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An educational initiative designed to increase students’ interest in Maths, commenced this week in five fifth classes in St Molaga’s National School in Bremore, Balbriggan. The Overall Programme aims to increase awareness of a wide variety of careers available in STEAM Sectors (Science, (more…)
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the 23rd and 24th January, Ardgillan college put on Grease the Musical. The students were rehearsing and preparing for the show for six months and all the hard work paid off in abundance. Both nights were a sell out and the crowd loved the humour and (more…)
The Department of Education and Skills has today (Friday January 18th) announced that the second phase of assessments at schools built by Western Building Systems is now being initiated. These detailed investigations have been scheduled following the programme of initial structural (more…)
Balbriggan/North county Dublin branch of guide dogs wish to thank all who supported us throughout 2018 and especially in the run up to Christmas. The transition year Students of Loreto Secondary school took some cards and calendars plus some of our toy dogs into the canteen (more…)
Congratulations to students in Loreto Secondary School and Ardgillan Community College who received awards at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Once again Balbriggan was well represented at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition so big congratulations to the (more…)
Gardaí in Balbriggan responded to a welcome 999 call today when they were requested to provide an escort for SANTA on his visits to local Primary Schools. On receipt of the call the members of the Garda Band were summonsed to provide Jingle Bells, HoHoHo music and songs (more…)
On Friday 14th December St Molaga’s N.S. in Balbriggan held their annual festive coffee morning and cake sale in aid of St. Vincent de Paul. The schools award-winning choirs entertained visitors and children from a local preschool who will be attending the school in September 2019. All monies (more…)
Balbriggan Community College will host its annual Christmas 5k Frosty Fun Run/Walk on Friday 14th December 2018 at 10am. The event is being organised by the school to raise vital funds for extracurricular activities. This year the Frosty Fun Run is again, open to the public, so we would like to (more…)
Coláiste Ghlór na Mara in Balbriggan are starting an exchange programme with Leargás and they are engaging in a twinning project with a school in Ribadavia in the North of Spain. The Mayor of Ribadavia has presented Coláiste Ghlór na Mara with a medal and today students from Balbriggan (more…)
The Department of Education and Skills has been advised that the implementation of precautionary measures at a total of 22 school buildings remains on schedule for completion for Monday 5th November. Five teams involving over 250 workers have been on site through the weekend (more…)
On Tuesday, Bremore ETSS welcomed Egidijus Meilūnas, the Lithuanian Ambassador in Ireland to the school to launch our new Lithuanian Heritage Language Junior Cycle Short Course. We are delighted to have been chosen to be part of the Heritage Language Initiative run by the Department of (more…)
Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell has voiced his concern regarding the identification of structural issues in Ardgillan Community College which has necessitated the closure of a section of the school with immediate effect. “I am seriously concerned following with the identification (more…)