Yesterday, some of our Year 8 - 11 Bridge students ran their own Christmas Fair over both lunchtimes in the Seating Area. This included a number of different stalls, with some amazing cake contributions from both staff and LSS students, for which we were very grateful, as well as a lucky dip. Howev…
We held our annual community Christmas Carol Service last night at St George's Church. It was a beautiful event and now truly feels a lot like Christmas! There were some wonderful musical performances from our talented students, interspersed with fabulous readings, making for a lovely evening. Many…
Our Year 7 Handball teams competed in the Interschool's Handball tournament yesterday at Bermahague. They have all been training very hard on Wednesdays after-school, and should be extremely proud of their efforts, as we are!
A huge well done to our talented Specialist Provision Centre students on their entry into 3FM's Carol Cup! And a further congratulations must go to SPC staff Ellie Quayle and Simon Fletcher for the wonderful original song! Watch video on Facebook
The Library Christmas Reading Challenge is proving popular! Our librarian Ros has wrapped up some select library books in Christmas paper. Students can choose a parcel, take it home to open on Christmas day, and read, review and return it after Christmas for a prize and e-praise points! The idea of…
Douglas Rugby Club was the venue for the Inter-School cross country competition yesterday, which saw students from all years competing on a very muddy and slippery course. All students represented the school with pride and were a credit to Ballakermeen. Notable performances were : Tara 2nd and Darc…
Some of our students have been working hard making a whopping 60 Christmas hampers for residents of Springfield Grange Nursing Home, to be delivered in person next week. Each hamper includes a variety of chocolate, handmade crafts, bath bombs and more, plus a hand written card from the students. Ma…
The library Christmas competition this year looks at Christmas around the world! Our display in the main library highlights a huge range of Christmas traditions from all over the world, and students can win e-praise points and a small prize if they can answer all the questions on our quiz sheet. Th…
Congratulations to Dan and Joseph on completing all of their skills grids at the recent DESC Employment and Skills event. They are the lucky winners of the draw for a £50 JD Voucher each, courtesy of Paragon Recruitment. Thank you to Mia from Paragon Recruitment for coming in to school to present D…