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

• 🤝😊 PTFA Annual General Meeting 🤝😊

  Thu 21 Sep 2023

  Our PTFA Annual General Meeting will take place next Thursday 28th September at 3:15pm in the Assembly Hall. Anyone who would like to join our fantastic PTFA is welcome to attend, as are existing PTFA members. We look forward to seeing you all then!

  

• ♟️👑 Chess Club - Every Friday♟️👑

  Sun 17 Sep 2023

  We are delighted to offer an after-school Chess Club on a Friday from 2pm-3pm, for P4 to P7 pupils, beginning this Friday 22nd September. Come along to learn and play this very fun and engaging strategy game. Our club is open to complete newcomers to chess, as well as players of all abilities. Thank you to Mr Mark Doxey, one of our parents, for providing this unique and fun opportunity for our pupils and a special thanks to Lisburn Chess Club for donating chess equipment to our school!

  Each session will be at a low-cost of £2 and places can be booked by completing the following form. A payment will be made available throughout the week for those that sign up via the form.

  https://forms.office.com/e/5CYYwCh4n0

  

• 📚📖 Roald Dahl Day 📚📖

  Sat 16 Sep 2023

  On Wednesday 13th September St Colmcille's Primary School celebrated Roald Dahl Day - a special day to remember the talented author who wrote more than 20 children's books. Roald Dahl died on 23rd November 1990. Every year, since the 13th September 2006 - on what would have been his birthday - there's a special Roald Dahl Day to celebrate his stories and their characters. The boys and girls spent the day learning all about Roald Dahl's life, reading some of his most popular stories and participating in a range of creative and engaging activities.

  Each class will award a ‘Golden Ticket' for enthusiasm, positive input and impressive effort, the winners will be announced next week! Take a look at all the fun and impressive activities our pupils were engaging in to celebrate Roald Dahl Day!

  

• 🚧😄 Coming Soon-Jump & Bounce Zone 🚧😄

  Sat 16 Sep 2023

  Our new Jump & Bounce Zone is currently under construction!

  The area will include:

  ·         3 state of the art Berg Trampolines & Safety Cages
  ·         Seating
  ·         Plants/shrubs
  ·         Natural woodchip surface
   
  We want all our children to have access to great facilities and experience fun playtimes. There is a strong link between enjoyable recreational opportunities and improved classroom performance. This area will also be used for Bounce Therapy which will assist pupils with Social, Emotional, Behaviour and Wellbeing Issues.

  We hope to have the area ready for use before the end of the month!

  

• 👥💙 Rights Respecting Pupils of the Week👥💙

  Sat 16 Sep 2023

  Congratulations to our Rights Respecting Pupils of the Week. These are pupils who have gone above and beyond to promote and learn about rights and who help make sure that the rights of all children in our school are upheld. Well done boys and girls! 
  Our Rights Steering Group this week chose Mrs Douglas as our Duty Bearer of the week. I think the whole school community would agree that Mrs Douglas has more than earned this award, constantly going above and beyond to make our school a better place! Thanks for all you do Mrs Douglas! ⭐️

  

• 📝📚🎨 Learning Around the School 📝📚🎨

  Sat 16 Sep 2023

  This week the spotlight is on P1B, P3A & Nurture!

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

  

• 🌲🌺 Whole-School Planter Revamp Contest 🌲🌺

  Fri 15 Sep 2023

  To mark the new school year and the beginning of Autumn, our classes were challenged to tidy and repurpose their planter boxes in the Pond and Nature Area. Each class worked hard to improve the presentation of their planter, including removing wilted plants and old leaves, as well as turning over the soil and adding compost. The winner for Foundation Stage was LSC1, the winning planter in Key Stage 1 belonged to P3A & P3B and the winner for Key Stage 2 was LSC3! Congratulations to each winning class, who will all get to enjoy a bus trip in the coming weeks as a prize for their hard work and effort!

  

• 🌟😄 Pupils of the Week 🌟😄

  Fri 15 Sep 2023

  Congratulations to all our hard-working winners of the Pupil of the Week Award! These girls and boys have impressed everyone with their efforts in class, their excellent behaviour and respect towards all.

  

• 🌳🌸 School Grounds 🌳🌸

  Fri 08 Sep 2023

  We are very proud of our beautiful school grounds and use them to deliver a modern and activity-based learning curriculum. The children thoroughly enjoyed their time outside this week in the lovely weather- they regularly avail of learning in our Outdoor Classroom, Nature Area, Oasis & Wildflower Garden, playgrounds and Pond & Nature Area. We are also proud of the positive impact that our school grounds have for local biodiversity and habitats. We recently earned the Silver Trees Schools Award and will soon be going for Gold! Thank you to our school staff/cleaning team for maintaining the areas so well and making them continually accessible to our children for their learning.

  

• 💙👥 Rights Respecting Pupils of the Week👥💙

  Fri 08 Sep 2023

  Congratulations to our first Rights Respecting Pupils of the Week of the new school year. These are pupils who have gone above and beyond to promote and learn about rights and who help make sure that the rights of all children in our school are upheld. Well done boys and girls!  

  Our Rights Steering Group this week chose the brilliant Mrs Baker as our Duty Bearer of the week. A very well deserved award, we appreciate everything you do for the school and the children! You are a star! ⭐️