Quest Climate Action

Over the past number of weeks, the children in the senior room at Ballyglass NS have been so lucky to have the wonderful Jenny O Hare coming to tell us all about our environment and highlighting the ways people`s decisions can have a severe effect on the planet. We have learned all about plastics, fast fashion, climate change and the ways we can help to reduce our reliance on single use items and even a little bit of bug eating!! The children participated in interactive games and have shown a strong understanding and awareness of this very important issue. Well done everyone!!!

Science Week!!

What a busy Science Week 2025 was had by the children in the senior room at Ballyglass NS. A design and build project involving the different types of bridge designs across the world was a big task that resulted in many great constructions. Aerodynamics were also investigated in the creation of different paper aeroplane styles. The future will definitely see Ballyglass students designing bridges or else the planes flying over them!!! Great Work!!

Ukulele Returns!!

The wonderful Music Generation have returned to Ballyglass NS for this school year again and have picked up quickly from all the skills previously taught by our super teacher James. Francesco, our new musical supremo, has taken the baton from James and is pushing the ukulele skills to even higher heights. The children have been busy learning beat and melodies and rocking out some classics also!!

CPR and Defibrillator Training

The children in 4th, 5th and 6th were very lucky to receive first class CPR and defibrillator training and understand the potential situation where this life-saving device would need to be used. Parent Aoife Lynskey very kindly trained the children in what was a very important and expertly taught course. The children understood the importance of this knowledge and knowing the steps to take in the event of having to use it. Thank you Aoife for your superb training.

Maths Week Fun!!

Everybody in the senior classes at Ballyglass NS had a fantastic fun time during Maths Week 2025 participating in lots of initiatives. Problem-solving, online games and quizzes and maths trails were the order of the week. Well done to all the children in the class!!

Renewable Wind Energy

The children in 5th and 6th class have recently been busy investigating, designing and testing their wind turbines. By recycling old cardboard and plastics the children tested out their designs with a hairdrier ensuring the blades rotated and the tower maintained its stable position.

September 2024 in 4th/5th & 6th class

What a busy first month back at school for all the children in the senior room at Ballyglass NS. Our theme has had a strong STEAM basis which has seen the children complete a range of activities from mixing concrete, designing and building their own model houses, constructing towers out of spaghetti and tables from newspapers. The children have shown a keen interest in the design and imaginative phase of each project which will plant the seed for some future engineers in our community!! Great work everyone!!!

Class of 2024

21/06/2024

Graduation Cake!

5th and 6th Class History Cycle

Visit to Caher Cré

Visit to Ring Fort

All set for the road!

School Tour 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Classes

The pupils had a great day on their school tour where they visited West Lake Aqua Park in Killaloe, Co Clare. The pupils had super fun on all the water slides. After lunch the pupils visite dthe historical ring fort where it is believed Brian Boru once lived.

Art: Dioramas by 4th, 5th and 6th classes!

The pupils created dioramas using shoe boxes and recycled materials. They were extremely creative and resourceful in their designs. Well done to all the pupils.

Woodwork Class

Pupils from 6th class displaying their completed storage boxes today in woodwork on June 21st.

Well done to all of you for your attention to detail and patience.

Woodwork Class

Pupils from 6th class varnishing their gorgeous storage boxes today in woodwork class on May 17th

Student presentation

Well done to Dylan Mullen 5th class who made an excellent prestention on Autism.

17/05/2024

Well done to Kate, Caoífa, Honor and Amy on their project for the Community Games!

10/05/2024

Well done to Sarah, Tori and Aoife on their project for the Community Games!

10/05/2024

Woodwork Class

Pupils from 6th class assembling their impressive storage boxes today in woodwork class on May 10th

Sky Scraper Art!

08/05/2024

Woodwork Class

Pupils from 6th class sanding and measuring their stunning storage boxes today in woodwork class on March 21st

Easter

In Religion the pupils learned about the Passion of Christ and were very creative in making crosses from all types of materials; wood, tinfoil, beads, foam, stalks of plants, wool, cardboard and Lego

21/03/2024

Engineering Week

The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class participated in a number of events for Engineering week. They participated in a webinar from Galway Ocean exploreres in which they learned how engineering has been influnecd by sea animals and plants. They worked in pairs making, testing, demonstrating and demonstrating STEM kits. William Finnegan a lecturer in Civil Engineering and Energy System University Galway visited our classroom and spoke to the pupils on engineering jobs and research projects taking place in the university.

14/03/2024

United Nations

In Geography and History the pupils learned about the United Nation, it's importance and Ireland's participation since it joined in 1973. The pupils examined Peace keeping medals from the Lebannon and East Timor and got to wear the United Nations beret. The UN emblem is blue in colour because blue represents peace in opposition to red for war and the laurel leaves symbolise peace.

