Category - Sports
Keeping active at home!
This year, because of Covid-19 it was not possible for Active Schools Week to go ahead in school, so instead, we invited the families of our school to participate in the ‘Active HOME Week’ challenge. This took place on 26th April – 1st May. The idea of the #ActiveHomeWeek challenge was to:
We provided Active Home Week ideas for the parents alongside Active Home Week Challenge Charts for the students to fill in. Children were encouraged to try something NEW, have FUN with a family activity and to ENJOY the week! Thankfully the weather remained fine for the week! Here are an array of photos that were sent into us from different classes in the school as well as a sample challenge chart!
4 th class have spent the year in St Mary’s Hall. They thought it a good idea to find out a little bit more about this important building in our parish and to share what they learned with their school mates.
Our Spelling Bee Champion, Sara O’Grady, recently took part in the Carlow County Final of the Eason Spelling Bee. Read her account below.
We were delighted to welcome our former student, Rosealice Byrne, back to Ballyconnell NS last week to regale our 4 th , 5 th and 6 th class students with details of her recent trip to The Gambia in West Africa.
Cathal and Peter tell us all about their day at the Credit Union All-Ireland Final, Ballyconnell NS’s first appearance at the finals since 2001.
Rang a 4 recently did some planting with Ms Ryan. Sarah tells us more!
Rang a 5 student and team member Florrie Cosgrove regales us with the nerves and excitement of Ballyconnell NS’s recent Credit Union Quiz triumph