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

• 🤩👏 Edina Trust Prize Winners 👏🤩

  Fri 30 Jun 2023

  Having partnered in recent years with the Edina Trust charity to develop and enhance high quality STEAM provision within school, we have been chosen as winners of their ‘Super Scientist’ Prize draw. 

  The prize includes two wonderful science books for our school: ‘Beetles For Breakfast...and Other Weird and Wonderful Ways to Save The Planet’ by Madeleine Finlay & Jisu Choi, and ‘Microbe Wars’ By Gill Arbuthnott & Marianna Madriz. Both of these titles made the shortlist for The Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2022. These will be a great addition to our ever-growing bank of STEAM resources in our school!

  

• 📜🥳 Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award Success 📜🥳

  Fri 30 Jun 2023

  We are delighted and very proud to share with you that on 13th June 2023 we received the prestigious Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights. This award is clear recognition of our dedication for putting children's rights at the heart of our school and all the hard work of our staff, pupils and school community in promoting a Rights Respecting, inclusive ethos that puts the needs of all our learners first to create a happy and positive learning environment. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is granted to schools that show commitment to promoting and realising children's rights and encouraging adults, children, and young people to respect the rights of others in school. The next step on our Rights journey is going for Gold! Thank you and congratulations to Ms Wilson, who coordinates the Rights Respecting School Programme and worked tirelessly towards achieving this award for our school!

  

• 👏🥳 Celebrating The Class of 2023 👏🥳

  Fri 30 Jun 2023

  This week, we said a fond farewell to the Primary 7 Class of 2023. To celebrate their hard work and time at St. Colmcille's PS, we held a special Leavers' Assembly and Prize-Giving Ceremony. Our pupils were awarded trophies for excellence in a number of areas, including; Art, Drama, ICT, Sports, Music and Academic Achievement. Mr Austin then delivered a speech, highlighting some key moments of the group's journey through St. Colmcille's. Afterwards, our P7s were all treated to an ice-cream treat and tea, coffee & snacks for their families. Thank you to Mr McKernan, Mr McReynolds & Mr Lyttle for organising the Leavers' Assembly and Prize-Giving and to all the families who came to celebrate with the pupils. We wish all of the Class of 2023 the very best of luck in their new schools and in the future, they will always be part of the St. Colmcille's Family.

  

• 😎☀ Summer Programme - Limited Places Available 😎☀

  Thu 29 Jun 2023

  We are all very excited for our Summer Programme, beginning Monday 3rd July. We have 2 weeks packed full of Summer fun for pupils to enjoy. There are 7 places remaining for our Summer Programme. If you would like your child or children to attend, send us a message or call the School Office on 02844614177 to secure a place! Dates and further details can be found in the poster below.

  

• 🍴🥗🍱 Free School Meals & Uniform Allowance Application Information 🍴🥗🍱

  Tue 27 Jun 2023

  Please see below information from the Education Authority

  📢 Applications for Free School Meals and Uniform Allowance for the upcoming academic year are now open! 

  Click here to apply 👉 https://ow.ly/Rhca50OWYW9 

  Please note, as well as new applicants, parents/guardians of children who are already in receipt of Free School Meals and Uniform Allowance will need to apply again for this school year. 

  You must register with an email address and create an account to apply. You will then be able to log back in to check your application.

  💻 Department of Finance #GoONNI are hosting several digital clinics this week in libraries across Northern Ireland to provide parents with support for applying. 
  ➡️ Tuesday 27.06.23 – Omagh Library (10am – 12pm) & Strabane Library (2pm – 4pm)
  ➡️ Wednesday 28.06.23 – Woodstock Library (10am – 4pm) 
  ➡️ Thursday 29.06.23 – Belfast Central Library (10am – 4pm) Libraries NI

  There will be more clinics throughout July. 

  For more information, visit our Free School Meals and Uniform Allowance page on our website 👉 https://ow.ly/ri1850OWYW8 #EAFSMU

   

• ☘️🎉 🌟Irish Dancing Sucess ☘️🎉🌟

  Mon 26 Jun 2023

  Well done to our very talented P7 Pupil
   Erin, who recently enjoyed success at her Class Feis- securing two 1st places & also one 2nd, 3rd & 4th place. We are all very proud of you Erin and look forward to hearing about your future success in Irish Dancing!

  

• 🏅🥋 Taekwondo Success 🏅🥋

  Mon 26 Jun 2023

  A huge congratulations to Emily from our P7 class who took part in the European Taekwondo Championships, held in Lisburn last weekend. Competing against tough competition from across Europe, Emily brought home a gold and two bronze medals, a testament to her amazing talents in the martial art. Well done, Emily, we are all very proud of you here at St. Colmcille's!

  

• ⛪️✝️ End of Year Mass ⛪️✝️

  Sun 25 Jun 2023

  We are looking forward to celebrating our school End of Year Mass on Tuesday 27th June at 9.30am with Fr Toland Downpatrick Parish. All classes will be participating via the parish livestream which can be accessed using the link below. We are encouraging families to join us in what will be a lovely way to mark the upcoming end of the school year. 

  https://www.churchmedia.tv/st-patricks-church-downpatrick

  

• 🎉🥳 Fair-tastic Times at St. Colmcille’s PS 🎉🥳

  Sat 24 Jun 2023

  Everyone is buzzing after our first successful Summer Fair, held yesterday at school! We kicked off the event in the morning, where all the pupils of St. Colmcille’s PS, enjoyed a range of attractions, including inflatable games, carnival rides, Viking battle, team games, obstacle courses, a disco and art & craft activities. Our event then opened to the entire community of Downpatrick and beyond, in the afternoon, with the addition of a huge range of carnival games, ice-cream, slushies and a delicious barbecue, along with all of the attraction above.

  It was a delight to see our pupils, families and the wider community having a whale of a time and making memories to last. We are indebted to our wonderful PTFA and our school staff who worked tirelessly to make this event a reality. Thank you to everyone who came to the Summer Fair and helped make it such a roaring success. We are delighted to share some photos from the event and will share more over the coming days.

  #FunForAll #MoreThanASchool

  

• 🎓🥳 P7 Leavers’ Assembly & Prize-Giving 🎓🥳

  Fri 23 Jun 2023

  We are all looking forward to celebrating the Class of 2023, this coming Monday 26th June! The P7 Leavers’ Assembly & Prize-Giving will begin at 1:45pm in the Assembly Hall. We can’t wait to welcome our P7 pupils and their families on Monday, to celebrate their achievements and their time at St. Colmcille’s PS.