Category - Sports
Children began 2025 with a blast of activity as all classes took part in the Run Around Ireland initiative to begin term 2 to wipe the cobwebs off after our extended 3-week Christmas break!
The Active Schools Committee decided that it would be good to begin 2025 with a running initiative. The ever-popular Run Around Ireland was chosen. This initiative not only encourages the children to be active but also teaches them the location of important Irish landmarks. Who knows, some of them may even be creating a mental bucket list while running!
Locations reached by the classes included the Aviva Stadium, Hook Lighthouse, Killarney National Park, Glencar Waterfall in Leitrim, Armagh Observatory, Croagh Patrick in Mayo, Spike Island in Cork and Mondello Park in Kildare.
The younger classes incorporated some maths into their daily run by using cubes to count their laps. The senior classes used a click counter and counted their laps ‘as Gaeilge’!
As you can see from the pictures below, great fun was had. Bhí an-spraoi ann!
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