News report

International: It has been announced that three trials of  an experimental Ebola drug will start next month at treatment centres run by volunteer doctors in west Africa.

National: Sinn Feim TD,  Mary Lou  McDonald asked a question in the Dáil today.When she couldn't get an answer to her question she refused to sit down.She was asked a  number of times to sit down.She was then suspended from the Dáil  chamber .She refused to leave and sat down for four hours.No work could take place there for the rest of the day.

Sports: In the international match Argentina vs Croatia Argentina won 2-1.

Garda Football 7 A-side Shield Winners

Well done to the Boys football team who won the the Garda Shield Football 7 a-side competition in Gort on 17th October 2014.  They played Kilbeacanty N.S. in the final and the final score was 9:5 to 4:2.

EU Coding Week

October 13th to the 17th was EU coding week.  Ireland once again had the most participating with 205 sites nationwide.  The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class participated in coding classes in which they created story summaries using SCRATCH programming language.

Cross Country Competition

The pupils of Killeeneen have taken off to a flying start this year with 51 pupils participating in the East Galway Cross Country competitions..  All the students ran very well and came home with 10 individual medals and two team prizes.  On the 30th of September 15 pupils competed in the Cross Country Final in Renmore, once again they did their school proud..  Four pupils qualified for the Connacht Finals in Sligo on the 18th of October; Caoimhe Connolly, Colin Counihan, Fabien Fleetwood and Sam O'Neill.

Digital School of Distinction

On Thursday the 5th of June Minister Ciarán Cannon visited our school and presented us with a 

'Digitial School of Distinction' award. 

 He visited our classrooms and observed some of our pupils demonstrating how they use IT across all curricular areas.  The pupils demonstrated 'SCRATCH' computer programming, MS -( Paint, Word, Power Point and Spread sheets), Survey Monkey, Interactive SMART White Board,  the Internet as a research tool, many useful websites, the school Blog, Kidblog and Dojo.

He presented the award to Mrs Kelleher (ICT Co-Ordinator) in the GP room in front of the whole school.  Minister Cannon was then entertained by our school choir who sang a selection of songs from the 'Peace Proms Cross Border Concert' in which our school had participated in.

Our County Sport Champions

On the 27th May 2014, 29 pupils from our school participated in the County School Sports.  All the pupils pupils performed brilliantly on the day and returned home with 17 medals.
Below are pictures of the relay teams.

Tráth na gCeist

During Seachtain na Gaeilge Ms Kelly organised a Tráth na gCeist for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class.  The quiz took place in the GP room and everyone had a great time.

 The Winners

WOW Day

On the 12th March we had another WOW Day in Killeeneen.  The pupils parents and staff walked to school from Mortimer's house to the west of the school and the Liam Mellows monument to the east of our school.

When the Cougars came!

At Killeeneen a past pupil Ciosa Marchant who is going to represent Ireland in a cheerleading competition in America,visited the school with two of her coaches and taught the school a couple of gymnastic moves.They brought special equipment; a boulder. Before we started the gymnastics they did a couple of stretches with us  .Now lets talk about gymnastics, first they played a game where they called a number and on each mat was a number the last one to get to the mat had to sit down.  After that they did this exercise with us where you had to lay on the boulder which looked like a HUGE red lemon. The coach rolled the boulder with you on it and you landed on the other side onto a mat. Then we went to Ciosa and she showed us how to do a cartwheel on a bench by putting your hands on the bench and landing on the other side. After that we went to another station where you did a forward and a backward tumble on another mat.  We all had a brilliant day learning about gymnastics and cheerleading. Finally, I'll just say one thing.....come back Cougars!!!!!!

Some Pictures from the day!