiz Time!
Shape Art!
Maths Trail!
Science Experiment!
1st and 2nd class carried out an experiment to see what happened to certain things when heated! They heated chocolate, ice cream, marshmallows, butter, jellies and ice cubes!
Creative Schools – Living Arts!
Using water colours with Mary Claire and Anne!
Field Trip Around Kiltealy!
The boys and girls in 1st and 2nd class learned all about houses and homes. They examined the different types of houses in Kiltealy and ticked them off on their check lists as they found them!
Autumn Leaves!
Four Seasons Art!
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Bricks 4 kids!
The Life Cycle of an Oak Tree
We learned all about the Life Cycle of an Oak Tree.
We also looked at other types of trees, their leaves and seeds.
Well done to all the boys and girls who brought in lots of items for our nature table.
Harvest Day!
It’s that time of year again… Thanks to Jim Hanrahan who taught us all about growing vegetables and how to look after them.
This year we grew potatoes, onions, carrots and parsnips. We even got to bring some home!
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Four Season Trees!
We learned all about the four seasons. We painted Four Season Trees. Each strip represents a season.
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter!
Autumn Nature Walk!
We went for a walk around the school grounds looking at the different trees and identifying the some signs of autumn. Along the journey we met Mr. Jim Hanrahan out gardening. He showed us his vegetable patch and talked to us about all the things he grows in his garden!
Reading Corner!
We made a reading corner in our classroom. Check it out! 🙂
Roald Dahl Day!
We read Roald Dahl’s book – Fantastic Mr. Fox.
We tried to help Boggis, Bean and Bunce to catch Mr. Fox. We created a wanted poster and a character description of Mr. Fox! We also coloured some pictures of the character in the book!
We did Kandinsky Circle Trees!
Welcome Back 1st & 2nd Class!!!
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First and Second Class 2017/2018
Here is a look back at all the things we got up to in First and Second Class this year!
Swimming Certificates
Making Solar Ovens
Rugby Cup Visit
Spring Clean
Coding with Lego
Celebrating Making Our Communion with an Ice-Cream Party
Dogs Trust Visit
Fun With Clay
Communion
Meeting Our The Arrivals
Mother’s Day Art
World Book Day
Visit From Farmer Brown
Valentine’s Day Art
Pancake Tuesday
Christmas Craft Fair
Santa Dash and Christmas Disco
Boat Making
Halloween Witch Walk
Maths Week Fun
September 2016
An Post Rás na mBan
There was great excitement as the pupils of Kiltealy N.S. were asked to cheer on the An Post Rás na mBan participants as they whizzed past our school on Friday afternoon. 1st and 2nd class loved waving their yellow flags to everyone.
Funky Kids
Funky Kids rehearsals in full swing in first and second class.
October 2016
Maths Week
The children in 1st an 2nd class had lots of fun during Maths week this year. Here are some photographs from our maths trail that we did with 3rd and 4th class.
Congratulations to all our winners during our Maths Week daily Challenges.
Take a look below at all the fun that was had as well as all the winners receiving their prizes at Mondays assembly.
Runners up in the Time challenge-Tomás Murphy-5th & 6th, Alex Carroll-1st & 2nd and Anne-Marie Roche-Junior & Senior Infants
Absent from Photos-Aela Bowe who was the overall Winner of The Time Challenge
Runners up of the Length Estimation Challenge: Aimee Neville and Aisling O’Brien-3rd and 4th Class, Bobby Watchorn-1st &2nd Class and Anne-Marie Roche-Junior & Senior Infants
Runners up of The number Estimation Challenge: Róisín Dwyer 3rd & 4th class, Aimee Bowe and Kayla Grogan-1st & 2nd Class and Paul Armstrong Junior & Senior Infants
Winners of the 1st & 2nd Class Quiz: The Fantastic Kids- Ciara Doyle, Robert, Niamh Healy and Bobby Watchorn
Witch Walk
1st and 2nd class had lots of fun on their witch walk this year. There was a lot of spooky costumes in our class!
