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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.

Today we had an invasion of dinosaurs at Killygarry National School. They were enroute to Jurassic Park and arrived at the school to scare the teachers away!

Well done to all our Sixth Class pupils for the fantastic pumpkins that they created for Halloween. A massive effort was put in by all the children.

Well done to all the girls who participated in the Loreto Gaelic Football Blitz on Wednesday 17th of September on the 3G pitch at Breffni Park. The team played great and reached the final but were marginally beaten in the end. Thank you to Ms. Mc Mahon for accompanying the team to this blitz and to the TY students in Loreto for organising this fantastic event.

Our school camogie team participated in a camogie blitz last Monday 13th of October and played extremely well. Thank you to Ms. Mc Mahon for training the team after school and for organising the blitz and accompanying the children to the blitz.

Our Sixth Class Pupils had a very enjoyable Sports Day at St. Patrick's College on Thursday 9th of October. All the children got to participate in many different sports on the day.

Congratulations to the 36 pupils who participated in the Cross-Country Running Competition last Wednesday in Killinkere. The children did incredibly well with Aisling in 5th class coming home with a gold individual medal and our senior girl's team winning gold also, a first time achievement for our school. A sincere word of thanks to Ms. White who organises this event every year and trains the team and to Ms. Mc Mahon, Ms. Keaney and Lisa for looking after the children on t

Our sixth class pupils are organising a fundraiser to raise money to purchase Leaver Hoodies for their class. They are looking for families to donate their used Halloween Costumes and they will sell them in the school on the 16th of October for €5 each. Please drop in any costumes to the school on the 13th to 15th of October and thank you for your support.

Here are all our classes of the 2025-26 academic year. All our students are settling in well to school and working really hard while also having lots of fun with their friends. Junior Infants Senior Infants First Class Second Class Third Class Fourth Class Fifth Class Sixth Class

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.

Congratulations to all the pupils who graduated from 6th class on Thursday 12th of June. Well done to Ms. Mc Mahon for organising the graduation ceremony, Bernie for decorating the room, 5th class for providing the refreshments, Ms. Wynne for the fabulous photo show, Lisa for the lovely video, Paul and Sarah Smith from Smith's Diner for the beautiful food, Glanmore for the Graduation Cake and all the staff for helping to tidy up afterwards. Well done to all our sixth class

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.

Yesterday we entered three relay teams into the Cavan Primary Schools Athletics Competition in Shercock. We had a mixed senior team, a girls senior team and a boys senior team. As well as this Lily, Amber, Ma'ake and Faolan ran in the 80m heats and Eva and Ryan ran the long distance of 600m. Ryan & Eva came 7th with over 30 competitors in his race and Lily came 2nd in her 80m heat and second overall in the final. Everyone had a great day in the sunshine.

Well done to the fourth, fifth and sixth class boys who participated in the Division 2 Cumann na mBunscol Blitz in Breffni Park last week. The boys played brilliantly but were up against tough apponents. A sincere word of thanks to Ms. Finnegan for taking the boys for all their training sessions after school and to Micheal Smith for helping out on the day. Thanks also to John Emo and Brian Crowe for refereeing on the day.

Well done to the second and third class boys who participated in the Pat Ryan Tournament on the 3G pitch at Breffni Park yesterday. The boys won all their matches and brought home the Pat Ryan 7 Aside Perpetual Shield which they also won back in 2014, 11 years ago. Pat Ryan was the Principal of St. Felim's N.S. in Cavan and every year St. Felim's N.S. organise this tournament in memory of Mr. Ryan. A sincere word of thanks must go to Ciaran Brady, teacher at St. Felim's N.

The children had a great day at the Breifne College Blitz yesterday on the 3G pitch at Kingspan Breffni Park. The fourth class boys participated in the blitz and reached the final and were runners-up in the end. The highlight of the day was meeting the President of the GAA, Mr. Jarlath Burns, who spoke to all the children on the day. Well done to all the boys on the wonderful football played!

Second Class made their Holy Communion on Saturday. It was a very special day for everyone. Many thanks to Fr Jordan for all his visits to our class over the year and to Jenny for helping with the preparations. We had some lovely cake from Glanmore Foods today and dressed up in our lovely clothes once again.