Active Week – Day 1 – Athletics
Active Week began today! Well done to all who took part.
We made the most of the weather and had lots of fun! Today we focused on Athletics. We ran, sprinted, did relays and took part in lots of fun races like the egg and spoon race, the sack race, the three legged race and much, much more! Here are some pictures for you to enjoy! 
3rd&4th Class
Active Week – day 2 – Games
Today we focused on the Games strand. All classes had lots of fun playing all sorts of games for example hurling, soccer, basketball, badminton, ball games, parachute games and much, much more! Here are some pictures for you to enjoy!
3rd &4th Class
Active Week – Day 3 – Gymnastics
Today we focused on the gymnastics strand. We has lots of fun learning different rolls for example the pencil roll, the egg roll, the James Bond roll, the forward roll and the teddy bear roll. Even some of the teachers had a go! Some of the children who do gymnastics outside school got the chance to show us some of their routines too! It was great fun!
3rd & 4th Class
Active Week – Day 4 – Dance
Today we focused on the Dance strand. We danced to music using the interactive whiteboard. We danced along to go noodle and just dance for kids! Then we made up dance moves in groups to a certain songs and performed to for other classes. It was great fun! Here are some pictures of the kids in action!
3rd & 4th Class
Active Week – Day 5 – Outdoor & Adventure
Today is our last day of Active Week and we focused on Outdoor & Adventure activities. We worked in groups, reading maps and finding different tags around the school. The children showed great team work and communication skills and had lots of fun along the way. Here are some photos or our adventures!
3rd & 4th Class
Whole School Running Initiative!
The whole school are taking part in a fun running initiative. The children are running from Malin Head to Mizen Head plotting their journey along the way. This is a whole school initiative with a fun interactive notice board to plot their journey. The classes enjoy pin pointing where exactly they are on the map. There are a number of main towns marked on the map which they have to go through before they reach their final destination, Mizen Head. The whole school love working in their class groups to get as far as they can along the route.
Finals Here We Come
Best of Luck to our hurling and camogie teams in this years Rackard League Finals.
The teams play in a double header in St. Patrick’s Park, Enniscorthy, tomorrow, Wednesday 31st.
The Roinn B Camogie Final is the curtain raiser to the Roinn C Hurling Final.
Camogie throw-in: 7:05pm
Hurling throw-in: 8:10pm
Well done to all involved. We are extremely proud of the achievements of both teams to date and wish them every success in the finals!!!
Active Break Fun !!
Weekly Assembly !!
Every week our pupils celebrate their sporting achievements
Irish Dancing Gymnastics
Board of Management Report 16/5/17***
Active school News
* New Goals to be purchased
*New Break time equipment to be purchased
*School Garden to be developed further
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Congratulations to both the Hurling and Camogie Rackard League Teams on their most recent wins. The camogie team had a fantastic win over Horeswood in their semi-final on Thursday and will contest the Roinn B county final on Wednesday in Patrick’s Park Enniscorthy at 7.45pm against Glynn or Loreto Gorey.
There was great excitement in Kiltealy NS during our recent Féile visit.
SEMI-FINALS HERE WE COME!!
Congratulations to the Rackard League Hurling Team on a fantastic District Final win on Monday in Patrick’s Park, Enniscorthy. The team beat Oilgate on a scoreline of 2-9 to 1-4. Well done to all Kiltealy pupils involved and to Danny Fitzhenry who captained the team on the day.
Their county semi-final against Ramsgrange takes place this coming Monday the 29th May in Bree at 3.45pm. All support welcome.
Best of luck boys!!!!
The Rackard League Camogie Team were also successful in their quarter final on Tuesday beating Rathangan on a scoreline of 3-7 to 0-2. This was a great team effort.
Their county semi-final takes place tomorrow, Thursday 25th of May at 1:00pm in Coolree. Opposition is Horeswood.
Best of luck girls!!!!
Congratulations to the hurling and camogie teams this week. Our hurlers had a great win over Marshalstown in Farmleigh on Tuesday with a final score of 5-15 to 1-1.
Our camogie team had an impressive win over Castlebridge on Monday. The final score in Coolree was Ballindaggin (Kiltealy & Caim) 9-3 Castlebridge 0-0.
Our next games will take place after the Easter Holidays!
