A big thank you to everybody who supported the annual St. Vincent de Paul Collection. By donating these items, you are helping families and individuals enjoy a special Christmas meal. The Strokestown branch of St. Vincent de Paul will distribute these food items to the many underprivileged children and families in the area, in the […]
Our concert last night was an outstanding success. Everyone of the children were stars, performing their parts with confidence and enthusiasm. The whole production was an extravaganza of music, drama and song which kept the full house entertained. The story of the Magical Christmas Jigsaw describes the magic that happens when five children (Katie, Lyndsey, […]
The Senior Room recently attended the Musical “Beauty and the Beast”, which was performed by the pupils of the Convent of Mercy Secondary School Roscommon. This was a fantastic production and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
A big congratulations to Jasmine and Lyndsey who were winners in the recent Credit Union Art Competition. The standard of entries was very high and it was a wonderful achievement for both girls to receive prizes in this competition. Jasmine came 2nd in the 8-10 year category and Lyndsey came 2nd in the 11-13 year […]
Ms. Taylor and the Junior Room are extremely busy exploring the theme of the building site and ‘Houses and Homes’. We are very busy! We set up a building site in our home corner. We have a building site at the back of our school at the minute while our fantastic Multi Use Games Area […]
Thank you so much to our wonderfully committed and hardworking Parents Association who recently held a very successful Quiz night in Rattigans. They are always so busy fundraising for great things to benefit our school. Thank you to our local community who are so generous also.
We recently held a Science Fair in our school. Thanks to Ms. Taylor for all her hard work in preparing the experiments. We did lots of Physics and Chemistry experiments. As you can see, we had a great fun trying out these experiments. We love STEM subjects in Ballagh NS.
Thank you to all the parents and children for taking the time and making the effort to fill a shoebox for the Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal. A large collection of shoeboxes were collected from our school this week and will make some little girls and boys very happy this Christmas. Well done everyone!
We participated in Maths games, Maths stations and a Maths Trail in our locality. We enjoyed collecting real life data – we carried out a traffic survey and calculated our average distance and time. We integrated the Measures Strand into our Maths Trail. We used lots of Maths language during the week in homework activities. […]
What is the Food Dudes Programme Food Dudes is a programme developed by the University of Wales, Bangor, to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables both in school and at home. It is based on positive role models (the Food Dudes characters), repeated tasting and rewards. It is ultimately designed to enable children […]