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‘A Perspective On Climate Change’ Offered At Ardfert School

‘A Perspective On Climate Change’ Offered At Ardfert School

November 18, 2019 at 11:26 am Comments are Disabled

‘A PERSPECTIVE on Climate Change’ was held in Ardfert N.S. as part of the school’s Science Week last Thursday. A big crowd arrived to experience the use of Virtual Reality in order to understand the impact of Climate Change. Principal Mrs. Stack welcomed the distinguished speakers presenting on the night, […]

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At the announcement of €75,000 funding for a sports hall at Ardfert NS were, at back; Anne Marie Russell, Helena Clifford, Deputy Martin Ferris, Minister Brendan Griffin, Principal Betty Stack, Mayor of Tralee MD Jim Finucane, Diane Jeffers of Cillard Camogie and Marie O'Connell.  In front Peter O'Mahony and Aoibhín Ferris. Photo by Dermot Crean

Excitement In Ardfert NS As Sports Hall Project Receives €75,000 In Funding

November 15, 2019 at 1:59 pm Comments are Disabled

MINISTER of State for Sport and Tourism, Brendan Griffin, received a warm welcome in Ardfert National School on Friday morning when he announced funding of €75,000 for a sports hall project. There was further good news for Ardfert with the announcement of €50,889 for Ardfert Community Council Ltd to develop a […]

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Mercy Mounthawk students Sean Hennessy, Diana Meriakri and Felix Walker, winners of the ISTA Science Quiz at IT Tralee South Campus on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Mounthawk Students Win Kerry ISTA Senior Science Quiz

November 15, 2019 at 9:24 am Comments are Disabled

MERCY Mounthawk were the big winners at the annual Irish Science Teachers’ Association Kerry Branch senior science quiz last night at IT Tralee South Campus. Fielding three teams, the school came first and third in the competition, with the winners now off to Trinity College Dublin for the National Final […]

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PHOTOS: Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Students Take Part In Wellbeing Week

PHOTOS: Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí Students Take Part In Wellbeing Week

November 14, 2019 at 11:49 am Comments are Disabled

Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí celebrated their annual Wellbeing Week from November 4-8 which saw a variety of events in the school with all year groups getting involved. This year’s events focused on the five indicators of wellbeing (Active, Connected, Resilient, Aware and Responsible) with collaboration across all departments in the school getting […]

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Maria Dwyer, Orla O'Reilly, Dorcas Oyewande and Laura Harty at the Mercy Mounthawk Awards for high achievers. Photo by Dermot Crean

Honouring The High-Achieving Students At Mercy Mounthawk

November 10, 2019 at 11:29 am Comments are Disabled

CURRENT and former students of Mercy Mounthawk were honoured on Saturday for their excellent results in the State exams this year. This is an annual celebration of the academic achievements of the students attended by them and their families. Nine students from the Leaving Cert and four Junior Cert students […]

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Ardfert Children Show Generosity With Shoebox Appeal

Ardfert Children Show Generosity With Shoebox Appeal

November 7, 2019 at 2:18 pm Comments are Disabled

ARDFERT school children filled almost 200 shoeboxes with beautiful gifts for children in Africa and Eastern Europe as part of The Christmas Shoebox Appeal by Team Hope. The shoeboxes will be distributed based on need alone and they bring joy and excitement to children living in very difficult situations. For […]

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Pupils Grainne O'Donnell and Christian O'Sullivan Dunne with just two of the iPads presented to St Brendan's NS Blennerville, by Margaret Kissane of Connect Kerry, pictured at back with Principal Robbie O'Connell. Photo by Dermot Crean

Connect Kerry Presents iPads To Blennerville School

November 6, 2019 at 10:08 am Comments are Disabled

CONNECT Kerry has delivered not one, not two, but 12 Apple iPads to Blennerville National School as a result of their ‘Support your Local School’ initiative. Complete with storage cases and wireless keyboards these iPads will make a huge difference to the school said Principal, Robbie O’Connell. “Blennerville NS were very […]

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PHOTOS: Caherleaheen Pupils Raise Funds For Jigsaw Kerry With Halloween Fundraiser

PHOTOS: Caherleaheen Pupils Raise Funds For Jigsaw Kerry With Halloween Fundraiser

October 31, 2019 at 12:50 pm Comments are Disabled

HALLOWEEN is here with children (and no doubt a few adults) going all out with make-up and costumes for trick or treating tonight. Well, just before mid-term, the pupils at Caherleaheen decided to put this creativity to good uses by holding a fancy dress fundraiser. They raised €500 for Jigsaw Kerry […]

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Kerry Schools Invited To Enter Competition With €25,000 Top Prize

Kerry Schools Invited To Enter Competition With €25,000 Top Prize

October 18, 2019 at 2:07 pm Comments are Disabled

THE Bank of Ireland Money Smarts Challenge was launched today and Kerry schools are invited to take part with a chance of winning €25,000. This is a new secondary school competition that will see students learn essential Financial Wellbeing skills while competing for the chance to win the top prize […]

