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Our Second Green Flag ! 
| On Wednesday 28th May Lissivigeen National School received its second Green Flag at a cermony in the Life Time Lab in Cork. The theme of this years project is Energy Conversation. On Thursday 24th June, Mayor of Killarney, Michael Gleeson came to our school to raise our second green flag. We would like to say a big THANK YOU and WELL DONE to our Green School Committee, teachers and pupils for all their fantastic work to achive this award. |
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Local History Project
Lissivigeen Past and Present - Bridging the Generations
Lissivigeen National School and Lissivigeen Community Alert teamed up to work on this project during the month of May. The aim of the project was that the children would learn from the older people in our locality about their community and about the customs and traditions which are disappearing.
We asked Christy Lehane of Lissivigeen Community Alert for some help in organising this. Christy and his team came on board and they thought it would be a great opportunity for them to document and record some of the older people talking to the children about times gone by. Christy Lehane brought in Sean Hurley from Kerry Radio who decided to make a radio programme out of the project. Sean Hurley got so much material from his few days with us that he decided to make two programmes, the first of which will be on radio on Sunday 13th June at 9.00pm.
We selected groups of children from 4th, 5th and 6th class to go out and meet various people in our community. These groups then reported back to the rest of the classes about what they had learned, with the help of slide show presentations of photographs taken by Pat Kelleher of Lissivigeen Community Alert.
We would like to thank the following people from our community who gave of their time to talk to our pupils:
Sean O’ Donoghue, who showed us around Clash House and explained all about his old farm machinery.
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To see more pictures from Clash House, Please click here
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Eugie O’ Keeffe, for showing us the old School House and talking to the children about gardening and his schooldays in Lissivigeen School. Paul Herlihy, who lives next door to Eugie O’ Keeffe for bringing us into his garden and showing us around.
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To see more pictures, please click here.
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Brendan Mc Carthy, who brought us to Raheen Bog and showed the children how to clean the bog, cut turf, spread it and foot it.
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To see more pictures from the Bog visit, please click here.
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Pa and Tim Mc Gillicuddy, who showed the children how to shoe a horse and explained how cart wheels were made. Special guest at the forge was ‘Jakie the Farmer’ from Ballaugh, who showed us how to tackle a horse to a trap and then took the children for a short trip.
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To see more pictures from this trip, please click here
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Mary Cahill, who showed us how to make bread on a gridle in the traditional cottages at Muckross House. Jackie the farmer was with us again here and gave us a great insight into what life was like in Ireland 70 years ago.
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To see more pictures, please click here
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Councillor Michael Gleeson, Mayor of Killarney, who received us in the Town Council meeting room and explained all about how the Killarney town council works.
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To see more, please click here
The children learned a great deal about their local community, past and present, from this project and they are also developing a sense of place and pride in their own locality. Hopefully this will set seeds for the future and the children who have worked alongside our Community Alert members on this project will themselves become the Community workers of the future.
Thanks again to Christy Lehane, Pat Kelleher, Brendan Mc Carthy, Mary Cahill, Ann Cronin and Denis Russell of Lissivigeen Community Alert. Thanks to Sean Hurley of Radio Kerry for the excellent way he helped the children while making the Radio programme and to Bobby Kelly who has made a video of the project.
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................LISSIVIGEEN SCHOOL
..................PARENTS ASSOCIATION
.................................are holding a COFFEE MORNING
.............................in the Quality Hotel on Thursday, May 27th
...............................from 10:00 am - 12 noon.
.. ............Your support is greatly appreciated. ...................... 
Everyone Welcome !
Skipathon 2010
| Thanks to everyone for supporting our Skipathon on Friday 14th May. We raised €324 for the Irish Heart Foundation. Skipathon raises vital funds for the Irish Heart Foundation making a significant contribution to funding childrens health promotion projects. By encouraging children to skip they learn that getting active is fun and the positive experience helps them make healthy decisions at a young age. Thanks again for the great support. Míle Buíochas. |
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Click here to see all our "Skippers" in action !
