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

• Mrs Loughran's Year 4 Assembly

  Tue 26 Feb 2019
  

• Wear it Red Day!

  Fri 15 Feb 2019
  Many thanks to everyone for wearing their red clothing to school and for contributing to Action Cancer NI and staff training in the use of our defibrillator.

  

• Digital Leaders Online Internet Safety Assembly

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  Congratulations to our Digital Leaders on their fabulous Online Safety Assembly. A great video presentation, drama and song were used to deliver the message of Safer Internet Day ‘Together for a Better Internet’.

   

  Please refer to the following websites for lots more useful information:

  • www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents

  • www.saferinternet.org

  

• Online Safety Assembly

  Wed 13 Feb 2019
  

• 100 Club Draw off to a Flying Start!

  Thu 07 Feb 2019

  Congratulations to the winners of our January Draw.

  They were:

  1st Prize £250 Claire Hamill

  2nd Prize £150 Pauline Lagan

  3rd Prize £100 Lesley McSorley

  Thank you to all you have signed up for the 100 Club Draw to date. You can still join for the remaining 5 months.

  Simply contact the school office and register your interest.

  Our next Draw will take place on Thursday 28th February.

  Remember if you’re not in, you can’t win!

   

  

• Year 1 Grandparent's Day

  Thu 07 Feb 2019
  A big thank you to all our Year 1 Grandparents who came into school on Friday 1st February to hear the beautiful singing and poetry of our children. Thank you to Mrs Weldon and her team for the beautiful scones. Also, a big thank you to the Year 1 teachers and classroom assistants for the beautiful gift the children made for their Grandparents

  

• Catholic Schools Week

  Wed 30 Jan 2019
  This week our school is Celebrating Catholic Schools Week. The children have been completing lessons following themes such as Living Tradition, Welcoming Diversity, In Service of our Community and Supporting Faith. Our Year 7 parents met to discuss the Confirmation process, the Year 4-7 children attended mass led by Mr O'Brien's class on Tuesday and Mrs Campbell's Year 7 class led a special assembly on Wednesday.

  

• Cats, Cats and Cats

  Tue 29 Jan 2019
  

• Year 7 are Learning Sign Language

  Thu 24 Jan 2019
  All of our Year 7 children have been learning sign language.  Ms Yanachir McCoy from St Joseph's Centre for the Deaf has been coming into school for an hour per week and working with all of the boys and girls in Year 7.  It's amazing just how much they have learned already.  Here's a photograph of some of the children from Mrs Campbell's room with Ms Yanachir, Mrs Campbell and Mr Traynor.  Look - they're signing 'Cheese' as the photo is being taken!

  

• Transport Survey

  Thu 24 Jan 2019

  DE is reviewing the policy on home to school transport although the policy for transporting pupils with a Statement of Educational Need is not part of this re-view.

  DE would like to work closely with parents, pupils and schools in their review. The first phase seeks to capture your ideas and views on the current policy and what you might like to see in the new policy. They want to capture responses through an online questionnaire as well as in a number of meetings in towns in the coming months. You will find details of these meetings in local press later on.

   

  You can have your say when you go to:

  https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/articles/home-to-school

   

  Further information to help you complete the questionnaire is also available on the website.

  DE has stressed that no decisions have been taken on any preferred option for how the home to school policy should operate in the future. Any final decisions would be for a future Minister for Education to decide and may even re-quire Executive approval. It is likely that the earliest any agreed change could be introduced would be the start of the 2021/22 academic year.  HAVE YOUR SAY!