St Oliver Plunkett Primary School, Blackcastle Navan hosted the first round of this competition. Well done to both teams.

Thank you to Margaret Gannon for teaching the children from Senior Infants to 6th Class how to play the tin whistle during the 2024/25 school year.

Today 20th March the children enjoyed reading books in the beautiful sunshine to continue their enjoyment of reading.

Everyone dressed up as a character from their favourite book on Wednesday 19th March.

The whole school attended 10am Mass in Kiltale church and the children’s Grandparents joined us.

After mass everyone called into the school for refreshments and the Grandparents spoke to the children about their experiences in school.

On Monday 16th December the whole school attended the Beauty and the Beast Panto in the TLT in Drogheda. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the day.

Thank you to Jennifer O’Brien, Member Service Officer in Tara & District Credit Union

for presenting our three winners in the 7 Years and Under section.

Congratulations to our winners.

Friday 25th October 2024 all the children dressed up for Halloween – everyone looked brilliant

Well done to everyone one involved, it was a great success. Here are some of the comments from the students in the school:

Junior Infants – exciting, fun, funny, liked it, best thing in the whole world, loved it….

Senior Infants & 1st Class – exciting, fun, funny, 100% excellent, good, jolly, brilliant….

2nd & 3rd Class – good, funny, great, brilliant, excellent, fun, exhausting, hard, tiring….

4th & 5th Class – alright, decent, OMG amazing, exciting, unique, good, different, funny, great, brilliant…

6th Class – fun, amazing, slay, funny, great, enjoyable, extreme, brilliant….

Ross specialises in exploring nature, plant identification, creatures and species native to Ireland. He is passionate about instilling a curiosity and appreciation of nature through the biodiversity that connects and surrounds us.

Uniform awards for January 2024

Kindness awards for January 2024

Cross Country awards from November 2023

2nd & 3rd Class Sang “Count on Me”

Last Practice of our Peace Proms Choir.

Aidan Dockery is a specialist on the Heritage in Schools Panel, covering Irish history, heritage, culture, sport, music, literature, etc. Since 2014 and he has visited hundreds of schools in 16 different counties in Ireland.

From Monday 13th to Friday 17th November 2023 all classes took part in Friendship week.

Today we dressed up for Halloween – everyone looked brilliant

               ANNUAL ADMISSION NOTICE

in respect of admissions to the 2021/2022 school year

        Admission Policy and Application Form

A copy of the school’s Admission Policy and the Application Form for Admission for the 2021/22 School Year is available as follows: –

To download the application form click here

On request by emailing kiltalens@gmail.com or

Writing to the school office at the above address.

Application and Decision Dates for admission to 2021/22 school year

The following are the dates applicable for admission to Junior Infants

Note: the school will consider and issue decisions on late applications in accordance with the school’s admission policy. 

Each class had a fun day and they dressed up for the occasion.

Junior & Senior Infants

Video of Infants

1st & 2nd Class

Video of 1st & 2nd Class

3rd & 4th Class

Video of 3rd Class

Video of 4th Class

4th, 5th & 6th Class

Video of 4th Class

Video of 5th Class

Video of 6th Class

Today we held a Zoom Assembly where all families were invited to join.

Click here to see the presentation   

During the assembly we saw the entries for the following competitions:-

1. A piece of writing titled, ‘My Covid Lockdown Experience’, recounting your adventures, thoughts, feelings and reflections since the school closed.
2. A song and/or a dance on something about your world. You can record yourself playing the song or doing the dance on your own or remotely with other students.
3. ‘Junk Art Creature’ competition – We asked you to create a creature made from recycled or/and upcycled materials around the home, it could be imaginary or real, and we asked for a photo of the creature with its name and a brief biography e.g.: where it/he/she came from; what it eats; natural habitat; favourite activities; and common behaviours.

Everybody who took part is a winner and will be receiving a prize!

The Overall Winner is:- Caragh, Fiadh and Caitlin with ‘The Recylables Village’

The village has lots of families all living with the Corona Virus, teachers, shopkeepers, priests, and children. The girls had great fun making them and playing with them!

The whole school took part in this years Christmas Play Baboushka.

May 2019 Events

Everyone made a great effort with the costumes. Here are the winners for the best costumes.

Calendar handout 2018 -2019

Today was Marie’s last day with the school after 15 years service.

Congratulations to our team who took part in the event.

Here are our Medal winners –

• Long Jump Boys under 12 – 1st place James Kealy
• 100m Boys under 12 – 2nd  place Luke O’Halloran
• Long Jump Girls under 12 – 2nd place Emma Sheridan
• Boys Medley Relay – 2nd place Thade McCarthy, Conor Kealy, Siji Osisanya and Alan Martyn

Well done to everyone who took part.

Catch up with the school events for March

March 2018 Events