As part of a very successful fundraiser for St Vincent de Paul, students wore Christmas jumpers to school. Prizes were awarded for the most impressive offerings and Austin Quinn was presented with the funds raised. Student council member, Kate Reynolds…
Healthy Living Week 2016 from Robert O’Reilly on Vimeo. Healthy Living Week is a themed event that staff and students look forward to every year. This year a variety of events ran throughout the week to promote the area of…
On Tuesday 3rd March we held our Green Schools Action Day as part of our work on achieving our fourth Green Flag for the theme of TRAVEL. There were a variety of activities on the day to promote greater awareness…
As part of the Development Education (DE) module being carried out in school the Transition Year group participated in a workshop on World Hunger which was facilitated by Claire O Carroll from Concern. Some shocking facts learnt – 1 in…
Fair-trade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between some of the most disadvantaged farmers and workers in the developing world and the people who buy their products. Fair-trade offers us a powerful way…
On Friday 26th September Maire Dufficy a food advisor with Bord Bia visited the school to give a cookery demonstration to Transition Year students, students studying Home Economics for Senior Cycle and the student council reps. Maire began the demo…
The new student council of Ballinamore Community School was elected last week following a process of nomination and voting. Pictured below is the new council following their first meeting with their teacher Ms. Clarke.
Alive to Thrive – On Tuesday 13th of November, a number of students together with Mrs. Earley and Ms. Clarke attended a conference on ‘Youth Mental Health.’ This programme was held in Sligo and included a variety of speakers and…
To showcase the wonderful produce grown by the Agricultural Science class, the Home Economics classes used the various vegetables grown in the school garden by making a big pot of vegetable soup, lots of delicious potato wedges and with the…
Well done to all students that were involved in the floral pride this year. Students planted window boxes at St. Felims, plants at Fatima and carried out great gardening at the school garden located at the Vocational school.