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Mini Sevens
After a great Round 1 start to their Mini Sevens campaign, our teams failed to emerge from the Round 2 qualifiers. Well done to both teams on a tremendous effort.
We now turn our focus to the Rackard League Hurling and Camogie tournaments.
Rackard League
The Camogie girls began their league journey in Bunclody on a wet Thursday last week. This game was very tight and having held the lead into the second half the girls were unlucky to lose by the final whistle.
Final Score Ballindaggin (Kitealy & Caim) 1-3 Bunclody 3-2
Kiltealy Girls involved on the day were Heather Boyce, Emma Healy, Rebecca Codd, Katie Bowe and Lauren Smith.
The girls play Castlebridge this week.
The hurlers begin their campaign this week also playing Marshalstown in Farmleigh on Tuesday 4th at 1pm.
Kiltealy Boys invovled are Ryan Purcell, Jacques Neville, Michael Murphy, Danny Fitzhenry, Dylan Purcell, Padraig Waters, Ciarán Murphy, James Aylward, Noel Cowman, Tomás Murphy, Cillian Hanrahan and David Nolan (injured)
Best of luck to both teams for the league ahead.
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Soccer skills in School
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10@10 – Operation Transformation
Well done to all the boys and girls who participated in the 10@10 this morning.
Primary schools all over the country got up and moving this morning as part of a country wide initiative called 10@10. The 10@10 is an Operation Transformation initiative to get children to do 10 minutes of exercise at 10 am during the RTÉ One series and to continue the mini-workout into the future.
The popular lifestyle programme is celebrating its tenth year making this morning’s workout, that is happening in primary schools nationwide, all the more special.
The boys and girls in our school were divided into mixed aged groups with children from each class. The children who are on the Active Schools Committee were the leaders of each group. They had to guide the younger children and ensure that their team stayed together and kept moving!!!
We set up six stations with a leader at each station explaining what to do. To begin with we did a short warm up and when the whistle blew, we got started. We spent 1 and 1/2 minutes at each station. Once the whistle blew we moved again! We even had music to add to the fun!
Station 1: Running, side steps, high knees and heel kicks!
Station 2: Hula hooping!
Station 3: Squats, squat jumps, squat punches!
Station 4: Skipping!
Station 5: Jumping jacks, scissor jumps and hip jumps!
Station 6: Exercises with Jim and Keith!
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Congratulations to the pupils from 2nd-6th class who have completed an 8 week schools swimming programme in The Waterfront, Enniscorthy.
All pupils made great advancements at various levels.
Here they are receiving their Swimming Skills Award certificates.
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Well done to all pupils in Kiltealy N.S who took part in our National Spring Clean Day on Thursday 27th April. Each class group covered a different area of the village and did a great job in cleaning up their allocated area. Areas covered were the school grounds, Griffith Avenue, the hall carpark, the main street, the church carpark and inside the graveyard walls.
5th & 6th Classes
3rd & 4th
1st & 2nd Classes
Active Archie’s Adventures
Through our Active Flag we are raising awareness of fitness among children. We will be aiming to explore as many avenues as possible to keep the children fit and active.
Active Archie has arrived in Kiltealty N.S. and has visited the children to say hello. As his name suggests, he likes getting lots of exercise and he really enjoys trying new activities.
We would like to invite boys and girls in the junior classes and their families to bring Active Archie along with them if they are doing some kind of physical activity, or going to a sporting event as either participants or spectators.
Active Archie will help us see all the activities that the children are involved in at home. This may be organised activities or simply bouncing on the trampoline. Active Archie will be having all sorts of exciting adventures in the next few months!
It would be great if the boys and girls could write about what they did with Active Archie and/or draw a picture about their adventure. Hopefully Active Archie will get to do lots of fun activities with the boys and girls and their families.
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Mini Sevens Hurling and Camogie News
Congratulations to both our hurling and camogie team on reaching Round 2 of the Allianz Cumann na mBunscoil Mini Sevens League.
Our camogie team had an impressive victory over St. Aidans in Round One ensuring a place in the 2nd Round.
Our hurlers played 2 games in Round One and emerged as group winners. They had quite a comprehensive win over Boolavogue in their first game. They beat St. Aidans in the second game on a scoreline of 6-5 to 0-2.
Well done to both teams and best of luck in Round 2. These matches will be played next week.