14/02/2024

Pointillism!

The pupils experimented with the painting technique 'Pointillism which is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image. The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the colour spots into a fuller range of tones.

Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886.

The pupils used this technique to create images of blossoming cherry trees.

09/02/2024

Art :

The pupils drew and coloured images of a Robin.

09/01/2024

Christmas Performance

On Thursday the 14th December the pupils performed in front of a jampacked classroom. They sang Christmas Carols, recited poetry, played ukuleles and tin whistles for the school community.

Christmas Carol Singers

In Art class the pupils the pupils created posters of Carol singers using coloured card.

Christmas Art

Art Strand: Fabric and Fibre

Pupils learned how to blanket stitch!

Woodwork Classes

Science Day

On Thursday the pupils took part in activities for Science week. They performed a number of Physics experiments; exploring the centre of gravity of the forces that are around us!

Book Week

The pupils had a super Book Week in which they daily visited the 'Book Fair, enjoyed DEAR time, wrote Character Profiles and Book Reports.

On Wednesday the author Natasha Mac a'Bhaird visited our school. She spoke to the pupils about all the children's novels she has written and her favourite a book on Irelands' International running star Sonia O'Sullivan.

As tradition every Friday of Book Week the pupils dress up as their favourite character and once again their costumes were amazing. Well done to all!

10/11/2023

Halloween Dress up day

Well done to all our pupils who dressed up on Friday. They all looked spooktacular!

27/10.2023

Halloween Art

Pupils drew scary skulls and coloured them using chalk and pastels!

EU Code Week

The pupils of 4th, 5th and 6th classes participated in EU Code week. The pupils created 2D Shapes using Scratch. They all successfully drew squares, rectangles, hexagons, octagons and circles!. They then were given a challege to draw the olympic flag. Well done to Caoimhe and Maria who were the first to complete the task.

October 2023

6th Class Woodwork Lesson 1 October 13th

Woodwork Club - Lesson 2

Our pupils from 6th Class made fantastic progress on their flower boxes again today. This project will run for six weeks in term 1.

The first two weeks involves the preparation of the pieces which is mostly sanding and sizing.

The second two weeks are the assembly stage which see the pupils lining up their timber, drilling holes and screwing them together.

The final two weeks is finishing the boxes which will see the students sand any rough edges, varnishing their creations and finally adding their names in decorative print to the side of each piece.

20/10/2023

Maith Sibh

Maths Week

Math's week took place between the 16th and 20 of October. Each day the pupils participated in extra Math's activities such as Target Board quizzes, Count Down, Daily Challenge and SCRATCH programming. The week was coordinated by Ms Tannion and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

6th Class Woodwork Lesson 1

Pupils from 6th class got the new Woodwork project off to a great start today. Following on from the success of the window boxes last year we decided to replicate that project again. More flower boxes it is.

Maith sibh to Maria, Kian, Jude, Amy, Ella & Daniel. Budding carpenters all!

13/10/2023

Pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th in Geography studied Antarctica

Developing their IT skills they made Power Point presentations

Well done to Caoimhe and Sophie who presented their project at Assembley!

Visit by Mr. Tom Doherty

Lovely visit by Mr. To Doherty, retired principal of Ballyglass NS today. Mr. Doherty chatted to the pupils of 3rd to 6th class on the History of our school, local place names and townlands in the parish of Ardrahan.

11/10/2023

Cave Art of Lascaux, France

The pupils created their own images of the cave art found in Lascaux, France using pastels and chalk

18/09/2023

History and Art

The pupils sketched pictures and colored them using charcoal of historical buildings in the parish of Ardrahan; Cregaclare House, Monksfield House, Castle Taylor, Mausoleum and Ardrahan Castle.

11/09/2023

4th, 5th and 6th Classes September 2022 - June 2023

Pop Art!

The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class studied the novel 'Hole' by Louis Sacher and integrated their English with Art and created some very colourful covers for the novel!

4th 5th and 6th June 2023 Spanish.mp4

Spanish Lessons

The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class thoroughly enjoyed the eight week Spanish program which was part of the 'Say Yes to Languages' a language sampler programme funded by the Department of Education.

Watch this great video they made show casing all the Spanish they learned!

Last Dance

The 6th class pupils had their last dance class with Louise Curran on Thursday. They will have great memories of all the Irish Dances they learned in Ballyglass.

25/05/2023

Day 1 Chicken hatched

21/05/2023

Day 2 Look how cute he is now!

22/05/2023

Geography - Make a Town!

Pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class participated in Make a Town Workshop in conjunction with the National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park. The pupils discussed what buildings you would find in a town and in groups created their own town.

