Well done to the LCA 2 group who completed a beach clean up recently as part of their Community Work Module in LCA. Students really enjoyed seeing how their efforts made a positive impact to the beach and their local community.Read More
The death has occurred of our much-loved colleague Eileen Guildea. Eileen is a long serving member of staff, and her family has long standing connections to the school. Her funeral will take place on Wednesday 26th January at 11.00 am. As a mark of respect and to facilitate staff attending the funeral, the school will...Read More
It is with a profound, collective sadness that Balbriggan Community College marks the passing of our much loved staff member, Eileen Guildea. After a short illness, Eileen passed away on Sunday 23rd January 2022. Eileen was an extremely popular member of our school community, who was a Balbriggan woman through and through. Her loving connection to...Read More
This year (2021/2022) we began an Amber Flag Committee in Balbriggan CC, in association with Pieta House. It is being run by volunteer students from Transition Year. The purpose of the committee is to promote mental health awareness, tools and resources, and work towards eradicating the stigmas associated with mental health issues within our school...Read More
Congratulations to Ms Bowers who graduated from the Couch to 5k programme by completing the Malahide Park run this weekend. Cian Carroll (6th year student) also put in an unbelievable performance over the distance. The next couch to 5k programme will begin in January and is open to both students and staff.Read More
Balbriggan Community College has been awarded a grant from Erasmus + to support the mobility of 10 students in partnership with a German school and 20 students for a Spanish school. Integrating students into the Erasmus project participation is the basis of this objective, which perfectly combines with the first basic principle of the Erasmus...Read More
The U16 Boys Basketball teams finished up their group stages of the league last week. We had two teams entered into the league as we had 40 students turning up to training each week, great dedication! The Pool 1 team have successfully qualified to the cup quarter final which will be played this week. Unfortunately...Read More
A very exciting pilot will be run during the next two weeks among second years classes. Each class will have a recycling box for bottle lids and each week the class captain will count them and put them in the fantastic collection box that Woodwork Department will build for us! ‘Lift the lid on recycling’...Read More
2nd year Home Economics students explored the composition of protein. They made an amino acid chain from beads and pipe cleaners and labelled the diagram. Thanks to Ms. McElvaney for sending on some images from this engaging lesson.Read More
Congratulations to 1st Year classes Aran, Clare and Lambay for achieving the highest amount of positive points for November. They will be going to the cinema this Friday 10th December. The top 3 students who received the most points from other classes will also attending. Enjoy Ghostbusters and thanks to Ms. Lucey for organising.Read More
