Latest News

New Board of Governors

Thu 28 Feb 2019

I would like to introduce to you the new Board of Governors for St. Colmcille's Primary School and Learning Support Centres. They bring to this role a wealth of talent, business acumen and skills that will prove very beneficial to the children, parents and staff of our school.

Jack Manley (Representing the Department of Education).

Yvonne Maguire and Therese Murphy (Representing the Education Authority).

Roisin Mc Kenna, Fr Liam Toland, Noreen Meehan (Chairperson) and Brenda Douglas (Representing the Trustee).

Trish Stitt (Parent Governor) and Marianne Dempsey (Teacher Governor).

Declan Murray (Secretary to the Board of Governors).

A booklet will be sent home with the children on Monday explaining the roles and responsibilities of our new governors.

Safe Use of Social Media

Tue 26 Feb 2019

I just wanted to bring to your attention a very concerning new 'game' which is out at the moment and follows the older 'blue whale' trend of a few years back. The game involves an avatar called 'Momo' - a very frightening female character. We have taken the decision not to publish an image of 'Momo' as it will be upsetting for our children.

The PSNI are concerned about how the game conceals itself within other harmless looking games played by children. The game has been reported on Youtube, despite parent restrictions normally put in place.

When downloaded, the character will tell your child to talk to them through WhatsApp and a number of other commonly used apps like TikTok, Musical.ly and Snapchat to complete challenges. 'Momo' then tells your child to self-harm or she will put a curse on them.

We would ask that you be extra vigilant of the content your child is viewing online. Remember we shared with you the age appropriate limits as a guideline for using apps and online services.

We are only too happy to offer you additional support at school if you have any queries relating to this. Please contact Mr Murray or Mrs Dempsey directly.

PTA Valentine's Day Sweet Winners!

Thu 14 Feb 2019

Well done to the two luckiest pupils in our school today! Alexis won the PTA chocolate hamper and Erin correctly guessed the number of sweets in the jar. Incidentally, there were 306 sweets in the jar! I wonder how close you were? Huge thanks to the PTA for organising these draws and for all of the work that they put into the school disco.