Cultural Day

Cultural Day

On Wednesday May 8th, we celebrated Cultural Day here in St Mary’s College. Pupils from fifteen different countries put on a  beautiful display in the Clarence Building.Each country was assigned a display table/area.Pupils arrived to school in their native...
Road Safety Education Program

Road Safety Education Program

The Sligo Road Policing Unit delivered The Life Saver Project workshop to the transition year students at St. Mary’s College in Ballisodare on Tuesday 18th March. The Life Saver Project is a Road Safety Education program, launched in October 2023 aimed at reducing the...
Ceist School Live Performances

Ceist School Live Performances

Musicians and Students from St. Marys College, Ballysadare streamed a live performance on Thursday March 21st. They performed to Chairpersons, Principal’s, Vice Principal’s in the Ceist Trust all over Ireland in all the Ceist Schools. They performed the beautiful...
St. Marys Talent Show

St. Marys Talent Show

On Thursday March 21st, we had great excitement in the school as our Talent Show took place. Auditions were held last month and from that twelve acts were selected to perform. Each act had a teacher as a mentor and under their watchful eye practices and rehearsals...
Couch to 5K wellbeing program

Couch to 5K wellbeing program

We are currently in week 3 of our training plan, as part of our couch to 5k program. Every student in the school is participating- training 3 days a week.  The students are putting in great effort and we are excited to see the fruits of their labour when they...
Sligo County Council Gaelteacht Scholarship

Sligo County Council Gaelteacht Scholarship

Congratulations to our third year student Riona Bonner who won one of two Gaelteacht Scholarships to the value of 750 euro sponsored by Sligo County Council. Riona had to write an Irish essay on the meaning of Sligo County Council to her as a young person. The...
St. Marys WEEE recycling

St. Marys WEEE recycling

Saint Mary’s College Ballisodare is competing in the WEEE schools’ battery recycling challenge!  WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT?  The WEEE Ireland Schools Battery Recycling Challenge is a FREE Waste Battery Recycling Programme that educates and encourages environmental...
Cross Country

Cross Country

Well done to our cross country athletes who represented St Mary’s at the North Connaught cross country athletics championships , which was held in Ballymote on the 30th of January. This was the first time for all of these students to experience a cross country...