Latest News

Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Eco Schools Green Flag Award

  Fri 25 Jun 2021

  Ballinderry Primary School has once again been awarded the prestigious Eco Schools N.I Green Flag Award. Well done to our fabulous Eco Council members and everyone in Ballinderry who has contributed throughout the year to help gain this award. It is recognition of all of the great environmental work that has be done.

  

• Big Pedal Challenge 2021

  Fri 14 May 2021

  Thank you and well done to everyone involved in this year’s Big Pedal Challenge.

  Ballinderry P.S. had some great results:

  •             180th out of 644 large primary schools across the UK

  •             10th out of 42 large primary schools within NI

  •             2656 active journeys were recorded over the two-week period.

  

• Easter Photography Competition

  Tue 04 May 2021

  The Eco Council had a very difficult task of choosing the winners as there were so many excellent photographs. Well done to the following winners

   

  Foundation Stage - Tulip Time by Alfie Y1 

  KS1 - Chasing Rainbows by Joel Cardy Y4

  KS2 - Peeking at You by Isaac Cardy Y5

  

• New Eco Code Competition

  Fri 23 Apr 2021

  Well done to Lydia Murray in P5/6 who has won the competition to design our new Eco Code. The Eco Council had a very hard job deciding on a winner but they loved how Lydia had incorporated Ballinderry into her design.

  

• Fair Trade Home Learning Baking Challenge

  Fri 12 Feb 2021
  

• Christmas Jumper Day

  Fri 11 Dec 2020
  

• Anti Bullying Week 2020

  Fri 20 Nov 2020
  Anti Bullying Week has once again been a great success. Thank you to all of the children in Ballinderry Primary who took part in Odd Socks Day and a variety of class activities throughout the week. 

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 05 Mar 2020
  Well done to all of the children who dressed up as a character from a book they have been reading. There were some fabulous outfits and it is great to see so many children excited about reading.

  

• Number Day 2020

  Fri 07 Feb 2020
  To celebrate Number Day as part of 'We Love Maths Week', the children dressed up in something involving numbers and made a donation to charity.  

  

• We are a FairAware School

  Thu 23 Jan 2020
  We are delighted to have been awarded a FAIRTRADE FAIRAWARE award for our ongoing Fairtrade activities carried out in school.