Saturday, September 20, 2008

Cycling Champs



It was a fresh Friday morning in the month of September.The 4 lucky 6th class students were looking forward to missing tests and a day off school.They were
heading for Tuam to compete in the Galway County Council cycling compitition.We were invited to compete after some of the students of Peterswell completed a safer cycling course held in the school.We were competing against 5 other teams from Galway.When we arrived they provided us,with bikes.There were 4 on a team which meant there were 24 of us altogether.We began with an individual competition which was weaving in and out between cones. Amy, one of the 6th class pupils here in Peterswell came 1st out of all the girls.When it came to the team competition, our team came 3rd in the heat!
At the hotel we were presented with "BEST MIXED TEAM" and Amy got a trophy for fastest girl and not far behind her was Chloe in 2nd place in the girls.Our team was Amy Caulfield,Chloe Caswell,Sinead Hegarty and John Massey.We would like to thank our mentor Allan Massey and our mascot Abbey Massey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, September 8, 2008

Super Session for Peterswell Hurlers


Congratulations to us all in St Thomas National School, Peterswell who were announced as the overall winners of Supermac’s training session with Ger Loughnane.
Supermac’s, in association with the Galway Senior Hurling Team and Cooper, launched an in-store competition last June for all young budding GAA teams. The prize was an intensive training session with Ger Loughnane and a selection of the Galway Hurlers plus €1000 worth of Cooper training equipment.



For John Massey,a 5th Class pupil of St Thomas NS and his class mates, their GAA dreams came true, when they were announced as the overall winners last week. Team member, John Massey wrote the winning entry, stating that “I never leave my hurl down and my dream is to one day wear the maroon and white jersey”. Mrs. Kathleen Forde, teacher and trainer at St Thomas National School could hardly contain the team's excitement before the training session, which she believes is the highlight of their summer holidays.

Ger Loughnane and a selection of the Galway Hurlers gave an intense training session explaining different techniques which finished with a friendly match (1:1). They also had the opportunity to watch the Galway Hurlers train for their forthcoming matches.
There was a phenomenal amount of entries to win this once in a lifetime opportunity and John's Class mates would like to thank him for their very enjoyable Day.