Category - Art
2nd Class had great fun creating pinch pot space aliens using clay!
After making a pinch pot, the children turned them on their side, squished the mouth down a little and then added lots of cool facial features to their space aliens! To add the eyes, teeth, tongue and tail the children used the technique of scoring. They scratched small notches into the clay using a sharp tool and then attached the features they wanted to add to their aliens.
They then painted their space aliens when they were dry.
Aren’t our clay space aliens ‘out of this world’? Take a look to see they turned out!
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