The eagerly awaited Mini 7’s took place last week in Kilmeena GAA. Our girls kicked off proceedings in a highly competitive group. The girls displayed great courage, skill and teamwork with our compatriots in Murrisk NS. Unfortunately, they missed out on qualification to the semi-finals. Thursday was the turn of our boys. We again joined forces with our friends from the other side of the reek, Murrisk NS. They hit the ground running topping their group making it through to the semi-final against Newport NS and then on to the final against Myna NS. In an honest, sporting game, our boys emerged as winners and, for the first time in our history won the Mini 7’s title for the Westport area. It is a massive achievement and a memory that will stay with us for a very long time. The boys now go on to the West Mayo finals in the coming weeks. We want to express our thanks to all of our supporters- parents, siblings and classmates. We also want to take a moment to appreciate the work our coaches have done in developing our skills, teamwork and confidence, showing us that playing together and backing each other up can produce amazing results. Thank you to Martin, Pat and Anne for their continued support and input.
We really enjoyed our trip to the Town Hall last week to see The Dead Letter Office play. After the play we took a stroll around the town and were absolutely delighted when we bumped in to Ms. Connolly. We had a great catch up with her and she could not believe how grown up we all were. We finished the day with a trip to Auntie Nellies!
Well done to the boys and girls in the senior room who took part in the Mayo schools cross country in Murrisk in September. All who participated ran brilliantly and we are so proud of you all. Congratulations to Odhrán Gavin who came in 2nd place in his race and went on to represent the school in the Mayo county cross country in Ballina. Odhrán finished in 7th place in Ballina and will now go on to represent the school in the Connaught Cross Country race next weekend in Leitrim. We wish him the very best in his race. We look forward to participating again next year and in the meantime we will continue with our Daily Mile!
We welcomed six super Junior Infants to Carrakennedy NS this year- Aaron Clarke, Daisy McDonnell, Luke McCann, Richie Heraty, Sive O’Malley and Tommie Hastings. They are settling in really well to the junior room. Ms Hester said they are wonderful workers and love learning. We hope they have many wonderful years in our school.
Congratulations to Grace, Isabelle and Ruben who had full attendance for Term 3. Well done for making every day count.
We were absolutely delighted to receive the news that were are the West/North West Regional winners of the Abbvie STEM prize 2024. We welcomed the team from Abbvie to our school yesterday and they delivered the wonderful news. They judges were blown away by our amazing project “The Deflector Collector”. We worked on the project with Mr Fallon in Term 2. It is an invention that aims to defect and collect rubbish from our rivers/waterways to reduced litter and pollution entering the ocean. We look forward to welcoming Scentist Phil in September for a science workshop as part of the prize. Thank you Abbvie for giving us this wonderful opportunity. We look forward to seeing ourselves in The Mayo News, The Connaught Telegraph and The Irish Times. Visit the gallery for more photos from the day and of our project in an earlier post.
Well done to the senior room pupils who completed the end of year run/walk yesterday. It was a beautiful sunny day and we really enjoyed being out in the fresh air. Our new route took us up the Claddy Road. We look forward to many more runs up this road in the future. Well done everyone.
Well done to the boys and girls who travelled to Kilmaine on Saturday for the blitz. This is the first time it has been held since 2019. We have had great success in this blitz over the years and this week was no different. The boys and girls played brilliantly together and won the Ernestine Walsh shield. Congratulations on another great win this year. thank you to Martin and Pat for looking after the teams on the day and to all the parents, brothers and sisters who travelled to support . It was a great day out. Pop over to the gallery for more photos.
We are so thankful to Harry and Shauna for representing the school at the launch of the Grandparent’s Chat book. We took part in this project earlier in the year. the senior room pupils interviewed a grandparent and wrote a piece after the interview. These were collected from all pupils and published in a book along with entries from other local schools. We were honoured to be part of the initiative. Harry and Shauna both read their pieces at the book launch. They were delighted to meet Michael Ring on the day. A hue thank you to Gemma Hensey and her colleagues for organsing this fantastic project. Pop over to the gallery for more photos.
We had a great day at the Pat Cox hurling blitz today in Westport. The boys and girls played really well against the three teams in their group- Brackloon, Lankill and Knockrooskey winning 2 out of 3 games. We did not make it to the final nut really enjoyed the experience. A huge thank you to Joe and Kim for organising the blitz and to Gary Hayes for helping our team on the day.