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Fantastic Effort By Scoil Eoin Pupils In Shoebox Appeal

Fantastic Effort By Scoil Eoin Pupils In Shoebox Appeal

October 17, 2019 at 12:40 pm Comments are Disabled

SCOIL Eoin Balloonagh took part in the Team Hope Shoebox Appeal once again this year for Team Hope and hundreds of boxes were made up. The project was undertaken by the Student Council with the help of their coordinator Mrs. Carol Anne O’Donoghue. They were overwhelmed with the response and generosity […]

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Teacher Ciara Culloty with pupils taking part in activities during Holy Family Maths Week. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Holy Family Pupils Enjoy Maths Week Activities

October 17, 2019 at 11:22 am Comments are Disabled

HOLY Family is a hive of activity this week as pupils taking part in Maths Week. The events of Maths Week were designed to present the subject as fun. Each day begins with a daily maths joke and a memory task. Over the course of the week, the pupils visit […]

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Tralee Student Chosen For RTÉ Youth Assembly On Climate In Dáil Éireann

Tralee Student Chosen For RTÉ Youth Assembly On Climate In Dáil Éireann

October 16, 2019 at 1:39 pm 2 comments

A TRALEE student has been chosen to participate in the RTÉ Youth Assembly on Climate in Dáil Eireann next month. Fifteen-year-old Judith Waugh will be one of 157 delegates from all over the country who will travel to Dublin on on November 15 to establish their urgent next steps for Ireland […]

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A Nice Trip To France For Two Tralee Students Representing Ireland At Conference

A Nice Trip To France For Two Tralee Students Representing Ireland At Conference

October 16, 2019 at 8:00 am Comments are Disabled

TWO Mercy Mounthawk students will head to the south of France this winter to represent Ireland at the GTTP (Global Travel and Tourism Partnership) conference thanks to a project on the Rose of Tralee. Fifth year students Michalina Gora and Cora Savage are off to Nice from November 23rd-27th with teacher […]

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Presentation pupils with instruments made out of recycled material. Photo: Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Presentation Pupils Get Creative And Care For The Environment

October 14, 2019 at 10:49 am Comments are Disabled

PUPILS at Presentation Primary School are once again getting a chance to show their artistic side by taking part in Year 2 of the Creative Schools Initiative. The theme is “Shape and Space”, so they decided to look at the space we occupy predominantly in our lives and what kind […]

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WATCH: Caherleaheen NS Junior Infants Talk About Their Schooldays So Far

WATCH: Caherleaheen NS Junior Infants Talk About Their Schooldays So Far

October 11, 2019 at 9:00 am Comments are Disabled

WELL here’s a good way to publicise your upcoming school open week…get the kids to do it! The Junior Infants at Caherleaheen NS have only been in school about six weeks so they’re still new to all this uniform and education business. Well a parent of one of the pupils, […]

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Presentation Secondary School Presented With Amber Flag

Presentation Secondary School Presented With Amber Flag

October 11, 2019 at 8:52 am Comments are Disabled

PRESENTATION Secondary School’s gym was packed on Thursday afternoon as the school accepted the Amber Flag from Pieta House. Joining staff and the student body in the gym were representatives from Pieta House and Jigsaw Kerry as well as Kerry footballer David Moran. The Pieta House Amber Flag initiative recognises […]

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Tralee Schools Urged To Enter AIB Build A Bank Challenge

Tralee Schools Urged To Enter AIB Build A Bank Challenge

October 10, 2019 at 2:35 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE and Kerry students are encouraged to enter this year’s AIB Build A Bank Challenge. Kerry has enjoyed strong representation in recent years, with Presentation Tralee doing especially well winning the overall award two years ago. There’s €5,000 up for grabs as over 100 schools from across Ireland are expected to […]

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Billy Ryle: The Next Steps After Receiving Junior Cert Results

Billy Ryle: The Next Steps After Receiving Junior Cert Results

October 4, 2019 at 5:36 pm Comments are Disabled

Career Guidance Counsellor Billy Ryle says students are entitled to celebrate their Junior Cert results, but they also have some decisions to make about their Leaving Cert choices… After an interminable three-week delay, Junior Cert exam results were finally issued by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) on Friday morning to […]

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Sponsored: Open Evening To Showcase The Inclusive, Student-Centred Spirit At Coláiste Gleann Lí

Sponsored: Open Evening To Showcase The Inclusive, Student-Centred Spirit At Coláiste Gleann Lí

October 3, 2019 at 9:51 am Comments are Disabled

COLÁISTE Gleann Lí post-primary school, on the Clash road, is holding its annual Open Evening on Thursday, October 10 from 5pm to 8pm. The event is open to 5th and 6th class students in local primary schools and their Parents/Guardians. The school promises to be a hive of activity for […]

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PHOTOS: Spa NS Hosts ‘Wonderful Well Being Day’

PHOTOS: Spa NS Hosts ‘Wonderful Well Being Day’

