We were delighted to hear recently that we were awarded our 9th Green Flag. Congratulations to Mrs Owens our Green Schools’ Coordinator, the Green Schools’ Committee and all the Staff who were hightly commended for all the hard work invested into obtaining this flag which is based on the theme “Global Citizenship – Litter and Waste”.
As our school year draws to a close, we prepare to say goodbye to our 10 students in 6th class and we wish them all the very best in their new schools. Sixth class and all the school staff are very appreciative of the hard work that the Parents Association have done for them throughout their time in Ballagh NS and also for all the resources they provided over their time in the school. We share this group photo of them proudly wearing their new school hoodies which was organised by the Parents Association.
We had a lot of success in recent Commuity Games Art and and Handwriting events at a local level and qualifications for the County Finals also. We are very proud of everyone who participated and qualifed which is a great achievement in itself. And we would especially like to congratulate Tristan and Sophie on their great success in the Community Games County Finals last weekend. We are very proud of you both!!
Congratulations to Ava, Ella, Aoife, Anna, Sophie, James, Emma, Rebecca, Jacob and Tristan who made their Confirmation recently
The Senior Room took part in a Basketball Blitz recently
Congratulations to our winners in the Road Safety Poster Competition which is run by An Garda Síochána in conjunction with Roscommon County Council. The winners from Ballagh NS are
1st – Katie Smith, 2nd – Aoife Corcoran, Joint 3rd – Anna Cox & Sophie Cox. All four girls will attend a prize ceremony in Roscommon Arts Centre to collect their prizes. Well done to all. The winning pictures are shown below and I’m sure you will agree, all four posters are excellent.
Pupils from 1st to 6th class were given the opportunity recently to take part in a wonderful project designed to promote reading and writing in Irish among young children. Scríobh Leabher is an initiative which allows primary school children to write, design and bind their own book – as gaeilge. Each and every book designed was wonderful but there could only be one winner from each class. Congratulations to everybody who took part and special congratulations to our winners – Tommy, Donal, AJ, Laoise, Phoebe and Anna. Winning entries are shown below and will appear on the Foras na Gaeilge website in due course.
