Author: stolmain

May 19, 2023

Bike Week

We have a very successful bike week. Thank you to everyone who took part and made the effort to cycle/scoot (over 250 students so far!) Let's hope that the good weather continues and the kids can continue to be active and safe on their way to and from school.

May 18, 2023

Outdoor Classroom Day with our Penpals

For Outdoor Classroom Day, Ms Gannon and Ms Molloy's third class travelled to our penpals' school. We walked to Divine Word. We had an amazing day playing lots of sports. We went out to the yard with our penpals. We had a cross country run, long jump competition, sprint races, egg and spoon and a […]

May 18, 2023

Wild Flower Garden in Full Bloom

Below are some pictures of our wonderful wild flower garden which is in full bloom at the moment. It is alive with thousands of insects and the buzz of the bees pollinating the flowers. This is a collaboration between the school and our local residents association who have Balally looking so well!

May 17, 2023

School Golf

On Sunday evening we held practice for a school golf team. This was open to boys and girls from 5th and 6th class and they will compete in a competition over the coming weeks. Many thanks to the parents who helped out at the practice and to The Castle Golf Club for hosting the practice.

May 16, 2023

Rugby Award for Joshua

Well done to 6th class student, Joshua, who was awarded the team mate player of the year in St Mary's RFC, Templeville. This is as a fantastic award to win and he was chosen by his coaches there. Joshua was awarded it for always being respectful to referees, coaches, and team mates and being a […]

May 10, 2023

Darkness into Light

On Saturday the annual Darkness into Light walk took place in Marley Park. Our own Ms. Bloomer is one of the organisers of this fantastic event for such a worthy cause. As part of our Wellness Week earlier in the year students made artwork for the theme of "hope is". Some of this artwork was […]

May 8, 2023

Hurling Update

Our senior hurlers continued the schools tremendous start to the hurling and camogie season with a win over St. Michael's. The lads played some excellent hurling with great displays throughout the pitch. We have an action packed week this week with the juniors at home to local rivals Holy Cross on Tuesday. Our camogie team […]

May 5, 2023

Lego Robotics in 5th Class

Mr. Ruane's class enjoyed coding their lego creations in Science. They had to build their creations and then code the instructions for it to move on the ipads. Check out the pictures and videos below.

April 28, 2023

Active Week

All our class have made a fantastic effort in our "Run Around Ireland" challenge this week. The class with the most laps added up will take on the staff in a dodgeball game. We're hoping to do this with our rescheduled "Teddy Bear Picnic" in the coming weeks.

April 28, 2023

Hurling and Camogie Update

This week was a fantastic week for our hurling and camogie teams. On Tuesday our Junior team had a hard fought win over Divine Word in St. Enda's Park. Our camogie team kept their winning start to the season going with a win over Loreto Beaufort on Wednesday in Naomh Olaf. Our boys team rounded […]

April 25, 2023

Active Schools Week

This week we are celebrating Active Schools Week. Children are allowed to wear their school tracksuit everyday as they will be participating in lots of different fun games and activities throughout the week. As part of students homework this week they will are getting "active homework" They can tick off some of the stuff they […]

April 25, 2023

Camogie and Hurling Update

Our camogie team got their campaign off to the perfect start with a hard fought win away to St. Colmcille's Knocklyon. Well done girls! Our junior hurling team start their season with a trip to St. Enda's Park to play Divine Word this afternoon Our senior hurlers play St. Mary's Booterstown on Thursday in Deerpark. […]

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Gingerbread Men

December 19, 2025

Ms. A O'Brien and Ms. B O'Brien's classes both had great fun on the last day making gingerbread men.

Christmas Newsletter

December 19, 2025

Our Christmas Newsletter is now available to read here. Wishing all of our school community a happy and safe Christmas.

Festive Reading Buddies- A special visit from 5th Class

December 18, 2025

This week, Mr. Duignan’s 5th Class joined Ms. Birrane’s 1st Class for a special Paired Reading session. The older pupils brought along wonderful Christmas stories to share, and the younger children were delighted! The 5th Class students showed great care and kindness while reading with their partners, creating a warm and festive atmosphere. The 1st […]

Christmas Jumper Day

December 16, 2025

A huge thank you to everyone who kindly supported our Christmas jumper fundraiser for St John’s Ward in Crumlin Children’s Hospital. An unbelievable €3061 was raised and already we have purchased Rookus Fire sticks for all the televisions on the ward, so children can access their favourite programmes while staying in hospital. Just Eat vouchers […]

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