Category Archives: Chaplaincy

SVP Food Appeal and Carol Service

Thanks to Mr Kane, Fr Sean, Fr Moses, Mr Duignan, Mr Keeney and all our wonderful singers and musicians for the carol service today. A lovely end to a week of festive activities. 🎄🎅 The grinch even made a special appearance in school today.😉 💚
Sincere thank you to everyone who donated to our annual SVP – Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ireland Food Appeal which we presented to SVP rep Linda Halstead today. This will help provide a brighter Christmas for many families in our locality. Congratulations also to the 1st year GCE poster competition winners. The theme was Peace In Our World! Well done to 1A Markuss Gulbis 1B Favour Umukoro and 1C Emily McGirl.
🎄⭐️Wishing all our students and staff a restful and happy Christmas. 🎄⭐️

Ballinamore CS musicians and signgers perform carol service at Community Care Unit to

Students from BCS were out and about again today in the local community. Our TY’s and various musicians, singers and dancers from all years in the school visited Ballinamore Nursing Unit to perform some traditional song and dance as well as some christmas carols for the residents. Thanks to Fionnuala Maxwell and Brian Mostyn who performed with the TYs as a follow up to the workshop completed earlier this term on weaving traditional mummers masks from straw.

Stand Up Week November 2023

As part of STAND UP week today we celebrated rainbow day and wore bright colours into school. Mrs Parke, Aisling O’Brien and Ayooluwa Talabi won the prizes for most colourful and stickers and sweets were given to all who participated. As a school community we continually celebrate the inclusivity and diversity within our school community. Thanks to Ms Simpson for her organisation of the themed week.

Halloween fancy Dress

There was a great sense of fun around school on Friday as we had a fancy dress day to mark the start of our Halloween midterm break. We are delighted to announce that we raised another €437 for Ballinamore Youth Musical Society. Some fabulous costumes – well done! After a busy first term we hope students and staff enjoy the well earned break. Happy Halloween 🎃👻

New Student Council Elected

We wish our newly elected Student Council members a successful year ahead as they develop their leadership and teamwork skills by representing their fellow students.
📷Back Row-(L-R) Harry Prior, Blessed Ncube, Leah Guckian, Stella McGirl, Ella Adams, Sean McTeigue, Maria Navadze Front Row- (L-R) Eva McKenna, Megan McCauley, Ava Gaffney, Alannah Archbold & Ella-Grace Kinsella.

School Mass

Today we gathered as a community for our school’s opening mass. Thanks to Fr Sean for celebrating with us, to all the students who participated through readings, prayers, music & bringing gifts / symbols to the alter. Thanks to Mr Duignan, Mr Keeney and Ms Maxwell for the lovely music and to Mr Kane our school chaplain for organising and coordinating the mass service.