10/03/2023

Maths Time - Length

Pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class practiced measuring length by making standing jumps and them measuring the distance they jumped.

St Valentine's Day Art!

Pupils made hearts using clay and then painted them.

St Brigid Crosses by 4th, 5th and 6th Classes

Maths Time - 3D Objects!

The pupils in 5th and 6th class explored 3D Objects by make models and dividing them into groups based on their properties. The made prisms and pyramids using cardboard and ice-pop sticks.

Grandparents Day

On Webnesday the 25th January 2023 pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th celebrated the day by writing Acrostic poems about their grandparents,, making them cards and visting or telephoning their grandparents that evening.

Winter Snow Flakes!

Polar Express

There was great excitement today when the 'Polar Express Train arrived in our classroom!

8/12/2022

6th Class Woodwork Lesson November 30th

The flower boxes are really starting to take shape now. The 6th class pupils have taken a lot of care to sand, measure, smooth, drill and screw the various pieces of timber into place. Each box is approx 2 feet long and would make a welcome addition to any windowsill in Ardrahan.

Maith sibh rang a sé

Art Class

During the month of Novemebr the pupils experiment with mixing primary and secondary colours and created lovely paintings!

6th Class Woodwork Lesson November 18th

The flower boxes are really beginning to take shape now.

They had pre-drilled the holes in the sides of their boxes. They screwed the side panels on today.

Aren't they a talented bunch in 6th class! We certainly think so.

Science Week

During Science weeks we investigated extracting DNA from bananas and finding the centre of gravity by balancing a cardboard clown. Sarah Ruane a PHD student from Teagasc, Athenry visited our classroom and talked to us about the life cycle of sheep, breeds of sheep and the effect of them them eating different types of plants on the environment.

Book Week

Greta fun was had during book week as pupils participated in a wide range of activities; DEAR Time, visits to Book Fair, Book quiz, Character quiz, dressed up as our favourite book characters, wrote Character profiles and Story Summaries.

Piet Mondrian art work by 4th 5th and 6th class pupils 09/11/2022

6th Class Woodwork Lesson October 21st

Ms Kelleher's 6th class working on their beautiful window boxes.

Today they were pre drilling holes in the side of the box base to prepare it for screws.

Mr Healy.

12/11/2022

Halloween Dress Up Day!

Well done to all our pupils who dressed up for Halloween.

We had a 'Spooktacular Day' in 4th, 5th and 6th class!

29/10/2022

Poster Projects on Eight Polluted Locations in the World.

Report Writing

The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th classes selected a famous person of their choice and wrote a report on them. They then presented their report using 'Microsoft Power point'.

26/10/2022

6th Class Woodwork Project 2022

The pupils from Ms. Kelleher's 6th class began their brand new woodwork project for 2022 on Sep 30th. They will work to design and create a beautiful window flower box.

The project is coordinated by Mr. Healy.

Ukulele lessons

Recommenced in Ballyglass

21/09/2022

Teacher James from Music Generation

Georgian Dublin!

In History the pupils learned about the Georgian period in Dublin and how the uses of these house have changed over the years, how their internal structure has changed but exterior preserved. The pupils recreated the houses in Art class.

16/09/2022

Homes in our Community

In Geography class the pupils examined homes in our area where people live now and in the past. The homes varied from Norman Castles, to Landlord mansions, to thatch cottages and modern homes. In Art class the pupils drew the different homes using charcoal. Here are some of the homes they drew!

09/09/2022

5th and 6th Classes September 2021 - June 2022

Graduation Class 2022

Best wishes to our 6th class of 2022. We had a lovely graduation ceremony on Wednesday the 22nd June 2022. The ceremony commenced with a prayer service led by Fr Roche, the pupils then read their favourite memories, watched a powerpoint on their time spent in Ballyglass, last bit of advice from Mrs Lynskey and Mrs Kelleher and finished with tea and cake!

Active school week

Super fun was had during active school week in 5th and 6th Class from 13th to 17th June 2022. The pupils participated in the following activities and sports during the week - yoga, orienteering, Gaelic football blitz, Cuman Na mBunscoil County Sports, Whole School Walk, Sports Day and School Tours.

Art Class

Over the past two weeks the pupils in 5th and 6th have been making diorama art of rooms of their choice. They were very creative in their designs, decorations and colour schemes!

03/06/2022

See How Our Garden Has Grown!

The 5th and 6th class pupils planted lettuce in window boxes and onions, potatoes and strawberries in a raised bed outside. They are growing nicely!

