Feature Weeks

Seachtain na Gaeilge is in full swing at St. Kilian’s Junior School. We welcomed a group of Irish set dancers to the school in Monday, they danced for the children and they taught a set dance, the Connemara, to second … Continue reading

World Book Day On Thursday 6th March 2025 we celebrated World Book Day. We had lots of fun reading and designing book covers for Irish Myths and Legends and we even wrote our own school story called “Kool Kilian’s crazy … Continue reading

There was great egg-citement throughout the school when our chicks hatched after spending 21 days in the incubator! All the boys and girls watched the chicks hatch live in their classrooms via webcam.  We loved visiting them in their brooding … Continue reading

We celebrated Maths week from 12 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

(4th to 10th October) Kilian’s registered for our week-long event on spaceweek.ie. The boys and girls had great fun with space related activities! Our Junior Infants had great fun learning about living in space, designing and making rockets and even … 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

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

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

St. Kilian’s registered for our week long event on spaceweek.ie. The boys and girls had great fun with space related activities! This year senior infants focused on the theme and had great fun designing and making satellites from playdoh, designing … Continue reading