1st Class – Ballyneale National School

County Museum

1st and 2nd class enjoyed a trip to Clonmel today as the Tipperary county museum in connection with the Clonmel Show showcased farming life and crafts. They saw sheep being sheared, new calves, ponies, a blacksmith making horseshoes, a bee hive and alpacas. They also saw a demonstration of weaving straw and rushes into St.Continue reading “County Museum”

School Trip

1st and 2nd class enjoying their school trip on a beautiful day at the Kingfisher, Waterford.

School Tour

1st and 2nd class will be going to the Kingfisher club in Waterford on 23rd May for their school tour. The children will be involved in a range of activities such as Ipad orienteering, go-carting, human-cable football, unihoc and zorb balling!

Halloween and Autumn Art

Check out the Halloween and Autumn Art that Ms. Dempsey’s first and second class have been making. Here’s some scary pictures Ms. Fogarty’s junior and senior infants have been busy with.

Well done

A big well done to Sarah Bartley in first class who swam in the All Ireland’s Under 8 Freestyle swimming competition in May. Sarah also won the counties Under 8 Sprint in Athletics and will now be representing Tipperary in the All Ireland’s in August. A great achievement for someone so young and in bothContinue reading “Well done”

Swimming Champs

A hearty Congratulations and well done to the Bartley sisters Eilish and Sarah who competed and medalled at the community games in Thurles at the weekend. They both did very well, Sarah came first in under 8 front crawl which means that she will now compete in the All Irelands this summer.

Yoga

We are very excited that Yoga is starting at the school on March 7th for four weeks for Junior Infants to Second Class.

Gymnastics

As part of our Be Active Programme, we will begin gymnastics for 1st and 2nd class pupils after school on Wednesdays for the next six weeks. We are very grateful to Miss Sarah Whelan and Mr. Paul Brennan who will conduct these lessons. However, because of the numbers and to ensure individual attention to pupils,Continue reading “Gymnastics”

Suir Art Project

We have been lucky to have been part of the artist in residence scheme. A very big thank you to Magueritte Kent who has been fantastic and spent many long hours sharing her skills and techniques with the children. The past few months there has been trojan work in every room to produce a tapestry andContinue reading “Suir Art Project”

ShoeBox Appeal 2016

Once again, the national drive for Christmas Shoe Box Appeal is in full flow. Here in the school we have been collecting Shoe boxes from all the generous donors. We reached a total of 68 boxes. A big thank you to all those who donated all those boxes of pure joy for someone this Christmas. AlsoContinue reading “ShoeBox Appeal 2016”