‘Journeys’ the book is about the journey our ‘Per Cent for Art’ stone made from the quarry, where a 7 tonne block of Kilkenny limestone was removed from the quarry bed, and was taken to McKeon Stoneyard in Stradbally, Co. Laois, where it was worked on by the sculptor, Michelle Byrne for 6 months. The stone, which represents our pupils’ journeys to school, continued
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(Written by Aoife Coverdale) Thomastown under 10’s won the Shield Trophy in Danesfort when they were playing in the final against Mullinavat. It was hard going but they won in the end so it was great. They had a good strong team including Sarah Hudson, Aoife Coverdale , Eabha Doherty ,Róisín Lynch, Fiona Farrell, Molly Rice, Sadhbh O’Neill, Niamh  Galway, Ally Tennyson , Laura
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After many years of blood, sweat and tears, we are finally ready to reinstate the swimming area at Thomastown Weir.  Thomastown Community River Trust (TCRT) will be holding a final clear up of the site on Thursday 2nd October from 9.00 am so please come along and help if you can (bring garden tools, strimmers etc!).  We plan to flood the swimming area at
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(Written by Alex and Anna Cass) On September 27th, the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final replay was taking place. Róisín O’ Meara from Tipp and myself, Alex Cass, were bringing out the Liam McCarthy cup. First we went into the Tipp dressing room, then the KIlkenny one and of course they weren’t there. Then we went to the physio room and the indoor ball wall.
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First Class Ms Doyle First Class Ms. O’Shea Mr. Reade Second Class Ms. A. Stapleton R3 Ms. Hogan Fifth Class Ms. Kelly Senior Infants Ms. Lanigan Senior Infants Ms. Moore Second Class Ms. Murphy Fourth Class Ms. Murphy Third Class Ms. O’Connor 4th Class Ms. Power R2 Ms. Tyrrell Third Class

(written by Róisín Dempsey and Áine Kirwan) This year the U12 girls had a great year in soccer. We played ten matches and were undefeated throughout the year. The team players were Clíona, Ellen, Lissey, Áine, Róisín, Dearbhla, Shauna, Maeve, Katie, Caoimhe, Daragh, Sadhbh, Amy, Hannah, Lisa, Annie and Lauren. The team received the league cup and Ellen Molloy was rewarded Player of the
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Diarmuid Galway and Eddie Donnelly were awarded ‘Sportsmen of the Year’ for leadership behaviour and good hurling. They reached the Roinn A quarter final to lose to CBS, who they had beaten earlier in the league. Well done to both boys on receiving these outstanding awards.  

(Written by Éabha Collins and Úna Donnelly) The 2014 Cake Sale was a big hit. There were so many fun things to do. Out on the field you could soak Mr Delahunty with wet sponges for a small fee. You could race your friends in a slow bike race and play basketball. There were hurling and handball targets and shoot at a target in
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The junior infants had a very busy year with lots of important visitors – the garda, the army, the postman and even the Easter Bunny! The children had sports, an egg hunt, a picnic and a cake sale in school. They also travelled to Rancho Reilly’s Farm in May. A great time was had by all.

On Tuesday 24th of June, Ms Hogan’s 5th class put on 4 plays; ‘Celebrity Chickens’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘The Fwog Pwince’ and ‘The Alien’. In ‘Celebrity Chickens’ the chickens were Jake Bambrick, Leeanne Teesdale, Isabel Evans, Edie Maher and Kaylin Shanahan. The green aliens were Liam Treacy and Aoibhe Collins. Everybody love it. In ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the grandparents were
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Super Sports Day (written by Annabel O’ Connell) It is the 18/6/2014…Sports day. Yay!  The day is hot. I was late for school! I’ll tell you why in a minute. First we jumped some hurdles. Next we played basketball. It was great fun. Then we gave a few kicks to the ball for penalty shoot out. After that we did an obstacle course. When
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(Written by Róisín Lynch, 3rd class) On Friday 13th of June at 8am we all met in our classroom for our school trip. By 8:15 we were on our way to Cork. The bus journey took two hours. When we got to Fota Wildlife Park we went straight in to the park. We ate a snack and looked at the meerkats. Then we met
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