New Junior Infants!

Welcome to our 6 new Junior Infants!

First Communion Class 2012

Hurler of the Year/Young hurler of the Year

Well done to Cillian and Eoghan.

Disney Birthday Cake
We started making our Disney birthday cake last week on the 8/3/12
We had loads of great ideas from the four classes in our room third class, fourth, fifth and sixth and we tried our best to use them all. We combined nearly every single idea and came up with the “Scoil Mhuire Disney”. The Scoil Mhuire Disney is the Disney castle and our school all in one!! It is not exactly the same as the castle in Disneyland Paris because we wanted to make it our own, something different. So we have a mote going around it. It is a different colour but I don’t want to ruin the surprise!! Liz, our secretary will be in one of the towers so she has a good view. We all worked very hard on this cake.
What’s so special about the “Scoil Mhuire Disney” is that you learn almost everything you need to know in the junior room (junior. Senior, first and second class) and when you get into the senior room its all about Disney!!! Rapunzel cooks our lunch in the afternoon, she is such a good cook, we get a choice of frogs legs, spaghetti bolognaise, pizza, snails a sandwich or a roll for lunch. The most popular is pizza. The junior have a special guest read them a story everyday yesterday it was Peterpan the day before it was Buzz!!! We have quite a small school compared to others there is only 41 pupils in the whole school!!!! But I think if we did win we would only be bringing the senior room. In the senior room there is Emily, Steven ad Eoghan in third class, David Daire, Conor and Cillian in fourth class, Cathal, Hannah Jenny, Lucy and Martin in fifth class and in sixth class there is Naeema, Katie, Tara and Alice.
Katie Madigan 6th Class

Ireland vs France

Paul O'Connell was captain. Tommy Bowe scored 2 tries.Jonathon Sexton scored 2 convertions.
Tommy Bowe and Johnathon Sexton did all the scoring.
It ended up being a draw, although Ireland were the better team in the first half.
Tommy Bowe got man of the match.
Conor Murry got injured and had to get cruches.
The final score was 17-17.
The subs that came on were Sean Cronin, Tom Court, Peter O' Mahony, Eoin Redden, Ronan O' Gara.
It was a very good match.
By Cillian and Daire 4th class.

Lent is a time where you give up things that you like.
Lent ends when Easter starts. Lots of people give up chocolate, sweets and crisps.
Lent is a time when you give money to Trocaqire.
Lent is a good time for getting fit.
Lent is a very holy time.
We gave up chocolate and fighting with our brothers and sisters.
Lent is a nice time.
By Conor and David 4th class.

Community Games Art Winners

We had a few winners in our school for the Community Games Art Competition. This is Mary-Kate. She won in the U8 category. She drew a picture of the long jump. In the senior room we had some winners. There was David who won in U12 boys. He did a clay model of a trophy. Eoghan won in U10. He did a clay model of a stadium. Lucy came 2nd in U12. She did a cay model of a hurley and sliotar. Alice came 3rd in the U14. She did a clay model of a goal post. Tara came 2d in the U14. She did a clay model of a tennis court. I came 1st in the U14. I did a clay model of a rugby pitch.
Naeema, 6th Class

Basket Ball Blitz

On the 29/02 (yesterday) we had a basketball blitz against Cloneen and Poulacapple school. Katie was the captain of our team. The first match of the day was us against Cloneen. We won the first match and lost the second. Then we played a free throw competition. We won that 8-7. Then Poulacapple came and we played them. We won both matches. We all had great fun. I scored a few in the matches and I scored one in the free throw. In the end they went home. I had fun and would love to do it again.

By Naeema, 6th class

My Nairobi project

Nairobi is the capital of Kenya. There are three million people living

there. It is the biggest city in East Africa.

Jenny 5th class

World War II

Today Sarah Holland who is on work experience thought us about world war ll Sarah is a past pupil from this school. We learned that Ireland took part in the blackout but stayed neutral.

Cathal 5th

Spelling Bee

Well done Lucy in 5th Class on doing so well in the Spelling Bee Competition in Cashel today!

Art Work

Completed Art Work.

"The Sam Maguire Cup"

Daire -4th Class

Community Games Art

The Community Games Art

We are doing clay models for the community games art competition. My model is of some goal posts I will be painting them soon. I put lollipop sticks in the upright posts or else they would fall over. The cross bar is already sagging. Some people did

really cool ones Katie did a tennis racket, David did a trophy and

Naeema did a rugby pitch. Some people are doing pictures I will

probably but I'll see what is better my clay or my picture.

By: Alice

6^th class

Community Games Art

Community Games Art

We are doing art for a Community Games competition. We did clay and we are going to do pictures. You can enter either one. For my clay piece I did a rugby pitch. I got a slab of clay and drew the lines of the pitch on it then I did the goal posts. I put matchsticks in the goal post to keep it up but then I wasn’t happy with it so I mashed it up and started again. Now I have a rugby pitch with goals and a little rugby ball on the pitch. I am going to paint the grass green the goal posts white and the ball white and green.

