Fifth class are continuing their cycling safety classes on Tuesdays.
The classes are part of the Green School Travel Flag application and is supported by An Taisce.
Category: Active School
Bon Secours Hospital Run For Fun
Registrations are now open for the 2020 Bon Secours Hospital Run for Run.
The event takes place on Saturday May 2nd. In recent years we have had some superb numbers participating in this event with almost 50 pupils taking part last year. Each entrant will receive a tshirt and finishers medal. Places in each wave are limited to 1000 entries.
The school receives €5 from every entry so any support would be greatly appreciated.
Herbertstown NS shortlisted for national Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol Awards
Herbertstown NS has made the final shortlist in two categories for the upcoming Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol Awards.
Herbertstown NS is shortlisted in Category 4, Promotion of Gaelic Games and Culture and category 6, Small School of the Year.
The entry in category 4 was in the form of a video and the category 6 entry was in book format.
Well done to all the pupils and staff in the school for all their hard work on the projects and their continuing support of Gaelic Games. The winners will be announced at a banquet in Thurles on Friday March 6th.
Some pages from the book can be viewed below.
The video entry can be viewed here:
Indoor Hurling
Our boys team travelled to Martinstown today to participate in the South Indoor Hurling blitz.
The boys lost to a strong Hospital NS side in the opening game but followed this with a draw against Bruree NS and wins against Ballylanders NS and Athlacca NS. Well done boys.
Attention now turns to the camogie which takes place next Tuesday.
Basketball
On Wednesday the 4th December the girls in 6th Class left for Kilmallock school to play basketball. When we arrived we got on our bibs and then went and played against Mitchelstown. We won that game by 1 basket. After that we went and played Hospital. We won that match by 8 baskets. In the end we won all our matches, we really enjoyed our day.
By Jamie & Méabh
Herbertstown NS pupils take part in South Handball Blitz
6 Herbertstown N.S. players competed in the South Limerick Schools Handball blitz in John the Baptist C.S. on Monday.
Over 40 players in total were present at the event and there were some excellent games played on the ‘One Wall’ courts in Hospital.
We had 2 pupils taking part for the first time, 1 playing in his second blitz for the school and 3 players playing in their third blitz.
2 Herbertstown N.S. pupils met in the U13 B decider and provided a top class game for those who were watching on. Another one of our boys finished runner up in the U11 A competiton.
Well done to all our pupils who once again represented our school with distinction.
Larkin Shield
Hard luck to Aoibhinn who was part of the South Limerick football team which lost out to Limerick City in the semi-final of the Larkin Shield.
South Limerick in Action
Herbertstown NS pupils representing South Limerick this week.
Well done to Riain who played on the South Limerick team who lost the Sarsfield Cup semi-final yesterday in Rathkeale.
Best of luck to Aoibhinn who will line out for the girls on Thursday.
Munster Minor Hurling Cup in Herbertstown
Limerick Minor goalkeeper Jack Franklin was a guest of the school today and he brought the Munster Minor hurling cup to our after-school training.
Jack, who is currently the goalkeeper for John the Baptist’s Harty Cup team, gave some great tips to the children about the importance of practising the skills of the game at home.
The cup has been awarded to the Munster Minor hurling champions since the 1940s and one victory of note was that of the 1958 Limerick team who featured Herbertstown man JJ Bresnihan in the full line. Who knows, perhaps in a few years time one of the pupils present to meet Jack today might be picking up the cup themselves.
South Football Finals
Herbertstown NS clinch Roinn B Girls title for the first time but fall just short in Roinn A Boys football decider.
The South Limerick Cumann na mBunscol football finals (sponsored by Allianz) took place today in Martinstown and both our boys and girls were in action.
Boys Roinn A Final
The boys were first up in a very close contest with Croom NS. Croom got the better of the early stages and were a few points ahead until a point from Callum and a goal from Christian brought us level at the break.
A Croom point was quickly cancelled out by Riain for the boys in maroon on the resumption of play and heading towards the last few minutes a great point by our inside forward Callum seemed to have Herbertstown headed towards a victory. In the final moments however a Croom move along the endline finished with a goal and that pushed them 2 points in front.
Despite the best efforts of our boys to produce a reply we just ran out of time with Croom NS winning on a scoreline of Croom NS 1.05 Herbertstown NS 1.03.
Girls Roinn B Final
In the second game the Herbertstown girls took on neighbours Hospital NS. The initial stages of this game were keenly contested before a point from Ciara and a goal from Aoibhinn settled the Herbertstown team. 2 more goals from Aoibhinn sent Herbertstown into the break with a commanding lead.
The second half saw Herbertstown continue to press for scores with Aoibhinn, Ciara and Lucy getting on the scoresheet. Despite some excellent play from the Hospital team the Herbertstown girls in defence were able to hold out and the final score was Herbertstown NS 6.05 Hospital NS 0.00