24/05/2022

School concert

11/05/2022

5th and 6th Singing 2022-05-11 at 1.21.27 PM.mp4

'You can Count on Me' by 5th and 6th

5th and 6th Dancing 2022-05-11 at 1.25.40 PM.mp4

Brush Dance by 5th and 6th.

Sacrament of Confirmation

Congratulations to our 6th class pupils who were Confirmed on Tuesday the 3rd of May by Bishop Brendan Kelly in St Teresa's church Labane.

Woodwork Class

6th class completed their Bird Boxes today. They spent several week measuring , cutting, sanding, gluing and screwing them together. They learned lots of new skills which they can hopefully put to good use in the future.

Don't they look great!

This project is coordinated by Mr. Healy

Vegetable Garden

We planted potatoes, strawberries and onions in our raised vegetable garden on Friday the 8th April 2022. The potatoes and strawberries had been growing in our class room for the past 4 weeks before we planted them outside.

Watch our Garden Grow!

We have planted lettuce seeds in trays, strawberry plants and potato seeds in our classroom. We have prepared a raised bed in our school garden and will fill with the plants from our classroom just before the Easter holidays.

31/03/2022

Spring Art

Pupils in 5th and 6th made daffodils from card and crepe paper.

31/03/2022

6th Class Woodwork Lesson 6

In this lesson the woodwork pupils screwed their, pre-glued, birdboxes together with 1.5 inch screws.

They put 4 screws in the front, top, bottom and sides of each birdbox using a power drill.

Haven't they done well so far!

This project is coordinated by Mr. Healy

Seachtain Na Gaeilge

Bhain na paistí í Rang 6 agus Rang 5 a lán taitneamh as 'Seachtain na Gaeilge'.

16/03/2022

Monday Engineering Week

Pupils made telephones using paper cups, string and paper clips. They really worked!

Tuesday Engineering Week

We made bridges and tested how many books they could hold. Gloria, Caylum and James won as their bridge held 60 books!

Wednesday Engineering Week

We learned how the combustion chamber in the engine of a car works. We all tested it without the fuel burning!

Friday Engineering Week

Aine Laffin a chemical engineer from Boston Scientific visited our school and demonstrated to us how 'stints' work in hearts. It was really interesting!

6th Class Woodwork Lesson 5

03/03/2022

In today's woodwork lesson the pupils began the assembly stage of their Birdbox project. They used wood glue to stick the various pieces of their birdbox together.

Aren't they taking shape nicely! Well done 6th Class!

This project is coordinated by Mr. Healy

Pancake Tuesday

Mrs Kelleher and Sinead Fordham cooked us pancakes in our class room. We had great fun and they were yummy!

01/03/2022

Spring Art

The pupils in 5th and 6th painted spring flowers including daffodils and tulips.

28/02/2022

6th Class Woodwork Lesson 3

Sanding the timber
Measuring the timber
Comparing the side pieces
Cutting the timber

Science Experiments

The pupils carried out a number of investigations on the effects of air pressure. The pupils made predictions, carried out experiments, recorded their results and made conclusions.

23/02/2022

Woodwork Class

6th class along with Mr Healy have started a new Woodwork programme where they will make a bird house over a 6 week period (13th January to 17th February 2022).

Debate Time!

The pupils in 5th and 6th class had a debating competition on the following titles;

'Climate change is due to the over production of food and industrialisation of the earth over the past 50 years by mankind.'

'Homework is an essential activity for the development and education of a child.'

12/02/2022

Stem Activites in 5th and 6th

The pupils in 5th and 6th class created robots using the LEGO Wedo sets and them programmed them to move, change colour and play music.

04/02/2022

St Brigid's Cross

On the 1st of February the feast of Saint Brigid the pupils from 5th and 6th class made St Brigid crosses from clay.

Family Names

In history we did a project on our surnames. We researched our surnames; where they originated, their coat of arms and our family tree. Finally we made posters of all our family information we collected and displayed them on our classroom wall.

Texaco Art Competition

During the last month we participated in the Texaco Children's Art compaction . We all drew a variety of different pictures and coloured them as well . We all spent a lot of time on them. They have turned out great and fingers crossed one of us might win!

WhatsApp Video 2022-01-27 at 13.26.48.mp4

Marathon Challenge

Over the last two months (42 days of school) 5th & 6th class pupils ran 14 laps of the court which is 1km each day. When we had our very 1st marathon completed our school principal Ms Loughrey-Lynskey presented us with lovely t-shirts, neck warmers and medals.

Link to Marathon video

'Ballyglass Robin' By Mai and Kerrie

In January we drew robins to honour our Ballyglass robin who visits us every day. The cheeky robin comes into the school every lunch time and even pretends to be the teacher by sitting on Mrs Kelleher`s chair.

20/12/2023

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