The children in Tiermohan were very busy creating Christmas cards. These card will be sold at the Christmas Bazaar organised by the Parents' Council for Sunday November 30th after 10.30am Mass in Newtown Church.

Yesterday was a very exciting day for the children in Tiermohan as RTE visited us to do a programme on a doodle competition we entered. Organised by Google, the competition involves children designing the Google home page for St Patrick's Day 2009. The film crew interviewed some of our artists at work and we were all delighted with the visit. The archive may be viewed on the following link: http://www.rte.ie/tv/theden/news2day/news2day_20081119_av.html?2451515,null,228

Today the girls and boys of Tiermohan registered to victories in the basketball league. Both teams beat Kilashee at home. Last week, the boys drew with Clogherince while the girls lost.Today the scores were 12-7 for the boys and 18-0 for the girls.

Last Thursday 16th October in Moorefield Park, the girls of Tiermohan and Newtown won the u11 league final. The final score against Kildare Town NS was 4-3 to 0-1. The Cappagh girls proved too strong and were convincing winners of this league final. Many thanks to H Kennedy, P Ryan, M Wosser and T Milner for help in training the girls and to the supporters.

The children in the school were treated to a very interesting talk regarding birds, their diet, their phsical features and their migratory habits. John Lovatt of Bird Watch Ireland was our guest and the visit was sponsored by Kildare Education Centre.

Term 1
School re-opens Wednesday 27th August…..half day, 12.30pm.
Staff meeting Wednesday October 1st. School closed 1.30pm.
Mid-term: School closed from Monday 27th October to Friday 31st October inclusive.
In-School planning day December 8th: school closed.
Christmas Holidays: School closed 12 noon Friday December 23rd 2008.

Term 2
School re-opens Wednesday January 7th 2009.
Staff meeting Wednesday February 4th. School closed 12.30pm.
Enrolment for September 09 takes place Monday Feb 9th .(School remains open)
Parent-teacher meetings Thursday February 12th. School closed 2.55pm. First meeting 3.10pm.
Mid-term: School closed from Monday 16th February to Friday 20th inclusive.
Staff meeting Wednesday March 11th. School closed 1.30pm.
St Patrick’s Day: School closed Tuesday March 17th.
Easter Holidays: School closed Friday April 3rd at 12 noon.

Term 3
School re-opens Monday April 20th.
May holiday: School closed May 4th.
Staff meeting Wednesday May 13th. School closed 12.30pm
June break: School closed Monday 1st June to Friday 5th June inclusive.
Staff meeting Wednesday 10th. School closed 1.30pm.
Summer Holidays: School closed 12 noon Tuesday 30th June.

Today the children in Tiermohan's 4th to 6th classes went on a cycle. The route took them to Donadea forest, where they visited the 9-11 memorial, St Peter's Church and graveyard. On the route home they passed by the townland with the longest place name in Ireland, Newtownmoneennaluggagh. Many thanks to Mrs Martin, Mrs Holton and Mrs Dunne for their help.

Tuesday 27th May was another historic day for the senior girls' (Cappagh) football team. They defeated Clogherince/Broadford 3-1 to 0-2 in Moorefield Park. For the second year in a row they have won both the U11 and U13 league trophies. Well done girls, and thank you to trainer Martin Mulligan and to supporters.

The children in 6th class celebrated their Confirmation today in Newtown Church. Fr PJ Byrne and Fr Eddie Kavanagh concelebrated the Mass, and the children in Tiermohan joined with three children from Newtown NS in the ceremony.
After the ceremony, Tiermohan NS Parents' Council hosted a reception for the children and their parents and friends across the road in Newtown Hall.
Many thanks to Fr PJ and Fr Eddie for a lovely ceremony, to Eileen Nolan and the adult and children choir for beautiful music, to our altar server C. Mc Dowell and to Imelda Regan, our sacristan. The teachers, Mr Sweeney and Mr O' Haire were proud of all the children.

Today was an exciting day for all the children in Tiermohan. Garda Bill and Garda Peter visited our school with their van and bicycle. Garda Peter reminded us of our safety rules while cycling our bikes. Garda Bill showed us around the Garda van, and even put some children in the cells in the back! The children all enjoyed ths visit very much and we look forward to another visit in the future.

Here is a photo of our mural being painted.

Yesterday was a busy day in Tiermohan NS. In the morning we had a visit from Mick Kelly, an engineer working with SIAC. He introduced the world of engineering to the senior students. Then the pupils in 4th and 5th classes were presented with a challenge: to build a car capable of carrying 500g with two seats and lights.The winning entry is displayed here. It was designed and built by engineers A Maguire and B Geraghty.

The girls with their trophy!

The girls of Tiermohan proved too strong for the opposition today at the blitz organised by Cumann na mBunscoil in Newbridge. In their first game they beat St Patrick's 18-4. They followed this by beating Lackagh 17-3, Clogherinkoe 10-2 and St Davids 18-2. They met Rathcoffey in the final and won 16-0. Well done to all the girls concerned and many thanks to Ms Curley for training the girls and to the drivers and supporters.

Today the boys of Tiermohan reached the finals of the basketball blitz, organised by Cumann na mBunscoil. This one day event was held in the Secondary school in Newbridge. In the first game, we were beaten 3-8 by St Patrick's. We beat Suncroft in the second game, 8-2. In the third game we were beaten 2-6 by Lackagh. This forced us into a three way playoff. We beat Suncroft 6-0 and Lackagh 4-0. This brought us to the semi-finals where we beat Allen 4-0. We met St Patrick's again in the final but they proved too difficult to beat and we were beaten 7-1. All the boys on the panel deserve praise as it was a very tough blitz and we did very well to reach the final. Many thanks to Joe O Connor and Cumann na mBunscoil for organising the blitz. Thanks also to our drivers and supporters.

The school community is still talking about the fantastic Gala Concert held on 31st January last in Newtown Church. For the previous number of months, Shaun and Emma Purcell, together with helpers, worked every Wednesday with the children involved, and put together a show that would be the envy of any Broadway production company. The show itself was wonderful, with Irish dancers, solo singers, hip hop dancers, a wonderful choir singing classics from Cats and even two leprechauns. Ms Vanessa Brady presented Emma and Shaun with a gift on behalf of everyone involved in the production. Well done to all involved in the production, thank you to Shaun and Emma and congratulations to the real stars of the show, the children!

The children in 5th and 6th classes spent a very enjoyable day on Thursday 10th January in the Young Scientist Exhibition. Their display stand was called "Do you love the earth?" and included a demonstration of solar power, wind power and a natural battery which powered a clock with lemon juice!
The children also conducted a survey of the public's attitute to the environment. They interviewed 156 people during the day and found that the group who seemed to care most for the environment were female college students. The overall average score out of a possibe 10 for males was 6.2. The overall average score for females was 6.3.
Una Glennon and Kelly Maher won a RTE competition during the day and were filmed interviewing two students from a secondary school about their project. In addition, they won a digital video camera each!
Ms Curley and MrSweeney were most grateful to Thomasina Barron who helped with supervision during the long day.