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

• 🕺 Dance Fitness Class Tonight 💃

  Mon 16 May 2022

  Please see the following details about the Dance-Fitness Class taking place tonight at St. Colmcille’s:

  

• 🏰🧚‍♂️📖 Book Fair Coming to St. Colmcille’s 🏰🧚‍♂️📖

  Sun 15 May 2022

  Scholastic Book Fairs is coming to St. Colmcille’s PS, this Tuesday 17th May! Due to Covid Management, the book fair will not be open after school, however each pupil will have the opportunity to attend with their class throughout the week. Further details will be sent tomorrow via Seesaw. The Scholastic Book Fair is stocked full of interesting and engaging literature and stationary, with every purchase contributing towards free books for our school.

  

• 🏃‍♀️🏆🏃‍♂️ Sports Day Information 🏃‍♀️🏆🏃‍♂️

  Sun 15 May 2022

  Sports Day is scheduled for this Thursday 19th May. We will be holding a collection for donations to Downpatrick Food Bank on the day. Further details regarding Sports Day have been sent to families via Seesaw.

  

• 📜🤝 UNICEF Rights Respecting School & Rights Day 📜🤝

  Sun 15 May 2022

  St. Colmcille’s Primary School are working towards the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award and we recently celebrated Rights Day, followed by a special assembly on Friday. Rights Day was a day set aside for discussion and communication about the importance of the rights of a child. Each class investigated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and completed follow up activities focusing on one of the rights. The Rights Respecting Schools Award puts children’s rights at the heart of schools. The children’s charity UNICEF will work alongside our school to develop a safe and inspiring place to learn, where children are aware of their rights, talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination, and participation. The award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens.

  

• 📱💻 Digital SchoolHouse 📱💻

  Fri 13 May 2022

  Pupils from Primary 7B and LSC4 recently attended the Digital Schoolhouse Programme at St. Malachy’s High School Castlewellan. The pupils learned lots about input, processing and output components and then took part in a fun magic trick to learn more about Computational Thinking and how we can simplify instructions when coding. Thank you to Mr O’Hare at St. Malachy’s Castlewellan for inviting our pupils to participate in the Digital SchoolHouse Programme! St Malachy's High School Castlewellan Community

  

• 🕺 Dance Fitness 💃

  Mon 09 May 2022

  Please see the following details about the Dance-Fitness Class which starts tonight at St. Colmcille’s:

  

• ⭐️ Deaf Awareness Week ⭐️

  Sun 08 May 2022

  Today marks the conclusion of Deaf Awareness Week 2022. On Friday, we celebrated a special assembly in school to raise awareness of the challenges faced by deaf people, the different ways deaf people communicate with others and some of our pupils even had a go at spelling their name out using sign-language. We also learned about the five top tips for talking to our deaf friends from the National Deaf Children's Society.

  

• ⚔️🛡 Vikings Visit St. Colmcille’s ⚔️🛡

  Fri 06 May 2022

  P3/4, P5/6 & P6 were visited this week by some ferocious Vikings! They got to learn all about the different aspects of Viking life and invasions, including some of our own local Viking history. The pupils tried their hand at making clothes and got to try on some chainmail, shields and compare different weapons. They even got to have a sleep on a typical Viking bed, had a go at playing some Viking games and took part in Viking battle drills. Thank you to Harry Cheevers and DeCourcy Knights for organising and visiting us and providing such a fun and informative Viking afternoon!

  

• 🏆☘️ St. Colmcille’s Win St. Patrick’s Day Parade Prize 🏆☘️

  Fri 06 May 2022

  Recently, representatives from Primary 7 attended Down Arts Centre to accept a cheque for £300 on behalf of St Colmcille’s from Down Community Arts & Newry, Mourne and Down District Council. We were delighted to find out our entry into the St. Patrick’s Day parade, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, was awarded the second place prize by a panel of judges representing local businesses. This was an excellent reward, recognising the hard work and efforts of the pupils who took part in this year’s parade.

  

• 🚌 End of Year Trip Update 🚌

  Wed 04 May 2022

  We are delighted to have secured the following exciting end of year trips:

   

  • P5, P5/6, P6, P7A, P7B & LSC4 Children will be visiting Tayto Park (in Dundalk) Monday 27th June.

   

  • P3, P3/4, P4, LSC2 & LSC3 Children will be visiting Airtastic (in Craigavon) Tuesday 21st June.

   

  • P1A, P1B, P2A, P2B & LSC1 Children will be visiting W5 (in Belfast) Tuesday 21st June.

   

  Through PTFA Fundraising efforts and school funds, we are endeavouring to reduce the cost of the trips as much as possible. PTFA/School will be paying for transport to & from the trip venues. The Tayto Park trip will cost £15 per pupil; Airtastic will cost £10 per pupil and W5 will cost £5 per pupil.

  Payments for trips are available now on SchoolMoney, which can be paid in full or in £5 instalments.