National Walking Day Sliabh An Iarainn Hike
TYs celebrated National Walking Day and experienced some of Leitrims treasures on Monday morning by hiking up Sliabh an Iarainn to the Mass Rock and visiting the beautiful Pól an Eas waterfall.
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Love Your Wellies Prize Presentation
Congratulations to Aisling O Brien who was the overall winner in the Senior Category of Farm PEAT Project ‘Love your Wellies’ Art Competition. This competition was carried out in Ms Colums class. Aisling’s piece ‘Buried in the Past’ portrays the…
Diabetes Ireland TY talk
This week we were delighted to welcome back past student Grainne Griffin to BCS. Grainne gave a really informative presentation to the TY class on Living with Type 1 Diabetes. Grainne has organised a fundraiser in aid Diabetes Ireland and…
Ty trip to Ploughing Championships
Ms Colum’s TY Science class had a great trip to the ploughing Championships. Lots of sites to see and people to meet. A great day, despite the long journey!
New Student Council Elected
Congratulations to the newly lected members of the student council for 2022 Wishing them all the best in what promises to be an eventful year in Ballinamore CS Student Council 2022/2023 Ross Donohoe Eva McKenna Liam Meehan, Brian Halstead Eadaoin…
Biodiversity Workshops
Ms Colum’s Ty, 5th Year Agricultural Science and 1st Year Science classes had a very informative visit to the community Garden recently. The group learned about how food is grown at the site in polytunnels and also learned about the…
Maximum Points in Leaving Cert for Síomha and Bernard
We would like to congratulate all our leaving cert students on their excellent results and wish them well in their future career paths. We wish to acknowledge both Siomha and Bernard who achieved maximum points this year.
Green Schools Flag Raising
We were delighted to raise our 7th Green Schools Flag here at BCS Students, staff and members of our community gathered outside for our flag raising ceremony. We also celebrated our achievement on being the National Winners for the Global…
TY Bonding Trip
TY’s had their Bonding Trip today at Shannon River Adventure Students enjoyed archery, rock climbing, mud sliding, kayaking, pier jumping as well as a number of team games. A great start to what promises to be an action packed TY…
Best Wishes to Mary on her Retirement
One last day behind the front desk Today marked a momentous day here at Ballinamore Community School as we say farewell to our wonderful colleague and school clerical officer Mary Duignan as she embarks on her next adventure…Retirement! We would…