Updates for: Junior Infants

Sylvia our lollipop lady will be retiring on Wednesday next at the end of the school year. Sylvia has been a valuable and much loved member of the school community for many years. Second class children made a book of … Continue reading

As a gesture to the children, Ms. Sweeney organized an ice cream van to visit the school on Thursday 24th June. The sun came out and the children enjoyed their ice cream cones. It was a lovely day. See photos … Continue reading

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

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.

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

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

Maths Week 12th to 16th October 2020 Maths Week was a busy and exciting week at St.Kilian’s JNS. The children had to guess how many sweets were in the large jar of sweets, they were allowed several guesses during the … Continue reading

Health and Wellbeing Week at St.Kilian’s Junior School. Saint Kilian’s Junior School re-opened on August 27th and a series of Health and Safety measures were put in place to support our pupils and our staff. Children were taught how to … Continue reading

St. Kilian’s JNS held a virtual sports day during the week beginning 15th June 2020 as sports day could not take place in the usual way. Two teachers from Sligo Education centre put together a programme for all schools to … Continue reading

Engineering Week 2nd to 6th March 2020 During engineering week, our visiting engineer Tom Murray worked with our second class children, rooms 9, 10 and 11. The children made St.Patrick’s Day cards which had a bulb on them powered by … Continue reading

Friendship Week 5th to 9th February 2020 Children from every class made their friendship tags and hung them on our Tree of Thankfulness in the hall. Children worked on the theme of compliments, how to give them appropriately to others … Continue reading