In light of the servere weather warnings, the board of management has decided that Ballydrehid National School remain closed tomorrow 16 October 2017 in the interest of safety. Keep safe.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. Carmel Butler

Príomhoide

On Monday 27th March, we were invited to a NutriSafari in Dolan’s Supervalu Cahir, as part of our ‘Super Troopers’ Programme.  Everybody was very excited to be going on a trip.  We decided to make it a whole day event and to visit places of interest in Cahir.  Junior s...

We have worked hard to get our Green Schools Flag for Litter and Waste.  In September, we gathered our Green Schools Committee with children from Senior Infants to Sixth Class.  We first started to reduce litter in the bins. Then we started encouraging children to recy...

Super troopers is a fun way to do exercise and good way for kids to get healthy

and fit. We were given a small book with all the exercises in it. We could do them

for homework with our families.

In March, we went to SuperValu to do a Nutri-safari. We met a women called

Ann...

For three weeks food dudes sent us fruit and vegetables to taste in school. We were really excited to get started. Every lunch break we tasted different fruit and vegetables and we got stickers every time we tried them. We tasted melon, mange tout, apples, grapes, carr...

Doireann worked very hard in the Garden of late. She had some sage words on the work completed.

• "We planted Budlia to attract butterflies."

• "We planted Echinacea to attract bees."

• "We planted watercress and radishes too."

• "I felt happy working in the...

The school went on a trail walk to Ballydrehid woods today. Great fun was had by all and the children learnt a lot of interesting things about their natural environment. The weather was fabulous and shorts, sun cream, hats and lots of cool drinks were the order of day....