SCHOOLS

THE pupils from Muinteoir Eoin’s fifth class in Moyderwell Mercy Primary, Tralee had their movie premiere of their short film about the 1916 Rebellion on Wednesday night. Aptly named “They Fought for Freedom”, the film is based on local, national and international historical events circa 1916. A capacity crowd of parents, […]

NA GAEIL Bingo and Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí will join forces for a bilingual night of bingo during Seachtain Na Gaeilge as a fundraiser for the school. On Friday, March 4 beginning at 7:30pm at the clubhouse in Killeen, Na Gaeil Bingo will break from the norm for Seachtain Na Gaeilge, by calling out […]

THE pupils of CBS Primary have become ‘Super Troopers’ with a new programme promoting daily activity The Laya Healthcare “Super Troopers” programme comprises daily activities which take 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be done as a family, a small group or as a class. Each child in the school has […]

RED was the colour in Holy Family on Wednesday with the school showing their support for The Glowhearts4Crumlin ‘Wear Red’ campaign taking place this week, which raises funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin. The campaign was started by Kerry mothers who each have a child born with a heart defect. […]

TWO children from St. Brendan’s National School, Fenit, have been awarded prizes for their entries into the ‘Draw Your Life In Black And White’ competition, which was run by Tama Farm Grown Solutions. The school is currently on a hot streak with many of the children being recognised for their […]

IT’S lights, camera and plenty of action at Moyderwell Mercy Primary, Tralee, where Muinteoir Eoin’s fifth class have created a film based on the 1916 Rebellion, titled ‘They Fought For Freedom’. The film is based on local, national and international historical events, circa 1916, and all the pupils of the […]

STUDENTS at Presentation Secondary Tralee, have been participating in the #itsyourmove launched by Operation Transformation (OT) as part of their PE fitness programme. OT launched a brand new dance fitness campaign #itsyourmove, designed especially for teenage girls by Hip Hop sensations, Raw Edge Crew. Each week over the past month a […]

THE awards presentation for the Donal Walsh LiveLife Film Competition took place at the ‘Live Life Love’ day on Wednesday, at the Brandon Conference Centre, in Tralee. The event, which is now in its third year, had over 700 attendees, and was in honour of Donal, a special teenager who […]

A GROUP of students at Mercy Mounthawk are trying to raise funds for a monument to show Tralee’s inclusivity when it comes to all cultures and religions. The Youth Social Innovators group is called ‘Generation I’ and their aim is to make other cultures feel welcome in Ireladand. This week […]

VOTING for the 2016 Doodle4Google awards has now opened and three Kerry schoolchildren need your votes. Members of the public can now vote online until the closing date of February 14. Seanie Feehan, from Scoil Niamh Eirc, Kilmoyley, and Kyran Boyle and Jack Lynch, both from Scoil Nuachabháil, Ballymacelligott, are among […]

THE Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) have awarded Coláiste Gleann Lí, Tralee, the ‘Shield’ Anti-Bullying Flag in recognition for their work in strengthening their preventative and proactive approach to bullying. Several schools in Kerry have decided take action to positively engage with the ISPCCs Shield Campain, but Coláiste Gleann […]

GAELCHOLÁISTE Chiarraí students enjoyed success in the Scléip competition held in Dublin last week. The school had six acts in the All-Ireland of Scléip and while singers, musicians and creative dancers put on a spectacular display it was the TY drama group who won the day with their Coiste Cróinéara, where members of […]

CAHERSLEE and the Bracker O’Regan Road, or The Fat Mile, are problem areas for dog waste according to a survey by local students. On Friday, January 29, a Transition Year Science class from Presentation, Tralee, continued their mission to tackle the issue of dog waste in Tralee. The group, which call […]

IT was an extra special day in Moyderwell on Thursday as grandparents got a chance to go back to school. The return was prompted by Grandparents Day as part of Catholic Schools Week. The initiative encourages schools to invite grandparents of their pupils to come in to national schools to […]

THERE was great hustle and bustle in Caherleaheen National School on Wednesday as grandparents got a chance to come and visit their grandchildren at school. Grandparents Day is celebrated as part of Catholic Schools Week where the older generation are invited to the school. Their main hall was split in two so that […]

