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

• Toe by Toe Dyslexia Training

  Fri 26 Mar 2021

  Well done and congratulations to teachers and assistants who have successfully completed specialised dyslexia training in the Toe-by-Toe programme. Toe by Toe is a highly structured and multi-sensory programme that has proven to be majorly effective in supporting children with reading/spelling difficulties.

  
  Thanks to Mrs Dempsey our Vice Principal & SENCo who organised this excellent professional development opportunity for our staff, which will prove so beneficial to consolidating and extending our pupils literacy skills!

  

• ❤️💪🌈 Steps to Well-being ❤️💪🌈

  Wed 24 Mar 2021

   50 of our staff recently signed up to participate in a two week 75,000 Step Challenge. This challenge was organised to promote the Mental/ Physical Health & Well-being of Staff. It is highly important at this time that our staff look after their own Mental & Physical and Health Wellbeing- so that they are able to assist our much valued pupils with theirs!

  
  The challenge was a big success with 5,170,000 steps completed by staff. This equates to approx 2585 miles in a two week period (over 8 times the length of Ireland).

   

  The winner of the challenge was Mrs Rosaleen Cunliffe with over 359,000 completed. 2nd place was Mr Brian Tweedie with 355,000 steps and 3rd place was Mrs Emer Cassidy with 300,000 steps. Thanks to Mrs Rebecca Dean for organising free fitness classes for our staff during this time to help them engage with the challenge & for collating the steps totals.

   

  All challenge participants were entered into a staff draw for £100 as extra motivation, the winner was Miss Denise Sinclair. Well done to all staff & everyone who upped their activity levels at all during the challenge!

  ( This challenge was not completed during school hours 😀)

  

• Helplines NI

  Tue 23 Mar 2021
  Please see the following information for support and advice from a variety of organisations, supported by the Public Health Agency.

  

• 🌳🌺 Welcome Garden 🌳🌺

  Tue 23 Mar 2021

  We are very pleased with the progress being made on our Welcome Garden. 
  With new signage, bespoke garden furniture & a circular stone planter centrepiece already in place it really will be a lovely feature to the school premises when completed. Planting will take place over the next three to four weeks by which time our neighbouring Outdoor Classroom will be completed. We will have a grand opening of our new gardens and play park before the end of April- exciting times ahead!

  

• 🌈🏫❤️🎈 Welcome Back Everyone!  🌈🏫❤️🎈

  Mon 22 Mar 2021

  School Staff were over the moon to welcome back all of our wonderful boys & girls back to school this morning. The children were treated to Welcome Back Balloons by the PTFA which they were truly delighted with. Thanks to the PTFA for organising and to our very talented Chair Andrea for creating a numbers of lovely displays around the school premises!

  

• 🍩🍭🍫 50p Friday 🍩🍭🍫

  Sun 21 Mar 2021

  The PTFA have very kindly offered to incur the cost of 50p Friday  this week. All children will receive a lovely treat free of charge. Thanks to the PTFA for their generosity once again!!😀

  

• £1500 Raised For School!

  Sat 20 Mar 2021
  A huge thank you and congratulations to Ronan Holden, who recently raised £1488 for St. Colmcille’s by completing the gruelling David Goggins 4x4x48 challenge. To complete the challenge, Ronan ran 4 miles, every 4 hours for 48 hours to raise these valuable funds for our school, an incredible display of strength, endurance and kindness. 🏃‍♂️💪🏆

  

• 📚 Return to School March Updates 📚

  Fri 19 Mar 2021
  

• ☘️ Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

  Wed 17 Mar 2021
  ☘️ Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all our pupils, families and our wider school community! ☘️

  

• Return to School Update

  Tue 16 Mar 2021

  Fantastic news to have our P4-7 pupils back to school on Monday.  School Staff are very excited to finally be in a position to welcome all of our children back to school where they belong!😀
   

  Department for Education Update:

   

  Primary school pupils in P4 to P7 will return to face to face teaching on 22 March.

  Following agreement by the Executive today, pupils in P4 to P7 will join the younger students who started back to full-time face to face teaching last week.    
  All remaining pupils (Years 8 to 11) will return on 12 April after the Easter break.  This will be subject to a review at the end of March.

   

  More information from the Department of Education