Ms. Gallagher’s class used a variety of colours and fabrics  to create these beautiful nests of creativity  🌈✨. Look at the wonderful chickens and chicks  🐔🐥 and all the lovely colours that bring them to life.

We wish the Loughrea hurling team  the very best of luck in the All-Ireland Final  🏑🏆. A special word of good luck to Shane O’Brien , our neighbour and friend — we are all cheering you on 👏⭐

The boys and girls in Mr. Gibbons’ room  have been getting very artistic 🎉🖌️. We created lily pads with frogs  🐸🌿 as we prepare for our study of amphibians  this week, and we also designed some very unusual giraffes  🦒🎨 while working with different shades of colour .

The boys and girls in Mr. Gibbons' room  were busy completing some wonderful science circuits  this week 💡🧪. They used paperclips and pins  to create circuit breakers  📎🔩 and worked with batteries and bulbs  🔋💡 to increase the power of the light emitted.

The boys and girls in Mr. Gibbons’ room  went on a maths trail  around the school last week 🚶‍♂️🏫. They explored different areas and worked with fractions and division  ➗🧮, helping them to add and subtract fractions  and divide numbers  too ➕➖. 👏Have a look at some of our pictures below 📸👇

A Winter - Feed for the Birds 🐦❄️ Mr. Kelly's Class explored winter wildlife through poetry, art, and creativity! This video showcases our beautiful drawings and constructions of garden birds, our careful cursive writing of the poem "A Winter - Feed for the Birds," and a glimpse of our four seasons agamographs. An agamograph is a fascinating optical art piece that shows two different images depending on the viewing angle—when you look at it from the left, you see one picture

We had a very special visitor to Kilrickle NS today, all the way from the North Pole ❄️🎅 Santa arrived with lots of cheer and brought gifts for all the children, 🎁😊

We’ve had a fantastic year of Morning Hurling, and Friday will mark the final session of the year. A huge thank you to everyone who supported Morning Hurling throughout the year

The boys and girls had a wonderful trip to the cinema today in Ballinasloe. Everyone really enjoyed watching the classic film Home Alone — lots of laughs, excitement, and festive fun all around! 🎄😂

The children in Mr. Gibbons’ class took part in the Cycle Right programme 🚦. It was a great experience, and the children learned all about the Rules of the Road 🛑 and the importance of staying safe while cycling 🪖🚲.

We’ve created some very festive art with elves 🧝‍♂️, snowmen ⛄, Santas 🎅, reindeer 🦌, hot chocolates ☕, and polar bears 🐻‍❄️

It’s that time of year again — our Christmas Raffle is here, and we have some fantastic prizes up for grabs! 🎁🎉 🏆 Prizes: 🥇 1st Prize: €400 – Sponsored by Moran Refuse 🥈 2nd Prize: €300 Cash – Sponsored by Fahy Bus 🥉 3rd Prize: €200 Cash – Sponsored by Dessie O’Brien 🎁 4th Prize: €100 🎉 Seller’s Prize: €50 📅 Draw: Thursday, 11th December 📍 Kilrickle Community Hall 🕕 Draw will take place after the Christmas Plays 🎟️ Tickets: €5 Plus spot prizes, vouchers, and gift

The Junior and Senior Infants have been busy little authors! ✍️💫 As part of the CJ Fallon project “Our Class Book”, they created a wonderful book titled When We Grow Up. ❤️ Each child brought home their very own copy and proudly shared their stories with other pupils in the school. 📖😊

The boys and girls are in full drama mode as they get ready for our upcoming Christmas shows! 🌟 There’s great excitement in the air as they prepare to take the stage on December 11th. 🎤🎬 A huge thank you to all the teachers for their hard work, guidance, and encouragement as the boys and girls rehearse. 👏💖 The full recording of the video can be viewed here https://galleries.vidflow.co/na2f2pt8

The Boys and Girls have done tremendous work collecting shoeboxes for the Team Hope Christmas Appeal! 🎄🌍 Every year, our students thoughtfully prepare shoeboxes that are sent abroad to children who are less fortunate 💝 A huge well done to all the Boys and Girls for their generosity and effort! 👏⭐ And a heartfelt thank you to our wonderful Parents Association for their support in making this happen. 🤝💗

📣 Get ready for a magical night of festive fun and fantastic performances! 🌟 A Christmas Recipe & 🌟 Cinderella Rockerfella 📅 Thursday, 11th December ⏰ 6:15 PM (Doors open at 5:45 PM) 🎟️ Tickets: €10 – Available from the school office

Well done, girls, on an amazing victory last week! 🏆 Huge congratulations to Ms Gallagher and all the girls on the camogie team who took part in the Shamrocks GAA Blitz and brought home the cup! 🥳✨ A big thank you to Shamrocks Camogie for organising such a fantastic event 💚🤍 What a brilliant day for the school — we’re so proud of you all! 💪🏑🌟

What an incredible evening at our Kilrickle National School Quiz Night! 🎉🧠 We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make the night such a massive success. 👏 Thank you to all the teams who came out, filled the hall, and brought brilliant energy and great humour to the evening. 👏 Thank you to our organisers and volunteers who worked behind the scenes preparing questions, setting up the hall, taking bookings, and keeping everything running smoothly. 👏

We are so proud of our First, Second, and Third Classes who have successfully completed the Stay Safe Programme this term! 🎉👏 The programme helps children learn essential life skills such as: 💛 Respecting themselves and others 💛 Recognising safe and unsafe feelings 💛 Knowing what to do in tricky or unsafe situations One of the most important lessons learned was the safety rule: 👉 Stop, Get Away, and Tell

🎃✨ Halloween Fun in Our Classroom! 👻🕷️ The boys and girls had a fang-tastic day filled with Halloween fun! 🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️ We pulled cabbages 🥬 connected to old piseógs stories 🕯️, dunked for apples 🍎💦, and tested our nerves with the mystery box game 🎁😱! Everyone looked spooktacular on our Halloween Catwalk 🧟‍♀️🧙‍♂️— don’t forget to check out our Spooky Video 🎥🕸️ to see all the creepy costumes and scary struts! 🦇🎭 https://youtu.be/nHSTxzOZ4Ng?feature=shared Happy Ha