Mini Sevens Hurling Team:
Michael Murphy, Jacques Neville, Padraig Waters, Danny Fitzhenry, Noel Cowman, Dylan Purcell, Ciarán Murphy, Cillian Hanrahan, Steven Kavanagh, Tomás Murphy, David Nolan (injured)
Mini Sevens Camogie Team:
Libby Cullen, Aimee Neville, Ellie Watchorn, Heather Boyce, Lauren Smyth, Emma Healy, Katie Bowe, Niamh Armstrong, Maria de la Paz, Caoimhe O’ Brien
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Céilí Fun
The whole school participated in a céilí
Ionsaí na hInse was the dance of choice while the infants practiced their Irish Dancing steps in a group circle. As you can see from our photos this was an enjoyable afternoon.
The best group of dancers was from the senior room- Ryan, Cillian, Emma, Rebecca, Lauren, Caoimhe, Heather and Aisling! Well done to all who took part
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An Active School meeting was held on 13/02/17.It was confirmed that the 10@10 was a great success and it will be done again in the coming weeks.
The Active School Committee shared ideas on Active Lines,Active Breaks and Active School Tours.Active Homework was discussed.The “Drop Everything And Dance” initiative is to begin in all classes.The committee reminded us to keep an eye on the active notice board for details on the school run.Children will aim to run from Malin Head to Mizen Head,between now and the end of the school year.
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Go Noodle- Dance Breaks
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G.A.A. resumes this term with thanks to Jim Cooper, Jim Hanrahan and Keith Murphy.
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Swimming
Swimming will begin Tuesday the 31st of January. Children from 2nd to 6th class attend swimming lessons in the Waterfront Leisure Centre in Enniscorthy. Children travel to and from Enniscorthy by bus, which is supervised by teachers from the school.
The swimming coaches place the children into groups of similar swimming abilities enabling them to make steady progress throughout the lessons.
The swimming lessons run for 8 weeks and all children who have attended receive a certificate at the end of the 8 weeks.
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The Christmas Disco!
The Christmas Disco was a great success. There was lots of dancing and singing and most importantly, lots of fun! Although it was hard to catch them standing still, we managed to get a few photographs of the boys and girls during the Christmas Disco.
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Santa Dash!
Santa Dash!!!! Dashing through the village !!! Well done to all the boys and girls who wore Santa hats and Christmas jumpers for our annual Santa Dash!
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Following on from the great success of our Funky Kids Christmas Concerts, the pupils received their certificates for their participation in the Dancing and singing Workshops. Well done to all involved what a fun way to get fit and active.
5th & 6th Class
3rd & 4th Class
1st and 2nd Class
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Dance Workshop Fun
On the 19th and 20th of December, after three months of practice, the children finally put on their Funky Kids Concert for all their family and friends. It was a fantastic show filled with lots of brilliant singing and dancing. There was something for everyone, from Noah’s Ark and The Grease Melody to Puppet on a String and Monster Mash. It was great to see everybody up singing and dancing and having FUN!
Well done to everyone involved especially the stars of our show, the children. The staff and children from Kiltealy N.S.would like to thank Denis and Olivia (Funky Kids) for all their hard work over the past few months!
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The boys football team were in hard luck on Monday afternoon when they were defeated by Fethard on a scoreline of 1-10 to 1-6 at the semi-final stage of the Rackard League. All Kiltealy players put in a mighty performance and were unfortunate to come out of the game with a loss. The team were well in contention at half-time but a few second half controversial decisions did not go in their favour and a victory slowly slipped away.
Well done to the entire team who did themselves, their schools and their families very proud throughout the league.
We look forward to seeing these boys in hurling action later in the school year as no doubt they will put in another great league campaign.
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Nature Walks in Infants!
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The pupils of Kiltealy impressed again this year with fantastic efforts going into Halloween costumes.
Ghosts and goblins, witches and werewolves, zombies and skeletons; were scattered throughout the group that traveled around the village.
We stopped off to see the children from the playschool in their costumes and they treated us to a song and nursery rhyme.
We continued down through the village to the carpark where our group photo was taken before making our way back to the school.
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Congratulations to all the 5th and 6th class pupils who were part of the victorious Rackard League Football Team. The team defeated Oulart in the Enniscorthy District Final yesterday on a scoreline of 3-7 to 1-2.
