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Road Safety Poster Competition

Congratulations to our winners in the Road Safety Poster Competition which is run by An Garda Síochána in conjunction with Roscommon County Council. The winners from Ballagh NS are 1st – Katie Smith, 2nd – Aoife Corcoran, Joint 3rd – Anna Cox & Sophie Cox. All four girls will attend a prize ceremony in Roscommon […]

Rugby Blitz

Our Senior Room attended a Rugby Blitz in Creggs Rugby Club recently. As you can see, a great day was had by all!!

Scríobh Leabhar

Pupils from 1st to 6th class were given the opportunity recently to take part in a wonderful project designed to promote reading and writing in Irish among young children. Scríobh Leabher is an initiative which allows primary school children to write, design and bind their own book – as gaeilge. Each and every book designed […]

St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

Great fun today in Ballagh NS as we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. A festival of Irish music, dance and singing gave everyone a chance to share their wonderful talents. We wish everyone a very happy St. Patrick’s Day 💚

Engineers Week

We were very busy during Engineers week completing our projects. The task for pupils was to construct a 3D playground design using recyclable materials and as you can see from the photos, there are some fantastic engineers in the making. Pupils in the Junior Room also made windmills and St. Patrick’s Day Decorations.

Thank You

The staff and students of Ballagh NS would like to extend a big thank you to Oliver Walsh and the Westside Equestrian Club for their donation to our school following a recent hunt in the area. We would also like to thank John Lackey from John’s of Doughill for nominating Ballagh NS. We really appreciate […]

Green Flag Update

We are currently working on our application for our next Green Flag, “Global Citizenship-Litter and Waste”. Our Green Schools Committee is keeping a watchful eye on the targets in our Action Plan all the time and a lot of these targets are ongoing. The school is a hive of activity preparing for our virtual renewal […]