Glenmore National School

Glenmore N.S competed for the first time in the FAI Primary 5’s Football Competition. The competition took place in Thomastown United’s outstanding facilities and we entered boys and girls teams from 4th – 6th classes. We played against schools of similar size and population from the South Kilkenny area. All teams competed really well and really enjoyed the day. One of our boys teams won all their matches and have progressed to the next round. 

A big thank you to Mr. Walsh and Miss Cody for looking after the teams on the day and to Mr. Murphy for looking after the admin. 

The staff and pupils of Glenmore National School would like to say a big ‘Go raibh maith agat’ to Yvonne Knight, Mullinavat. Yvonne recently donated a beautiful collection of knitted dolls and characters to the school. 

The children and staff of the school are very grateful to receive her wonderful creations. These will be treasured and enjoyed by all. Míle buíochas!

The principal and staff of SN Shéamuis Naofa would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year. 

Today the children had their Christmas performance in the Parish Hall. Juniors – 2nd classes performed their Nativity play  ‘A Sleepy Shepherd’. There was fantastic display of singing, dancing and acting from all the boys and girls from junior end of the school. 

The senior end of the school gave a wonderful melody of popular Christmas tunes as well as some traditional favourite songs, such a ‘The Rattlin’ Bog’ . The audience really played their part and got involved with their cheerful clapping. Well done to all the pupils and their teachers for all the preparation work. 

A big thank you to The Parents Association who organised the raffle and distributed the prizes. The raffle was a huge success and thanks to all who supported. 

Thursday 20th was a very special day for the staff and pupils of our school. Minister of State for Special Education Michael Moynihan visited our school to officially open our two new ASD classes in operation since September. Michael was greeted at the the front gate by our principal Miss Kelly and our student council members and brought on a tour of the school. He visited all classes interacting with pupils before officially cutting the ribbon to our new impressive classes. Local TD Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere and Cllr Jenny Catt, Fr. Taylor PP and board members were also present on the day. Well done to staff members for their great efforts for preparing the school for the visit. 

Thanks kindly to Paul Mooney photographer for his work on the day.

The students of Glenmore N.S. have been busy lately getting their ‘Christmas Shoeboxes’ ready for those less fortunate at Christmas time. As always there was a fantastic response from parents and students alike to the appeal. An impressive number of boxes were collected by this year and were picked up by the Army cadets today. Thanks to the Student Council for their help in loading up everything. Great work by all and thanks to everyone for the contribution.