School News – Page 5 – Balbriggan Community College

20 January 2022Blog

Amber Flag Committee

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...

13 December 2021Blog

Couch to 5k Success Stories

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.

10 December 2021Blog

Balbriggan CC Erasmus Grant

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...

8 December 2021Blog

U16 Boys Basketball

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...

7 December 2021Blog

Lift the lid on Recycling!

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’...

7 December 2021Blog

2nd year Home Economics

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.

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