Killeeneen N.S. Book Fair

We held our annual book fair from the 9^th – 13^th of November. It was held in the G.P. room. Every class in our school got the opportunity to go to the book fair and purchase books. Our class, 6^th, got to go down to have a look at the books on offer on Thursday afternoon. There were a variety of books suitable for all ages and abilities. I bought a book called Friend or Foe that cost nine euro. I really enjoy reading.

By Luke Clarke

The Galway Minors Visit Killeeneen.

The successful Galway Minor Team who won the All Ireland Final this year visited our school with the Irish Press Cup on Friday the 2^nd of October. Evan Niland, Ian O’Brien, Cian Salmon, Patrick Foley and Shane Bannon are members of Clarinbridge club who were on the Galway panel. Evan Niland and Ian O Brien are past pupils of our school.

Galway had a tough path to the final. They played Kilkenny in the semi-final and won after a replay. They bet Tipperary in the final in Croke Park.

6^th Class gave a guard of honour with their hurls in the air while the champions walked in.  Evan spoke and gave us a few words of advice for practising our hurling and camogie at home. The boys were very kind to sign our jerseys and take a few photos with the children in our school.

By Caoimhe Kennedy and Luke Clarke

Garda Cup Shield Champions!

The Football Garda Cup is a 7 a-side football competition that takes place every year in Gort. It was held on the 16^th of October this year. A panel of ten represented our school at the tournament on the day. The players were Luke Forde, Peter Monaghan, Luke Clarke, Luke Martyn, Alex Haugh, Ben Lalor, Adam Fitzgerald, Michael Cotter, Colin Counihan and Fabien Fleetwood.

We played Northampton N.S in the first match and won. The second match we unfortunately lost to Kinvara N.S who were the overall winners on the day. We came second in our group so we qualified for the shield semi-final.

We played Ballymanagh N.S. in the shield semi final and we won. Then we went on to play Ballyglass N.S in the final. We won the match comfortably. Peter Monaghan was our captain and he received the cup. We all got medals on the day, we were the shield champions!

By Luke Clarke and Caoimhe Kennedy and Luke Martyn.

Setting up shop in 6th!

In rang a sé we combined our maths skills of area and money to price how much it would cost to carpet rooms in our dream home! We then set up some carpet shops to put our maths to the test...there were some great bargains to be had :)

Some interesting facts about life in the trenches of World War One by Niall and Braon

WORLD WAR ONE

FIRE trenches

Fire trenches were built in a zig-zag pattern.

This was to stop enemy soldiers firing down

the complete length of a trench.

It also offered more protection from exploding shells.

Entertainment

Soldiers would put on plays to entertain fellow troops.

Sports such as football, ice hockey and horse races also took place.

Crime doesn’t pay

Crimes such as drunkenness, desertion, rudeness to an officer, loss/ damage of Army property or self-inflicted wounds to avoid battle all occurred.

Punishments included fines, imprisonment, demotion or even execution.

Barbed wire

The barbed wire at the front of the fire trench had to be looked after, replaced or repaired if it was damaged by shelling.

`Writing parties` went out at night to repair it.

The Magic Box Poetry Writing

The Magic Box

We wrote our Magic Box poems over the past two weeks. We based them on the poem by Kit Wright. They were all about if you had a magic box what would you put in it and decorate it with. We came up with some very  imaginative things like ‘a wild raging wave from the north sea’ ‘A walrus dressed up as Susan Boyle’ ‘the finest jar of mayonnaise’ and ‘sand as soft as silk’.

By Alice McMahon, Lauren Carr and Tara Lydon

Here are some of our poems...

Anti bullying slogans !!! =}

In class we are talking a lot about bullying and how to tackle it well. Bullies are looking for 1 thing , your weakness. In class we wrote out slogans and poems to tackle bullying here are some of them .
By Phelim and Christy