Category - Sports
Over the course of the last four weeks the children in every class completed the Dare to Believe’s Olympic Movement Breaks initiative, as part of the Active Schools programme.
The initiative consisted of a series of 20 short videos, led by Olympians and High-Performance athletes demonstrating fun exercises and activities that students of all abilities can do! The short videos helped generate classroom-based movement opportunities and covered a wide variety of different sports including athletics, boxing, rugby sevens, swimming, breakdancing and powerlifting, The teachers were also provided with a chart to help keep track and tick off as each video was completed.
The children seemed to really enjoy the movement breaks, with some children looking for more videos to complete even after the 4 weeks were complete.
It was a wonderful success for all classes as you can see from the photos below!
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