LATEST NEWS

Congratulations to all the pupils who received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion on Saturday in the Cathedral of St. Patrick and St. Felim. Thank you to Ms. O'Neill for preparing the children so well for this sacrament and to Fr. Jordan for all his visits to this class throughout the year. Thank you also to Jenny in the Presbytery for all your support and hard work and to Cavan County Produce and the Parents Association for the Cake and Flowers.

Please support Killygarry G.A.A. club in their 24 Hour Walkathon in Aid of Down Syndrome Ireland beginning on Friday 22nd of May at 6pm. What a great cause!

Everyone at St. Brigid's National School Killygarry would like to wish our very own Ailbhe Kennedy and Derbhile Lynch the best of luck in the Ulster Intermediate Ladies Final which takes place tomorrow at 5pm in Brewster Park in Enniskillen. Ailbhe and Derbhile are past pupils of our school and Ailbhe has just completed her first teaching practice in the school. We are all very proud of both girls and we wish them the best of luck representing their club and county in the

The FTD Brothers, Jordan and Cian Adams, ran past our school today as part of their journey of completing 32 marathons in 32 days in the 32 counties of Ireland. All the pupils came out to cheer them on with their flags, posters, bunting and balloons. Jordan and Cian Adams are completing this challenge to raise funds to find a cure for and support people with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and yesterday they had raised the 1,000,000 pound sterling mark. This is a remarkable

Congratulations to all our Easter competition winners: Patrick in 1st class won the hamper. Colouring competition winners: Eirinn in junior infants Zarpash in senior infants Sofia in First class Sophia in second class Eva in Third class Hollie in Fourth class Ella in Fifth class Eibhlin in Sixth class

Inniu, cheiliúraíomar lá glas sa scoil. Ghléas na páistí go léir in éadaí glasa, rinne siad damhsa, sheinn siad ceol and chan siad amhráin. Lá iontach a bhí ann.

Our Parents Association have organised two Easter Fundraisers and we would greatly appreciate your support. See the leaflet below.

Cruella de Vil and all her Dalmatians, which she had an awful job keeping track of on World Book Day!

All the staff, pupils and Board of Management of Killygarry National School would like to wish Killygarry Gaelic Football Club a very happy 60th birthday and we wish them well with their celebrations on Saturday night. Killygarry GFC has always been a great support to our school, giving us access to their indoor and outdoor facilities and last year they gave us a full set of Gaelic footballs for our school. Thank you for your support and happy birthday!

We had a great day on Pancake Tuesday. First class and Second class got to learn about making pancakes and everyone got to eat one too. We loved putting chocolate spread or nutella on them!

Second class have spent a few weeks learning all about The Titanic, its history, writing newspaper reports with 5th class, learning how icebergs are formed, making timelines and creating their own project from a list given to them. Here are some photographs from all our work and off their presentations on the Friday before mid-term when the parents came in

Well done to all the children who participated in the School Marathon last Friday at Killygarry N.S. A sincere word of thanks to all the parents and family members who sponsored the children. There was over €4000 raised and there is still money coming in. We are going to use the money to put in a shed to keep all our physical education equipment in. Some of the money will also be used to put in a poly tunnel at the back of the school so the children can learn to grow some

Second Class enjoyed their new boxercise class today with Borys. It was a great workout using all parts of our bodies.

Last Wednesday 35 of our students participated in the Annual Swimming Gala in Cavan Swimming Pool and Sports Complex. We had great success on the day and the children swam amazingly well. Here are some of our medal winners but all the children who participated on the day was a winner. Gearoid came 1st place in the U8 Back Crawl Oscar came 1st in the U10 Back Crawl Siún came 2nd in the U10 Back Crawl Evan came 3rd in the U10 Breast Stroke Robyn came 4th place in the U10 Brea

Today we had a special visit from Santa Claus who arrived in a Fire Engine. He brought sweets and Christmas Annuals for the children, all provided by our wonderful Parents Association.

Well done to all our pupils from Junior Infants to Second Class who performed so well in our Christmas Concert yesterday and thank you to all the family members who attended our concert. It was a great afternoon

Today we handed over 104 shoe boxes to the Team Hope Charity who deliver these special gifts to children across the world who are in need of something special this Christmas. Well done to all the families who participated in this every worthwhile charitable event.

Second class had great fun dressing up for Halloween and trying some Báirín Breac!

Second Class created animals from cardboard using their ideas from the play they went to see last October called The Land of Hundred Little Hills

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!