SCHOOLS

A CRAFT fair held last Saturday in Kilmoyley raised €1,500 for the local primary school at the local community centre. A huge crowd braved Storm Desmond to attend the fair which consisted of works of art, cakes, gift vouchers, floral displays, novelty cakes and hampers. Santa Claus also made and appearance […]

AN Ardfert girl has received an award yesterday after winning a national essay competition. Twelve year old Bríd Courtney won the ‘Someone Like Me’ competition with her inspirational video. A sixth class pupil in Ardfert NS, Brid has cerebral palsy, affecting her limbs and her speech, so she communicates through body language and her iPad. […]

PROUD parents looked on at Presentation Primary School on Wednesday night, as children took part in the school’s Christmas Concert. A whole host of characters came together from shining stars, to Santas, the cast of The Wizard of Oz and of course, there was a section devoted to the nativity. It was clear […]

THE IT Tralee is today launching a national student volunteer database with the help of well known activist and disability campaigner, Joanne O’Riordan. The Institute of Technology Tralee is one of seven Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) involved in the development of the Campus Engage-led National Student Volunteer Database www.studentvolunteer.ie. This National database is […]

THIS week saw a wonderful display of colourful home baking from Class 3C at CBS The Green. As part of their CSPE Action Project, 3C organised and held a fundraising cake sale for Concern in the school. Students decided to raise funds for the wonderful work done by Concern across […]

  THE Institute of Technology, Tralee held its annual Scholarships and Awards Evening on Thursday last at the North Campus where 41 students received awards at the event held to honour sports, academic and civic engagement. Awards and scholarships presented on the evening included President’s Civic Spirit Award (Civic Engagement), Tom Mc Ellistrim Memorial […]

SCOIL Nuachabháil in Ballymac is to receive a grant to build two new classrooms. The Department of Education have announced that the school at Gortatlea, Ballymacelligott , Tralee is to be added to the list of approvals for the additional accommodation grant. Scoil Nuachabháil (Nohoval NS) will receive funding to construct 2 x 80m2 Mainstream […]

PUPILS at O’Brennan National School in Kielduff got a helping hand from a Kerry multiple All-Ireland winner to launch a book written by the children. The 260 page book entitled ‘O’Brennan NS – We Are Writers’ features stories produced by the schoolchildren from all classes, around the theme of Christmas. There […]

  TWO Tralee schools have a 100 per cent rate of students progressing to third level colleges according to data released on Schooldays.ie They are named as Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Tralee Community College (Coláiste Gleann Lí). The data gives a breakdown of where 2015  Leaving Certificate students went to college this […]

PLANS of the new Kerry Sports Academy look pretty impressive, as the artist’s impression of the completed building reveals. Today, Joan Burton visited IT Tralee with Deputy Arthur Spring, to take a look at the site of the new development which received €7 million of capital funding from the government. The €15 million centre […]

CBS The Green Parents Council have once again pulled out all the stops and hosted a very successful “Careers Day” for students on Wednesday last for College Awareness Week. The initiative was taken on and organised by parents Breda Dyland and John Gannon. They were assisted on the day by […]

CBS Primary School, Tralee took great pleasure in raising their well deserved Active School Flag this week. The flag was awarded earlier in the year, to acknowledge the work undertaken by the school in reviewing, planning and promoting physical activity. The Active School Project is a Dept of Education initiative […]

YOUNG people from the KDYS in Denny Street certainly helped brighten up a part of Baile Mhuire Day Care home recently. Students from the Leaving Cert Applied programme helped in finishing the inner courtyard, now known as “Eileen’s Garden”, to allow their service users access the garden,  weather permitting of course. This was […]

THE festive season was ushered in at IT Tralee North Campus by breaking a Guinness world record at making the longest Christmas Cracker Chain. Needing more than 798 to break the record, it was smashed with a total nearing 1,300 students, faculty and pupils from secondary schools, Presentation, CBS The Green and Mercy […]

LECTURERS and students at IT Tralee held a protest last Thursday outside the South Campus over funding and educational concerns. It was part of the national protest by the Teacher’s Union of Ireland against the cutbacks in education, as the TUI Branch Secretary of ITT, Anne M Courtney explained. “On a daily basis, lecturers […]

