Latest news
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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✝️ First Holy Communion ✝️
Sun 21 May 2023Congratulations to our Primary 4 pupils who made their First Holy Communion yesterday at St. Patrick’s Church, Downpatrick Parish. The pupils were fantastic throughout the service and were a true credit to their families and our school. Thank you to our school chaplain, Fr Toland, for organising and celebrating this special mass and to Mrs Curran, Mrs Cassidy, Miss Monan, Mr McEvoy and all staff for their hard work in preparing their classes to receive the sacrament. We hope all the pupils enjoyed their special day with their families!
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📝📚🎨 Learning Around the School 📝📚🎨
Sat 20 May 2023This week we checked in with P1B, P3B and Nurture, to see all of the fantastic outdoor and activity-based learning experiences that the pupils have been working hard with recently!
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⛰🛶 Primary 7 Residential ⛰🛶
Sat 20 May 2023Next week, Primary 7 are all set for their residential trip to Carlingford! There will be a range of exciting activities to take part in and plenty of time to make special memories together. Some of the fantastic outdoor and team activities that the P7s will be enjoying can be seen below!
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🧸💰 Business Beginnings 💰🧸
Sat 20 May 2023Our Primary 7 pupils have been working hard in recent weeks to set up their own business, as part of the Young Enterprise Northern Ireland Business beginnings initiative. As part of this, a group of our Primary 7 pupils went to Lisburn on Tuesday, to sell their ‘Teddy Towels’, bracelets & keychains: the ideas they based their business idea around. After several weeks on the production line, this was the first venture out for our Primary 7 group as a business- it was a very successful day! Well done to our representatives who did our school proud, as well as our entire P7 group who have been working hard to get the business up and running. Our P7 pupils are now looking forward to many more local sales opportunities in the coming weeks!
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⛪️ Sacrament of Holy Communion ⛪️
Fri 19 May 2023Reminder that the Sacrament of Holy Communion will be celebrated tomorrow (20th May) at 11.15am in St Patrick’s Church.
Children and their families must be seated by 11.05am - the mass will begin promptly at 11.15am.
Each child/ family will be allocated one seat within the church - therefore there should be no more than 8 family members attending. The mass will be shown on webcam via the Downpatrick Parish Facebook Page.
Tea and coffee will be served after mass - we encourage children and family members to attend and enjoy.
The weather forecast looks to be on our side!
We hope that you and your family have a wonderful day!
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⭐️🏅Pupils of the Week🏅⭐️
Fri 19 May 2023We are so proud of our super Pupils of the Week. They have worked so hard this week and have really impressed their class teachers, well done everyone!
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🗳 School Closure - Local Elections 🗳
Wed 17 May 2023A reminder that school will be closed tomorrow, Thursday 18th May, as our school is used as a polling station for the local council elections. We look forward to welcoming the pupils back on Friday morning!
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🌳🌸 School Planting Competition 🌳🌸
Sun 14 May 2023Our classes recently took part in a school-wide planting competition as part of outdoor learning and to celebrate the arrival of the Spring/Summer Term. Every class had wonderful ideas for their planter and showed amazing creativity, many linking their design to their current World Around Us topic. Choosing a winner for each key stage was incredibly difficult, with so many high-quality planters created, therefore special recognition was also given to a number of classes! Overall winners will receive a class party for their prize and special recognition winners will receive extra playtime!
The overall winners were:
Foundation Stage - P1A & P1B (Celebrating Pollinators)
Key Stage 1 - P3A & P3B (Spring is Here)
Key Stage 2 - P6/7 (World Landmarks)
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📚🤩 St. Colmcille’s Book Fair 📚🤩
Sun 14 May 2023Great news everyone! The Scholastic Book Fair is back this year and is arriving on Tuesday 16th May.
All classes will have the opportunity to visit the fair and view the range of books on offer. Parents can also get an idea of the books available by visiting the website: https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/travelling-books/the-books
*Please note there is a 3 for 2 offer available with the cheapest book being free.
The book fair does not accept cash payments. Parents can use the online payment system up until 4pm on Monday 22nd May. Payment Link: https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay/1238565
Please contact your child’s class teacher once you have made a payment to inform them of which books your child would like to purchase.
Collection of books paid for will take place on Tuesday 23rd May.
You can help make a difference by making a purchase from the Book Fair – every purchase earns our school rewards which can be spent on free books to add to our classroom libraries!
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🏥👩⚕️ Local MLA Visit to Support Healthcare Campaign 🏥👨⚕️
Sun 14 May 2023During our previous Right's Day children explored Article 24, which highlights that all children have the right to healthcare. We then launched a campaign to improve children's healthcare both on a local and global level. Children created posters and went on protest rallies to raise awareness of current issues effecting children accessing effective healthcare. They also wrote letters and created PowerPoint presentations and animations to raise their concerns to local MLA's and world leaders. We were then very lucky to have a visit from Colin McGrath SDLP, whom many of the children wrote to. The children shared their work with him and then put him in the hot seat by asking him lots of tough questions about Northern Ireland's healthcare for children and the effect the cost of living crisis is having on children's health. The children very much enjoyed the chance to share their learning with Colin McGrath and were left assured that he would continue to raise and act on the concerns and suggestions they had made to ensure that children's right to health is upheld. Thank you to Colin for taking the time to come and meet with the children and be part of our campaign.
