Pupils: Aaron Keane, Evanne Hynes, Jonathan Barry, Sophie Whiriskey, Hannah O'Neill and Aoife Creavan
Links: Active School Flag: http://www.activeschoolflag.ie/
Get Ireland Active: www.getirelandactive.ie
Our Active School Motto
By Kerrie and James
'If you sit down everyday
You will tire in everyway
But if you hop, skip, jump and run
You will find out that it is fun!'
Ballyglass NS was awarded it's second Active School Flag in June 2022. Our school was also selected as an exemplary school for our Creative Walkway which will be showcased nationally in September 2022. The school was presented with an outdoor speaker from Active School Ireland for our achievements. Well done to all involved; Mrs Kelleher coordinator, Mr Monaghan and pupil committee of Mai O'Sullivan, Cathal Morris, Ciara O'Neill, Kyle Linnane, Hannah O'Neill and Iarla Keane.
September: Cross Country, Cycle to School Day
October: Rugby Blitz, Hurling, Camogie and Gaelic Football 7-aside competition
November: Marathon Challenge, Irish Dancing for the Junior classes
December: Christmas Fun Run and Marathon Challenge
January: Swimming, and Lunch time training.
February: Swimming, lunch time training, Soccer tournament
March: Soccer tournament Basketball Tournament and Irish dancing for the classes.
April: Basketball Tournament and Irish dancing for the classes. Active School Yard Leaders Games and Irish Dancing. Cycle Right training.
Active School Week
May: Hurling/Camogie, Gaelic Football Tournaments and promotion of cycling to school; COW Day (Cycle on Wednesday)
June: School Walk, Sports Day and Athletics (County Sports).
Ballyglass NS Active School - Youth Academy University of Galway
Jonathan Barry and Kyle Whiriskey recently participated in the Youth Academy initiatives in University of Galway. These two bright brains show their skills everyday in the classroom in Ballyglass so it was no surprise to us all how well they have done with the Youth Academy. Fantastic achievement!!
Ballyglass NS Active School - Irish Dancing
Joshua Barry, Caoimhe Stankard and Cora Lynskey recently collected a bank of medals at the Gavin Dance Academy Feis. They are proudly showing off their awards at school. Well done to you all!!!
Ballyglass NS Active School - Dressage
Congratulations to 5th Class pupil Honor Mannion who recently competed in the All-Ireland Dressage Competition. She finished an excellent 8th place overall. A huge achievement. Well done Honor!!
Super fun was had on our Sports Day on Tuesday the 18th June.
The pupils first went on their Annual 6km walk. On return to the school they were treated to an icecream cone. Then after a short break the pupils participated in long jump, wellington throwing, sprints, sack, spud and spoon, and wheelbarrow races. To finish off the pupils played three team events - 'Head to Toe', 'Basket Ball Pass' and 'Water Relay'. This years winning team was the 'Pink's'! A great day was had by all.
Well done to the boys and girls that played in the Gard 7s Hurling competition on in Gort on Tuesday the 28th of May.
28/05/2024
Active School Week!
The pupils of Ballyglass took part in the 'Active School Week' from 29th April to 3rd May. During the week the participated in a whole range of activities; Zumba, tennis, hurling, camogie, turbo javelin, hurdles, cycling, Irish dancing, basketball and online classes.
On Wednesday morning all the pupils walked to school and enjoyed a 'Walk and Talk' wellbeing event. On Friday morning the pupils braved the weather and cycled to school. Also on Friday we finished the week with our annual Basket ball tournament final.
Every lunch time our 'Play Ground Leaders' did great work teaching the younger pupils new skills in tennis, turbo javelin and hurdling.
A super week was had by all!
03/05/2024
03/05/2024
Active School Week Timetable 29th April to 3rd May 2024
Timetable Active week 2024.docx
Congratulations to all our super athletes who competed for their respective athletics clubs at the recent Galway County Track and Field Finals and who competed in the Ardrahan Athletics competition. Best of luck to those that have qualified for the County Final!
Cycle Right training commnced on the 15th April 2024. The pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th classes will participate in the training over the next four weeks.
Well done to the girls and boys who participated in the FAI 5 aside soccer competition in Kiltullagh on the 20th and 21st of March.
21/03/2024
Marathon Challenge
Congratulations to the pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th class who completed a marathon on Friday 22nd December by running 1km each day. The school ran the program in conjunction with 'Marathon Kids Ireland' and 'Galway Sports Partnership' and was supervised by Mrs Kelleher.
