Congratulations to Kayla and Jude from fifth class who won Certificates of Merit in the Windows Poetry Competition on Sunday 14th May @ 3pm in the Cavan Crystal Hotel. Out of 1,400 entries, Kayla and Jude came in the top 100 so that was a great achievement. Well done!
A sincere word of thanks to our Parents Association, all the parents in the school, our sponsors and the local community for all the money they gave over the past four years towards our new playground. A total of €16,000 was handed over by the Parent Association to the Board of Management this year to […]
We got a fantastic response to the request for remakes of famous paintings. So many in fact that we could not put them all on the website. Here are a few and the rest will be on class blogs. Well done to everyone who participated. We hope you enjoyed it and learned a little about […]
The staff and pupils of Killygarry National School were delighted to welcome Mr. Martin Skelly (Chairperson of Féile), Mr. Michael Geoghegan (P.R.O. of the Ulster Council) and Mr. Andreas Mc Govern (Chairperson of Killygarry G.F.C.). All the pupils wore G.A.A. jerseys for the occasion and Michael and Aisling put up bunting and flag for this […]
Oral language homework 27th April- 18th May Week 1: April 27th PLAY A BOARD GAME with your family. Choose whichever game you like, but one with the most opportunities for using language possible, eg Monopoly, Cluedo, Guess Who etc. Be prepared to talk at school about what game you played and tell some of the rules. Week 2: May 4th […]
Leah from 5th class is the Spelling Bee champion from Killygarry. She went to Farnham NS on Tuesday to participate in the County Cavan Championships. She represented the school very well and did us proud.
We are delighted to have a new ukulele after-school class in Killygarry! Thanks to Ms Wynne and Ms Yvonne Smith, 26 children are now learning to play the instrument- and it sounds great!
Two new pieces of playground equipment have been added to our new playground over the Easter Holidays thanks to the Sponsored Walk Fundraiser organised by our Parents Association and the generosity of all our parents, sponsors and many companies who provide goods and services to our school. All sponsors will be mentioned in a further […]
The whole school turned BLUE today for Autism Awareness month and €750 was raised for CAPS (Cavan Autism Parents Support group). Thank you everybody. A special word of thanks to Nili in fifth class who donated €100 of his confirmation money. What a generous boy.
Cavan artist Siobhan Harton is in the school this week painting the new mural with the children. It is a representation of 100 years of school life at Killygarry NS, with the four seasons as the background.