Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Making St Brigid's Crosses

  Thu 27 Jan 2022

  Today we welcomed back to school our friend and former teacher Miss McAuley.  During Catholic Schools Week Miss McAuley has visited our school each year since her retirement to work with groups of Year 6 children making St. Brigid's Crosses.  Today she also gifted each child in Year 6 a beautiful medal medal and prayer.  The children had a very enjoyable time and learned a very traditional Irish weaving skill.  Many thanks for your time Miss McAuley!   

  

• Virtual Mass to Celebrate Catholic Schools Week

  Wed 26 Jan 2022

  Today Fr Colm offered up Mass for Cathoic Schools Week.  All children in Year 4-7 attended Mass virtually, with Mrs Downey's Year 5 chilldren attending Mass in Mater Dei Church to participate in the liturgy.

  

• January Virtual Assembly during Catholic Schools Week

  Tue 25 Jan 2022

  Today we had our virtual assembly to mark the end of another month in school.  Today's assemsbly also allowed us to come together virtually to mark Catholic Schools Week. 

   

  Mrs Campbell's Year 6 classes prepared a beautiful assembly entitled 'Living Life to the Full' which we were able to share with all of the children.  It helped reinforce the importance of kindness and friendship, how unique we all are with our own gifts and talents and the importance of keeping our beautiful world clean and safe - all key themes of Catholic Schools Week.  Our assembsly also enabled us to mark special celebrations such as birthdays and the presentation of our monthly awards.  It's hard to believe we are almost half way through this school year!

   

   

  

• Orchestra Practice recommences for Term 2

  Wed 19 Jan 2022

  After their very successful Christmas performance the school orchestra have recommenced their weekly practices with Mrs McDonnell ..... we look forward to another very succesful collective performance from these very talented boys and girls later this term.

  

• Water Butt Donation from NI Water

  Mon 17 Jan 2022

  NI Water came today to deliver one of their water butts for us to use in school.  The Eco team welcomed Pat from NI Water, who showed us how it works and explained how important the nutrients in the rainwater are for helping the plants to grow.

   

  The Eco team will be able to monitor how much rainfall it can hold and all classes in the school will be able to use the water gathered for a variety of activities for our outdoor learning and in helping to reuse the water for our outdoor environment.

   

  Thank you to NI Water for supplying this. 

   

  AND GUESS WHAT ......... Our Cash For Clobber Scheme has just earned us another £50!  We'll be running another few collection schemes this term.  Keep your eyes peeled!

  

• Run Anon Presentation

  Fri 14 Jan 2022

  Many thanks to Run Anon for their very generous donation of £400 towards our school funds after their recent 5k/10K run.  The money donated will be used to purchase additional reading books for the school.  Again many thanks!

  

• Mr Grant (Chair of Governors) Visits Year 5

  Wed 12 Jan 2022

  When Mrs Sheppard’s class arrived to school on Monday morning there was a mysterious box waiting for them. The children enjoyed guessing what might be inside… some children thought it might be new books for the class or thought tickets to a school trip. Someone even thought it might be a new hat for Mrs Sheppard. Even after the excitement of opening the box, the class were still left guessing. Most of the children were convinced what lay inside, was a mould made out of Weetabix!

   

  Luckily the box came with a note explaining that Mr Grant (Chairperson of the Board of Governors) had come across an empty wasp’s nest in a roof space. He had carefully brought it to Primary 5 for their interest. The children enjoyed researching wasps and their nests, exploring the National Geographic website and some of the documentaries and time lapses of how wasps build their nest.

   

  The children were so grateful.  They invited Mr Grant to come and hear all about what they had learnt and to thank him personally for a great morning of discovery learning.