Latest news
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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☘️🌟 Irish Dance Success ☘️🌟
Mon 13 Jun 2022Congratulations to Nevaeh who recently achieved an amazing 3rd place in the All County Irish Dance Preliminary Championship. Nevaeh’s talent and skill in Irish Dancing continues to shine with her hard-work and dedication! We are all very proud of Nevaeh and her achievements here at St. Colmcille’s!
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💻🤝 Chromebook Donation 💻🤝
Sat 11 Jun 2022We were recently delighted to receive an incredibly generous donation of 20 Chromebooks from Moy Park Chicken, a locally-based company and one of Europe’s leading poultry producers. The Chromebooks donated by Moy Park will be of great benefit to our pupils by helping to further develop their ICT skills and enhancing opportunities to learn through our Virtual Learning Environments. Thank you to Mr McKernan and Mr McReynolds for organising the donation for our school. On behalf of our school community, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to Moy Park for the very generous donation.
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🎒 Primary 7 Transition Workshop 🎒
Fri 10 Jun 2022Primary 7 pupils from 7A, 7B and LSC4 were invited to Patrician Youth Centre on Wednesday to take part in a Transition Workshop as we continue to prepare our pupils for their exciting journey into post-primary education. Everybody had a brilliant time taking part in engaging, interactive activities and fun games. Thank you to Yvonne, Richard and Mark for organising and delivering this excellent workshop for our pupils.
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🏐⚽️ Netball & Football Tournaments 🏐⚽️
Fri 10 Jun 2022It has been a great week for girls’ sports in St. Colmcille’s, with teams attending a netball tournament in the Ballymote Centre and a football tournament hosted by IFA grassroots coaches in Ballynahinch. The teams represented our school very well and enjoyed participating in the competitions. Our school has also been invited to a Key Stage 2 boys’ Gaelic football tournament in Dundrum on Tuesday 21st June!
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🩹⛑ Mini-First Aid 🩹⛑
Fri 10 Jun 2022This week in school, P5, P5/6, and P6 children took part in a ‘Mini-First Aid’ training session with Caroline Boyd. The children learned how to deal with burns, breaks, and bleeds, learned how to carry out CPR, and also how to help someone who is choking. The children took part in lots of fun and interactive activities where they practised these lifesaving skills, they also received a special certificate and first aid booklet! This is such an important skill for all children to learn and our KS2 children now feel more confident when it comes to simple first aid skills and the importance of helping others! Our P7s are looking forward to participating in this very worthwhile training session in the weeks to come.
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☀️🏖 P3/4 Beach Trip ☀️🏖
Fri 10 Jun 2022P3/4 went on an exciting trip to Ballyhornan Beach on Thursday as a special treat for winning second place in the recent school Growing Challenge. P3/4 designed a flower bed with the theme, 'Save the Bees!' and planted lots of plants and flowers that would help support our local bee colonies! At the beach, the rain did not stop the fun and they had a fantastic time building sandcastles, exploring the rock pools for crabs, and playing in the playpark.
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🕊 Feast Day of St Colmcille 🕊
Thu 09 Jun 2022Today is the the feast day of St Colmcille (Latin: Columba). St Colmcille is one of three patron saints of Ireland. Born in County Donegal in 521, he founded monasteries throughout Ireland. He left Ireland as an act of penance in 563 and settled with 12 companions at Iona, an island off the western coast of Scotland. He died in 597 and was buried by his monks in the abbey he created. St Colmcille is a very special saint to us, as our school is named after him and he did many good works during his life, including founding monasteries and teaching the people of Ireland and Scotland about God.
You may wish to say the following prayer with your family this evening:
Prayer of St ColmcilleBe O Lord,
A guiding star above me,
A smooth path below me,
A kindly shepherd behind me
and a bright flame before me;
today, tonight and forever.
Amen.
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☘️🏆✨ Irish Dancing Success ✨🏆☘️
Sun 05 Jun 2022Some of our pupils have been very busy during our mid-term break and we want to take this opportunity to celebrate their achievements. Irish dancing requires a lot of hard work and dedication. The work ethic and passion Emily, Sean and Grace show towards their dancing is evident in the awards and places they have achieved this week. Please see their individual achievements below and join us in in congratulating them on their success. Well done Emily, Sean and Grace! 🌟
Emily had a fantastic day at the Connaith Open Championships in Scotland this weekend and came home with 8 trophies in total - Seven 1sts, one 2nd and one 3rd.
Sean became the 9-11 Boys Champion in a Feis in County Longford.
Grace was awarded 3rd place in U12 Preliminary Championships at The Maiden City Championships in Derry.
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☀️😎 Welcome Back ☀️😎
Sun 05 Jun 2022School resumes again tomorrow morning- Monday 6th June. We look forward to welcoming the children for the last weeks of the Summer Term. Clubs and dinners are the same as the 1st half of Term 3 and bookings can be made via SchoolMoney.
Please see the following links for further information on:
➡️ School Meals
➡️ Policies
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📹🎞 Nerve Belfast Create Certificate 🎞📹
Sat 04 Jun 2022St Colmcille's PS was recently awarded the Nerve Belfast Creative Learning Centre Create Certificate in recognition of the school's dedication to high quality practices within the subject area of ICT and our Creative Area of Focus, Animation. Mr McReynolds and Mr Austin received the award at a special celebration event held in W5 last Wednesday.
The Create Certificate is welcome recognition of our continuous efforts to provide our pupils with a modern teaching and learning experience which prepare our pupils for the 21st century workplace.
Well done to all of our staff for their ongoing professional development within ICT and special thanks to our Head of ICT Mr McReynolds, who coordinated the programme on behalf of the school and is always very proactive in advancing ICT practices within the school!