Padraig Waters (1-2) had a great game, getting vital scores in the first half when there was very little between the teams. Ryan Purcell used his height to his advantage at full forward, making things very difficult for the Oulart full back line.
Danny Fitzhenry was very influential at midfield, supplying great balls into the forwards. Dylan Purcell, David Nolan and Noel Cowman were powerful in the backs throughout the 50 minutes. James Aylward was introduced towards the end and made his mark on the game.
Kiltealy players: Ryan Purcell, Padraig Waters, Danny Fitzhenry, David Nolan, Dylan Purcell, Noel Cowman, James Aylward, Jacques Neville and Cillian Hanrahan all made appearances on the team throughout the league campaign.
The team now go on to contest the county semi-final which will be played after the mid-term break.
Well done to the boys for getting this far in the league. We are very proud of their success and we will be out again in numbers to support them on their quest to the final.
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GAA all the way!!!
Coaching continues weekly in Kiltealy N.S.
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Congratulations to 5th class pupil Ciarán Murphy who had the honour of leading out the Irish Soccer Team,as a flag bearer, in their qualifying game against Georgia. The match took place in The Aviva Stadium last Thursday night. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity and experience for Ciarán and his family. Ireland won on the night too which was an added bonus!! Check out the pictures of Ciarán below.
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Gardening keeps us active….Harvesting is hard work !!!
Children from 1st -6th class enjoyed harvesting the lovely vegetables sown last Spring. 4th & 5th class pupils were very eager to see the produce from their mini garden which they cared for so well since the Spring. Thank you to Jim Hanrahan who helped set up and maintain our garden. Jim passed on lots of gardening knowledge to our garden carers. Well done to all involved. Enjoy our photos below.
Above: Some of our Active Committee ready to distribute the Super Trooper Packs to teachers and children.
Super Troopers
Kiltealy N.S. have commenced Super Troopers, Ireland’s first “health homework” programme.
This programme is fun, free and friendly for all teachers, children and parents to take part in.
The programme focuses on increasing physical activity levels among children, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and improving well-being and food habits at a young age.
Super Troopers is all about ensuring children have as much fun as possible while getting active. Its not about winning or losing, but ensuring that kids take part and try their best.
Each child received their Super Trooper Active Journal and wall charts and can follow the weekly schedule of activities to keep active.
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There was great excitement as the pupils of Kiltealy N.S. were asked to cheer on the An Post Rás na mBan participants as they whizzed past our school on Friday afternoon. Cycling was our selected sports focus of the week. Over 90% of our Pupils own bikes and love to cycle
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Active School Committee 2016/2017
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(Posted 9/6/16)
Whistle blown,sun shining and teams ready.Welcome to our Sports Day.
Nine teams assembled,each with their lucky mascot.
The day began with relay races – running relay, ball relay, wheelbarrow relay,, t-shirt relay,, mini hurl relay, frog relay and human relay.
Congratulations to the winners of the best mascot-the Purple and Red teams.
Well done to the Purple team,the overall team winner.Find below the photograph of our proud winners of Captain of the Day.Well done lads.
Due time for a rest.
A big thank you to the parents who organised ice-cream for all the pupils.
The stations were an important part of our day.
The afternoon was busy with group games , a hurling blitz and the confirmed favourite-the teachers versus the students Tug of War . The sixth class will happily update you on the winners of the Tug of War. It was a busy but fun filled day.We hope you enjoyed our photographs.
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Army drills get us active
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Spring Clean Fun !
Spring Clean time in Kiltealy. Everybody worked hard collecting rubbish around the village. First and Second class ensured that their section around the hall was spotless! Well done everybody!
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We went on a nature walk in search of signs of spring!
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We keep active by gardening….we love to weed and water our plants!!!!
Third and Fourth Classes had great fun planting vegetables in our school garden. We planted peas,potatoes, onions, lettuce, carrots and parsnips. Thank you to Mr. Hanrahan for teaching us how to sow the vegetables. We have lots of volunteers to go and water the vegetables every day!!
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YOGA MOVES !!!
5th & 6th enjoyed their Yoga for Kids Programme in P.E. over the past 6 weeks. Each yoga position had a name eg. hero, bridge, happy cat, up dog, sprinter. Groups of children wrote stories using the vocabulary of the yoga positions. They then narrated the story while acting out their yoga positions.
