St. Mary's NS Ballygarrett Welcome
You are very welcome to our School Website. Céad Míle Fáilte go dtí Láithreán Scoil Naomh Mhuire, Baile Ghearóid, Guaire, Contae Loch Garman. Our website has general information on the school for all and we hope you enjoy our regular news items. Feature items will appear on our home page but be sure to visit our news page or follow us on twitter for further reports from all our classes. Ní neart go chur le… Read More
Jubilee 1970-2020
Discover Primary Science & Maths
Active school
Green Schools Award
This year our 6th class went to Shielbaggan for their end of year trip. This trip is funded by the parents Association and is a much anticipated highlight of the year. Thank you to our Parents association for organising the trip and to those parents who accompanied the class on the day. We left the school early on Saturday morning and headed to Shielbaggan. When we arrived we met all the staff… Read More
Our Boys Football team were crowned champions at the Rackard League Final on April 28th in Wexford Park when they defeated Horeswood. This was a super occasion and a valiant victory from our pupils. Our panel of players hail from Ballygarrett NS and Riverchapel NS and both schools are extremely proud of them. The road to the final was a hard fought and lengthy one. After a tough match vs Bunscoil Loreto… Read More
As part of the Bealtaine Living Earth Festival, our Third Class visited the Seal Sanctuary in Courtown this week. What a wonderful experience to get up close to these beautiful animals and to learn all about how the Seal Sanctuary cares for them. Thank you to Sheila & Denise at Calmast, WIT, for setting up this visit for our school. Please see some photographs and recount pieces from our pupils.
Our 5th and 6th class students have been busy taking part in the Marathon Kids programme over the past 8 weeks. This fantastic initiative, ran by Sports Active Ireland, saw our students undertake completing the distance of a marathon (26.2 miles) by breaking it down into daily running distances. They started with shorter distances and built it up to running 2000m at a time. It also included some lessons on nutrition, exercise… Read More
Our 5th and 6th Classes paid visits to our local beaches to help tidy up and take pride in our place. Thank you to the Tidy Towns Committee for helping Mrs Dwyer and Mr Sutton organise the trip. See below some photographs and recount pieces of writing from some of our pupils.
We were delighted to welcome Colin Travers and his birds to our school last week. Colin brought various species of owls and hawks for all classes to see, hold and learn about. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed their feathery visitors to the school. Click on the slideshow below to see some photographs from the two days.
All our pupils and staff really enjoyed dressing up as their favourite character from a book this year. This is always a fun filled day where the pupils get a chance to dress up. Please click on the slideshows below for a flavour of the costumes.
Well done to Rang 6 for creating this lovely piece to camera about Nuacht sa Scoil. We are already looking forward to the next episode. Maith Sibh, lean ar aghaidh ag obair go dian.
Another fantastic effort from our pupils in all classes this year! Wonderful creations made from recycled materials. Thank you to our local Tidy Towns Association for sponsoring all the prizes, thank you to our SEN team for judging the entries and thank you to all families who helped out at home. Please click on the video link to see some of the creations. Well done to all involved in our Green Schools… Read More
It’s that time of the year again! Active Advent is upon us once again. Each class has their own Active Advent calendar and will open one new window daily to reveal an active challenge or game to complete. We hope it is a fun way to get us all in the Christmas spirit and moving more often. Thank you to the Active Agents for organising our December initiative.
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