• 5 Nov, 2021

Mother Teresa Ball 1821 was a significant year in the history of the Loreto Order when Mother Teresa Ball returned to Ireland with her vision to establish schools to educate young women. Loreto secondary and…

• 23 Oct, 2021

Ember Ignite.   Congratulations to our new Loreto Balbriggan Ember Ignite Team. The students participated in a full day of training to become faith leaders in the school. The students really enjoyed the day and…

• 15 Oct, 2021

Sculpture in Context 6th year Art students visited the annual Sculpture in Context exhibition in the Botanic Gardens on Monday. This year the exhibition celebrates 35 years of exhibiting and promoting sculpture in Ireland. Bringing…

• 8 Oct, 2021

Volunteering Artistic Talents Recently, Ms. McDonough was proud to be invited to a ceremony to mark the opening of an impressive and vast mural covering a surrounding wall of Laytown primary school, Scoil Olibhéir Naofa….

• 24 Sep, 2021

School Mass On Friday we had our Opening Year Mass . Father Donal Toal visited the school to lead us in celebration of the opening of the school year. The theme for the Mass was…

• 17 Sep, 2021

Loreto Secondary School, Balbriggan has been named a European School of Excellence, coming first place in the ‘European Innovative Teaching Award’. Twenty one of the school’s participating teachers travelled to educational institutions around Europe in…

• 15 Sep, 2021

Please click on this link to view the presentation given by our guest Speaker, John Doran, at our virtual AGM on Monday night. If you were unable to attend the AGM, we hope you enjoy…

• 10 Sep, 2021

For the first time in a while there was a great sense of hope when we met up with some of the class of 2021 on Wednesday. Many of the students have secured places in…

• 6 Sep, 2021

We would like to congratulate the amazing class of 2021 for their outstanding Leaving Certificate results. This remarkable group of students stayed focused and showed great resilience through very tough times to achieve these wonderful…

• 3 Sep, 2021

This week we welcomed 240 new first years to Loreto Balbriggan. We look forward to the next six years with our new students as they begin their secondary education and how each and everyone of…

• 27 Aug, 2021

To the class of 2021, The Leaving Certificate results will be issued next Friday, September 3rd at 10 am. Students will be able to access the results on the Candidate Self Service Portal at 10…

• 19 Aug, 2021

We look forward to welcoming staff and students back after the summer holidays. We hope that everyone had a lovely break and is looking forward to the new academic year. We would ask all parents/guardians…

• 14 Jul, 2021

The school is closed for the summer and will reopen in August. Enrolment for 1st year students for the academic year 2022/2023 will commence in September 2021.  Information with regard to enrolment will be available…

• 4 Jun, 2021

The Leaving Certificate exams will begin on Wednesday 9th June. Please find below the following arrangements for the safe running of the exams. 6th Year State Exams- Summary of Assembly Leaving exams early For the…

• 28 May, 2021

On Tuesday we said goodbye to our wonderful 6th years, the class of 2021. The afternoon began with a prerecorded prayer service, followed by prizegiving and graduation ceremony.  The celebrations ended when the staff formed…

• 21 May, 2021

Loreto Secondary School, Balbriggan is proud to announce its nomination for the European Innovative Teaching Award 2021. The project involved twenty one teachers from varying disciplines from Loreto Balbriggan. These teachers took part in an…

• 17 May, 2021

We would like to wish past pupil Lesley Roy the very best of luck as she represents Ireland at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam tonight. Lesley will sing ‘Maps’ which she co-wrote with…

• 14 May, 2021

Congratulations to Emily Carroll, Hannah Barnwell and Lucy Barnwell founders of  ‘Bee Happy’ Mini-Company who won a special merit award in the National Final (Intermediate Category) of the Student Enterprise Programme which was live-streamed on…

• 7 May, 2021

Loreto Balbriggan has been working with the Department of Psychology in NUI Galway for the past two years to provide data in the development of their SMART Consent programme . On Friday  Dr. Siobhán O’Higgins…

• 30 Apr, 2021

This week was Simon Community awareness week. During the week all students learned about the work of Simon and their vision for a society where everyone has a home.    The TY Community Links class…

• 24 Apr, 2021

On Tuesday 9 TY students from the digital literacy November module took part in the National Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge in conjunction with Maynooth University and ICS Skills. They finished in the top 10% to…

• 17 Apr, 2021

On Friday an inspector from the Department of Education completed a COVID 19 inspection in the school. The full report will be available on the Department of Education’s website in the coming weeks.  Congratulations to…

• 9 Apr, 2021

After many weeks of online learning, all students will return to school on Monday the 12th of April. We look forward to welcoming back everyone. We have missed their voices, laughter and energy around the…