Photo by Dermot Crean

Thanks to Dermot Crean for taking photos of our Carol service on Monday 19th December which you can see by clicking http://traleetoday.ie/photos-blennerville-school-pupils-in-fine-voice-for-christmas-concert/?fbclid=IwAR2vlk1vhn3i7rTg20AGdDWkFwy-LwjWTmFZqD_WhZh2NN9ZQSvOrzluhok

Well done to the children for singing o beautifully on the night. Huge thanks to Mrs Catherine Moynihan and Ms Aine Quinn for directing the choirs and the class teachers for the many practices.

Thank you to Junior Infant Evan for snapping the pictures of the Junior and Senior Infant night on 20th December in the hall where children performed the Nativity and Forgetful Sants plays. Well done to all involved here, especially Mrs Edel O'Sullivan, Ms Sarah Dinan and the children themselves, the stars!

Finally, huge thanks to all the staff for really getting into the Christmas spirit this year, between elves being stolen, appearing in funny places, beautiful decorations by Paudie, Christmas day in the classroom in pyjamas with Ms Debbie Moriarty, baking and general fun, selection box gifts for all children from our Parents' Association, Christmas Jumper day in aid of St Vincent de Paul, our fantastic Christmas Hamper draw and fun table quix night, the school was a fabulous place to be this December. Thanks to everyone.

Thanks to everyone- pupils, staff and parents of our school who donated shoeboxes of gifts for the diners of the Tralee Soup Kitchen. Well done and thank you to parent Collette Price for organising this.

Mrs O’Sullivan’s Junior Infants had their first school tour on Friday 7th October 2022 to the windmill. Our guide Dónal was simply outstanding and hilarious. He has us all laughing throughout the tour. The children learned about wind powered ships leaving from Blennerville long ago, they milled flour themselves, getting a little on the uniforms which was fun too and we saw the train sets display before we left. Some children pulled the rope brake on the blades and stopped the windmill spinning with their strength. It was a really informative and fun day and we can’t thank Dónal and his windmill crew enough for having us. An excellent tour for children and adults alike.

Ms Sarah Dinan’s Senior Infants had a wonderful trip to Blennerville Windmill during October as well. They got to explore the windmill, getting to see all the inner workings of a windmill by climbing to the very tip top!!! They got to make flour just like the Little Red Hen did, which is their current Aistear theme. As well as the windmill they watched a video on what Blennerville looked like in the past, saw a model Jeanie Johnson and the model railway network. Some were even amazed they could see the big boats in Fenit. A very exciting time on a blustery Wednesday. Thank you to Donal and Louise who were fantastic tour guides.

We are very proud of our 5th & 6th class football team who have reached a Cumann na mBunscol semi final . Well done boys and well done to Mrs O Sullivan, Mr Foley & Paudie for all their hard work and dedication coaching this team . Onwards & upwards