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Congratulations to Úna Quill and Emma Byrne who were part of the Killarney Dance and Cheer squad who had success in Scotland recently. Both girls are members of KDCSouthern Scorchers, which is a Cheerleading and Dance school. The girls pratice twice a week and are delighted with their win. |
Green School - Day of Action
Thursday 22nd April
2010
Recycling Old Clothes
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Road Clean Up
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School Garden
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Energy Games
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Posters and Art
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National Live Music Day event: ‘Lissivigeen Loves Live Music’
To celebrate Ireland’s first National Live Music Day on April 16th 2010, there were weird and wonderful sounds emanating from the school hall at Lissivigeen National School between 11.30am and 12 noon. Under the capable directorship of Nico Brown, musician, children from junior infants to 3rd class (approx. 150 children) formed an instant orchestra of percussion instruments and collectively improvised a piece of music. Nico brings many influences to bear on his workshops with children so they will play instruments and perform sounds never before heard in Killarney!
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We would like to say a very big Thank You to Kerry County Council and the Lissivigeen Parents Association for funding this super project
Junior Infants MusicWorkshop (Ms. O'Neill)
Junior & Senior Infants Music Workshop (Mr. Cahill)
Senior & First Music Workshop
(Mr. Gleeson)
Confirmation Class
Our School Garden 2010
It's that time of year again, and work on our school garden has started again.
Please click here to see us in action.
Haiti Fundraising
| Thank you all for your fantastic support of our "Fun Day for Haiti", on Friday 29th January. €4115.66 was collected on the day which was an amazing response from the Lissvigeen School Community. This money has been sent to the charity GOAL. We would like to thank Kenny and Sara Butler for all the hard work they put in on the day entertaining the whole school. Also, we would like 'Lissivigeen Bouncing Castles' and ' A time to Party' for providing us with three great bouncing castles for the day. Kenny, Sara and the bouncing castle companies provided theirservices free of charge and helped make it a day to remember for all the children. We would also like to thank all the parents who took time out to help us with supervision on the day. |
Click on the links below to see more on our 'Haiti Fun Day' |
Sharing Fair
As part of our cake sale evening on December 10th, Mrs. Hakin organised a "Sharing Fair Craft Sale". It was an outstanding success and a total of 1004.00 euro was raised. Sr. Catherine Hughes of the Good Shepherd Economic Justice Ministries would like to thank us for hosting the fair. The money raised will be put to very good use and it is very important to the people who made the goods to know that what they make with their hands is appreciated, admired, wanted and shared. It creates miles of smiles and a big THANK YOU to all at Lissivigeen who became part of a fairer world that calls for a little more sharing.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Students decorating the school Crib & Christmas Tree
Art Competition Winner
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Kyle Heffernan, 5th class winner of the Lee Strand Milk art competition, receiving a framed copy of this artwork from the manager of Lee Strand |
Green School Committee 2009/2010
We are working towards our second Green Flag which is based on Saving Energy.
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Writer in Residence Project
Pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th classes are getting a chance to discover their 'inner novelist' while participatig in our 'Writer-in-Residence' project during the month of November.
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Halloween
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Halloween..... To see some very scary and interesting pupils please click below Junior Infants Mrs. O' Neill Junior Infants and Senior Infants Mr. Cahill Senior Infants and First Mr. Gleeson First and Second Mrs. Long |
Cumann na mBunscoil
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After Kerry's great win over Cork last Sunday in the All Ireland Final we took to the field ourselves this week to try and retain our Cumann na mBunscoil county title. Lissivigeen boys took part in a blitz in the Spa field on Thursday 24th Sept. We played Gaelscoil Killarney, Gaelscoil Castleisland and the Boys School Castleisland. Unfortunatly we were not successful on this occasion but well done to all our players who put in very sporting performances. To See more Pictures from the day, Click here |
'Sam' visits our school
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Fun Sports Day
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Schools Feis 09
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Congratualtions to Lissivigeen National School Dancers who won the Best School Award at the Feis held in Fossa, on Sunday 14th June. A special word of thanks to Lisa Hegarty, Lissivigeen School Dancing teacher, for all her hard work and dedication. To see more pictures of the Feis, please click here. |