On Friday December 19th, the last day of school term before the Christmas holidays, Ms. Clarke and Mrs. Earley organised a Christmas Jumper fundraiser in aid of the Ballinamore branch of Saint Vincent de Paul.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Mentors’ Christmas Quiz with 1st yrs
All twelve Mentors helped to organise and lead a Christmas Quiz for all our 1st yr students.
Working in their mentoring groups, each team competed together and engaged with all seven rounds. Some of the rounds included the areas of General Knowledge, Knowledge of the School, Sport, and Celebrities. There was even time for a Literacy & Numeracy round.
Well done to the Mentors and all the first years for making it so worthwhile.
3rd Prize: The Best & the Rest (Ciara’s Team)
2nd Prize: Banterlona 69ers (Julie’s Team)
1st Prize: Jingle Bell Rocks (Collette’s Team)
TY Mini Business
The TY Students, with their Business Teacher Mrs Moran, are busy setting up and running their Mini Companies.
One mini company Ballinamore Events Organisers comprising of Jarlath Scollan, Conor McGrath, Jamie Sweeney & Conor McKeon ran their first event on Tuesday, when they held a Badminton Tournament for 1st Years in the Sports Hall in School. It was a doubles tournament, and there were prizes for the winners and runners up in 1A, 1B & 1C. Pictured here are some of the participants and prizewinners on the day.
Three of our other mini companies exhibited at the Scout Christmas Fair in the new Scout Den on Sunday 14th December. They were:- The Mighty Holders with James Hamill, Sean Keegan, Damien Creaven & Adam Goldrick. Krafty Kards with Megan McManus & Aoife Curran. And Sweet Sensations with Hannah Banks, Niamh Toolan, Shaneen McGovern & Kate Reynolds. They are pictured here with some other exhibitors on the day.
T.Y Social Awareness Week 2014
For this year’s Social Awareness Week, T.Y students linked in with our local St. Vincent de Paul Conference for a Food Appeal.
They created a display around social awareness in the canteen area and throughout the week they invited T.Y, 5th and 6th yr students to donate at least one food item. All students that donated were entered in a raffle on Friday.
A large amount of food items were collected and given to help support local families.
Well done and thank you to everyone that supported this initiative
T.Y Social Awareness Week 2014
Hour of Code
Ballinamore CS students got involved this week in the ‘Hour of Code’. It is a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming.
Visit to Irish Aid Centre
On Monday 1st December, Transition Year students along with Ms Cooney and Ms Clarke visited the Irish Aid Centre in Dublin. The purpose of this workshop was to learn more about the work of Irish Aid. The visit is part of the Development Education module the group are participating in this year in school. Students learnt about the realities of life in a rural African community and about how Ireland is working with other countries to fight hunger and poverty in some of the poorest countries in the world.