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.