The pupils ran 1km per day for the past ten weeks, weather permitting. On completion they were each awarded a medal and t-shirt by Principal Mrs Lynskey. Well done to all the pupils!
22/12/2023
As part of Christmas Jumper Day and Wellbeing program pupils participated in fun cooperative games. The pictures speak for themselves!
08/12/2023
Well done to ours boys and girls who competed in the Gard 7s Football competion in Gort . The team made to the Division C semi-final and lost only by 2 points against North Hampton NS in a very closely contested match.
18/10/2023
Well done to all our pupils who competed in the Galway and Connacht club cross country competition in Galway and Westport, Co Mayo.
Super running by our 3rd and 4th class girls who competed today in the Co Galway Cross Country Final. Thanks to the parents who provided lifts.
Well done to all the girls we are very proud of you!
03/10/2023
Fantastic success at the World Cup Rugby Festival!
Well done to the Ballyglass NS Girls and Boys Rugby teams who had great success today at the Gort Rugby Blitz; the girls team won three matches and the boys team won two matches. Ballyglass togged as as the Italian team for the event!
Thanks to Mrs. Kelleher, Aisling Hefferenan and Sinead Fordham who accompanied the pupils and to the parents who provided lifts.
Well done to #gortrugby and #gortcommunityschool for organising the event. A super day was had by all!
03/10/2023
25/09/2023
Well done to all our pupils and parents who cycled to school on Friday 8th September 2023
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We celebrated Active school Week from 19th to 24th June. Pupils took part in the following activities - Orienteering, cycling, tennis, 5km walk, Sports day, soccer tournament and yoga. The week was co-ordinated by Mrs Kelleher
Well done to our 18 pupils that participated in the County Sports on the 8th of June in Dangan. Congrats to Adele Casserly who made the U13 girls 800m final and to Kate Whiriskey who made the U11 girls 400m final. Also the U13 girls relay team ran superbly with excellent hand overs of the baton to finish 3rd out of 8 teams, narrowly missing out in a place in the final.
The athletes were coached every Wednesday by Mrs Kelleher throughout the school year.
Well done to our hurling team who participated in the Garda 7s hurling blitz today. They competed very well in all of their matches and had a very enjoyable day.
19/05/2023
Well done to our girls who played in the Cuman Na mBunscoil Gaelic Football competition in Beagh on the 26th April 2023.
Well done over 62 pupils who cycled to school on Wednesday 19th April as part of our Well being Wednesday!
19/04/2023
The pupils from 3rd to 6th class played their annual Basketball tournament over the last three weeks. There were very exciting semi-finals played today, both ending in penalty shoot outs!
Team 5 and Team 6 in the final were captained by Caylum Linnane and Breen Gilmore respectively. Team 5 won in a very close contested game. The medals were presented by Mrs Lynskey, Principal and the event was organised by Mrs Kelleher. The players of the tournament were Caylum Linnane and Kerrie O'Neill.
31/03/2023
Congratulations to the pupils in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class who completed a marathon on Friday 3rd March by running 1km each day. The school ran the program in conjunction with 'Marathon Kids Ireland' and 'Galway Sports Partnership' and was supervised by Mrs Kelleher.
The pupils ran 1km per day for the past nine weeks. On completion they were each awarded a medal and t-shirt. Well done to all the pupils!
03/03/2023
Chess Tournament
This week Mr. Healy brought a Chess team to The Holy Family Senior School in Ennis to take part in the Masters category for 5th and 6th Class. There was 8 on our team and they played 6 rounds each.
Well done to Kerrie O'Neill, Breen Gilmore and James Horrigna from 6th Class and Caoimhe Mortimer, Ciara O' Neill, Maria O'Neill, Jude Whiriskey and Luke Kavanagh from 5th Class.
Christmas Fun Run!
The pupils and teachers in Ballyglass NS had great fun today taking part in their annual Christmas fun run as part of their Active School Programme.
09/12/2022
5th and 6th class pupils meet Irish International Rugby Star Ailsa Hughes!
5th and 6th class pupils meet Irish International Rugby Star Ailsa Hughes!
The pupils from 5th and 6th class attended the Gort Rugby Club Primary School's Tag Rugby Blitz today the 7th November 2022. The pupils were coached by Ailsa Hughes and the Gort Rugby team of coaches. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the coaching, matches and refreshments afterwards.
Football Blitz 07/10/2022
Football Blitz 07/10/2022
On Wednesday the 21st September the pupils and teachers walked to school as part of the 'National Walking Week'. As you can see from the pictures they had great fun.
