Category - Sports
SKIPnROPE Workshop
December 2019
On the 6th December 2019, Mark McCabe from Skip ‘n’ Rope visited our school to run a skipping workshop! Classes got the opportunity to learn some new ways to skip! We had a great day and even had a demonstration for the whole school at the end of the day! We learned some great new moves such as ‘The Arm Wrap’, ‘The Forward Skip’, The Backward Skip’, ‘The X-skip’, ‘The Criss Cross’ and ‘The Butterfly’ to name just a few! We will get practising these moves now in preparation for our ‘Climbing the Heights’ skipping challenge in January/February! Thanks to Mark from Skip ‘n’ Rope for the great workshop! Here is the link to the website for any further information: http://skipnrope.com/
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