4th Green Flag for Kilcoskan NS!

Well done to all the boys and girls in Kilcoskan NS who worked so hard on our Day of Action last week! All the work was worth it when we found out that we had earned our fourth Green Flag for the school! Not many schools in Ireland have this prestigious award, let alone have earned it 4 times! That means our school has been working to the highest levels of eco-friendliness for the last 8 years! Well done to all involved and thanks to Trish and Ciara for bringing it all together on the day!!!

The school football team

The school football team is an after school activity.  The team runs from 3rd to 6th Class.  We have 9 a side games.  Each match lasts 20 minutes per half. Trish Finnegan is our manager for the team.  We all hope to win the Joe Crowe Cup! There are 5 teams in our league.  Jack is our goalkeeper so far and Bart is our sub keeper.  We have a very strong team and we have great supporters.  We have a pitch in our school and we have 3 matches in our league left.

By Karl and Jack

WOW becomes FEET FIRST FRIDAY!

We've moved Walk on Wednesday to Fridays.  Feet First Friday is a day people try to walk as much as thay can. To help the environment, so we don't release too much carbon dioxide into the air and to save energy, we walk from the Coolquay lodge to school.And if people don't want to we try to get them to car pool instead !
 
By Reece and Craig

St Patrick's day at Kilcokan

We all did a lot for St Patricks day we brought in two euro to wear green we had a lot of fun and everybody had a great time.
In third and fourth class we did art including a leprechauns pot of gold and we stuck on a rainbow and it turned out good.

It was lots of fun doing all the st patricks day art everybody had a great time it was so much fun .

All the money we raised for St Patricks day we gave to chairity.

It was the best St Patricks day ever!

Happy ST PATRICKS day evey one!

Our Trocaire Boxes have arrived!

Our Trocaire boxes have arrived in kilcoskan N.S. A life of opportunity is waiting for you and you can decide how your life goes.  You can help save lives. In Kilcoskan we get our Trocaire boxes and we put our money in them and we send them to Trocaire and thay give the money to people in developing countries.  This helps to save people's lives.  So give them your money and so when thay get sick you can save there lives.
We have lots of fun here in Kilcoskan N.S

By Eryn and Caroline

Kilcoskan Newspaper Club

We are a group of children reporting to you from a small school called Kilcoskan National School in North Co Dublin and we think we have one of the best schools in Ireland! After school our teachers run many fun clubs for us to join. This year our teacher -Trish Finnegan - introduced a newspaper club for children from third to sixth class.

Every Tuesday after school our newspaper crew meet for one hour. During this hour we brainstorm potential articles and write them. At our first ever news paper club we came up with a name for a paper. We decided to call it The Great Kilcoskan Newsflash .Working on our crew for us we have a editor, sub editor , reporters and photographers and we all work as one big team to publish the newspaper.

At the moment we cover mostly school events, football matches, Green Schools news, Pet Day, Exotic Fruit Day and much more. In the near future we hope to cover local news events also. We have also advertised local businesses in our paper. Luckily for us we have lots of ICT equipment to help us to write and publish the newspaper.

In each edition of our newspaper we print an article called What’s Cool About Our School! This gives the students a chance to voice their views and opinions about the school. It is a very popular article.

A copy of the newspaper is given to every single family in the school. Newspaper club is educational, interesting and above all fun. We love seeing our hard work coming together. We would recommend starting a News paper Club to any school! Hope you enjoyed reading our article. Over and out from all the Kilcoskan Newsflash!!!

Hopefully this article will be published in a newspaper that goes to schools all around Ireland called Primary Planet!

By: The Kilcoskan Newspaper Club Crew

Pancake Day in Kilcoskan NS

Well done to all the boys and girls in 5th and 6th Class who made pancakes for everyone in our school on Pancake Tuesday! The pancakes were a steal at €2 for 2 and all the money raised went to The Tallaght Children's Hospital - almost €200 was raised!  Thanks also to Brian and our super helpers from the Kilcoskan NS Parents Association! Well done also to the medal winners in Kilcoskan's first ever Pancake Race!

World Book Day in Kilcoskan!

Well done to all the boys and girls in Kilcoskan NS who came to school on Friday dressed as their favorite book characters, to celebrate World Book Day 2011! There were loads of characters, from both fictional and non fiction books seen strutting around the school, showing that our pupils really are great readers! Keep it up boys and girls!

The Visiting Fingal Library

The Fingal Library is a library that goes to schools around Dublin.  It comes every 2nd Tuesday and twice a month. We like to read because it is good for us and it's interesting!. There are lots of books like the Simpsons comic, Saving Oscar, books on Space and The Spider Wick Chronicals.

And lots more!

By Dylan  and Connor, 4th Class

Spring is springing in Kilcoskan NS!

Despite the still frosty nights and chilly mornings, spring is doing its best to pop up around the school.  Keep an eye out for daffodils, crocuses, primroses and even a few early tulip stems!

GAA on Thursdays!

John is the new St.Margaret's Gaelic Games Promition Officer. He comes to play Gaelic Games with us once a week on Thursdays. We do fun exercises, mini games and other stuff. We might be starting hurling in Kilcoskan soon too!


By Alex and Bart

Parents Social Night