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

• 🐣💐🍫 Happy Easter 🐣💐🍫

  Sun 31 Mar 2024

  We wish all our children and their families a lovely Easter break & look forward to the children returning to school on Monday 8th April for Term 3!

  

• 🇵🇸🙏 St. Colmcille’s PS Donates to the Gaza Humanitarian Aid Effort 🇵🇸🙏

  Sat 30 Mar 2024

  The entire school community of St. Colmcille’s PS is proud to be supporting the humanitarian aid effort for the ongoing Gaza crisis. Mr Austin, Fr Toland and a number of our pupils were delighted to present a donation of £1000 to the UNICEF Gaza Crisis Appeal, which was collected over the past few weeks through generous donations from school staff and the school community. As Gaza faces famine and families continue to suffer the continuing effects of starvation, displacement and war, we hope that our donation will help assist UNICEF in their life-saving work there. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the people of Gaza, we continue to pray for an end to their suffering and peace for all.

  

• 🔭🏆 Science Week Power Project Winners 🔭🏆

  Sat 30 Mar 2024

  Our pupils recently took part in a ‘Power Project’ competition as part of Science Week. In this project, they had the power to choose and complete a range of STEAM activities, relating to their ‘World Around Us’ topic. The effort that pupils put into their projects, throughout the school, was inspiring and showcased a huge amount of creativity and knowledge.

  Congratulations to our Key Stage winners: Seth (P2B) who used stop-motion animation to create an excellent animated story of ‘Godzilla and the Three Pigs’, Jessie (P3B) who designed and created a space rocket for her topic of ‘The Solar System’ and Ethan (P5/6), who created a range of Viking themed props for the topic of ‘The Vikings’.

  Our winners were presented with a certificate and Science prize by our STEAM coordinator, Mr McKernan. Thank you to Mr McKernan for organising the Power Project Competition, as well as a very successful Science Week 2024! Well done to all those who created such wonderful projects!

  

• 📯ℹ️ Museum Easter Workshops 📯ℹ️

  Fri 29 Mar 2024

  Are you a curious collector who enjoys getting creative? Are you 6-12 years of age? Have you got some free time this Easter?

  MONDAY 1st APRIL (NO JOKE!)

  These workshops are free but must be booked in advance. Please contact museums@nmandd.org or call Amy on 03301374252. Workshops participants must be accompanied by an adult throughout the workshop.

  

• 🐣 Easter Fun Day 🐣

  Fri 29 Mar 2024

  The pupils enjoyed a very special end of term fun day this week. The boys and girls were rewarded for all their hard work with a special visit from Jigsaw Farm and an Easter themed arts and crafts morning. Each class also enjoyed a maths themed Easter hunt around the school grounds. 

  If that wasn’t enough fun the pupils then had a visit from the Easter Bunny, with each child bringing home an Easter Egg treat! Thanks to the PTFA, alongside our wonderful staff, for facilitating and organising such a fun and memorable day for the pupils.

  

• 🫀👏 Chest, Heart & Stroke Donation 🫀👏

  Thu 28 Mar 2024

  St. Colmcille’s PS, represented by Mr Harbinson, recently contributed alongside St. Mary’s PS and St. Malachy’s PS, to raise £1235 for the important work of NI Chest, Heart & Stroke!

  Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke

  

• 🐣 Easter Family Event 🐣

  Tue 26 Mar 2024

  Specially Connected are hosting an Easter Fun Family Event at the Newcastle Centre on 29th March from 12pm-1pm. Please see the poster below for booking details.

  

• 🐣🥳 Easter Fun Day Tomorrow 🐣🥳

  Sat 23 Mar 2024

  Our Easter Fun Day is almost here! We will be celebrating with Easter Art Workshops, Easter Egg Hunts and a visit from Jigsaw Farm, featuring lots of cool and interesting animals. Every pupil in school will also receive an Easter Treat from our PTFA. We can’t wait to share all the festivities with the school community!

  

• 🏆🏅 Weekly Award Winners 🏆🏅

  Sat 23 Mar 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.

  ♟️Well done to our super Chess Champion this week! ♟️

  🧑🏻‍🏫 Finally, well done to the super Mr Craig, our Duty Bearer of the Week!

  Congratulations everyone!👏👏

  

• 🙏🇵🇸 Gaza Crisis Appeal 🙏🇵🇸

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  An unimaginable number of families are currently suffering the effects of malnutrition and disease, homes, schools and hospitals have been destroyed by conflict, many lives have been lost and Gaza is now facing an imminent famine. Our fundraising appeal will continue this weekend, with all donations going towards UNICEF’s life-saving humanitarian work in Gaza. 

  Parents and families can donate via the School Shop on SchoolMoney. Donation options are £1, £2 and £5, or you can select multiples of any of these options if you so wish. Please donate whatever you can. Every penny will make a difference!

  schoolmoney.co.uk