On Monday 2nd October Caoimhe Rudden (Schools Officer for the Irish Heart Foundation) visited the school. She gave a highly informative presentation to 5th and 6th year Home Economics students on the area of heart health and the importance of maintaining a healthy diet and exercise to promote good heart health. We held a fundraiser in school last year (in the last term) where we raised €270 and after the talk we presented the cheque to Caoimhe on behalf of Ballinamore CS.
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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.
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
