Updates for: General News

Today we remember and pay tribute to our fellow primary school teacher Ashling Murphy as she is laid to rest. We send our love and our heartfelt sympathy to her family and friends, and her colleagues and pupils at Durrow … Continue reading

We would like to wish all our children and families a very happy and safe Christmas. Thank you for all your support and cooperation during the past term, it is very much appreciated. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets … Continue reading

Thank you to all the children who took part in our Christmas Card Competition. All the entries were lovely and the children put a lot of work into them. The overall Infant category winner was Matthew Roche in Ms. Egan’s … Continue reading

We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to Ms. Maria McCarthy as she retires from her teaching career after thirty five years of dedicated service to St. Kilian’s Junior School. Ms. McCarthy has taught hundreds of children from the … Continue reading

Science Week took place in mid November and every class in the school was involved in hands-on science work. Junior Infants learned all about owls and made beautiful pictures. Senior Infants worked on habitats and second class investigated hedgerows and … Continue reading

St. Kilian’s Junior School invite applications to enrol junior infants for the school year 2022-23. There are three main documents dealing with the admission process. Please read all three carefully. The dates for applying, closing and reply dates are all … Continue reading

First Holy Communion for our past pupils, who are now in Third Class in the Senior School took place on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th October.  The children looked fantastic and great credit is due to their parents whose hard … Continue reading

Space Week took place from the 4th to the 8th October and St. Kilian’s JNS were registered on spaceweek.ie with a week of space related activities. Some children painted rockets, some became astronauts and designed their space environment and some … Continue reading

Welcome back to school and a special welcome to our new Junior Infants.  They have settled in wonderfully to the school. They are showing remarkable independence and enthusiasm as they enter by themselves in the mornings. They are a great … Continue reading

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Ms. Kate Sweeney as she retires as principal of St. Kilian’s JNS after thirty five years of incredible service to the school. Kate has served as school principal for the past … Continue reading