Category - Sports
Since returning to school in September 2020, we have been participating in the ‘Running Around Ireland’ initiative as part of the Active Schools process.
Similarly to the ‘Running Around Europe’ initiative that we completed back in 2018, the ‘Running around Ireland’ initiative involved the teachers choosing various landmarks around Ireland for their class to run to.
Every teacher was supplied with a list of different destinations and each would choose one for their class to run to, before recording each child’s number of laps. It was really encouraging for both the teachers and the children to see the number of laps completed, improving from day to day!
The children would run laps around the basketball court or football pitch, weather depending, all the while bearing in mind that 1 lap = 1 km!! Some of the students decided to run in pairs, as they did for previous running initiatives, in order to help them maintain their pace and to encourage one another to go that bit further every day.Some of the many destinations that we reached were:
Without a doubt, the ‘Running Around Ireland’ initiative has certainly been a great success among our students and is one which we will definitely be returning to at some stage again throughout the school year!
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