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Kilkenny Credit Union Table Quiz Our school entered two under 13 teams in the annual Credit Union School Quiz 2017. We are delighted to report that both our teams performed brilliantly this year, coming 8th and 9th out of 72 teams in total. Well done to all the boys and girls who took part.
Friendship WeekThis was a special week in Scoil Naomh Fiachra as we celebrated Friendship Week 2016. We focused on positive relationships, being kind, caring and looking out for each other to ensure everyone is always included. During the week a lot of activities took place throughout the school including buddy fun where the older children partnered up with the younger children to read books together, complete art activities and carry out exercises on being a good friend. Everyone in the school did a random act of kindness and each child also had a compliment box where other children wrote nice things about them before putting them into their boxes. The children loved reading these compliments at home. We also began our collection for local people in need this Christmas which will run right up until the holidays. Finally, we unveiled our new ‘Friendship Bench’ which was skillfully made and donated by one of our board of management members Kieran Costelloe and varnished by the Tallis family. The children will put their own stamp on the bench when they design and paint it later in the year. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our very successful ‘Friendship Week 2016’.
Christmas Shoe Box Collection 2016  Thank you to all that contributed to the Christmas Shoebox collection 2016. Congratulations Ms Brennan…. Congratulations to Ms Brennan on her success with the Thomastown Senior Camogie team who won this years Leinster Championship. thomastown-gaa-leinster-champions-2016
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The O’Duffy Cup
Last Friday there was great excitement when the O’Duffy Cup visited the school. Kilkenny Camogie stars Ann Dalton and our very own Claire Phelan and Aoife O’Carroll brought the cup in and gave some brilliant advice to our future camogie and hurling stars.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
We are celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge in our school this week. We are making an extra effort to speak Irish throughout the day and chidlren earn a raffle ticket and will go into a draw at the end of the week to win a prize. We had a ceolchoirm on Thursday which you will see in photos below and to finish the week off we are having a tráth na gceist.
End of Year Awards 2017Camogie Medals: Well done to our victorious camogie team who were presented with their medals by Senior Kilkenny player and All Ireland winner Aoife O’Carroll. Thanks to the Lisdowney camogie club who sent the ice-cream van as part of our celebration. Well done to Ms. Brennan, Ms. Fennelly and the players on their fantastic achievement this year.
Swimming Gala: Well done to our team of 26 swimmers who represented the school in this year’s Gala. Congratulations to Orla who came second in the under 10 front crawl and Corey who came first in the under 12 front crawl. Thanks to Deirdre Dunne, Fiona Perry and Rita Phelan for all their help on the day.
Hurling Blitz Winners: Well done to our 2017 hurling blitz winners.
Sport’s Day Winners: Congratulations to the orange team who came in 1st place on Sport’s Day.
Attendance Awards: Well done to our pupils who received certificates for their high levels of attendance this year (first picture) and also our twelve pupils in the second picture who didn’t miss a single day this year.
End of Year Awards 2017Camogie Medals: Well done to our victorious camogie team who were presented with their medals by Senior Kilkenny player and All Ireland winner Aoife O’Carroll. Thanks to the Lisdowney camogie club who sent the ice-cream van as part of our celebration. Well done to Ms. Brennan, Ms. Fennelly and the players on their fantastic achievement this year.
Swimming Gala: Well done to our team of 26 swimmers who represented the school in this year’s Gala. Congratulations to Orla who came second in the under 10 front crawl and Corey who came first in the under 12 front crawl. Thanks to Deirdre Dunne, Fiona Perry and Rita Phelan for all their help on the day.
Hurling Blitz Winners: Well done to our 2017 hurling blitz winners.
Sport’s Day Winners: Congratulations to the orange team who came in 1st place on Sport’s Day.
Attendance Awards: Well done to our pupils who received certificates for their high levels of attendance this year (first picture) and also our twelve pupils in the second picture who didn’t miss a single day this year.
Kilkenny Community Games Quiz Champions 2017Congratulations to the students from Scoil Naomh Fiachra on winning the Kilkenny Community Games Quiz. The team below will go on to represent us in the All Ireland Community Games Quiz 2017. We wish them the very best of luck.
Engineering Week – Lego MindstormsTo celebrate ‘Engineering Week’ this week, we started a new type of coding/programming called ‘Mindstorms’. We have been using ‘Scratch’ coding for the past few weeks and this has been a great help in preparing us to use ‘Mindstorms’. The children built their own robots as part of the project and came up with there own codes which they used to control their robots. This was great fun and we aim to spend time every week improving our coding skills and building our robots.
“Water Wise Workshops”As part of our campaign for the Water Flag, we invited Úna from Global Action Ireland to the school to give three one and a half hour workshops to the classes on Water Conservation. Together, we did an in depth exploration of the Water Cycle, the story of a water droplet, water saving tips, water usage in our daily lives and in the processing of everyday food and clothing items, and much more. We had a great time with Úna and we hope she will visit us again soon. |
