Tierneevin National School

Congratulations to Aimee Lally (6th class) who represented our school in the Galway Final of the Eason's Spelling Bee Competition on April 10th in the Salthill Hotel.
There were over 40 competitors from all over Galway.
Aimee was one of 10 finalists in the competition.
Well done Aimee, a fantastic achievement.

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Weekly update:
We return to school after our Easter holidays and we hope everyone had an enjoyable break.
Tuesday: Irish Dancing (Junior Infants to 2nd class)
Hurling (1st -6th class
6th class are busy preparing for their Confirmation.

Some important dates for your diaries
January - April 2018

Irish Dancing starts Tuesday the 9th of January and continues for Term 2 and 3.
Confirmation mass, St. Colman's Church, Gort, Sunday March 11th - 12 noon
Retreat for children making their Confirmation - Monday 16th April.
Confirmation ceremony - St. Colman's church, Gort - Friday April 20th - 11am.
Evaluation day for Gort Community school - Saturday April 28th.

The Liam McCarthy Cup and the Irish Press Cup came on a visit to our school on Wednesday 27th September along with 7 members of the victorious Senior and Minor teams.
Please see photos of the visit in the Gallery section.

Tierneevin N.S. and all it's children are all decked out in their maroon and white! Best of luck to the Galway team on Sunday especially our local lads. Gaillimh Abú!

Well done to Liam Linnane, Sineád Maher, Cora Weekes Glynn and Ronan Maher. Liam, Sineád and Ronan won lots of medals in the Community Games. Ronan also won medals in a rugby blitz, Sineád won some in Athletics and Cora won medals in a soccer tournament. Brian won medals for taek won do. It is great to see them involved in so many different sports.

A big congratulations to our U-11 team who came 2nd in the Gort Credit Union Quiz. (They only missed 1st place by one point!) The team was Aimee Lally, Rebecca Dempsey, Gabriel Castor and Joe Clancy! Well done!

Congratulations are in order to Síofra Mc Guire who came 1st in the 11-13 years category in the Credit Union Art competition. Well done Siofra! Here she is with her beautiful art work.

Congratulations to Diarmuid Nolan in 3rd class who received the award of 'Most Improved Hurler' from Gort GAA club recently. Well done Diarmuid!

Congratulations to Liam Cooley in 4th class who received the award of 'Hurler of the Year' from Gort GAA club recently. Super news Liam!

We are very proud to announce that we have a European champion in karate in Tierneevin N.S. Steven Moylan in 4th class won in Dublin a few weeks ago and is now the U-10 European champion in karate! What a fantastic achievement! Well done Steven!

A big congratulations to one of our 6th class pupils, Rachel Linnane on being part of the winning Galway team that won the U-14 All - Ireland Camogie final over the weekend and also to Lisa O' Grady, one of our past pupils. Well done girls, what a fantastic achievement!

Congratulations to our past pupil Ciara Helebert who was part of the U-16 Galway Camogie team that bet Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final last weekend. Well done girls. Ye did Galway and Tierneevin proud!

Book Week 2016 - Here are the pictures from Book Week! We had a very exciting week starting with our Book Fair arriving. The children have had lots of time browsing through the book fair and purchasing lots of books. Lots of happy hours of reading ahead!!As well as that, the children were engaged in lots of reading activities throughout the week such as reading buddies, making bookmarks, being illustrators, writing about books and authors and even meeting an author and illustrator, Sadie Cramer.
Sadie came on Thursday and spend time with every class discussing books and creating wonderful masterpieces. What a fantastic week! :)

Here are some photos from our whole school assembly last Tuesday. Sáirsint Eric O'Brien and Saidúir Singil Ryan Fitzpatrick who are based in An Chéad Cathlán Coisithe in Galway came to our school to present us with our National Flag which we will be raising on March 16th. They gave us a short history of the Irish tricolour - the colours, the people and the meaning as well as the Ireland 2016 flag project. A very interesting fact they shared on the day was that although the 1916 Easter Rising made the Irish tricolour famous, it was actually first flown publicly in 1848 in Waterford City, making it 168 years old!! Niall Carr, being the oldest boy and Lauren O' Flaherty, being the youngest girl, accepted the flag on behalf of our school. Tara Cooley read out some of the Irish Proclamation with Sergeant O' Brien. Our children were very engaged and both soldiers were very impressed at the quality of questions asked by the children. A day to remember!

The photos below are from our 40th anniversary celebrations which took place on the 10th December 2015. On the night, there was a celebratory mass in Tierneevin church followed by a gathering at the school where there was photos, videos and artefacts on display. Lots of people had fun walking down memory lane. As clear from the photos, a great night was had by all. It was a wonderful occasion that past and present students and families could celebrate together.

Pupil's monthly

Check out our new school newsletter, Pupils Monthly, created by the pupils in the senior classroom. It can be found on the Classroom Work page.

SEPT. 2015
OUR CARROT HARVEST FROM THE SCHOOL GARDEN !
JUNIOR AND SENIOR INFANTS PLANTED SOME SPRING BULBS

Click here for photos Fun Day 2015

Click the button below to watch the County final

tierneevin county final

Take a look at out scratch project completed this year with Steve Holmes

Scratch Project 2015

County Champions

Congratulations to our 7 a-side hurling team on winning the county final. They had a comprehensive win over Mullagh in Loughgeorge on Tuesday June 9th. The team was:
Jack Linnane, Eoin Killeen, Eoin Cooley, Hugh McGuire, Evan Cahill, Nathalie Diviney, Rachel Moylan, Niall Carr, Jack Granahan, Lorcan Walsh and Bryan Clancy.

A big thank you to the management and supporters.

Visit from Coole FC U-17 Cup Winners 2015

Pictured are past pupils Colin Finnegan and Declan Moran along with team member Ethan who visited the school on Friday 12th June during the Tierneevin World Cup tournament.

Strictly Come Dancing
We have had a very busy few months with Strictly Come Dancing. We were represented by Enda Linnane, Karen Naughton, Niall Linnane and Raquel Samuels. Both couples danced really well on the night and raised lots of money for our school in the process. Enda and Karen were the winning couple on the night. A massive thank you to the Parents’ Association and organising committee for all their hard work in co-ordinating the night.

thank you Niall and Raquel, Enda and Karen for all your hard work

happy faces in
the snow - January 2015

Well done to all our past pupils and all of the Gort Senior hurling team . Gort Abú! Watch our video below. This song was written by Mrs O'Connor and her pupils in honour of our County Champions.

Gort County Champions from ann lynskey on Vimeo.

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pupil questionnaire

School Newsletter

Please take some time to have a look at this website created by one of our sixth class pupils, Hugh McGuire, for his history project on the Romans!

Ancient Rome

Friendship Week October 2014

This week is Friendship Week in our school. We are learning all about what it means to be a good friend and how to help others out if they are feeling sad or lonely.

Have a listen to our theme song for the week.