The atmosphere was electric in St Mary’s on Tuesday when Santa arrived on his sleigh being pulled by the one and only Rudolph! We were very lucky that he took time out of his busy preparations to pay our school a visit. He chatted to all the children in the school and gave each child a chocolate treat. Thank-you for coming to visit us
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The Kilkenny Musical Society presents their 2015 fundraiser, Little Shop Of Horrors from 12th -14th of November (including a matinee performance.) The show stars our very own 2nd class teacher, Kevin Reade, as Seymour. The cast also includes Clíodhna Ryan from 5th class and Audrey 2 (a very big talking plant!!!!). The show is directed by Declan Taylor, choreographed by Sandra Kavanagh with Michael
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St Mary’s was overrun by horrid, nasty witches, zombies and vampires last Friday all in the spirit of the Halloween festivities!!! The costumes were amazing!!! Enjoy the break and HAPPY HOWL-A-WEEN everyone!……………….. [Show as slideshow] 12►
Last Friday, October 16th, our school yard was a sea of black n’ amber. There was a great buzz around the school as all the children at St. Mary’s gathered excitedly to welcome the Liam McCarthy cup, which was proudly brought by Michael Fennelly, Kieran Joyce and our own local hero Jojo Farrell. The three champs showed great patience signing autographs and posing for
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Please find email and contact information for local TD’s below. Please insert your name at the end of the message, copy and paste the message, and click on email addresses you wish to send the message to. _____________________________________________________ Dear Public Representative, St. Mary’s National School Thomastown is due an extra classroom in September 2016. As a parent in the school I urge the Minister
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(written by Kyle Jordan) I won two gold and two silver medals in the world handball championships in Canada. I played in both 40×20 and one wall competitions in the 11 and unders. I beat Mickey Kelly from Galway in the 40×20 finals.
The Gardaí brought two Garda horses from the Mounted Support Unit to visit our school last week. The horses and their riders, Graham Greene and Maria Kenny, came to our junior yard where all of the children were allowed to pet the horses, class by class. The horses’ names were Oscar and Cumhall (Coole). These beautiful, majestic creatures were so gentle and placid around
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Sarah Barcoe was picked to represent the school and play at half time of the All Ireland Semi-Final between Kerry and Tyrone on August 23rd. The team was made up of other girls from all over Ireland representing their schools along with the President of GAA Aogán Ó Fearghaoil, President of Cumman na mBunschoil Mairead O’Callaghan, President of INTO Emma Dineen and President of
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The INTO has launched “Stand up for primary education” — a campaign to highlight primary education in Budget 2016 next month and to get primary education on to the agenda for the general election. Full details of the campaign are on www.standupprimary. ie and in the September edition of InTouch. We ask that you bring this campaign to the attention of all INTO members
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(Written by Sarah Alyward and Laura Challoner) We played a camogie tournament on Saturday September 12th in Danesfort. We played four matches and we won them all. We played Kilmacow, Callan, the Village and Dicksboro in the final. We won the cup! We were delighted. When we returned to school, the team brought the cup from class to class. It was so much fun.
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The very best of luck to the Kilkenny hurling team on Sunday. Go on the Cats! [Show as slideshow] .
(written by Carrie Jackman and Catherine Barry) The sixth class cake sale was a complete sucess! Outside on the pitch there was go-karting, targets, basketball, sponge throwing, pony rides, an obstacle course, video games, golf, penalty shoot outs and hurling. Inside the hall there was face-painting, spot the teacher, tonnes of buns, cakes and delicious treats and drinks. There were lots of toys and
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