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Today we presented awards for Model Pupil; Student of the Year; Full attendance; School monitor awards; creative writer awards; handwriting awards; Green school committee awards. Well done all!
Second class had a wonderful day on their school tour. The rain didn’t stop the fun. Thanks to Gorey Leisure and Adventure Centre for a wonderful day out.
We were delighted to have a visit from Michelle Maher in second class. We had great fun learning about the properties of different liquids and what happens when they are mixed together. Some exciting experiments that could be created at home over the summer!
We were delighted to plant a beautiful Cherry Blossom tree for Bean Uí Cheallaigh today in our school grounds. We also named our school library in her honour. Fr Dunphy was on hand to bless the Bhean Uí Cheallaigh library along with Micheal and Stephen Kelly who officially unveiled the plaque . Thanks to our former principal, Ms Hayden, for coming in for the day along with past teachers Ms Phelan and Ms Sheehy also. Our school choir sang two beautiful songs including ‘ Bean Uí Cheallaigh’s Garden’ which was composed by Mr Kelly. The Banna Ceoil played beautiful music while our new Green Schools Flag was raised by Committee members. Well done to Ms Hogan and the Green School’s Committee for all their hard work this year. It was a real team effort from students and teachers and we are very proud of all the hard work that was put in by all today to make it such a special day.
Well done to the hurlers of St. Fiacc’s NS who defeated Bennekerry NS in the Division Two final of the Carlow town hurling blitz in glorious sunshine today!
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At assembly today we: Awarded Student of the week and Gaeilgeoir na Seachtaine their certificates. Presented Glor Ceatharlach finalists their medals Admired the national costumes as part of intercultural week.
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Third Class went to Kilkenny Activity Centre for their school tour. They played Bubble Soccer, Splat Ball and completed the obstacle course. They had a fantastic time on their tour.
Third Class spent the afternoon at Graiguecullen GAA pitch working on their football skills. They had a brilliant time!
Well done to all the children in 6th class who raised €1102.45 for charity today by organising a whole school Bake Sale. It was a fantastic achievement to raise this amount of money and it will be decided in the coming weeks what charity the money will be donated to. A big thanks also to the boys and girls in the school and staff who helped by buying or making cakes and buns. Ms Minnock, Mr Nolan and Mr Bolton were extremely proud of all the students as they modelled such responsible and mature behaviour for the younger classes. Well done!
Brilliant Byrne the star for Graiguecullen
By Alan Hartnett 26th May 2017
St Fiaccs’ NS Graiguecullen 7-13 Mountmellick 0-0
Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Roinn 9 Hurling
Jack Byrne was the star of the show in the penultimate hurling final of the year as the midfielder scored five goals and nine points as St Fiaccs’ of Graiguecullen beat Mountmellick.
They held Mountmellick scoreless throughout and ramped up their level of scoring throughout.
Despite not scoring, Mountmellick had some very good players with Darcy Thomas and Patrick Dowling in particular catching the eye.
Jack Byrne shot five points in the first half and added two goals as Graiguecullen took a 3-7 to no score lead at half time – Terrence French chipping in with 1-1 and Aaron Dorgan notching the other point.
Byrne amassed 3-4 in the second half while Dorgan and French were also on the scoreboard again.
SCORERS – GRAIGUECULLEN: Jack Byrne 5-9, Terrence French 2-2, Aaron Dorgan 0-2
ST FIACCS’ NS: Joshua Bienko; Gerry Delaney, Emmanuek Del Almeida, Jack Byrne, Terrence French, Aaron Dorgan, Seán McGrath. Subs: John O’Shea, Corie Purcell, Jan Flejszar, Aaron Scully, Naoise Brennan; Cameron Curran
Our Green Schools’ Committee has worked hard throughout the year in the hopes of being awarded our third Green flag. We are delighted to announce that we were successful in our efforts, and today, we received our Water theme flag. Ms Hogan, Ms Reddy and two of our sixth class committee members, Kate and Terry, traveled to the Hodson Bay Hotel in Athlone to receive our flag. Kate and Terry collected our flag during a lovely presentation. They did a fantastic job representing our school. We would like to thank everyone in the school community, including all the students, our principal, teachers, staff and parents, for their help and support throughout the year. A very special thank you to Ms Hogan, our dedicated and hard-working Green Schools coordinator, and to all the boys and girls who gave a great amount of time, dedication and effort to the Green Schools committee this year. We are very proud of the work they put in and of all their brilliant accomplishments this year. We are motivated to continue our work as a Green School.
