St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
Great fun today in Ballagh NS as we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. A festival of Irish music, dance and singing gave everyone a chance to share their wonderful talents. We wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick’s Day 💚
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Engineers Week
We were very busy during Engineers week completing our projects. The task for pupils was to construct a 3D playground design using recyclable materials and as you can see from the photos, there are some fantastic engineers in the making. Pupils in the Junior Room also made windmills and St. Patrick’s Day Decorations.
World Book Day
Take a look at all wonderful characters who visited Ballagh NS for World Book Day
Thank You
The staff and students of Ballagh NS would like to extend a big thank you to Oliver Walsh and the Westside Equestrian Club for their donation to our school following a recent hunt in the area. We would also like to thank John Lackey from John’s of Doughill for nominating Ballagh NS. We really appreciate […]
Green Flag Update
We are currently working on our application for our next Green Flag, “Global Citizenship-Litter and Waste”. Our Green Schools Committee is keeping a watchful eye on the targets in our Action Plan all the time and a lot of these targets are ongoing. The school is a hive of activity preparing for our virtual renewal […]
⚪🔴⚪🔴 Best Wishes to St. Faithleachs ⚪🔴⚪🔴
The Staff and pupils of Ballagh NS would like to wish St. Faithleachs the very best of luck in the All-Ireland Semi-Final on Saturday, 29th January. To mark their wonderful achievement of winning the Connacht Final, we have recorded a little anthem, called The Red and White of Faithleachs. The words of this anthem are […]
Christmas is coming
Christmas preparations are well underway here in Ballagh NS. Some wonderful artwork resulted in beautifuil festive decorations which will proudly adorn many homes this Christmas. The pupils entertained the staff and fellow pupils with a wonderful Christmas Variety show this week, performed at a social distance. A fundraiser to support the St. Vincent de Paul […]
Science Week
The theme of Science Week 2021 is “Creating our Future”. At Ballagh NS, some fantastic experiments were undertaken, with the pupils in the Senior Room creating Rocket Balloon Cars and carrying out a Water Chime Pitch experiement, while the Junior Room pupils made a Lava Lamp.
Aistear in the Junior Room
Aistear is the irish word for journey and our pupils certainly took some marvellous journeys recently as they visited “The Farm Shop” and “The Hospital”, through their role play in Aistear. They took part in active learning by using art, role play, construction and activities.