Newsletter Saturday 27th January

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Thanks SO much to Ms. Donnelly who applied to The Children's Books Ireland 2024 Book Gifting Programme on behalf of the students in our school, telling the competition committee what avid readers we are. And guess what.... we won! For more information on the amazing prize we won CLICK HERE.

New Science Equipment:

We took delivery of some new science equipment purchased with some of the funds raised by the PA before Christmas. Many thanks for your fundraising efforts and support. CLICK HERE FOR A PIC AND MORE INFO.

PA Annual Bake Sale:

It's time for the fantastic Annual Bake Sale run by the Parents' Association on Sunday 4th February between 10am and 1pm. Your help and support would be greatly appreciated. Home bakes can be left into the community centre either the evening before at 7pm or the morning of, from 9am. Also if the January detox has rendered boxes of chocolates and biscuits useless, the PA will happily repurpose on the day. You can leave these into the school any time before the Bake Sale. For a specific post with a nice poster to share with friends/family PLEASE CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE PA PAGE.

Open Day:

Please, please spread the word that we are looking for enrolments for our September 2024 Junior Infant class. Details on enrolment can be found on our ENROLMENT PAGE HERE. We are also having an Open Day on Thursday 8th February, between 6 and 7pm. We are inviting all parents and children, not just prospective ones, to come and take a look around our school so please try and come along. More info to follow next week.  

Green School Campaign on Ocean FM:

Our campaign to reduce speed in the village is getting publicity with this interview.  Clr Darragh Mulvey talks about the dangers and the results of our Speed Test Survey. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. Ocean FM are so interested in this big scoop that they are visiting the school to interview the students on Thursday 1st February!

Cash for clobber

We had a great influx of donations to our Clothes Recycling Fundraiser this week so please keep it coming! Don’t worry if you need to use normal bin bags. Open to the whole community so please CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO SHARE. The more unwanted clothes the more money that will be raised for our school.

OTHER NEWS AND PICS:

FUN IN THE SNOW LAST WEDNESDAY CLICK HERE

Back to Assembly CLICK HERE

Fun in Ms. Hardings Room CLICK HERE

What a week in Ms. Shannon/Donnelly’s Room CLICK HERE

Titanic Stop Motion Videos by 5th and 6th CLICK HERE NB: More to follow

As always more news at https://www.ballinacarrowns.ie/news/

Thanks for reading and have a mighty weekend,

Aodán Brennan,
School Principal.