As well as covering all the strands of the Primary School Curriculum, we love to play other sports too!We enjoy basketball, hockey, rounders, hurling, swimming, spikeball, football, soccer and gymnastics.We have a sponsored 5 mile cycle for the whole school in May/June of each year.This year, there will be a combined adult/children’s cycle around Castlecomer.The adults have the option of cycling 30km or 100km!
As part of the Junior Classroom’s preparation for Euro 2012, the children have been learning all the flags of the teams competing in the football competition. Take a look at their flags! As well as learning the flags of the countries in Euro 2012, the children had to predict which team they think would win Euro 2012….
The children have enjoyed 7 weeks of basketball lessons with Joe Byrne from the Community School. Take a look at the whole school in action!! Thank you Joe for teaching us all new skills in basketball!
Swimming Lessons for all children commence after Easter on Wednesday, 18th April 2012. The children will have 9 weeks of swimming lessons in Graiguecullen Swimming Pool in Carlow finishing on Wednesday, 13th June. The cost of these lessons, including transport per child is €60. We look forward to another enjoyable term of swimming lessons for all the children!
A few members of the Kilkenny team dropped in for a very short visit today, Thursday 8th September, at 2.45 pm. They had a very busy day, visiting local schools with the Liam McCarthy cup! Martin Fogarty, a selector for the team introduced the local heroes to us all. We also got their autograph for…
On Friday, 2nd September 2011, Junior Infants, Senior Infants & First Class made their own Liam McCarthy Cup and waved the Kilkenny Colours to the traffic passing through Castlecomer! The children really enjoyed the acknowledgement they received from passing traffic. We’re hoping the Real Liam McCarthy Cup will be back in Kilkenny this year!! Go…
