Posted in Home, Latest News on Jun 30th, 2016 No Comments »
We had our end of year awards yesterday. At Ballindangan N.S. we believe in promoting and recognising all aspects of our pupils’ achievements throughout the year. Our awards ranged from fabulous friend to maths magician. Well done to all!
Posted in Latest News on Jun 22nd, 2016 No Comments »
We have a champion in our midst. Darragh has become Park United Player Of The Year. We are not surprised here in Ballindangan N.S as he is very talented and dedicated to the sport. Well done Darragh. We are all very proud of you!! Maith thú!
Posted in Latest News on May 11th, 2016 No Comments »
Today we enjoyed a tennis lesson with coach Bryan Stewart. He started off showing us a few skills and then we were so good we progressed on to actual matches. We all had great fun!!
Posted in Latest News on Apr 29th, 2016 No Comments »
As part of tech week we decided to head into the porta cabin and dismantle an old PC to have a look at its components. A lot of elbow grease was required but everyone found it very interesting.
Posted in Latest News, Sow and Grow on Apr 29th, 2016 No Comments »
We have a big addition to our classroom in the form of worms. As part of our Sow and Grow experience, we have put together a wormery. The pupils helped put the compost, sand and gravel into the container. Then we went to search for worms down by the pitch. We learned a lot of […]
Posted in Latest News on Apr 29th, 2016 No Comments »
This week’s theme was based on ‘ The Hospital’. Pupils made name tags , plasticine patients, pretended to be doctor’s and patients, used water and various utensils to make medicine and even constructed a hospital from bricks. Even though there were some very serious injuries, everybody enjoyed this theme. Our future is in great hands!!
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Posted in Latest News, Sow and Grow on Apr 20th, 2016 No Comments »
Many hands make light work of Fruit & Veg in BNS for Sow & Grow.
Fruit & Veg Bookmarks for our little bookworms.
We had loads of fun chopping and tasting. It was great to incorporate this theme into our Aistear programme.
Posted in Latest News on Apr 13th, 2016 No Comments »
We are taking part in a competition called Sow & Grow. The competition is sponsored by Innocent Ireland and is operated in association with GIY Ireland. The project encourages children to grow their own vegetables to help them better understand where their food comes from.
By growing it themselves, children are much more likely to eat (and enjoy eating) fruit […]
Posted in Latest News on Apr 12th, 2016 No Comments »
After learning about different important figures of the 1916 rising, the children were asked to imagine themselves as one of these people and to write diary entries from their viewpoints describing the events of 1916 or its aftermath.
Have a look at their fantastic diary entries!
Adam’s Diary Entry
Alahanna’s Diary Entry
Darragh’s Diary Entry
Diarmuid’s Diary Entry
Jason’s Diary Entry
Rachel’s Diary […]