This morning we were carol singing with schools from Norway and England. We had a carol service on Skype. We could hear them and see them. We sang Jingle Bells in Irish. We had all our school singing. It was loads of  fun. They sang  songs in their own languages. The English school had only two classes.  All our teachers watched and some of them took pictures.

The Comhairle na nÓg is like youth mixed with demoracy. It has expanded right across Ireland and has over 32 clubs. Comhairle na nÓg means Young Peoples Council. The first real meeting took place at the Council Chambers in Kilkenny city.There were eighteen people there.Part of the structure of Comhairle na nÓg is to create space for young people and local adult decision-makers to meet, interact and work together on issues that are of interest to their community. the five nominees will be going to Dublin. There will be other trips to adventure parks all of us will get to stay overnight. The whole program is free and we got pizza at the end of each meeting.
By Martin O Connor

This is a presentation about our school.
St. Brendans N.S Grace Martin and Niamh

Today one of our best school league final took place on our school pitch. We started in October and now it’s all over. A great win for Jody. Before the analysis here are the teams.

Jody(C)                                         Josh(C)

Grace                                            Jake

Tomas                                           Liam

Hollie                                              Shauna

Hannah                                          Nel

Josh was the favourite to win which meant Jody was the underdog. But he proved us all wrong by beating a very good side. The match got off to a slow start with Hollie getting the first score. Jody made some great saves in the first half by flicking the sliotar away on the goal line. At half time the score was split 0-2 to 0-1 to Josh’s team.

The second half got off to a great start as both of the captains came outfield. After a while Josh got tired and he went back on goal. But that never stopped him from scoring. He made a lovely shot as he hit the sliotar high in the sky and it lobbed over the goalkeeper, Hannah, and it went in the goal. At this point Jody was two points down and he needed some scores. And then his wish came true. Jody struck the ball and it sailed into the back of the net. And then he scored two great points which sealed the victory. A great all round performance by both teams. Jody and his team can celebrate that win as they get free homework tonight. I say the man of the match  would have to go to……………………….Jody because he gave a great performance after coming from two points down to three points up. And also dont forget all those maraculous saves he made.

I leave you with the scorers and the team lineouts.

Scores

Josh: 1-2                                                 Jody:1-5

Jake:0-1                                                  Hollie:0-1

Lineouts

Josh’s team

Goal:Josh

Backs: Shauna,Nel

Midfield:Liam

Forwards:Jake, Roseanne

Jody’s Team

Goal: Jody

Backs: Jodie, Hannah

Midfield: Grace

Forwards: Tomás, Hollie

This is Kieran Purcell reporting.

Photos by Edwin Cahill.

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.

Action from today's game

Today we  started the school hurling league. The two teams playing  were Josh’s team and Edwin’s team. It was a real good game. At half time the score was level 1 goal each. In the end Josh’s team beat Edwin’s team 1-0 to 2-2. After the match Josh said “I thought Edwin was going to pull away at half time”. We are really looking foward to the rest of the games. Thanks for reading from all at Newmarket. This is Jody reporting.

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.

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.

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.