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

• 🎉🥳 Happy New Year 🎉🥳

  Sun 31 Dec 2023

  Happy New Year to our school community. May 2024 bring you health and happiness!

  

• 🎄🗞️ December Newsletter 🎄🗞️

  Sat 23 Dec 2023

  Please see Issue 36 of our school newsletter, with all the latest information and events from St. Colmcille’s!

  

• 🎬🍿Cinema Trip🍿🎬

  Fri 22 Dec 2023

  Our Key Stage 2 pupils enjoyed a fantastic trip to the cinema to watch the new Disney movie, Wish. After a lot of hard work during Term 1, this lovely treat was well deserved!😁

  

• 🤝👏 Cost of Living Support 🤝👏

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  During December, many of our staff participated in a Basketball Tournament to raise sponsorship for our Cost of Living Support Fund.

  School staff also contributed to the fund by making donations towards a coffee morning. Our staff raised over £700!

  With this and very kind donations from Ballymote Community Project, Fountain Foodbank, ASDA, County Down Rural Community Network and Norbrook Laboratories GB, we were able to provide members of our school community with toys, hampers, gift vouchers and food items.

  

• 🎄🎅 Christmas Carol Event 🎄🎅

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  Our School Choir were in full voice yesterday performing at the Ballymote Community Centre.

  They sang a mixture of festive carols and hymns & represented St. Colmcille's PS excellently.

  They were very well received by the audience in attendance- who were very pleased and entertained with their efforts.

  We are very proud of our talented children!

  Thank you to the Ballymote Community Project for the invitation to sing and for all of their financial support & generosity towards our school.

  Mr Austin thanked Mr David McCarthy (Centre Manager) & Mr Patrick Kelly (Chair of the Ballymote Community Collective) at the end of the performance.

  It is often said that it takes a community to educate a child and the Ballymote Community Collective step up time and time again to support the school in its endeavours and to give back to their local community.

  

• 🎄📆 Christmas Holidays 🎄📆

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  🎄📆 Christmas Holidays 🎄📆

  

• 🎄Christmas Shows🎄

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  It was wonderful to see so many of you at our Christmas Shows over the last few weeks. The pupils put in a lot of effort into these performances and it was great to celebrate that work with their families and friends. The shows have been sent to parents via Seesaw are now available to watch on our school website, please follow the link to find them. 

  https://st-colmcilles-primary-school.primarysite.media/

• ♟️  Chess Club Success! ♟️

  Thu 21 Dec 2023

  Chess club celebrated the end of term with a prize giving ceremony to reflect the efforts of all the pupils over the last number of weeks. Mark and Aine were so impressed by the progress made by the players recently and all players received a trophy to recognise this. 

  Thanks again to Mark and Aine for organising and running the club, the boys and girls have had a great time, gained knowledge and learned new skills along the way.

  

• 💰 PTFA Bingo Success! 💰

  Sun 17 Dec 2023

  A huge thank you to our wonderful PTFA for organising the Christmas Community Bingo Night this week. The night was a great success, with lots of prizes won and fun had by all. As well as bingo there was a Movie Night for our younger pupils to enjoy and lots of treats and refreshments too. 

  Thank you to the PTFA for their continuous and creative fundraising efforts & to the school community for their very regular support. The fundraising by the PTFA helps us to provide our pupils with increased resources and excellent, fun experiences and we are very grateful to them.

  

• 📝📚🎨 Learning Around the School 📝📚🎨

  Fri 15 Dec 2023

  This week the spotlight is on LSC1 ,P3b & P4a!

  Look at all of the fantastic practical and activity-based learning experiences that the pupils have been working hard with recently!