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🗓 Upcoming Events 🗓

Sun 29 Jan 2023

We have lots of fun events coming up in school including:

⭐️ National Story-telling Week 📚📖
⭐️ 100 Days of School 💯
⭐️ Internet Safety Day 💻🎮
⭐️ Valentine’s Day Disco 💗💃
⭐️ And many more!

All of these event dates and more can be found by following the link below to our school calendar:

https://www.stcolmcillesps.co.uk/diary/grid/

🙏💕 Catholic Schools’ Week & Grandparents Day 💕🙏

Sun 29 Jan 2023

Our annual celebration of Catholic Schools' Week took place this week beginning on Monday 23rd January. The theme this year was: Walking Together in Faith and Love. There were tasks for children to complete each day focusing on faith and love. We hope these activities provided families with opportunities to discuss the faith with their children.

School Staff and Children were delighted to welcome a number of our grandparents to school this Thursday & Friday. Grandparents are very important people in both our children & parents' lives- through providing love, kindness, warmth and wisdom/guidance. It was important to officially recognise all grandparents past & present through a small gesture of an invitation to school for a cup of tea and bun. A candle was lit in all classes and a prayer of thanksgiving was said for grandparents at assembly.

🧐✅ Quiz Time 🧐✅

Sat 28 Jan 2023

Congratulations to Katie, Wiktor, Eábha and Maria from P6/7 and Ella, Emma, Adam and Aaron from P7 who attended De La Salle High School on Friday to take part in a quiz hosted by the Credit Union. The girls and boys did a fantastic job representing our school, competing against several other local schools and answering some very tricky questions! Well done all!

🙌 Badger Success 🙌

Sat 28 Jan 2023

Congratulations to Katie and Lara-Marie who both recently competed in the NI Badger of the Year Final. Both girls completed a variety of tasks to reach that stage of the competition and used their ICT skills to make a PowerPoint presentation on a topic of their choice which they shared with their fellow Badgers in the final. Both were then presented with a certificate to celebrate their achievements. Well done girls!

📚📖 National Story Telling Week 📖📚

Sat 28 Jan 2023

Next week we will be celebrating National Story Telling Week. It is a celebration of the power of sharing stories. Stories allow us to travel anywhere in the world and learn about places we have never been. They enable us to become different characters and help us develop our empathy. Stories provide important opportunities for us to relax and escape as well as develop essential Literacy skills. Next week classes will be taking part in exciting workshops, creating animations and staff and children will be sharing lots of stories with each other! 📖

⭐️🏅 Pupils of the Week 🏅⭐️

Fri 27 Jan 2023

A big well done to all of our fantastic Pupils of the Week! They have been working so hard and have made us all so proud! 🙌

📝📚🎨 Learning Around the School 📝📚🎨

Fri 27 Jan 2023

This week the spotlight is on LSC1 , P3A & P6!

Look at all of the fantastic practical and activity-based learning experiences that the pupils have been working hard with recently!

❤️ Chester's Challenge ❤️

Fri 27 Jan 2023

Key Stage 2 have enjoyed a fantastic three-week workshop delivered by the NI Chest Heart and Stroke Charity, in which they learned about the various elements of a healthy lifestyle. Week 1 saw the children learn all about the ‘Eat Well Guide’. During week 2 the children learned about the importance of being active and incorporating as much physical activity into their daily lives as possible. This focused on how much screen time we should have in the evening and how we can incorporate movement with our screen time. Lastly, pupils explored how screen time can affect our sleep and the importance of getting our 10 hours of sleep per night. The children enjoyed their three-week workshop and have taken away some valuable pieces of information to include in their daily lives. Thanks to Jessica and Amy for delivering an engaging workshop.

🧩📚 Learning Around School 🧩📚

Sat 21 Jan 2023

All our pupils have been busy working hard this week in school, engaging in rich and high-quality practical learning experiences. This week, we visited P2A, P4 and P4/5, to see their fantastic learning across the curriculum!