SCHOOLS

CBS The Green Transition Year students are preparing to stage a play open to the public for one night only early next month. Having successfully staged their interpretation of John B Keane’s ‘The Field’ last year – of which Billy Keane opined “Ye brought John B. Keane back to life. […]

MERCY Mounthawk Secondary School has been shortlisted for two awards in the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards which takes place early next month. They are up in the Best School Play category for its 2015 production of ‘The Plough and the Stars’ and the Best Set category for this year’s ‘Les […]

MOYDERWELL Mercy Primary School will come alive to the sounds of the jungle as they stage ‘The Lion King KIDS’ in the assembly hall. With a cast of almost 300 students it’s set to be a spectacular production on Wednesday, April 27 and Thursday, April 28 at 11.30am and 7.30pm each day. […]

TRANSITION Year students from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí took the catwalk last night at The Rose Hotel for a night of fun and fashion.   This was the 14th year of the fashion show and the students wore clothes from local retailers in front of around 200 family and friends who turned up […]

IT will be a very special day for one Tralee school on Thursday as they welcome  President Michael D Higgins through their doors. The President and his wife Sabina will honour Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn with a visit as part of his duties in the continuing commemorations of the Easter Rising 1916. Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn, […]

STUDENTS at Mercy Mounthawk were made aware about the causes of cancer and how to help prevent it on Monday, when one of the Marie Keating Foundation’s Mobile Information Units paid a visit to the school. Specialist nurse from the foundation, Marie Fitzgerald, was on hand and spoke to the […]

    TRANSITION year students in Mercy Mounthawk secondary school explored the universe on Monday. SkyDome a mobile planetarium visited the school and allowed students the chance interact with planets, stars, galaxies and other objects in our universe. The SkyDome can hold up to 45 people at a time and […]

IT was a special time for the sixth class pupils of Scoil Eoin yesterday as Confirmation Day arrived. The church at Our Lady and St Brendan’s was packed as 85 children received the holy sacrament from Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne. The day stayed dry which made it ideal for photos outside, […]

THE Student Representative Council at Presentation Secondary School, Tralee co-ordinated the Annual Mental Health Awareness week in Presentation Tralee last week as a range of activities and talks were provided for all students by representatives of agencies such as Kerry Jigsaw and Aware. While different groups were scheduled for formal […]

OVER 250 second level students attended the Kerry Education and Training Board 1916 Commemoration Event on Tuesday April 12 in The Rose Hotel, Tralee. The event was co-hosted by Kerry Music Education Partnership, a music education initiative led by Kerry ETB, in partnership with Kerry County Council, the Institute of […]

THE Kingdom Greyhound track in Tralee is the place to be on Saturday, April 23 at 7:45pm where Blennerville N.S. hosts a ‘Night at the Dogs’ to raise much needed funds to provide sports equipment and library facilities for the school. The night promises to be a wonderful social occasion with […]

NORTH Kerry College of Further Education is currently enrolling for a number of courses in many different fields. North Kerry College  (formerly Listowel Community College) is the largest provider of Post-Leaving Certificate education in North Kerry & Limerick West. The college provides a range of accredited courses at Level 5 and 6. […]

‘THEN and Now- A Critical Reflective Exhibit to explore Contemporary Ireland’ was a student led initiative held at the ITT on Tuesday afternoon. It explored how the 1916 Rising and events since then have impacted on those living in Ireland in 2016. The students were encouraged to reflect on their own […]

THE IT Tralee Clubs & Societies Awards evening was held last night and was a great success with many awards being given out on the night at the North Campus in Dromtacker. Over 130 students and invited guests attended and the guest speaker was Billy Keane. “I would like to thank all students and staff […]

FIVE CBS The Green students are looking forward to a spot of cattle rearing after they were selected as one the five finalists in the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition. The lads, who are from the town, went to Croke Park on March 16 for the competition and were interviewed of their knowledge of Irish Angus […]

