Category - Sports
‘Active Schools – Santa Dash’
December 2020
Monday 21st December marked our FIRST EVER ‘Active School’s Santa Dash’!!
All the children in every class were asked to wear red and white on the day, along with a Santa hat. Unfortunately, due to Covid-restrictions, the children didn’t perform the dash as an entire school, but they did however get the opportunity to run with their whole class outside on the basketball court instead. We even played some classic Christmas hits on our school speaker in order to really get the children excited for running in their red and white outfits. It was really quite the spectacle!!
See below some pictures of our various classes enjoying their first ever ‘Active Schools Santa Dash!’
Each child also received a very special ‘Santa Dash Completion Certificate’ to mark this very special occasion.
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