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Zumba Fun !
3rd & 4th class had great fun learning Zumba dancing for active week.
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Active Archie’s Adventures
Through our Active Flag we are raising awareness of fitness among children. We will be aiming to explore as many avenues as possible to keep the children fit and active.
Active Archie has arrived in Kiltealty N.S. and has visited the children to say hello. As his name suggests, he likes getting lots of exercise and he really enjoys trying new activities.
We would like to invite boys and girls in the junior classes and their families to bring Active Archie along with them if they are doing some kind of physical activity, or going to a sporting event as either participants or spectators.
Active Archie will help us see all the activities that the children are involved in at home. This may be organised activities or simply bouncing on the trampoline. Active Archie will be having all sorts of exciting adventures in the next few months!
It would be great if the boys and girls could write about what they did with Active Archie and/or draw a picture about their adventure. Hopefully Active Archie will get to do lots of fun activities with the boys and girls and their families.
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Surfs up !!!!
Pupils from 3rd to 6th Classes are very excited about our School Tour.
We will be attending Tramore Surf School on the 14th of June!!
More details to follow.
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Rugby News!!!
All the pupils in Kiltealy N.S. are looking forward to the Tag Rugby Season commencing in May !!
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Easter Egg Hunt!
( 2016)
We had great fun on our Easter Egg Hunt! We had to work in groups to follow the clues and find the tokens to collect our Easter surprise!
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Yoga Fun!!!
All teachers and pupils from Infants to Sixth Classes are having great fun trying out our new yoga poses. Check in with us next week to see our progress !!?
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Christmas Disco!
(December 2015)
The Christmas Disco was a great success. There was great excitement when Santy came to visit the children. Although it was hard to catch them standing still, I managed to get a few photographs of the boys and girls during the Christmas Disco.
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Santa Dash!!!!
Dashing through the village !!!
First and Second Class took part in this years Santa Dash! They sang Christmas songs and waved to everybody as they walked through the village.
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Witch Walk Fun!!!!!
Halloween in Kiltealy-witches galore and much more.
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Active Week
First and second class have been super active this week! Everyday they have been running a certain amount of laps each day to try and reach the whole school target of 10k. The children also got the chance to show off their dance moves with Drop Everything and Dance initiative which saw the children getting up and dancing when different songs were played throughout the day! They further got to test their dance and rhythm skills when we went down to the hall for a Zumba class!!
Zumba Fun !
3rd & 4th class had great fun learning Zumba dancing for active week.
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The Active School Committee
(Posted Nov 2015)
The Active School Committee were elected in October.The first committee meeting has taken place .The Active Notice Board has more details.
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(posted October 2015)
Kiltealy School are now working on getting an Active Flag.
The pupils are currently working on their presentations, as they prepare to look for votes for the Active School Committee.
December Meeting
(posted Jan 2016)
The active school committee held their meeting.The agenda was as follows
- Snnta Dash
- Active Lines
- Active Breaks
Active Homework
15/01/16
The active school committee held their meeting.The agenda was as follows
- Active Art Sheet
- Active Lines
- Active Homework
The idea of implementing an active class of the month was considered by the committee.A small prize could be given to the monthly winners.
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We had lots of fun in PE.
We worked in small groups to complete an outdoor & adventure trail
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Fun in the Sun – Orienteering
Ms Byrne’s Junior and Senior Infants have being making the most of the sunshine!!
We had great fun orienteering during P.E. Children worked in pairs. Each pair received a card with some pictures on it. These pictures were scattered all around the school yard. The pairs worked together to find the pictures they had, and then coloured the corresponding box with the correct colour crayon. When we were all finished, each pair compared their card with a pair that had the same card. It was great fun to run in the sun 
Minibeast Hunt
Yesterday, Ms Byrne’s Junior and Senior infants had fun exploring the school garden habitat. They found lots of different mini-beasts in the garden.
Before they started exploring , we looked at some pictures of different flies, insects and other creepy crawlies to see how many we could name. We then examined some of the “tools” we were going to use in our hunt, which included various containers and also magnifying glasses.
1st, 2nd , 3rd & 4thClass School Tour 2015
The girls and boys enjoyed a great day on Monday when they visited the Watershed in Kilkenny for a day filled with sports and activities on their school tour!
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