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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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🧠😀 Children’s Mental Health Week🧠😀
Sun 11 Feb 2024This week we celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week!
Children took part in a variety of lessons to develop their awareness of how to look after their mental health and what mental health is. During the week, children were given the chance to bring in something they are proud of! This was a great opportunity for the children to express themselves and show their teacher and classmates what makes them unique. As well as this, all classes made sure to get down to our daily mile track each day. Getting children outdoors, exercising and chatting to friends was a great way to promote and boost their mental health and wellbeing.
To finish off the week, P4-7 children took part in an online art workshop hosted by Sinead McDermott from the Art and Design Factory in Belfast. The children thoroughly enjoyed this fun and engaging session and we would like to thank Sinead for the brilliant session!
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🩰🎼 P5/6 Dance Finale 🩰🎼
Sun 11 Feb 2024This week the P5/6 Cultural Dance Programme culminated with the finale at Downpatrick Leisure Centre. The programme, which was organised by the council and delivered by Jenna Finnegan, saw the boys and girls have four dance sessions in school before the final event at DLC.
The boys and girls performed the routines that they had worked tirelessly on over the last month and really blew everyone away with their skills and efforts. It was wonderful to observe the confidence they had during their performances, it is no mean feat to perform with such gusto in front of such a large number of observers, including several local councillors. The pupils did themselves proud and represented the school tremendously well.
Keep dancing P5/6!
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📝📚🎨 Learning Around School 📝📚🎨
Sat 10 Feb 2024This week we are taking a look at all of the fantastic practical and activity-based learning experiences that the pupils in P3B, LSC2, LSC3 and P7B have been working hard with recently!
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🎤❤️ End of Half Term Disco 🎤❤️
Fri 09 Feb 2024The pupils celebrated their hard work and efforts this half term with a well deserved Valentine’s Disco. The boys and girls wore red and pink to mark the occasion and they enjoyed dancing with their friends. The pupils also had the opportunity to enjoy some treats from the tuck shop.
It was a fitting end to a great half term!
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❤💰 PTFA Community Bingo Success! 💰❤
Fri 09 Feb 2024Many thanks to our excellent PTFA for organising the Valentine's Community Bingo Night which took place this week.
The night was a great success, with lots of prizes won and fun had by all. As well as bingo, there was a movie night and arts and crafts activities for our younger pupils to enjoy. There were many refreshments on offer, including pizza and sweets and treats.
We are very grateful also to our dedicated school staff who also assisted with the event.
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🏆🏅 Weekly Award Winners 🏆🏅
Fri 09 Feb 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 brilliant Mrs Corrigan, our Duty Bearer of the Week!
Congratulations everyone!👏👏
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📆HALF TERM BREAK📆
Fri 09 Feb 2024Well done everyone for working so hard this half-term, now it’s time for a well deserved break. Enjoy your time off and we look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Monday 19th February!😁
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✨❤️ Valentine’s Charity Bingo & Children’s Fun Night ✨❤️
Tue 06 Feb 2024This Thursday Evening at St. Colmcille’s - Valentine’s Charity Bingo & Children’s Fun Night! Doors open 6:30pm. Bingo starts 7pm.
Booking for Bingo & Children’s Fun Night is essential to assist planning, staffing and for health & safety purposes. Please complete the following short form if attending:
https://forms.office.com/e/ydxfBrzn9U
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⚽️ Football Success! ⚽️
Sun 04 Feb 2024Congratulations to our P7 Boys’ Team who took part in a mini-football tournament along with teams from St Nicholas’ PS Ardglass, St Brigid’s PS Downpatrick and St Mary’s PS Dunsford. There were some excellent skills on display with the boys winning the final game 2-1. Thank you to the other teams who attended and for being great sports.
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❤️ Chest, Heart and Stroke Workshops ❤️
Sat 03 Feb 2024The P6 and P5/6 classes enjoyed their second workshop with Chest, Heart and Stroke where they were learning their 'Monkey Moves'. This workshop discussed the importance of incorporating physical activity in our daily lives and looked at how many minutes of exercise we should be getting each day. An enjoyable session and next week they will be learning all about the importance of sleep!
The P7s took part in an anti-smoking and vaping workshop recently, learning all about the dangers that smoking/vaping has on our physical health. A highly engaging workshop with plenty of take-home messages as well.
We look forward to continuing the workshops in the coming weeks!
