Updates for: Junior Infants

Active Week took place in St. Kilian’s Junior School between 9th and 13th May. The children enjoyed Hip Hop with Ann on Monday and their Mindfulness sessions with Ms. Rafferty on Tuesday. Hector worked with them on their football skills … Continue reading

Many thanks to all the families who baked and sent in baked goods to the school for our cake sale in aid of the Ukrainian Red Cross.  The children really enjoyed buying and eating their cakes. Huge thanks to Gillian … Continue reading

Many congratulations to Emily Leeper in Junior Infants Room 3 for winning the infant category of the competition with her wonderful “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. Congratulations to Orlagh Fitzpatrick in Room 10, second class for her fabulous horse. See details … Continue reading

Second Class made marble runs and tested their structures to see what designs worked best. We investigated magnets and went all around the school looking for surfaces that our magnets would stick to.

Children have been busy watching our native birds and feeding them throughout the winter, see photos below We do all we can to keep our school grounds neat and clean. We had fun doing our litter pick up, see photos … Continue reading

Congratulations to all the children who took part in the Crock of Gold Competition to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge. The winner of the infant category was James Smith-Buggy and the winner of the First/Second class category was Toby Broderick. The … Continue reading

All pupils were busy with their engineering work during engineering week from 5th to 11th March 2022. Our visiting engineer Tom Murray worked with our second classes. He gave the boys and girls a very informative talk about the work … Continue reading

We showcased our Maths eyes work with our classmates. We received our Hour of code certificates from Ms. Coll, school principal and Ms. Lagan, deputy principal and stem coordinator. We showcased our coding work with children from other classes.

On February 7th, all children in the school participated in Safer Internet Day. all classes revised their 4 rules for staying safe online. WebWise sent bracelets for every child. Children were advised to talk to their parent about internet safety … Continue reading

All classes in the school use the Beebots for precoding work, see photos below All children use Raz kids online reading programme as part of their school work and homework. The children at St. Kilian’s JNS have read thousands of … 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

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