Fairtrade Week
As part of our Green Flag Global Citizenship programme we are learning about Fairtrade Ireland. Because it is only fair that the people who produce what we eat should get paid enough to live on and a chance to improve their lives. To raise awareness of this we are collecting Fair Trade labels from our shopping. We baked banana bread, marble cake and chocolate brownies using Fair Trade products. We also completed Fair Trade lessons, quizzes and designed posters. To end our week we had a Fair Trade icecream party. We hope our contribution helps to make the world a fairer place.
St Brigid's Day
Là Fhèile Bríde Shona Daoibh! Happy St. Brigid’s Day all! We learned all about the life of Saint Brigid and made lots of crosses from rushes to mark this special day.
Irish Heart Skipathon
Our Irish Heart Foundation Skipathon is in full swing this week. We are all enjoying skipping during our breaks and adding to our skipping score during our daily challenge. Skipping is an enjoyable form of exercise and everyone has improved so much. Well done. Keep skipping!
Cycle Sense
We are currently doing cycling lessons with Cycle Sense. The children are learning essential skills to help them to cycle safely on the roads. Thanks to Cycle Sense for facilitating the classes
Farm Safety
The Farm Safe Schools Programme is on a mission to Engage, Educate and Empower children to be our farm safety ambassadors. By engaging in this Programme, our students are helping create a safer future on our farms, for everyone!
Building Bridges
In our Science classes, we have been learning how engineers design and build bridges. Then we had great fun designing and making our own bridges and investigating how to make our bridges strong
Fundraising Bingo
A great day was had on Sunday, Nov 28th at our Drive- in Bingo. Huge thanks to all who attended, bought tickets and supported our fundraiser. Thank you to our Parents Association for organising the event. Special thanks to all our sponsors Fergal Morrison, Alternative Heating and Cooling, West Cork Hotel, Sean Murray Fashions & LadyM's, The Church Restaurant, Drinagh Co-Op, Fields Supervalu, Fiona’s Skibbereen, Spar Service Station Cork Road Skibbereen, Albany Fusion Home and Forest Owners Co-operative Society Ltd. Thanks also to Anthony Hayes for his technical assistance and support.
November in Kilcoe NS
We have been productive and busy lately working on new some new art projects, attending basketball classes in the Skibbereen Sports and Fitness Centre and baking brownies. We are learning about Global Citizenship for our Green Flag and watched a webinar with meteorologist Joanna Donnelly on climate Change. We also attended Child Talks 2021 webinar to mark World Children’s Day giving children a platform to talk about rights and issues that matter to them. Our engineers are also busy completing their idea for their engineering project and presented it to JB Barry Engineering firm.
Science Week
As part of Science Week Ireland 2021, we took part in an outdoor science trail from Seomra Ranga. It was an excellent challenge and we learned some new facts along the way! We also had great fun in class conducting lots of interesting Science projects and experiments.
Creative Writing Workshop
We really enjoyed our creative writing workshop with award-winning author Elizabeth Rose Murray. We investigated where ideas come from and how to create believable characters and settings.
We had some great ideas for creating our own gruesome food. We also loved listening to an extract from the Book of Learning.
Knex Creativity
A great afternoon’s work today designing and building with KNEX kits on loan from West Cork Education Centre. We love the creativity!
Halloween in Kilcoe NS
Wishing everyone a Happy Halloween. We loved seeing all your wonderful costumes. Have a great midterm break!
Maths Week in Kilcoe NS
We participated in Maths Week Ireland this week. Maths Weeks promotes awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths. It is a great opportunity to place an added emphasis on the importance of maths and to have some fun with maths by engaging in maths games, challenges, puzzles, quizzes and online maths activities. We also had an excellent live zoom lesson with Frances from Blackrock Castle Observatory and worked with shapes and measures to discover the best mirrors for Space telescopes.
Visit to West Cork Arts Centre
We are taking part in an art programme ‘Below the Surface’ with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen. This morning we visited the arts centre to view an art exhibition ‘Cnuasach’ followed by an art workshop based on the exhibition. Our completed works will be on display in the arts centre in January. Thanks to Kate and all at the arts centre for a great morning.
Space Week
Space Week is Ireland’s newest National STEM week. Throughout the week we enjoyed all sorts of Space related activities including learning about the planets of our Solar System, reading Space books and stories, art, construction, science experiments and much much more. We also participated in an excellent live workshop with Frances from Blackrock Castle Observatory and a q and a with Dr Norah Patten and Mark Langtry. We’re very much looking forward to Space Week 2022 for lots more new exciting investigations and discoveries.
First Holy Communion
Congratulations to our Holy Communion Class who received their First Holy Communion on Saturday 25th September. We hope you had a wonderful day celebrating with your families.
Roald Dahl Day
We celebrated Roald Dahl day recently. He is one of our favourite authors and his characters and plots are timeless. We took the time to share our Roald Dahl projects, learn lots of new facts and enjoy our favourite Roald Dahl books.
Berry Picking
The children enjoyed picking blackberries in the lovely Autumn sunshine. We learnt to identify the different berries and found out which ones we could eat and which ones were for the birds! Afterwards, everyone enjoyed making smoothies out of the blackberries and their favourite fruit
Welcome Back
Welcome back to a new school year at Kilcoe National School. Our first two weeks have flown by with amazing weather giving us lots of opportunities for indoor and outdoor learning.
