Ballinascreen Credit Union Primary School Quiz

This year the Ballinascreen Credit Union Primary School Quiz was held at the An Rath Dubh Community Centre, Moneyneena on the 29th January. Ballinascreen Credit Union have now been running the Primary Schools quiz for 19 years. There were 24 teams representing all the primary schools in the parish, 16 in the under 11 section and 8 in the under 13 section.

St. Mary's Primary School won both the under 11 and under 13 sections. The members of the under 11 winning team were - Carrie Convery, Bronagh McAuley, Aoife Donnelly and Dearbhla McCallion while Aaron McBride, Damien McCoy, Peter Armour and Meaghan Lagan represented the school in the under 13 section.

Congratulations to the winning teams and a big thank you to all the schools that took part and continually make this event such a success.

School Savings Scheme

Ballianscreen Credit Union organises a school saving scheme for the local primary schools in the area to help them start savings for the future. The school savings scheme is picked up weekly and delivered back on the same day.

The primary schools that are involved in the school saving scheme are: -

St. Mary’s Primary School,

St. Eoghan’s Primary School,

Gaelscoil na Speíríni,

Altayeskey Primary School.

St. Columba's Primary School.

As well as the generous interest rates that our school savers recieve, their also presented with a free gift on transferring from primary to secondary education. This gift is an item which always proves beneficial to the pupil in thier new school.

CU Factor

The CU Factor singing competition is back, and even bigger for 2010! Budding solo singers or groups of up to five people, aged between 12-19, will be battling it out to get through the heats and regional finals, to make it all the way to the grand final, and a potential £1000 prize!

More Heats....Bigger Prizes....

Anyone interested in taking part, please contact Granne Kelly, Ballinascreen Credit Union for further information and application forms. Entries to be returned by September 2010.

Junior to Adult Membership Gifts

Once a Junior member reaches the age of 16, they are required to either withdraw the balance of the account or to join the Credit Union as a full member so the balance of the junior account can be transfered to that account. If they choose to become a full member, the Credit Union presents them with one of the following:-