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 - Religion
The children in Ms Clare’s 4th and 5th class have been very busy working from home lately. One of the many projects and tasks that they have completed so far was a ‘Prayer Box Activity’ for Catholic Schools Week (CSW) 2021. CSW lasted from 24th – 31st January 2021 this year and seeing as the children were working from home for this month, they spent some really valuable time creating their boxes.
The boxes were covered with their favourite prayers, a tangible reminder of how God is always there for us, when we are sad, content or anxious. No matter what, we can always talk to God.
The children also included the names of the people who they would like to include in their prayers on their box, be it their grandparents, parents or perhaps someone who is sick in their family.
As you can see the children created wonderful and decorative boxes and will enjoy using them to pray over the coming weeks.
































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.