Ballymoney National School

After the competition, we visited the Bandon Heritage Centre, where Colin Nichols treated us to a fascinating talk. Colin has lovingly restored the organ from St. Paul's Church, Ballymoney, located just up the lane from our school. The organ now has a new home in the Heritage Centre.

Colin shared the remarkable restoration story with us and explained how the organ works. He also gave us a wonderful recital, and the children thoroughly enjoyed listening to the music and learning more about this important piece of local heritage.

A huge thank you to Colin and everyone at Bandon Heritage Centre for making our visit so enjoyable and informative! 🎶 ⛪️

On Thursday, our Senior Classroom travelled to Bandon for an exciting orienteering competition in Bandon Park.

The pupils had a fantastic day putting their navigation and teamwork skills to the test. A special congratulations to our fastest pair, who also got all of the answers correct! 👏 🧭 🏃 🗺️

Well done to the winners of this years River Ecosystem Projects award! They were presented with their prizes at the GLOBE Ireland Primary School awards last week. A huge thank you to Local Authority Waters Programme for sponsoring the wonderful prizes! The winners were:
- St Brigid's NS Meath Hill

There was so much exceptional work submitted that honourable mentions must go to:
- Ballymoney NS Ballymoney National School
- Clontuskert NS
- Kilglass NS
- Monkstown ETNS
- Faughart NS Faughart CNS

We are delighted to share that our school won the award for Outstanding Science Communication at the Globe Ireland Awards in Dublin this week! 🏆🔬

The award recognised the fantastic podcast created by our class about their citizen science project investigating the water quality of the River Bandon. 🌊🎙️

A huge congratulations to all the students involved for their hard work, creativity, and commitment to environmental science. We are incredibly proud of this wonderful achievement and the way our students communicated the importance of protecting our local waterways.

🎧 You can listen to the podcast here: The Ballymoney Stories – The River Edition
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f04e6c96-d6b9-4a47-8242-bb3a8cf8ef0c/episodes/4a3326eb-016e-4548-a623-2316fe17c866/the-ballymoney-stories-the-river-episode

Well done everyone! 👏

We celebrated National Bike Week by having a cycling workshop with Ulick from Bike Wizards lots of progress made on the day! 🚴 🚲

🗑️ 🚮 Spring Clean in the countryside!
All of our pupils took part in a spring clean on the roads around our school today!
Amazing what you find on our roadsides!
We hope the pupils feel a little more empowered after doing their bit to clean up in the local area! 👏

All set up and ready to go for 10:30 🐣 🐰

Happening tomorrow morning from 10:30am to 12:30pm at Ballymoney NS!

An Easter Egg Hunt for pre-schoolers and toddlers! Hope to see you there

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📢 Our Community Easter Egg Hunt for Pre-Schoolers and Toddlers is happening again this year at Ballymoney NS on Saturday, 28th March from 10:30am to 12:30pm

🐰Cuddle a real bunny
🎨Face painting
🎈Balloon Modelling
🐣Egg Hunt
🐇Meet the Easter Bunny
🌻Plant a sunflower seed

Entry is €2 per child

Hope to see you there 🐣

An exciting day at school where the children were able to eggs-press their creative talents in the form of Easter Egg Art. A huge huge thank you to Magdalena and Paloma who provided such an interesting and fun experience for the pupils.
A rewarding and creative process where the pupils made their designs using wax and then put the eggs into different colour dyes to transform their masterpieces!
Well done and thank you again to our two parents who really inspired the pupils!
All set for Easter! 🐣 🥚

Thank you Cathy, always such a pleasure to have you in our school 💃 🪩

Final session with Ballymoney National School this morning. Thank you for all your fantastic dancing (and freestyling!) over the last few weeks. It was lovely to be back with you all 🙂