STORMY Sam and members of the RNLI visited St. Brendan’s National School Fenit last week to acknowledge the school’s fundraising efforts over the years. Each child received a medal from Stormy Sam, the RNLI mascot. The children perform their annual Christmas Show and collect for the RNLI. The children are […]

SIXTH year students at Presentation Secondary School Tralee took part in a sleepover in the school on Friday November 20 to raise funds for Syrian refugees. Forty-eight sixth year students took part in what was a very enjoyable night with a number of school staff staying the night also. The cheque […]

THERE was a fantastic crowd and atmosphere at BTS Fitness last night for a special fight night fundraiser which raised well over €3,000. The event was the brainchild of Akeem Molloy and his partner Katie Donoghue, who suffered a miscarriage last year and therefore decided to raise funds for the Miscarriage Association […]

YOU may have seen the Six-One news earlier this month and the feature on the national Scifest Awards which took place in Marino, Dublin. If you did, you will have seen the amazing project by three young women on harnessing wave energy and reducing coastal erosion. What you may not have realised […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School Tralee held its annual school mass on Friday last, attended by Presentation sisters to mark Presentation Day. Following on from the mass, a special celebration was held in the secondary school for the Presentation sisters to mark the Year of Consecrated Life and to thank the Presentation […]

IT Tralee students enjoyed a night at the races in The Greyhound Bar on Tuesday night, all for a great cause. It was organised by students from the Travel and Adventure Tourism Management course at the college as Marguerite O’Brien from Ballylongford explained. “As part of our events management module […]

A FRENCH language assistant at Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí displayed WWI relics to students to celebrate Armistice Day recently. Rachel Guillard, who has been teaching at the school, showed students war items which belonged to her great, great grandfather who fought during World War 1. The treasured possessions included his war medal and holy […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School, Tralee hosted their annual Dragons Den session in the school on Wednesday last. It was a very successful event with 52 students pitching their ideas to a number of Dragons in the school. The ‘Dragons’ were Margaret Brick, CEO Connect Magazine, Fiona Leahy Business Adviser & Co-ordinator, Kerry Enterprise, Melanie […]

OVER 150 people attended Tralee Credit Union’s prize giving event dedicated to young people on Friday night in Manor West Hotel. Presentations were made to students from primary, secondary and third level for Tralee Credit Union’s Annual Art Competition, their Education and Dan Kellegher Memorial Awards and Schools Credit Union in […]

IT TRALEE students are holding their annual ‘Christmas Away From Home’ for all the students on Tuesday, December 1. The day entitled ‘ITT’s Christmas on Campus’ raises valuable funds for well- deserving charities. This year the ‘ITT’s Christmas on Campus’ is being organised and managed by the 3rd year Event […]

OLD friendships were renewed and memories shared at the launch of a book on the history of Blennerville school on Saturday. A huge crowd of past pupils passed through the doors to see the huge array of photos on the ‘Memory Wall’ and to meet old friends at the special occasion […]

MERCY MOUNTHAWK students made full use of the multi-coloured powdered paint that was doused on participants as part of their colour run. The secondary school hosted its first ever 5k event of its kind on Friday, as part of Health Promotion Week at the school. Teachers and students saw the run as […]

SCOIL Treasa Naofa, Kilflynn, has been added to the list of approvals for the additional accommodation grant. The Kilflynn school has been approved for funding to construct one 80m2 mainstream classroom and one 20m2 staff room. “This funding is welcome as it will create a better learning environment for the students and staff […]

  THE Kerry Education and Training Board (Kerry ETB) has welcomed the announcement by the Minster for Education and Skills of the inclusion of the new school building for Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí in Tralee in the School Building Programme announced earlier this week. The new school building has been included for 2017 […]

THE three sixth classes at CBS Primary Tralee gained a brilliant insight into life as a photographer in recent weeks. Local photographer, Ciara O’Donnell visited the students to introduce them to the world of photography. She spoke to them about the basics of photography, the various types of photo and […]