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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.

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

Congratulations to all the sixth class pupils who received the Sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday. We all welcomed a visit from the Patron of our School, Bishop Martin Hayes, to the school last Thursday and everyone had a great day on Saturday. We had lots of cake and celebrations at the school today. Thank you to Glanmore for providing the beautiful cake, to Ms. Mc Mahon and Lisa for preparing the children so well for this sacrament and to Jenny and Fr. Jordan for thei

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!

Well done to the girls who won the Soccer League with their Ballyhaise Soccer Team over the Easter break and well done to Eva who got 'Player of the Match'.

Well done to all the children who won an Easter Egg in their class raffle and to Patrick in Senior Infants who won the Easter Egg Hamper. Congratulations to the five children who won an Easter Egg and a voucher for Café Mana, Smith's Diner or Cavan Swimming Pool for raising so much money in the Parents Association Sponsored Walk. The school raised €280 for Unicef last week with our colourful Friendship Day so well do everyone who supported it too.

The first class pupils enjoyed some fun in the sun today in the playground with their shoes off!

The Senior Infant pupils, along with their teacher Ms. Finnegan and their SNA Grainne, are off to Croí Forest School on this beautiful sunny day for a day full of discovery and adventure.