Thank you to all the boys and girls who took part in the Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal.  We had a fantastic response.  63 fantastic boxes filled with amazing items which will provide so much excitement, joy and love to children who have very little. …

Mini-7s Today Thursday, the boys and girls in Fifth and Sixth Class took part in the CnamB Mini-7s Gaelic tournament.  We were competing in the Western Division against Enniscrone, Rathlee and Corballa National Schools.  Both of our teams played with great intensity and teamwork in…

The children from Junior Infants to Sixth Class are enjoying their hurling sessions every Wednesday.  Lots of physical movement skills and hurling skills are being developed under the expert eyes of Daragh Cox and Micheál.  Grip and swing, stopping a ground ball, controlling a moving…

Last Friday Mrs Meeneghan’s First and Second Class planted a self-pollinating apple tree as part of the Edible Landscape Project.  The ground was prepared in advance by the children in Mrs Lynott’s Fifth Class.  After planting and staking, a layer of cardboard was placed around…

Literacy Lift-Off is in full swing in Mrs Meeneghan’s first and second class.  Literacy Lift-Off is an intensive programme which gives the children lots of opportunities to read books at their own level of competency and gradually lift the complexity of what they can do…

Our first few weeks of school have passed remarkably quickly.  After the initial explosion of activity which marks the return to school after the summer holidays, we are, by now settling into the rhythms and routines of school life. On Friday 23rd September, the whole…

Míle Buíochas I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to everyone in our community, Board of Management, Staff, Parents and Children who have worked so hard to ensure Kilglass National School remained safe and open over the academic year. The contribution…

BLAST is a Department of Education funded Arts initiative which is delivered through the ECSI education centre network and Sligo Education Centre. BLAST stands for Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers. We are delighted to announce that following our successful application, submitted last October,…

Fuaireamar 25 leabhar Gaeilge den chéad scoth arna roghnú go speisialta ag Áine Ní Ghlinn, Laureate na nÓg.  Beidh an tionscadal seo lárnach san aidhm atá againne leanaí a spreagadh leabhair Ghaeilge a léamh ar mhaithe le pléisiúr.  Tá súil againn go mbainfidh na leanaí…

Well done to Aoibhinn, Aoife, Kahu and Seán who performed superbly for Kilglass National School on Tuesday in the second of our Concern Primary debates against Scoil Mhuire gan Smál, Ballymote.  We were proposing the motion “Shopping local must become the new normal”. Building on…