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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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🏰📚 This Week is... National Storytelling Week 🏰📚
Wed 31 Jan 2024This week at St. Colmcille's PS, we are busy celebrating National Storytelling Week 2024!
This fantastic annual event is a celebration of the art of storytelling and the power of stories to connect, entertain, and inspire. Stories teach us about the world, they allow us to step into someone else’s shoes and feel empathy, they help us to relax and escape and they can help develop essential literacy skills.
During this week, people of all ages come together to share and enjoy stories in various forms, from traditional oral tales to modern narratives.
Primary 3A introduced National Storytelling Week with a class assembly last Friday. Their parents were invited along to watch the performance and at the end of the assembly the children enjoyed sharing a story with their family member.
We look forward to sharing all the exciting learning and fun taking place later this week!
#NationalStorytellingWeek
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✏️📘🚍 FAO P7 Parents ✏️📘🚍
Tue 30 Jan 2024Post Primary applications are now open for September 2024 via EA Connect!
Applications are open until Thursday 22 February and are not considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please ensure you read the published admissions criteria for the schools you are considering. To begin an application, please visit https://connect.eani.org.uk/parent
For more information and guidance on the application process, visit www.eani.org.uk/admissions #EAadmissions -
📝📚🎨 Learning Around the School 📝📚
Sat 27 Jan 2024Look at all of the fantastic practical and activity-based learning experiences that the pupils in P2a, P4b and P7a have been working hard with recently!
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🏆🏅 Weekly Award Winners 🏆🏅
Sat 27 Jan 2024🌟 Congratulations to our latest winners of the Pupil of the Week Award who have impressed everyone this week with their hard work in class and excellent behaviour!
📜 Well done to our Rights Respecting Pupils of the Week. These pupils have been exemplary at showing respect for the rights of their friends throughout the week.
🎶 Well done to our Musicians of the Week for all your fantastic efforts and on-going commitment to developing your musical talents.
🇮🇪 This week we also have two pupils who have been working very hard in their Irish lessons and really impressing Miss Gormley!
♟️Well done to our super Chess Champion this week, you have been impressing everyone at Friday Chess Club!
Congratulations everyone!👏👏
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🙏💜 Catholic Schools Week 🙏💜
Fri 26 Jan 2024This week at St. Colmcille’s, we have been celebrating Catholic Schools Week. Each day, the children completed activities connected to the theme: Catholic Schools as Communities of Service. On Wednesday, we celebrated Grandparents’ Day. The children from P1 and P7 invited their grandparents or a special person in to celebrate with a special tea/coffee morning and we acknowledged the important role grandparents play in our children’s lives. The rest of our children made lovely cards/poems and keepsakes for their grandparents. We had a winner from each key stage for their fabulous work and their grandparents/special person returned today for a lovely surprise. On Thursday, the P7 children served our local community by visiting the children in St. Colmcille’s Nursery school and carrying out an environmental cleanup at the Quoile Pondage Nature Reserve. The children also visited a number of businesses in the town who have been negatively impacted by the recent flooding. The children expressed their gratitude to these business owners and thanked them for their commitment to serving the people of Downpatrick and surrounding areas. Each business was given a small token to show our appreciation. Not all businesses have received gifts yet, in due course we hope to get around everyone. It has been a very rewarding and positive week, one which gave us the opportunity to put our faith into action. I’m sure you will agree this is reflected in our photos and in our children’s work. Thank you to all of our dedicated staff who assisted the children this week and a special mention to our two excellent RE coordinators, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Curran for all of their organisation during this successful week.
#CatholicSchoolsWeek #CommunitiesOfService
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🏫✏️ 100 Days of School 🏫✏️
Fri 26 Jan 2024Next week we celebrate our 100th Day of School. On Friday children will spend the day engaged in activity-based learning, arts and crafts all based around the number 100. The following week, the children will test their mental maths skills and compete in a mental maths competition against their classmates.
Check back next week to see what fun we got up to!
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❤️ Chest, Heart and Stroke Workshop ❤️
Fri 26 Jan 2024Primary 7 welcomed Jessica from Chest, Heart and Stroke Charity, for a very informative information session about smoking and vaping. The boys and girls explored some facts and myths about the dangers of vaping, as well as the health risks associated with smoking. It was a very useful session and the boys and girls were very grateful that Jessica took the time to support them in exploring the topic further.
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📚👏 Good Luck Primary 7 📚👏
Fri 26 Jan 2024Everyone at St. Colmcille’s would like to wish our P7 pupils who receive their transfer test results tomorrow the very best of luck!
We know that you all worked incredibly hard to prepare and that you gave it everything you have and that is truly more important than any result. Remember - a score in an exam does not define you.
You have already made us all proud! Good luck!
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🐦⬛🌳 Big Garden Birdwatch 🐦⬛🌳
Fri 26 Jan 2024It’s time for the world’s largest garden wildlife survey! The RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch runs from 26th to 28th January and everyone can get involved.
This yearly survey is a great way to keep an eye on our local birds. Simply count the birds you see in your garden, from your balcony or in your local park for one hour. Sign up here: https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch/register
Why not join Newry, Mourne and Down District Council at one of their FREE events;
Saturday 27th January – Big Garden Birdwatch
Location: Slieve Gullion Walled Garden
Time: 10.30am – 12pm
Suitable for all the family. Please dress appropriately for the weather! No booking required.
Sunday 4th February – Bird Sketching
Location: Annesley Walled Garden, Castlewellan Forest Park
Time: 1.00pm – 4.00pm
All equipment and light refreshments provided.
Booking is essential via What's on in Mourne Mountains and Ring of Gullion (visitmournemountains.co.uk)
#BigGardenBirdwatch
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☕️ ℹ️ Neuro Cafe ☕️ℹ️
Thu 25 Jan 2024An information and support event is being held in SERC Downpatrick Campus, for parents/carers of children with Autism and ADHD, including those awaiting assessment. The event will take place 10am - 12pm on Thursday 1st February. Please see the flyer below for all the details!