  AN anti-racism group organisation is calling on all schools and youth services in Kerry to enter for the Anti Racism Creative Competition 2016. Two tickets, sponsored by the FAI, for an Ireland Senior International soccer match, are given to all schools and youth services who submit entries. All submissions will […]

MIGHTY Mikey Milk created lots of excitement when he visited Glenderry NS, Ballyheigue this week to present a cheque of €500 in the Cash 4 Schools Draw. Speaking at the presentation Principal Gerard Pierce stated; “We are delighted to win €500 from Lee Strand. It is a timely boost to […]

THE children of 5th Class in Spa National School have been working hard for the Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP), coming up with the idea of sketching their own set of unique postcards titled, ‘SPA’s Picturesque Postcards’. And last week they received very special visitors in Colm Cooper and Kieran Donaghy […]

WHILE the town prepares for the St Patrick’s Day parade tomorrow afternoon, the pupils at one school jumped the gun for a colourful morning in Balloonagh. Scoil Eoin has been holding their own parade for years now and it has become a real tradition at the school. At around 9.15am this […]

PRESENTATION Tralee students are trying to raise public awareness of a weed causing serious problems in the county. The transition year students are taking part in the Eco Unesco Young Environmental Competition and are tackling the issue of Japanese Knotweed’s spread in Kerry. The weed is an alien invasive species introduced as […]

STUDENTS at Presentation Secondary School in Tralee will be hoping for a two in a row as they prepare for the national AIB Build A Bank competition finals. ‘The Blossom Bank’ will be hoping to emulate last year’s entry from the school, ‘The Dream Bank’, which won the top award last year. […]

SPA National School and Mercy Mounthawk have been shortlisted in this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards, and will now travel to a special awards ceremony taking place at the Bord Gais Enegry Theatre on May 5, 2016. Spa N.S. has been shortlisted in the Best Musical Number category for its […]

THE Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn Parents Council recently presented a cheque to the value of €10,000 to the Gaelscoil Development Fund. This presentation, the proceeds of recent fundraisers such as Aonach na Nollag agus Oiche Biongó, was welcomed by Principal Cáit Uí Chonchúir, who thanked the Parents Council, the entire parent […]

PRESENTATION girls showed their fashion designing skills on Friday to a former pupil who has gone on to make a name for herself in the industry. The Transition Year Science group ‘Aims To Greener Fashion’ rolled out their focused campaign this week at the secondary school in Tralee as part of their SEAI […]

THERE’S just days to go now until GAA stars do battle in The Kube. Tickets are selling fast for the Tralee CBS The Green fundraiser, which will see GAA stars James O’Donoghue, Kieran Donaghy, Colm Cooper, Alan Brogan and many more take part. Brothers, John and Denis Moriarty of Moriarty Civil […]

VISITORS to two education centres in town were impressed by the facilities at open days on Wednesday. Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn and Kerry College of Further Education both opened their doors to potential would-be pupils and students at opposite ends of their journey through education. In the Gaelscoil, parents and children were given a […]

TRALEE has new All-Ireland champions after CBS The Green’s Under 14 team won yesterday in Gormanstown College in Co Meath. Having won the county and provincial championships over the past few months, the team of Sean Kennedy, Kevin Griffin, Seamus Bradley, David Smith along with team managers; Aine Knightly and […]

FIVE certified townies stand a chance of winning Angus calves for their school. To do so, CBS The Green students, Michael Scanlon, Rory Ruttledge, Dara O’Brien, Dara Regan and Hugh Healy will travel to Dublin for the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition in Croke Park on March 16. While there, […]

THREE Kerry schoolchildren recently attended the finals of the 2016 Doodle 4 Google Awards, which took place on March 8, at Google’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin and though they did not emerge victorious, the pupils gave a great representation of their schools and the county. Seanie Feehan from Scoil Naomh Eirc, […]

TRALEE Educate Together National School student, Lenka Zigova, has been shortlisted for the ‘Have You Got Maths Eyes’ poster competition. Entrants were required to create a poster by taking a photograph in their local environment and highlighting the mathematics they see in the photo. She will now go on to […]