The Senior Hockey team played in the semi final last night against a strong CRHS side. We were definitely the underdogs in this fixture, having lost 4-0 in the league and finishing 4th overall compared to their 1st position. However, the girls were up for this and really brought their ‘A’ game! Bal…
Congratulations to both Year 7 rugby teams who played in an inter-schools' festival yesterday. Both teams displayed great courage, teamwork and motivation throughout the whole festival. All the boys involved represented Ballakermeen with pride and are a credit to the school. Whilst there are no win…
Congratulations to the Year 7 hockey team who played in the inter-schools’ tournament yesterday. Although we didn’t win, there were so many positives to take from the afternoon. All girls represented their school with pride, they didn’t give up and they showed excellent sportsmanship throughout. We…
The Inters basketball team, comprised of Year 9 & 10 students, took on King Williams College yesterday in a thrilling and very close game! At the end of each quarter the score was either level or had a 1-2 basket difference. During the game each team took their turn to take the lead, again only by…
Run by the charity BookTrust, Bookbuzz is a scheme to get students enthused about reading by giving them the chance to choose a free book from a carefully curated choice of 16 books. Now unpacked and distributed by our Librarian Ros, the books have been greeted with great enthusiasm by Year 7 stude…
On 25th October, the Year 12 Maths classes attended the Maths Symposium at Ramsey Grammar School, a competition for all A Level Maths students across the island. The day began with a talk entitled "From Andreas to Saturn: An accidental career in Space Science", which discussed applications of Maths…
Congratulations to our Senior Basketball team who won 40-23 yesterday against RGS. There were some great skills shown and a big well done to students who played up a year group and excelled at that challenge. Player of the match went to Oli in Year 12 who had a super shooting game! We play CRHS nex…
Year 11 students are attending the Employment & Skills event at the Villa Marina tomorrow! It promises to be an informative afternoon exploring paths into education, training, and future employment opportunities. The event is open to the public from 2.30 - 5pm.
Congratulations to Michael, Chris, Ryan, Ben, Ignacy, Harry, and Max from year 8 who represented Ballakermeen with distinction in the first junior basketball game of the season. Their attitude and effort was superb and showed some excellent skills honed in the last 2 months of practice!