AS part of their Catholic Schools week programme of events, students from Presentation Secondary School Tralee invited representatives from Cuan Mhuire to meet with Transition Year students from each of the local secondary schools. On Wednesday morning, February 3, the Cuan Mhuire team consisting of an addiction counsellor and three […]

NOW in its fifth year in St Brendan’s NS Blennerville, Grandparents Day took on special significance this year as it was the first in the new school. Staff, pupils and the grandparents all gathered in the gym at 11am for a Mass celebrated by Fr Francis Nolan, followed by a […]

OVER the last three weeks, the 2nd class pupils from Moyderwell Mercy Primary have been participating in their version of Operation Transformation. The pupils participate in at least ten minutes of additional exercise per day, adding it to their regular P.E. classes of football and swimming. The extra activities include walking, […]

TRALEE area schools were to the fore in the prizes in the Tralee Credit Union Noreen Lynch Annual Schools Quiz on Sunday in the Brandon Hotel Conference Centre. This year, 164 students participated in their Quiz representing 23 primary schools throughout Tralee, Castleisland, Killorglin and surrounding areas. It was a busy […]

ALL the best young scientific minds in Kerry are invited to enter SciFest 2016, which takes place at the IT Tralee, on May 5. Now in its ninth year as a national project, SciFest is an all-inclusive, all-island science competition where second-level students showcase science, technology, engineering and maths projects […]

OVER 270 people from across the county attended the Lee Strand/Kerry Garda Youth Achievement Awards 2015 in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel in Tralee on Friday (photos below). The celebration commenced with dinner and was followed by a presentation of 32 awards, accompanied with an inspiring citation of each winner’s achievements. Twenty six Merit […]

MERCY Mounthawk students are currently in the midst of a sell-out run of their latest production in Siamsa Tíre. Around 70 students in all are involved in the cast an when we visited just before curtain-up on Wednesday night, they were busily preparing for the opening performance. “We do a […]

THREE Kerry schoolchildren have been shortlisted for Doodle for Google Awards 2016 and they need your help if they are to win the competition. Seanie Feehan, from Scoil Niamh Eirc, Kilmoyley and Kyran Boyle and Jack Lynch, both from Scoil Nuachabháil, Ballymacelligott, are among the 75 children shortlisted from over 4,000 entries. This […]

TUESDAY was a historic day for Gaelscoil Mhic Easmainn,  a day that will live long in the memory of all the children and the staff. Three members of the Irish Defence Forces, Ceannfoirt Peadar Ó Catháin, Gunnadóir Dáithí Breathnach agus Ceannaire Marcus Ó Dulaing visited the school as part of the ‘The […]

THE French Theatre For Schools group visited Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí on Thursday last to perform for the students. Second, third and Transition year students of the school attended the drama Le Rendez -Vous. The purpose of the drama was to put an emphasis on having fun and on ‘learning by doing’. The drama, […]

MERCY Mounthawk students spent a night sleeping outside the school gym on Thursday to highlight the national issue of homelessness and to raise funds for Focus Ireland. Continued below… The weather was terrible with wind and rain battering the building but the students, part of the transition year Young Social Innovators Group, toughed it […]

THE Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí transition year class has been invited to Birmingham Library to showcase a film they created about local who fought for the Munster Fusiliers in WWI. They specifically focused on the Gallipoli landing of 1915. This was an initiative of the National Museum of Ireland, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí were […]

MERCY Mounthawk transition year students have launched their own school Credit Union that will operate every Friday at lunch time. Tralee Credit Union and Mercy Mounthawk have partnered to promote saving among secondary students. As an incentive to sign up, the Credit Union will put €10 in their account to get the ball […]

YESTERDAY was a landmark day for St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville, as the old school was demolished after 84 years of educating generations of locals. A former pupil decided to mark the opening of the new school with a presentation which, no doubt, will find a place in the great new building. […]

OVER 200 people attended the Kerry Education and Training Board Annual Student Awards event held in the Institute of Technology Tralee, North Campus, on Friday night. The guest of honour was Tralee native and major figure in women’s rugby both in Connacht and Ireland, Ruth O’Reilly. Ruth was one of the Irish […]