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 - Geography
Geography – Ireland
Over the past couple of weeks, the boys and girls in Ms. Clare’s 4th & 5th have been busy learning all about Ireland.
We have so far completed the Provinces, Counties, County Towns, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Mountain Peaks and Islands of Ireland!! Not only this but we have learned exactly where these are all located within Ireland and have completed class tests on them every fortnight!
In order to reinforce all of these areas, we completed a class Geography competition wherein each individual student was assigned a particular topic, i.e. rivers/lakes etc. and had to design a map of Ireland based on this particular topic.
Needless to say it was a very tough competition to judge!!
Take a look at how well they turned out!!






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.