A visit to St.Brendans

Today on the 9th of October three Kilkenny and Carrickshock hurlers came to our school.The three hurlers who came were John Tennyson, Michael Rice and John Dalton.They came at 12 o clock. When they came in everyone gave them a cheer. John Tennyson brought the cup in. We asked them questions and they signed autographs. John Tennyson and John Dalton are ex pupils of this school. John Tennyson and John Dalton remembered playing in the school league and dreaming of once playing in an All Ireland final. John Tennyson gave us free homework on Monday night. We had a great time with them and hope to see them again next year.

Josh Price reporting.

September News

Hi Kieran here!
We all had a great September here at Newmarket. Kilkenny recently won 4 consecutive All-Ireland titles on the 6/9/09. They were against Tippererary. It was a very good game. The score was Kilkenny 2-22 Tippererary 0-23. The Iverk show was postponed to the Saturday this year. It was really good. There were  lots of stalls. A good few from our school won prizes. I came first in the creative writing and Anne Marie won two prizes,  and our past pupil Conor Aylward came 3rd in the poetry competition. On the 22nd the National Ploughing Championship was held in Athy, County Kildare. It was opened by Ireland’s president Mary McAleese. It will be held in Athy next year in the same farm. The weather was great all through the month of September. We are all enjoying the Indian summer. Our swimming lessons begin tommorow in The Watershed. We are all looking forward to going there.

And that’s our September News.

Last day at Primary school.

6th class 2009

Hi Conor A here

I’m getting a week off school because I’m going on holidays so I’m writing about primary school. There’s loads of stuff that I’ll remember about school. Like when Conor D chased a fly around the room or when I broke my nose and in Junior Infants I stuck a crayon up my nose and had to go to the doctor. The doctor wanted to know if I wanted it back. I’ll miss Newmarket (and I’ll miss the 6th class cycle) when I move into Kieran’s in Kilkenny. There’s been loads of funny things during the years. I’ve got into trouble a lot as well. I’ll remember the time when I fell off the chair and when I had my own phrase “Dinnéar mór blasta.” I’ll miss Newmarket and I’ll hate secondary school, probably.

School’s Hurling Report

Hi Darren and Conor here. Yestarday we played our last school’s hurling match of the year. We were against Kilmacow and we won. At half time it was Kilmacow 3-1 , Carrickshock 1-2.  Although we were 5 points down we fought hard for every ball. Our captain was Darragh Brennan who inspired us to a great victory. Conor Duggan played an outsanding game and scored 4 good points and tried his hardest. Conor Alyward played an excellent game in the backs running for every ball. Darren had a brilliant game,  did some great flicks and scored the first goal of the game. Afterwards we gave our trainer Joe Brennan and manager Tom Duggan a great round of applause. It was the last time Conor Duggan played in a Carrickshock jersey. Final score Carrickshock 4-5 Kilamacow 3-1.

‘ Bye for now Conor and Darren.

Trip to Tanagh 09

Canoeing on the Dromore River

On the 2nd of April this year, the 5th and 6th class pupils went on a trip to Monaghan, to an activity centre called Tanagh. We went to meet up with  children from a school in Belfast.  Before the trip,  we were sending messages to them on the internet as part of  the Dissolving Boundaries project. When we were in Tanagh we did lots of activities like canoeing, archery, obstacle course and we went for a night walk in the woods! There was even a games room with a ping pong table and a small pool table. We were split into two groups, the first day, group number one did the watersports (canoeing and the slippery slope) the first day, and group number two did the activities on land (the obstacle course, rock climbing and archery). We stayed over night and the next day the groups swapped over and did the other activities! We all had great fun!

F.A.I Football

Newmarket 2009

Last week our school entered into a football competition. The competition was held in Thomastown. It was a competition for small schools in Killkenny. There were four groups involved in the competition. The teams were five a side, with three subs. The first match we played was against Monroe and we beat them 11-1!!. The last match we played was the final against Dunamaggin who beat us by 2-1 after a very tight game. Most of the games that we went through were very tough. The only match we lost was the final. The whole competition was good fun. We also got free homework and about a half a day off.

QUIZ WIZZES

 

 

The team of four ( Aoife N, Anne-Marie B, Darragh B and Conor A ) came first in the credit union quiz for the over 11’s. The quiz took place in Hugginstown on a Monday night, the 23^rd of February. The team received a large plaque, and they also received small plaques to keep. The under 11’s team also came in 3^rd ( the team members were Katelynn W, Grace A, Kieran N and Kieran P).

 

Reporter: “Anne-Marie how did you feel when you won?”

 

Anne-Marie: “I felt happy; I didn’t think we would win.”

 

Reporter: “And Aoife how did you feel when you won?”

 

Aoife “I was surprised, I couldn’t believe it.”

 

Reported by

Katelynn Walsh

10-3-09

Christmas in Newmarket

Christmas in Newmarket

Nativity Play '08

Today we  closed for Christmas holidays .  We performed our Nativity play for our parents last Friday night and everyone enjoyed it.  We also had a mad hair day last week and we raised € 234 for the Society of Missionary Children.

Carrickshock v Shamrocks in Senior Semi-Final

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All roads lead to Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on Sunday next as our local club team Carickshock take on our neighbous Ballyhale Shamrocks in the senior semi final. Carrickshock will be trying to get to the senior county final for the first time since 1951 while their more experienced neighbours Shamrocks have been in the last three finals.  There are five past pupils of our school on the team for Sunday: Pat, John and Niall Tennyson (who form the half back line) John Dalton, and Michael Rohan. We wish them well.