Category - Sports
One of the highlights of the athletics calendar each year is the Valleymount Cross Country which takes place in late-October. Here, we take a look back at last year’s meet.
Valleymount Cross Country 2019
Valleymount Cross Country 2019 took place on 17th October. As always, the competition was hosted by St Joseph’s NS, Valleymount. Schools from all over Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow descended on the picturesque village for a day of high-class athletics action. When we say picturesque, we mean picturesque – Poulaphouca lake provides a stunning backdrop to the course!
As per competition rules, we sent four boys and four girls from each of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class. On what is a very difficult course, medals evaded us on the day but everyone enjoyed testing themselves in such a high-class field.
Hopefully, all going well, we, and all the other schools, will be able to return to Valleymount at some stage in 2021!
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