Latest news
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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🥳🎉 100th Day of School Celebration 🥳🎉
Sat 29 Jan 2022This year we will be celebrating 100 Days of School on Friday 11th February. The 100th day of school marks a special opportunity to reflect and celebrate our pupil's academic achievements in Maths. During this week pupils will participate in a range of lessons, games, challenges, and activities that promote Maths and celebrate their mathematical skills. Teachers will be selecting their pupils of the week for this week based on children's effort and participation within their class with a Cinema Vouchers also being given out to pupils to excel with their effort and attitude to their Maths learning during this week. Mr Clifford and the Numeracy team will also be running a Mental Maths Bee in school as part of the 100 Days of School celebrations with special prizes for the winners
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💫📚 New Online Reading Scheme- Rising Stars Reading Planet 💫📚
Sat 29 Jan 2022St Colmcille’s PS have recently invested in a new Online Reading Scheme Rising Stars Reading Planet. It is an exciting, interactive resource which provides a wide selection of reading eBooks for children from Primary 1 to Primary 7. Each eBook features an audio recording that is synchronised to the text, highlighting each word as it is heard. The eBooks also include checkpoint quizzes and an end-of-book quiz to check children’s comprehension skills. The questions in the end-of-book quizzes are linked to important reading skills such as vocabulary, sequencing and inference.
Reading Planet features a huge range of digital reading books to appeal to the tastes and interests of children who are starting on their reading journey as well as those who are becoming fluent readers. The books include a variety of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays, written by experienced educational and children’s writers. All the books have been carefully levelled according to book banding criteria and Lexile measured to ensure steady progression throughout the programme. Each child has their own account and related login details to access reading material. We greatly value the support of our parents in embedding this new scheme both in school and at home!
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🍬🍪 50p Friday 🍬🍪
Sat 29 Jan 2022Our pupils enjoyed their first 50p Friday treat of 2022 today, each class were treated to a tasty drink, packet of sweets and shortbread hearts! Thank you to our PTFA for organising and providing this fantastic treat for the pupils!
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💛📝 Grandparents’ Day Competition 💛📝
Sat 29 Jan 2022All our classes took part in a Grandparents’ Day Competition as part of our celebration of Catholic Schools’ Week. There were so many excellent pieces of work completed by the pupils to show their love for and appreciation of their grandparents. The winners from each class received a cinema gift voucher. The overall winners of each key stage were Orlaith (P1B), Chloe (P3/4) and Caitlin (P7A), who all received a bouquet of flowers to present to their grandparents, with Caitlin’s mum accepting the flowers on behalf of her grandmother. Well done to all for their fantastic work!
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✝️ Spirit of Catholic Education Award ✝️
Fri 28 Jan 2022St Colmcille’s was honoured on Monday 24th January by the Catholic Teaching & Support Service at a special awards ceremony at St Mary’s University College Belfast. We achieved the award for our outstanding RE practices- particularly within the area of Community Partnership and Outreach. Thanks to all teachers & assistants for their continuous efforts in advancing the faith of the children and to parents for their continuous support. A special mention to Mrs Morgan for her great work in leading RE within the school and to Fr Toland for all of his support as school chaplain.
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🌟🧪🔬 Science Starz 🌟🧪🔬
Fri 28 Jan 2022Science Starz is an award-winning mobile science lab that delivers hands-on, interactive science programmes in order to ignite an interest in STEM from an early age.
Science Starz have worked with a number of classes in our school to enhance our current WAU topics. The children participated in lots of fun activities and loved the opportunity to dress in white coats and protective goggles to become proper scientists. The Primary 7 children explored the different types of volcanoes and their features before creating their own erupting volcano. Primary 4 explored the role of insulation in keeping animals warm in the Polar regions. Primary 3 loved creating clouds and rain using shaving foam and food colouring. LSC2 and 3 have been learning about Space and created flying rockets using chemical reactions. All of the children were so engaged and loved participating in the workshops.
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⭐️⭐️ Irish Dancing Success ⭐️⭐️
Wed 26 Jan 2022A huge congratulations to Sean from P5/6, who recently achieved an impressive 2nd Place in the Open Championship at The Gates of Derry Feis, as well as a 2nd Place and 7th Place in the Open Championship and the Top Scoring Boy Award at The Irish Shield Feis in Dublin. Sean continues to be a shining star and exhibit his incredible talent in Irish Dancing and we are all very proud of him here at St. Colmcille’s! ☘️
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⭐️⭐️ Irish Dancing Success ⭐️⭐️
Wed 26 Jan 2022Well done and congratulations to our very talented pupil Grace from P7 who recently achieved a 1st & 3rd at The Gates of Derry Feis on Sunday. Keep up the good work Grace we are proud of you! ☘️
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🍭🍬🍫 PTFA 50p Friday 🍭🍬🍫
Wed 26 Jan 2022Everyone at St. Colmcille’s PS is looking forward to the first 50p Friday of 2022, organised by our fantastic PTFA! We wonder what treats will be in store for the pupils this month…
50p contributions can be paid via the School Shop on SchoolMoney.
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Changes to Self-Isolation for Covid-19 Cases
Mon 24 Jan 2022*Changes to 10-day self-isolation period for COVID19 cases*
You may be able to end your self-isolation period early provided you have 2 consecutive negative LFT results taken 24 hours apart, with the first of these tests taken no earlier than day 5. For more information and to view this diagram in full see:
