Active Week 2016 is well underway and the children have been enjoying the activities. School tours, football skills workshops and novelty sports days have featured in the events calendar so far.

Here is a little round up of what we have been up to!!

Thanks to Stephen Lawlor from Carlow IT for facilitating the football programme over the last four weeks!

Thumbs up for the 1st/2nd/3rd and 4th class tour to the Let’s Go Activity Centre!

Junior and Senior Infants enjoyed their trip to Imaginosity during Active Week!

Thank you to Carambola for providing us with healthy fruit platters for our ‘Fruity Party’!!

We have an action packed week planned for our Active Week which will begin on Tuesday, 7th June.
Activities will include;
Tuesday:

Football workshops with Stephen Lawlor for Junior/Senior Infants and 5th and 6th Class.

5th/6th Class-Free Throw Competition

1st-4th Class are on tour to the Let’s Go camps in Kilcullen. Activities include:

High Energy Assault Course

KMX Karts • Disco Dome

Zorbee Ball Roll

Radio Flyer Cyclones

Super Slide : Spider Climbing Tower & Slide

Under Pressure Wrecking Ball

Wobbly Ladder : Human Table Football

iPad Fun Orienteering

Chinese & Crab Soccer • Speed Stacking • Unihoc

Lacrosse • Puzzling Moves • Fling Sock Games

Olympic Handball • Maze n Moves

Wednesday:

Junior tour to Imaginosity. The children will be allowed to explore and play in Ireland’s largest creative play area!

Novelty Sports day for 1st-6th Classes

Rounders/Basketball League games

Free Throw Competition 4th Class

Thursday:

Bouncy Castle Fun Day, and a visit from the ice-cream van!

Volleyball workshops for all classes with Tom Landers from the Newbridge Volleyball Club.

Friday:
High Intensity Circuit activities for all classes with Emma Butler

Rounders/Basketball League Games

Playground games and activities for Junior/Senior Infants including obstacle course and parachute games.

Saturday:

This year our Active Week includes our Adult and Children 5k and 10k fun run! Enter online and please come out, Be Active and Support our School.
Friday 24th June:
Presentation of Swimming Certificates for 2nd-6th classes.
Sports Day for Junior and Senior Infants
Rounders Final 1pm
Basketball Final 1.30pm approx
Presentation of medals in the hall afterwards. Parents are welcome to attend the games from 1pm onwards.
We hope that Active Week will be a successful and enjoyable week for all the children..And a peaceful one for the parents as hopefully the children will be nicely tired out by bedtime!!

Ms. Carter and three representatives from the Water Committee travelled to Dublin yesterday to receive the Water Flag. Well done Lauren, Oisín and Conor!

Ms. Carter, Conor, Oisín and Lauren at the Water Flag presentation Day.

Our flag raising ceremony will be held next month.

Congratulations to second class who made their First Holy Communion on the 15th May. Our school mass for the Communion children was celebrated on Wednesday by Fr. Hannon and was led by second class under the guidance of their class teacher, Mrs. Prendergast.

This was a wonderful occasion and a very special mass for the children, each of whom had a special job to do on the day.

Second class pose happily in their communion finery!!

A special mention to the 3rd class choir who performed beautifully at the mass.

With all the beautiful white dresses on show, the second class boys didn’t disappoint and looked very dapper on the day!!

Congratulations and well done to our Boy’s Basketball team on winning silver in the Cumann na mBunscol Basketball Blitz. The boys enjoyed a celebratory trip to McDonalds after the game!

The boys were presented with their medals earlier this month.

Kilberry N.S. Basketball team, led by team captain Dean Owens.

Well done to all involved!

Congratulations to our fifth class pupils, Lila Ann and James on their entries into the Sackville Street 1916 Art project. Lila Ann constructed a replica house for 1916 civilian Joseph O’Flaherty, while James based his on the civilian Edward Byrne. Their works of art are currently being displayed in the Civic Theatre in Newbridge and have also been immortalised in the 1916 Art Project Commemoration Book!

Mrs. Dempsey shows all the children in Kilberry N.S. James and Lila Ann’s project work!

Well done James and Lila Ann!!!

Well done to fifth and sixth class who raised a massive 343 euro for Crumlin Children’s Hospital through their participation in the JEP project this year.

Christopher, Molly and Sarah display the cheque to be presented to Crumlin!

Kilberry N.S. held their Water Action Day today to consolidate our efforts as a ‘Green School’ as we work towards our third green flag for water. Kilberry turned blue as all staff and pupils wore blue clothing for our action day.

Experiments on the theme of water were conducted in the school hall by members of the water committee and each class had an opportunity to see the experiments in action.

Oisín and Aoife demonstrating how plants drink!

Cody, Darragh and Cian investigate whether oil and water can mix?

Lauren, Leah and Luke investigating floating and sinking..

Seamus, Leah and Conor demonstrate the water cycle..

Following this, we had a ‘Walk for Water’ which saw each class walk 1km carrying 14 litres of water to raise awareness of the challenges facing men, women and children in developing countries as they walk up to 5miles every day in search of safe drinking water. Each family was asked to bring in 2 euro and as a result we are proud to announce that Kilberry are giving the ‘gift of water’ in conjunction with Trocaire to children in Africa.

Junior and Senior Infants taking part in the Walk for Water!

First class with ‘Super Drop’ the mascot!!

Páidí carries 4 litres water on his back during the 1km walk..

Mrs. Prendergast’s class preparing to walk for water..

Mrs. McLernon’s class on the walk…

Carrying water sacks on the walk….

By the end of the walk, the children could appreciate the difficulties children in third world countries face….

5th and 6th class and members of the water committee on the ‘Walk for Water’.

Well done everyone!!!

Two new flags are on their way to Kilberry N.S. in the coming weeks.

Congratulations to 5th and 6th class who will receive their Junior Entrepreneur Flag on Wednesday, 11th May for their project work. For their efforts, the children have won a trip to Tayto Park in Meath.

Congratulations also to all the children, and in particular the water committee for their efforts in attaining the school’s third green flag for water! This is a huge achievement.

Well done to all involved and to Ms. Carter and Mr. O’Sullivan for co-ordinating the two flags.