Category Archives: School Activities

  • Dress-Up Day for Junior Infants

    On Tuesday 16th June our Junior Infants had a fancy dress day in their classroom. Our pupils had great fun coming to school in the colourful outfits. Thanks to their teacher, Mrs Sheelan and Classroom Assistant, Betty, for organising this fun event.    

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  • Gary McBride Speaks to our Senior Class about Road Safety

    On Tuesday 16th June 2015, Gary McBride, a parent in Bellurgan N.S as well as a local Driving Instructor, came into the school to speak to the fifth and sixth class pupils about Road Safety. Gary, with the aid of a PowerPoint Presentation which included short videos, stressed to the pupils about the importance of Continue Reading

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  • Third Green Flag for Bellurgan

    A SIMPLE Flag Raising ceremony following our Sport’s Day last Tuesday afternoon in Bellurgan National School captured the essence of what the schools green flag programme entails. The raising of our school’s second Green Flag was the culmination of hard work over the previous two school years and there was a great sense of pride Continue Reading

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  • First Communion 2015

    Congratulations to the pupils from Rang 2 who made their First Communion on Saturday 23rd May in Our Lady of the Wayside in Jenkinstown. Once again this year we saw the generosity of the pupils and parents of Rang 2 as they presented a cheque for E200 to Caroline Hanlon of the Maria Goretti Lordship Continue Reading

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  • School Garden

    Our Pupils and Caretaker Peter, have been extremely busy over this past few weeks planting out our new Vegetable Plot. We have a variety of vegetables planted including, potatoes, turnip, radish, onions, spring onions, leeks, parsnip, carrots and marrows. We look forward to the harvest, later in the year. It is also fantastic to see Continue Reading

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  • Amhrán na gCupán

    Rang 5 & 6 have worked extremely hard over the last three weeks to learn “Amhrán na gCupán”. Many thanks to Teacher Placement Student, Miss Jane Cunningham, for all her hard work and dedication. Bellurgan N.S definitely have stars in the making and their performance at our annual SEACHTAINE NA GAEILGE Concert proved this!   Continue Reading

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  • Tanzanian Charity

    On Wednesday the 11th of February two guest speakers from Dundalk came to Bellurgan N.S to speak to 5th and 6th class. They spoke to the children about their involvement in a charity organisation called Walser Tanzanian Charity. Mrs Bernadette Cunningham and Ms. Margaret Muckian have been involved with this charity for the past 8 Continue Reading

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  • Book Fair

    The Book Fair has arrived at our school this week, with a fantastic choice of books catering for all ages and reading abilities. The Book Fair will be open to parents and friends of our school from 2pm – 3pm Monday to Thursday of this week.

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  • New Computer Lab

    Bellurgan National School has recently opened a new Computer Lab consisting of twenty-four PCs and a state of the art Interactive White-Board. Information and communications technology is now an integral part of our personal and working lives. The children of today have been born into this age of technology and they are generally very comfortable Continue Reading

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  • Catholic Schools Week 2015

    A group consisting of pupils and staff travelled to St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh last Wednesday, 21st January, to attend a mass with all of the other schools in our diocese with Archbishop Eamon Martin. The mass was to celebrate Catholic Schools Week which started yesterday and will run throughout this school week. Picture (left Continue Reading

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