Mission Statement

Ballintleva N.S.is a co-educational, Catholic, primary school which strives to provide a well-ordered, caring, happy and secure atmosphere where the intellectual, spiritual, physical, moral and cultural needs of the pupils are identified and addressed.

While Ballintleva N.S. is a school with a Catholic ethos, it also has due recognition for all other religions.

Ballintleva N.S. will strive to promote, both individually and collectively, the professional and personal development of teachers through staff development programmes.

Ballintleva N.S. will encourage the involvement of parents through home/school contacts and through their attendance at Parent Teacher meetings.

Ballintleva N.S. will endeavour to enhance the self-esteem of everyone in the school community, to imbue in the pupils respect for people and property and to encourage in them the idea of being responsible.

Ballintleva N.S. will promote gender equity amongst the teachers and pupils.

Déanfaimid iarracht Gaeilge a labhairt.

The school motto is: We grow as people when we do our best.

The Crest

The School Crest encapsulates the many facets of the school community and its environmental heritage. The cross signifies the Christian denomination of the school and the Catholic ethos which is an integral part of the school curriculum. The Romanesque arch depicts the entrance to Dysart medieval church and refers to the Parish in which the school is located. The quill and the scroll recall Ballintleva as a seat of learning which has provided educational training and formation for generations of children for the greater part of two centuries. The colours primrose and blue as well as green and red displayed on the crest illustrate the school catchment area covering part of the Parishes of Dysart and Cam. (F. Beirne)