Confirmation

Best of luck to our 6th Class students who will be making their Sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday 23rd May at 11am. All students are to be in the church by 10:45am at the latest. Much work has gone into preparing the students for their special day. We also look forward to hearing our school choir which includes children from 1st Class to 5th Class who will perform the music for the mass along with students from the Girls’ School.

Please do not forget that formal school uniform is to be worn by each student including the Confirmation students on the day.

Active School Status

Sport and activity plays a huge part in the lives of the boys of KBNS. Two years ago Miss Cronin began the process of applying for Active School status for our school. After 2 years of hard work I am delighted to share the fantastic news that K.B.N.S. has been awarded Active School status. Following a 3 hour inspection by PE lecturer in Mary Immaculate College Limerick Dr. Sylvia O’Sullivan, we received our certificate and flag in the post today.

Much work and commitment has been put into this project in the school. The boys have been actively engaging in yard games that have been run by the senior pupils in the school. Sylvia was very impressed by the level of activity in our yards when she visited on Friday and complimented the systems in place. She also spoke to the Active Committe who told her about lots of the activities that are available in our school.

Staff have donated their free time to make this active flag application possible. Special thanks to Mr. Corcoran, Mr. Dillon and Mr. McKeogh for donating their evenings to take training sessions with the boys after school. Sylvia also saw PE lessons from the Junior Infants who were working on Gymnastics and also from the 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th classes who were working on the Dance strand.

Finally thanks to the parents. Sylvia was so impressed when she saw the beautiful activities painted on our yards. Special thanks to Michelle and Melissa for all their hard work in this area. Thanks also to parents who help coach our teams and donate their time to helping out the staff. Also as part of our presentation to Sylvia we had a slide show of pictures from last years Walk to School Wednesday days and our Sports Day. All these events were made possible and more enjoyable by the participation of parents and children. We hope you will get involved in our Active Week starting on the 25th of May and also in the Park and Stride System in place in order to boost activity levels in the school further.

We will cotinue to strive to maintain the status of being deemed an Active School as we are priviledged to have been awarded this title. It will be reviewed again in 2018.

Please encourage your boys to get involved in some activity and as our school motto says ‘Get off your chair and get some air’. Well done to all involved.

KBNS Choir Performance

 Killaloe Boys’ N.S. Choir, under the direction of Miss McKeogh and Miss Scanlan, performed in St. Flannan’s Cathedral on Saturday 2nd May in a choral extravaganza. This concert was organised by Sadie Scanlan and show-cased the musical talent in the Killaloe/Ballina locality. The talented boys sang 3 songs which included both 2 and 3 part harmony. Well done to all involved!

Flowers are blooming nicely!!!

May 1st

March 2nd

Spot the Difference!!! The boys in Juniors are busy looking after their Sweet Pea flowers and they are coming along nicely!!!

You Did Yourselves Proud!

Huge congratulations to the U11 Community Games Rugby team who put up an amazing show against Doora Barefield on Firday night. This was a replay from a few weeks ago where after an hour of play the teams could not be separated. Despite a fantastic show of defence skills Doora got in for 3 tries and Killaloe only managed to score 1 courtesy of Conor. Well done on a great achievement boys ye did yerselves pround on the field of play and were part of a very enjoyable game of rugby.

Congratulations also to Oisin for winning a trophy at the weekend for Turbo Javelin at Ennis track fun day and to Ben for winning the 3 legged race with his dad in teh An Droichead Community Games day in Bridgetown on Sunday.

Sketching St Flannans Cathedral

3rd and 4th took a trip down town in order to sketch ‘The Cathedral’ last Friday morning. The boys completed some great sketches which I will add to this post next week. They seemd to really enjoy themselves and it was a beautiful morning to be out and about in Killaloe.

‘The Computer Swallowed’ Grandma by Valerie Waite

Today the boys in 3rd and 4th looked at the following poem by Valerie Waite ‘The Computer’s Swallowed Grandma’. The boys really enjoyed this humours poem. I have asked them to post their reactions to it below.

Splash and Dash 2015

 Well done to the 6 boys who represented our school in the Splash and Dash 2015 competition held at the Lakeside Hotel. The weather was perfect for their swim and run!

Sun & Hurling what a Day!!!

Today all the boys from 3rd and 4th class went to Clonlara to a hurling blitz organized by Clare Games Development Officer Peter Casey. Peter came to our school for 6 weeks before Christmas and did training with all the boys in the school. Every year in the 3rd term he organizes 2 weeks of blitzes for 3rd and 4th class children. Today he had 150 children playing hurling at the one time in Clonlara. On Monday there were 180 children in Tulla and yesterday a whopping 220 in Sixmilebridge. In Clonlara today there were 4 schools, KBNS, KGNS, Clonlara and Broadford. It was a fantastic day for it, the sun shone and the children had great fun. Well done to Peter and we are looking forward to the next day out in a few weeks time.

KBNS Choir Upcoming Performances!

 Best of luck to our own KBNS Choir who will be performing at the First Holy Communion Saturday 25th April!

Following their success at coming 2nd in the Féile na hInse, the choir have been asked to perform in the annual choral extravaganza in St. Flannan’s Cathedral on Saturday May 2nd at 2pm. This will be their first concert performance and we wish them the very best of luck!