St. Mary's NS Ballygarrett 
Last week we held our Active School Week and it was jam packed with fun activities for all classes to enjoy. As a school we started each morning off by getting ourselves warmed up and moving with ‘Fit for Five’, ‘Wake Up, Shake Up’ and ‘Walk a Mile with a Smile’ exercises. During the week each class had a daily timetabled activity ranging from Hip Hop dancing, Taekwondo, Orienteering challenges, Uni-hoc, Tug-o-war, penalty shoot outs, circuit training and obstacle courses. The infant classes also had a visit from a local Garda to talk about Road Safety and she gave us some high-vis jackets to keep safe when out on the roads. 6th class also gave a presentation to all classes on healthy eating and the food pyramid. We got to taste some delicious fruit skewers too. A big thank you to all teachers and students for their participation over the week. Take a look at some of our pictures below!
Today we hosted a visit from Wexford Feíle in preparation for Feíle 2017. We had great fun displaying our skills, chatting to our Wexford and local Ballygarrett heroes. Some representatives from the local GAA and Ladies GAA club called into visit along with our past pupils to help promote the Feíle. Lots of smiles and laughter were on show with Irish music, song and dance to help set the atmosphere.
Thank you to Cathal Dunbarr, Diarmuid Byrne, Seamus Kennelly and Mick Byrne for visiting the school on behalf of Wexford GAA. Please click on our slide show to see what happened.
On the 10th February at 10am the staff and students of St. Mary’s took on Operation Transformation’s 10 @ 10 challenge. This involved ten minutes of fun, fast exercises for all to get involved in. We made our way to our large playground, lined up around the perimeter and all looked towards our Active School Commitee members who lead us in our challenge.
We started with warm up stretches, followed by a circuit type routine with plenty of scissor jumps, arm swings, knee up’s and other heart racing exercises. We continued to incorporate footballs into our exercises, using many body parts, before cooling down. And just in time too as it began to sleet as we were finishing! We enjoyed being part of the nationwide challenge.
Well done to the members of Mr Nimmo’s Chess Club who represented the school in the All Wexford Chess Team Competition on 08/02/2017. The level of interest in chess within the school continues to grow and we were delighted to have two teams represent the school in both the junior and senior competitions. Thank you to Mr Nimmo for his hard work in teaching and organising chess within the school.
We hosted Grandparents’ Day this year on February 1st, Lá Fhéile Bríde, in association with Catholic Schools’ Week! All our pupils and staff worked so hard in the previous days decorating the school and rehearsing songs, poems and dance. All our pupils helped to generate a welcome atmosphere so all could celebrate the day with the wider school community. Click on our slideshow to view some of our photographs from the day. Thank you to the Parents Association for providing catering on the day. Our pupils had a fantastic day celebrating with their loved ones.
2.3.2017 Rinne rang a trí ceapairí tósta. Cheannaigh an múinteoir im, cáis, liamhás agus arán. Phioc siad arán ban nó arán donn. Chuir na páistí gach rud ar na ceapairí. Chuir an múinteoir na ceapairí isteach sa tóstaer. Tar éis tamaill bhí siad réidh. Ansin d’ith na páistí na ceapairí. Bhí siad blasta! Mmmm
It’s that time of year again and what an effort by all in the school this year! We beat our total from last year by 10 boxes. We donated 114 shoeboxes to Team Hope. Thank you to all our parents for supporting this worthy cause. Thank you to all our Parents Association and their volunteers who organised the information and collection of the shoeboxes. We were delighted to pass on the shoeboxes to our past pupils Johnny Sinnott and Brian Lee from FCJ Bunclody who collected our donations last week. We hope they bring fun, happiness and joy to whoever receives them this Christmas. Maisy and Maggie from Junior Infants are pictured below presenting their donations for collection.
Our Parents Association will be running their annual Halloween Disco next Friday, October 28th. It takes place in our local GAA club. Thank you to all who help make this event such a success year after year. It begins at 6.30 pm and is a great way to kick start the mid-term break!!
Well done to all in our school this week. A super effort by all pupils and staff for Maths Week. Thank you to Ms Ormondes’s class for organising a really engaging maths fair for all our pupils. Hard work but it was worth it. Please see below some images of various stations today. Congratulations to Grace in 4th Class who estimated the correct amount of sweets in the jar. Please click here to see more images…
