Updates for: 1st Class

For World Book Day, our school developed their own digital stories, each class read the story so far and added their own piece to the story. A story was developed in Infants, The Golden Slipper and another in First and … Continue reading

Active Week 2024 Active Week took place from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th April 2024. The students and school staff wore their tracksuits every day and homework was replaced by Active Homework. The students participated in lots of activities throughout … Continue reading

RTE visited St. Kilian’s Junior School during Marine Week. The crew, Molly and Micheál, were from News2day. They filmed the children from the green committee speaking about our oceans and how we can all help to support marine life. The … Continue reading

Engineering Week took place in January. The children worked on different engineering projects with their class. Two engineers visited our school to talk to second class. They worked with them to design cars and discussed the work of engineers with … Continue reading

Santa came to visit the children on Monday 18th December. Thanks to the B watch crew at Belgard fire station, he arrived by fire engine to the school yard where the children were eagerly awaiting him. He spoke to all … Continue reading

We were delighted to have the Sam Maguire and the Brendan Martin Cups at St Kilian’s Junior School on 1st December. Colm Basquel came with Ciarán Long and other members of St. Kevin/Kilians GAA club. We want thank Colm  and … Continue reading

All the children had great fun during science week. This year we focused on the curriculum strand of living things and the boys and girls had great fun exploring our woodland area on our school grounds. They played games in … Continue reading

Buddy Bear visited us at school on our Halloween dress up day to help us to relaunch our Buddy Seat initiative. The children were delighted to see Buddy Bear. All classes sang “My best friend” together in the yard and … Continue reading

We celebrated maths week from 16th to 20th October with lots of practical maths activities each day. The boys and girls had great fun doing maths outdoors and used chalk to write their numbers, practice sums and draw wonderful creations … Continue reading

Our second classes were very lucky to participate in LEGO robotics workshops in www.thinkbigspace.ie based in Tallaght in early October. They had a wonderful session building snowmobiles from LEGO and learning how to program using IPADS to navigate around tracks … Continue reading

Welcome back to school to all our children and a special welcome to our new Junior Infants. In just a couple of days, they have settled so well into school. They are showing great independence and enthusiasm as they enter … Continue reading