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MOYDERWELL Mercy’s first class children are challenging the people of Kerry to join them in helping to tackle climate change through their April Cool’s Day initiative – and they’ve even written to Kerry TD Danny Healy Rae to get in on the act. The Tralee students have been working on […]

LAST week during midterm, teachers from Moyderwell Mercy School travelled to Kopaqvaguar in Iceland to observe the Icelandic Education system and to find ways to benefit their own school in Tralee. As part of the Erasmus programme, the teachers spent five days in Horduvallaskoli School where they gained first-hand experience […]

PUPILS in Moyderwell Mercy Primary School took part in the “Let’s Grow Happier” programme for five weeks this term. Paola Kennedy devised this programme early in 2017 and since then has imparted the programme to different primary, secondary schools and private groups in the county. This programme blends Yoga, Dance, […]

A FRESH morning in the Town Park provided ideal conditions for a healthy and enjoyable fundraiser involving Moyderwell Mercy Primary School pupils. The ‘Jingle Bell Jog’ saw excited pupils, with many donning Santa hats and Christmas jumpers, do a circuit of the Park. “The Jingle Bell Jog is a festive […]

IN what has become an annual trip, pupils from Moyderwell Mercy Primary School headed off to Dublin last Friday to take part in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition with the curiously titled project, ‘How Can We Launch Our Teacher Into Space?’ For the past nine years, pupils have made the journey […]

THE pupils, parents and teachers of Moyderwell Mercy Primary School left the books and pencils behind as they participated in Walk a Mile with A Smile around Tralee Town Park on Thursday. This was an event organised in conjunction with Tralee Active Travel and Kerry County Council as part of European […]

THE junior infants at two town centre schools were well settled in when we called to take photos on Thursday morning. Pupils from Presentation Primary and Moyderwell Mercy began their first days of school the day before and it all went very smoothly. Presentation welcomed in 38 new boys and girls, while in Moyderwell nearby there […]

MOYDERWELL and Presentation pupils really got into the spirit of the Tralee 800 celebrations and were rewarded by winning a schools competition. Schools around Tralee were asked to take part in exploring the town’s history and the medieval aspect to the anniversary. The Kerry County Council-sponsored competition was run alongside this year’s festival and […]

  GREAT excitement filled Moyderwell during the week as Anne Culloty, Kerry Health Promotion Officer with the HSE came to announce that Moyderwell Primary School has been awarded its first Health Promoting Flag. This is a wonderful formal recognition of all the health promotion initiatives that are run throughout the school.  Anne praised the […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

THE pupils at Moyderwell had a busy end to the school year and were up to their video-making shenanigans again. They decided to enter a Radio Kerry birthday competition and created a video of their version of the hit song Cheerleader from OMI. “Great fun was had, and is an ideal way to […]

PUPILS of Moyderwell Mercy Primary gave a huge welcome to two new ‘students’ who enrolled for the day at the school on Wednesday. Great excitement filled the school with the arrival of twin lambs who are just nine days old from teacher, Mr Denis Griffin’s family farm in Clahane. They began […]

  THE staff at Mercy Moyderwell Primary School have been putting their technology skills to good use recently when they produced a new video promoting the school. It’s all part of Moyderwell letting people know about their school in the heart of the town. About 50 people attended their open day […]