Project Launch

The Erasmus+ project was launched in January 2016. MEP Marian Harkin launched the project in our school. Click here to read more. 

Trip 1:  Marseille, France

The first trip was to Caucadis High School in January 2016. Click here to read more about our trip to Marseille.

Migration Survey

We did a migration survey in our school this year as part of our Colours of Europe project. We wanted to find out how many students in our school are from migration backgrounds and where their families have migrated from and why they migrated to Ireland and whether they are still in touch with home and with their traditions from home and how they manage to do this. We surveyed the first,second and fifth years in our school. We came up with questions we wanted to ask and we composed the survey and typed it out. Three of our students went around and handed out the surveys to the other students and then when they were finished they collected all the surveys and began to process the information. When we had all the information gathered and processed we put it on a power point presentation so it could be easily prsented. 

  Trip 2: Keczekemet, Hungary

The second trip of the Colours of Europe project took place in Keczekemet, Hungary. 

See report opposite from participant Orna Walsh

Global Passport Award for Ballinrobe Community School

BCS has been awarded a national Global Passport Award for promoting development education in Ballinrobe Community School. 

"Development Education (DE) is an educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing, and interdependent and unequal world in which we live. DE helps students to become global citizens who take action to transform the world we live in for the better"

Our involvement in the Colours of Europe project is one part of Development Education in our school. 

English Integration Classes

Since January 2017, a group of Transition Year pupils have been holding English conversation classes for 1st and 2nd Year pupils who do not have English as their first language. The class includes young people from Portugal, Lithuania and Poland. Check back for updates on this exciting initiative!

Trip 3: Bad Aibling, Germany

5 TY pupils participated in an action-packed week with the 6 partner schools in the beautiful Bundesland of Bavaria. They practiced their German skills, sampled Bavarian & German cuisine, climbed in the nearby Alps and became cycling pros around the small, friendly towns of Bad Aibling and Rosenheim. Many thanks to the host school and to their brilliant host families.