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The School Book Fair will arrive in the school on Monday 17th November and will finish up on Friday 21st of November. It will be open until 4:30pm on the Wednesday and Thursday for parents during the Parent Teacher Meetings. We appreciate your support as always!

There will be a clothing collection at the school on Thursday 13th of November. They accept pairs of shoes, handbags, belts, clothing and handbags. They do no accept duvets or pillows. You can leave your bags at the school gate each morning from Monday 10th to Thursday 13th of November. Thank you for your support.

Dear parents, Our school website is supported on the Wix platform. As Wix is an Israeli owned and operated company, I will not be using this website until the war in Gaza is over. Please visit my blog mrswhitesroom.blogspot.ie where I will be posting Junior Infants activities.

Killygarry National School will be accepting applications for enrolment from Monday 6th of October to Friday the 24th of October online through our school website or using the QR Code below. Applications will open from 9am on Monday 6th of October.

All the children had a great day on Thursday as they participated in a Skipping Workshop organised by Ms. Wynne and funded from money raised last year by the School Marathon. We ended the day with an ice cream or a slushie in the 25C sunshine.

Well done to all the pupils who participated in our School Sports Day on the 3G Pitch at Breffni Park on Monday 16th of June. It was a beautiful day and so well organised by Mrs. White, Deputy Principal.

We had fun with magnets and learned some new vocabulary too like "attract, repel, magnetic field, magnetise".

We recently had two school trips. We had our school tour to GR8 in Castleblaney. We also took advantage of the sunny weather and had a summer walk and picnic at Molly Galligan's house. Thanks for having us Molly and family!

Here are just a few of the fun things we have been doing in Junior Infants Alice's dad Ronan came in to tell us about what it was like to go to the old Killygarry school (which is now Alice's house!) Learning about patterns: Our playroom Our playroom Learning about area Board games with 4th class during Friendship week Water play Easter Egg Hunts!

Today we had a great celebration of music at the school with our Music Generation Tin Whistle players, our School Trad Group who performed in Arás an Uachtaráin in December, Eibhlín on Guitar, Faolán on the fiddle, Willow on Electric Guitar, Clara doing some Irish Dancing and Danielis and Kajetan telling us a few jokes. The Music on Wheels tour is organised by Music Generation and our wonderful Music Teacher, Aishling O'Reilly. A sincere word of thanks to all involved. Wha

All the pupils from junior infants to second class participated in Zumba yesterday for the first session of a five week programme. The children learned the 'Hey Margarita' song which I'm sure many of our parents know already!

The fifth class pupils visit the Junior and Senior Infants every Tuesday and Thursday for some Peered Reading and Peered Play activities. The infant classes love to see the senior pupils visit their classrooms and engage with them in a positive and fun way.

We went on a lovely spring walk and we saw dandelions, daffodils, buds and birds building nests. Some of our recent crafts

Ó hócaí pócaí! We did a performance for the Irish concert at school. This was to mark Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish week)

We had a great World Book Day. First of all each pupil introduced the book character they were dressed up as. We did drawing and writing about our favourite books. Teacher read some of the books people had brought in. Then third class came to read books to us.

We have been learning about farms this week. Thank you to Molly's dad Eamon who came in to tell us about his farm.

Today we celebrated Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, in the school with a prayer service in the GP room. Fr. Mac Gabhann gave us some blessed ashes which we blessed the children with. The Prayer Service was organised by our two Assistant Principals, Ms. O'Neill and Mrs. Mc Caughey.

We made pancakes today at school. Here is a little video in case you need a recipe to make them at home.

The Parents Association has set up a new Facebook and Instagram page. The Facebook page can be accessed by clicking here The Instagram page can be accessed by clicking here They have also set up a QR Code for making payments directly to their bank account and this can be found below. If you are making a donation to the Parents Association please complete the form here If you wish to may a payment via PayPal please use the following details: Email: killygarryparentsassociati

Killygarry National School has been named Healthy Heroes Star School for February 2025 for their efforts in promoting healthy eating. Our school has come first among hundreds of primary schools across Ireland also participating in the Healthy Heroes initiative, supported by the Irish Bread Bakers Association (IBBA) and Bord Bia. The programme aims to educate children on nutrition, physical activity and how to maintain and enjoy healthy lunchtime habits, in school and at home.