Updates for: General News

Our Buddy Bear kindness awards were presented in the school this week. Huge thanks to Jean and Joan from Nina for organizing the bears and certificates for us. Congratulations to Toby Broderick from room 6, who was the overall winner … Continue reading

Senan from room 16 made a fabulous hat at home with his mum. The hat highlights the fact that eight million metric tons of plastic are leaking into our oceans every year. Sea creatures like turtles are eating plastics and … Continue reading

Our school calendar for the academic year 2021-22 is now available.                 School Holiday Calendar – 2021-2022   Please note that we may have to continue with staggered drop off and collection times in the … Continue reading

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all our children and families. The children dressed up in green on Tuesday and engaged in lots of Seachtain na Gaeilge activities over the past week. See photos below.

We were delighted to receive the news last week that our new school website has been chosen by Scoilnet, the portal website for Irish education, as their Star Site. The aim of the award is to showcase school websites and … Continue reading

Well done to all the boys and girls at St.Kilian’s JNS for reaching an incredible milestone. Ms. Lagan, our literacy coordinator has informed us that you have read 15,000 books on Raz-Kids since September. Keep reading boys and girls, your … Continue reading

Well done to all our children and families who took part in our Christmas Tree competition. There were many fabulous entries, well done to our two overall winners, Orla Fitzpatrick from Ms. Black’s class and Amelia Bachman from Ms. Gillespie’s … Continue reading

We were delighted to receive the Maths Eyes awards this week from Maths Week Ireland for our five school winners Evie O’Connor and James Lagan from room 16, Fiach O’Brien Shine from room 9 and Kapish Bansal and Oisín Coughlan … Continue reading

Well done to all the children who entered our Christmas Tree Competition.  Congratulations to Amelia Bachman in room 6 who was our overall Infant winner and to Orla Fitzpatrick in room 10 who was our First/Second Class winner. See photos … Continue reading

Science week was a busy week at St. Kilians JNS. First and second classes took part. First class worked on the theme of teeth. They made their own happy tooth and talked about what they should eat to keep their … Continue reading

The Department of Education and Skills now require all schools to have a communication and learning platform in place that supports schools to respond in the event of a partial or full school closure in the future. The Minister for … Continue reading