By Naeema

6^th Class

Pancake Tuesday!! :)

Pancake Tuesday

Today is Pancake Tuesday!!! We made pancakes in school. All of sixth class got to cook them. The rest of the class made the mixture. Our recipe was 300grams of milk, 100grams of plain flour and 1 egg, that makes about two full sized pancakes. We had a variety of toppings, nutella, jam, honey, sugar, lemon and maple syrup. The most popular topping by far was the nutella chocolate spread. The least popular were the jam and honey. Then when everyone got a pancake we made some for all the staff. Then the best part PANCAKE TASTING!!!. Pancake tasting is where someone has to get blindfolded and someone else puts toppings on there pancake and the blindfolded person had to guess what's on it. There was some disgusting flavours like nutella, jam and lemon on one pancake. EWWWWW!

By Katie

6^th class

Pancake Tuesday

Pancake Tuesday

Today in school we made Pancakes. It was very fun. All of 6^th class got to make them. All the children made the mix and then put it on the pan. We made Pancakes until first break. After break we played a game where someone was on a chair and they were blindfolded and someone else had to put toppings on a pancake and the person blindfolded had to guess what was on it. We all got to put whatever we wanted on it. Some of the people didn’t really like what was on the pancakes when we played the game. We had a really good day in school.

When I went home that evening I got to make my own pancakes all by myself. I put nutella on my pancakes, it’s my favourite topping!!!

By Tara

6^th class.

Paul Curran Captain of Tipperary

Well done to Paul Curran, past pupil of Kilvemnon NS on becoming captain of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 2012. We are looking forward to watching Paul and the rest of the team next weekend in the National League.

Pancake Tuesday

The Senior room making pancakes!

Piggley's Adventure in Washington: Monday the 28th of June 2009

Another fascinating day in Washington!
Today we left the hotel at 6.45am. Myself and Ms. O Connell took part in a Panel Session talk with Dan from England, Andrew from Australia, Sarietjie from South Africa and Nathan from New Zealand.




David Walddon from Microsoft was the moderator.




Here you can see all the Microsoft Innovative Teachers together before the talk. I will post up a podcast of the talk later- Ms. O Connell needs my help to edit it!



We talked to a full room of teachers and administrators about the work that we did with all of the students in Kilvemnon over the past few years. They were so impressed that you were all working away and logging on to the blog over the summer holidays. You are all so dedicated!

Afterwards we visited the exhibits downstairs and guess what? LEGO had a stand. I learned how to data log colours on the new NXT. I can't wait to show you all when we get home.

Afterwards we visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum right here in Washington. Ms. O' Connell told me that you had emailed to make sure we visited the Wright Brothers Flyer.

Above you can see me sitting on a real piece of moon rock! It is just inside the door of the Smithsonian.


Next we visited the REAL Wright Brothers Flyer. This is the actual machine used in the first flight. in 1985 they changed the canvas on the Flyer it had become damaged. It had been built in 1903 after all!

The Red Baron would love to see this! Wouldn't he?

Check out this link to see inside the Air and Space Museum and around Washington in the new Night at the Museum Film: http://www.nightatthemuseummovie.com/ The Flyer has a huge part in it!

Rockets verywhere at the Smithsonian!



Find out more about the Smithsonian here.

This is me visiting the Korean War memorial. It is a really powerful memorial. America fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.


Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a military cemetery in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac from Washington, DC and near The Pentagon.
More than 300,000 people are buried in an area of 624 acres.

What an exciting day! Is there anything else you woould like myself and Ms. O Connell to visit?
Tomorrow evening we have been invited to the Library of Congress for a reception. We are so excited. The Library of Congress is very famous and is not normally open to the public. I will wear a clean uniform for the night and will make sure to clean my trotters for the event!!
can you find out more about the Library of Congress for me before I go?

See you soon,
Piggley.

PS. Great to hear all the positive comments from Kilvemnon and beyond! Keep them coming!

Piggley's Adventure in Washington: Sunday 27th of June 2009

Today was a very exciting day for me! Guess where I visited!! That's it- the White House! For more than 200 years, the White House has been more than just the home of the Presidents and their families. Throughout the world, it is recognized as the symbol of the President, of the President's administration, and of the United States. Learn more about the White House at this address; http://www.whitehouse.gov/


All the teachers were excited to see the White House; Andrew Douch, Australia, Nathan Kerr, New Zealand, Mariella Paz, El Salvador, Dan Roberts, England, Ms. O' Connell and myself and Ronald Ddungu, Uganda.


I met a squirrel outside the White House. It is an American Red Squirrel. They eat the seeds of pine cones and are as known Pine Squirrels and Chickarees.


When Barack Obama heard that myself and Ms. O' Connell were in town he had to come and meet us! What an honour! We told him all about your great work on aviation. He was so impressed!


Here are all teachers who are Microsoft Innovative Teacher Winners this year.

Here we are at a poster session where we talked about the project. We talked to so many interesting teachers, educators and innovators.

I met a lovely girl called Sarah. She has a teddy near called Civil War Sallie. She has set up a blog about her teddy and she helps her to learn about the American Civil War. Click on to http://civilwarsallie.wikispaces.com/ to find out more.

Here i am with Ms. O Connell at the ISTE President's Reception. Look at the ice sculpture behind me!

Did you know that there was a big fight in Washington in the 1840s and it was callled the 'Pig Wars'? My ancestors must not have been as peace loving as me!!!

I'll write some more tomorrow! Thanks so much for the last emails! keep it up!
Piggley.
Oink oink!