21/09/2022
Pupils from 3rd to 6th class competed in the Galway Primary Cross Country competition in Renmore, Galway on Tuesday the 20th June. They all ran brilliantly! The pupils were accompanied by Mrs Kelleher and Mr Healy.
20/09/2022
Date: 13th to 17th June
Schedule:
Monday: Yoga
Tuesday: Orienteering
Wednesday: County Sports Day and Tennis
Thursday: School 5km walk and School Sports
Friday: 3rd to 6th Class school tour to Bay Sports, Athlone and Junior Infants to 2nd class school tour to Bunratty Castle and Folk park.
As well as the above activities the pupils will have hurling, camogie, Gaelic football and athletics during lunch time breaks.
Active School Leaders
During break time today our Active School Leaders from 1st class to 6th class commenced teaching the junior and seniors infants playground games.
They all had great fun!
They will continue with this program every Tuesday and Thursday for the next sixteen weeks.
Leaders Group 1: Emma Flynn, James Horrigan, Jude Whiriskey, Sophie Whiriskey, Dominic and Amber Carey.
Leaders Group 2: Amy Keane, Cathal Whiriskey, Robyn Carey, Kyle Linnane, Kyle Leahy and Emily Laffin.
Leader Group 3: Mai O'Sullivan, Breen Gilmore, Ciara O'Neill, Ben Carroll, Tori Gardner and Iarlath Keane.
Leader Group 4: Ryan Mullen, Kerrie O'Neill, Gloria Kaminska, Cian Fahey, Jonathan Barry, Kate Whiriskey and Conor Morris
02/02/2022 to 24/06/2022
Station 1: Irish Flag
27/05/2022
Station 4: The Orchard
Station 8: Long Jump Pit
Staion 3: Old School Style
Station 10: Cloughroake Castle View
Station 7: Beech Corner
The pupils from 4th, 5th and 6th classes all participated in a soccer tournament in Ballinderreen today the 23rd May 2022 which was organised by Doorus and Kiltiernan National schools. Congratulations to all our pupils, they all played very well and had great fun.
23/05/2022
Well done to all the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class pupils who participated over the past four weeks during break time in our annual basketball tournament. The competition was organised by Mrs Kelleher as part of our Active School program.
Congratulations to the winners Team 4 - Cian Hynes (Captain), Gloria Kaminska, Ciara O'Neill, Cian Fahey and Jonathan Barry. The runners up was Team 2 - Emma Flynn, Breen Gilmore, Ella Lynskey, Robyn Carey and Kyle Linnane. The players of the tournament were Amy Keane and Kyle Linnane.
13/05/2022
Congratulations to our hurling team who won Divison D in the Garda Cup competition on Friday 6th May in Gort.
Back row left to right: Mr Lynskey, Amy Stankard, James Horrigan, Cathal Morris, Caylum Linnane, Ryan Mullen, Luke Kavanagh, Ms Lynskey and Mr Monaghan.
Front row left to right: Aaron Keane, Ben Carroll, Cian Hynes (Captain), Breen Gilmore and Daniel Lynskey.
Our 5th and 6th class pupils participated in the Gort Community school Hurling and Camogie blitz which was run by the Transition Year students. The pupils had a fantastic day playing sport and making new friends! Congratulations to Breen Gilmore who was selected on the All Star team.
28/04/2022
10/04/2022
Basket Ball Tournament underway!
21/03/2022
Teams are made up of pupils from 3rd to 6th Class.
Two teams play
Who will be this year's champions?
Final to take place on Friday 8th April!
Pupils from 3rd class to 4th class participated in the Cycle Right Program in Jan and Feb 2022.
Congratulations to the pupils in 5th and 6th class who completed their 'Marathon Challenge' on Friday the 21st January 2022. The initiative was set up by 'Marathon Kids Ireland' and 'Galway Sports Partnership' and it's ambassador was former Irish international David Gillick.
The pupils ran 1km per day for the past nine weeks. On completion they were each awarded a medal, t-shirt and neck scarf by Ms Loughrey-Lynskey, school principal. Well done to all the pupils and their class teacher Mrs Kelleher!
Pupils from Junior Infants to 6th class have Irish dancing classes for 8 weeks. The pupils learn a wide variety of dances and thoroughly enjoy the classes with the Louise the dancing teacher.
PE consists of the following strands: Athletics, Dance, Games, Gymnastics, Aquatics and Outdoor and Adventure.
This year in Ballyglass NS we are focusing and developing the strand 'Outdoor and Adventure'.
Throughout the year we will have visiting coaches and teachers in the strands - Games(Hurling and Camogie), Dance and Outdoor and Adventure.
