Maths Week 2025
The children in Ballyconnell NS had lots of fun during Maths Week 2025, which this year, took place from 13th – 17th October 2025!
Category - Science
In Science before Easter, Rang a Sé learned all about the bones of the body. Eshaal and Emma tell us all about what was a very interesting and active lesson.
Yesterday in class we learned about the bones in our bodies with Miss Bermingham.
First we did a quiz about how much we knew about the bones in our bodies.
After that we listened to a power point. We played ten questions about the bones for ten minutes.
Then in our pods, Miss Bermingham gave us an envelope with the body parts and we guessed the parts of it.
Afterwards, we corrected what we worked on. A few examples of the bones we learned were Radius (arms), Cranium (skull), Carpal (wrist), Thoracic cage (ribcage) and more.

Great teamwork from Grupa Glas.

An Grupa Gorm thinking about their next move!

An Grupa Dearg almost done!
The children in Ballyconnell NS had lots of fun during Maths Week 2025, which this year, took place from 13th – 17th October 2025!
On the 1st of October it was National Tree Day, Joanna Donnelly planted a tree at the front of the school with some of the members of our Parents Association.
Ballyconnell NS took part in GOAL Jersey Day for the 5th time. Sixth class led GOAL Jersey Day on Friday October 10th. We raised €375.75! Míle buíochas to everyone who contributed so generously.
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.