Harvest Time!
Children from 1st and 2nd class enjoyed harvesting the lovely vegetables sown last Spring, with the rest of the school.
December 2016
Science Week
We had lots of during Science week doing lots of experiments and learning lots about the world around us.
Funky Kids
Well done to all the boys and girls who danced and sang their hearts out at this years Funky Kids Concert.
1st and 2nd Class getting ready to hit the stage and busting some moves on stage.
Christmas Card Competition
Congratulations to Ava and Orla who were the winners of the Christmas card competition. All the children made beautiful cards and I had a very hard job in picking our winners. Well done to all the of 1st and 2nd class.
Problem Solving Winners – Christmas 2016
Congratulations to Kevin and Lucy who were the 1st and 2nd class winners of ‘Problem Solving Quiz’. Every Tuesday and Thursday the children take part in a maths table quiz. The children worked very hard every week and did excellent during our weekly quiz.
Santa Dash!
Dashing through the village !
Well done 1st and 2nd class on completing the Santa Dash this year we had lots of fun along the way!
Christmas Disco
The Christmas Disco was a great success. There was lots of dancing and singing and most importantly, lots of fun! Although it was hard to catch them standing still, we managed to get a few photographs of the boys and girls during the Christmas Disco. 1st and 2nd class had a great time at the disco showing off their dance moves.
There was great excitement when Santy came to visit the children.
January 2017
Funky Kids Certificates
1st and 2nd Class were very excited to receive their Funky Kids certificates after putting on a spectacular show it was a well deserved prize!!
1st and 2nd Class
March 2017
First Confession
Congratulations to our second class pupils who received the sacrament of First Confession on Tuesday 14th March.
They were brilliant and I am very proud of all their hard work. Looking forward to the Communion!
2nd class would like to say a special thanks to all the children from 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th who joined us on the night, and provided us with beautiful music. A special thanks also to Ms. O’Neill and Ms Duff who organised the choir for us.
St. Patrick’s Day
We had lots of fun making our Leprechaun masks for the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
World Book Day
The pupils of 1st and 2nd class were replaced today by some wonderful and creative characters from many different books. We had lots of fun reading and listening to different stories! Well done to everyone and thank you to all the parents for helping with the costumes the were brilliant!
April 2017
Easter Egg Hunt
Bricks for Kids
Technology Week took place across the country last week and the children in Kiltealy N.S were treated to a Bricks 4 Kids Workshop Day.
Everyone from infants to 6th class took part in the workshop day on Friday 28th April.
Have a look at our classes enjoying the workshops below
Spring Clean
Well done to 1st and 2nd who with the rest of the pupils in Kiltealy N.S took part in our National Spring Clean Day on Thursday 27th April.
Here are some pictures of us busy at work.
May 2017
Communion 2017
Congratulations to 2nd class on making their First Holly Communion on the 6th May 2017. They did an amazing job and we are all very proud of them. 2nd class would like to thank Fr. Fegan and Fr. Morris for all their guidance, Ms. O’Brien for making our beautiful programs, 1st class for all their help during all of the practices and finally to the all senior pupils of Kiltealy National School for the lovely music and singing, and also Helena Dunbar our music teacher for her accompaniment and Ms Duff and Ms. O’Neill for all their hard work in preparing the choir.
Féile Visit
There was great excitement in 1st and 2nd during our recent Féile visit.
Active Week
This Week we have had lost of fun being active everyday, we have done lots of different sports and games. Including dance, athletics, gymnastics, soccer, playground games and orienteering.
Here are our group dances to the Ghostbuster’s Theme.
Here we are doing our gymnastics.
Here are some action shots from soccer with Robbie.
Here we are doing our athletics during Active Week.
First Holy Communion
Congratulations to all our pupils who received their first Holy Communion!!
Well done you did a great job and we are very proud of you all!!!
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All Classes really enjoyed having the bricks for kids team in our school. The children and teachers enjoyed building Lego models.