September 21, 2019 at 10:28 am Comments are Disabled

SPA National School was the place to be last Friday as the students and staff hosted a ‘Wonderful Well Being Day’ in the school to highlight the importance of developing healthy lifestyle habits for all ages. The theme for the day was ‘Health is Wealth!’ and the whole event was […]

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Pres Girls Present Trees To Tobar Naofa Residents

Pres Girls Present Trees To Tobar Naofa Residents

September 19, 2019 at 9:17 am Comments are Disabled

PRESENTATION Secondary School students are known for their generosity and sense of community, so it was no surprise to see them start off the school year with more of the same. On Tuesday, students paid a visit to their neighbours in nearby Tobar Naofa on Tuesday to present trees that […]

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Ballyheigue Girl Wins Acting Award At Georgian Film Festival

Ballyheigue Girl Wins Acting Award At Georgian Film Festival

September 17, 2019 at 3:48 pm Comments are Disabled

A PUPIL from a school in Ballyheigue has won an award for acting at a film festival in Georgia. Andrea Lynch won the Best Female Actress in the Tbilisi International Children and Youth Film Festival “Oqros Pepela” (“Golden Butterfly”) in Georgia for her role the short film ‘A Little Help’ made by her schoolmates in St. Joseph’s N.S. Bouleenshere. […]

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Olivia Dineen with members of the Kerry camogie team and the Kerry U14 team at Mercy Mounthawk on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Kerry Camogie Teams Receive Wonderful Welcome At Mercy Mounthawk

September 17, 2019 at 3:22 pm Comments are Disabled

TEACHER Olivia Dineen had some special guests at Mercy Mounthawk on Friday, when her teammates from the All-Ireland Junior winning Kerry Camogie team paid a visit. The first year students gathered in the Centenary Hall to welcome the ladies as well as members of the Kerry Under 14 side who […]

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Catherine Sugrue (centre with husband Joe, son Joseph, daughter Emma and son-in-law Brendan Poff at her retirement party at Ballygarry House Hotel on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Retirement Party For Catherine After Decades Teaching In Balloonagh

September 17, 2019 at 9:44 am Comments are Disabled

IT was a night of celebration and reflection as a much-loved teacher was joined by family and work colleagues at her retirement party. Taking place in Ballygarry House Hotel on Friday night, Catherine Sugrue was saying farewell to teaching after 37 years in Scoil Eoin, Balloonagh. Originally from Lohercannan, now […]

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Junior Infants at Caherleaheen NS on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: New Arrivals Settling In At Caherleaheen And Spa NS

August 31, 2019 at 10:43 am 1 comment

FRIDAY was Kerry jersey day around the county and uniforms were replaced with green and gold attire in schools around the county. This was the case when we called to Caherleaheen and Spa national schools to photograph the new junior infants. Teacher Adrienne Heaslip said the children were settling in […]

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Sinead Horgan, Rachel O'Sullivan, Shauna Higgins and Sinead Moriarty (all Childcare) at the Kerry College of Further Education Graduation Ceremony on Friday at the Brandon Hotel. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Hundreds Attend Kerry College Of Further Education Graduation

August 31, 2019 at 10:42 am Comments are Disabled

THERE were hundreds of people at the Brandon Hotel on Friday afternoon to celebrate the.achievement and personal success of students from the Kerry College of Further Education. Their annual graduation ceremony is a highlight in the college calendar with the students families and KCFE staff also in attendance to the […]

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Rena Says Farewell After A Lifetime At Scoil Eoin

Rena Says Farewell After A Lifetime At Scoil Eoin

August 30, 2019 at 2:12 pm Comments are Disabled

SHE’S pretty much been there since she was four years old, but it was time for Rena O’Connell to say goodbye to Scoil Eoin in Balloonagh on Thursday. As the junior infants were beginning their educational journey, the deputy principal was ending her time teaching after 39 years. Originally from […]

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Junior Infants at Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn on their first day at school on Thursday. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Céad Míle Fáilte For Juniors Infants At Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn

August 30, 2019 at 8:54 am Comments are Disabled

THERE was the usual first day at school hustle and bustle at Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn on Thursday as junior infants made up two new classes at the school. Teachers Ms Ní Dhongaile and Ms Ní Ghearáin did a fine job of making the children feel at home on what was […]

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Junior Infants at St Brendan's NS in Blennerville on Thursday morning. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Blennerville And Tralee Educate Together Schools Welcome New Arrivals

August 30, 2019 at 8:46 am Comments are Disabled

YESTERDAY was an emotional one all over town for parents of children starting school. The scenes were repeated in each school as parents left off the little ones to begin their educational journey. At St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville, there were 27 boys and girls getting used to their new […]

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Teacher Aileen Griffin (back right) and Peggy Sweeney with Junior Infants at Scoil Eoin on their first day at school. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: First Day At School For Holy Family And Scoil Eoin Junior Infants

August 29, 2019 at 4:25 pm Comments are Disabled

WELL that wasn’t long coming around! The late Rose of Tralee Festival meant that back to school time was on top of parents and children all of a sudden this year. For parents whose child was going to school for the first time, it was a special Thursday morning dressing […]

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