Best Secondary School in Ireland Award for Ballinamore CS in National Green Schools Ceremony, May 2022 On the 19th May, 2022 Ballinamore CS were once again crowned as Best Secondary School in Ireland for their successful completion of their…
Lots of celebrations for Seachtain na Gaeilge in school this week as the Irish Department organised events in classes from bingo as gaelige, céili agus craic. Adding to the great atmosphere Louis Smith sang the Irish Rover and Eoin Reynolds…
Well done to TY students Madison Conway & Aisling O Brien on their entry for this year’s Junk Kouture competition. Their creation ‘Soar with Seshat’ (Soar represents the wings in their design and Seshat was the Egyptian Goddess of Books)…
Thank you to Hugh Bergin from Self Help Africa who gave two informative workshops to the TY students as part of their GCE. Students learned more about what the Sustainable Development Goals are, more about gender equality and also the…
Sincere thank you to everyone who helped with the recent clothes collection as part of our Green-Schools action around diverting fabrics going to landfill. Thanks to BAM and staff for the use of their facilities, school management and all staff…
In our efforts to reduce fast fashion in school, 1st year Home Economics students upcycled old jumpers from home into Christmas themed ones. Well done to all students on their creativity and sustainable efforts in making them.
As an action project, students from the social justice club participated in two lunchtime webinars with Amnesty Ireland where they learned more about the Write for Rights campaign that happens each year. From these webinars students learned more in-depth information…
As part of our GCE and Green Schools work in school Mr Mullen’s 3rd year Geography class learned more about the importance for supporting Fairtrade Farmers and Producers. They carried out some investigative work around cost comparisons on a variety…
At Ballinamore CS, we light a candle in memory of teh 27 people who needlessly died in the English Channel last month. These people were seeking refuge and had no safe route. Solidarity knows no borders.
We are delighted to have received our @WorldWise_Irl global passport award which recognises our continued efforts in raising awareness & creating action around global citizenship & social justice issues
