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Ballagh’s Young Scientists

In Ballagh School, we pride ourselves on our interest in the STEM subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This term our school will be collaborating with the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)  and National University of Ireland Galway in a Science programme in which they will be providing us with microscope activity kits. Our school children […]

Operation Transformation in Ballagh NS

Operation Transformation has devised Health and Fitness plans for Primary schools with the idea being to incorporate extra physical activity into the school day.  Once again, in Ballagh NS, we have decided to take on the Operation Transformation challenge.  During the week we will take part in a keep fit routine.  We are also going […]

Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons for all classes will commence on Monday, 27th February at 10am and will run for seven weeks.  Children will be placed in a class relevant to their ability and they will be tested at the end of the session and awarded a certificate.  It is a great chance for the children to learn valuable […]

Cash for Clobber Clothing Collection

A massive thank you to everybody who donated clothes to our recent Cash for Clobber Clothing Collection.  It was a fantastic success and it raised €390 for the school.  With this donation, we are now very hopeful that we will soon be able to purchase goalposts for our new astro turf pitch.

Christmas Wishes

We would like to thank everybody for their help and support throughout the year.  We wish you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas and all the best in 2017.  We return to school on Monday, 9th January 2017.

St. Vincent de Paul Collection

A big thank you to everybody who supported the annual St. Vincent de Paul Collection.  By donating these items, you are helping families and individuals enjoy a special Christmas meal.  The Strokestown branch of St. Vincent de Paul will distribute these food items to the many underprivileged children and families in the area, in the […]

The Magical Christmas Jigsaw

  Our concert last night was an outstanding success.  Everyone of the children were stars, performing their parts with confidence and enthusiasm.  The whole production was an extravaganza of music, drama and song which kept the full house entertained. The story of the Magical Christmas Jigsaw describes the magic that happens when five children (Katie, Lyndsey, […]

Beauty and the Beast

The Senior Room recently attended the Musical “Beauty and the Beast”, which was performed by the pupils of the Convent of Mercy Secondary School Roscommon.  This was a fantastic production and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Credit Union Art Success

A big congratulations to Jasmine and Lyndsey who were winners in the recent Credit Union Art Competition.  The standard of entries was very high and it was a wonderful achievement for both girls to receive prizes in this competition.  Jasmine came 2nd in the 8-10 year category and Lyndsey came 2nd in the 11-13 year […]

Aistear in our classroom

Ms.  Taylor and the Junior Room are extremely busy  exploring the theme of the building site  and ‘Houses and Homes’. We are very busy! We set up a building site in our home corner. We have a building site at the back of our  school at the minute while our fantastic Multi Use  Games Area […]