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

• Building Development🚧🧱

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  As per December’s updates we are pleased our building development work is now underway!

  Building/ Site Development Includes: 

  -New Extension- encompassing two large classrooms, a hygiene room, offices, withdrawal rooms & sensory rooms 
  -New Playground Area- with 5 a side football/netball court, playground markings and an outdoor shelter 
  -Outdoor Storage Shed. 

  The classrooms will be for our children in LSC3 & LSC4 and will create additional classrooms/withdrawal rooms in our main school building which will benefit all of our pupils.

  

• 🐣🥳 Easter Fun Day 🐣🥳

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Everyone at St. Colmcille’s is looking forward to our Easter Fun Day on Tuesday 26th March! There will be 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. This Fun Day will be provided at no additional cost to parents/families!

  

• 💻🤩 Coding Club Final- ‘Judges’ Special Award’ Winners! 💻🤩

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Our P7 Coding Club travelled to W5 LIFE on Thursday, to participate in the prestigious 2024 TechKnow Club Coding Final.

  After many months of hard work in order to learn and develop various coding languages; Sophia, Poppy, Tristan and Thomas had to rebuild their website from scratch, under time pressure and under the watchful eye of the judges!

  Our Coding Club performed remarkably well under such pressure and were able to fully rebuild their website in full working order, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. Our group then presented their website and code to the industry-expert judges, who were very impressed.

  During the award ceremony, our group were ecstatic to hear ‘St. Colmcille’s Primary School’ being called out as the winners of the Judges’ Special Award! This award was presented to their group for the overall impression they made with the judges, with regards to their coding-skills, problem-solving, resilience, teamwork and enthusiasm towards the project. 

  An amazing and well-deserved reward for Sophia, Poppy, Tristan and Thomas, who represented their school with distinction. Well done!

  

• ✝️🙏 Primary 3 Sacrament of Reconciliation ✝️🙏

  Fri 22 Mar 2024

  Our Primary 3 children recently took part in their first Sacrament of Reconciliation. This was a very special day for our children as they reflected on their Baptism and had the opportunity to reflect on the choices they make. The children were well prepared to know that God is love and is always ready to forgive. The children displayed wonderful behaviour and reverence in the Church. Well done to all the boys and girls! A special thanks to Fr Murray, Fr Toland & Fr Henry for celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation with our pupils. Thank you also to Ms Morgan, Ms Curran, Ms O’Dowd and Ms Flanagan for preparing the pupils to receive the sacrament and also to Ms Fryer and our fantastic choir for the beautiful singing.

  

• ♟👑 Chess Tournament Success ♟👑

  Tue 19 Mar 2024

  We are so proud of all our pupils who took part in the first Downpatrick Chess Tournament, an International Chess Federation event, at the weekend. James, Amir, Keighan, Cillian and Thomas enjoy developing their game each week in our Friday Chess Club at St. Colmcille's PS and all played so well throughout the tournament, earning points towards their world rankings! An extra special well done to Keighan and Amir who won trophies at the tournament, with Keighan becoming Downpatrick Children's Club Champion and Amir becoming the Under 12 Champion! Maith Sibh! 👏

  

• ☘️🇮🇪 St. Patrick’s Day Parade ☘️🇮🇪

  Sun 17 Mar 2024

  Comhghairdeas to the girls and boys who did an excellent job in representing our school in today’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Our pupils did a wonderful job of retelling the story of St. Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland. Go raibh míle maith agaibh to our staff and volunteers, Mr and Mrs Elliot, Mrs Cunliffe, Mrs Douglas, Mr Tweedie and Mr Lyttle as well as Philip Campbell and Down Community Arts. Lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

  

• 🌡🛒 Science Shop 🌡🛒

  Sun 17 Mar 2024

  
  To help celebrate Science Week 2024, our Primary 7 pupils hosted an excellent ‘Science Shop’. In the Science Shop, pupils throughout the school had the opportunity to purchase a wide range of low-cost scientific toys and gadgets, which promote skills in scientific-thinking and STEAM exploration.

  The shop was an excellent success- well done to our Primary 7s for their hard work and outstanding entrepreneurship skills shown!

  

• 🎉🥳☘️ Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig Oraibh 🎉🥳☘️

  Sun 17 Mar 2024

  Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all our pupils, families, staff and our wider school community!

  

• 🌡💡 Science Week 🌡💡

  Sat 16 Mar 2024

  This week, our girls and boys have been celebrating Science Week 2024.

  Classes have been working hard to complete a science investigation, where they followed a scientific method to answer a question posed. There have been a wide range of engaging, fascinating and mind-boggling experiments happening throughout the school, which presented excellent scientific learning opportunities to mark Science Week 2024!

  Our children have also been busy at home throughout the week, working towards completing their ‘Power Projects’. These are based on their World Around Us topic and they incorporate a wide range of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) activities. With the projects due to be returned to school on Tuesday, we are all excited to see the wonderful creations and innovation that has taken place! Our Key Stage Power project winners will also be announced next week!

  

• 🗓️🗣️ Seachtain na Gaeilge 🗓️🗣️

  Sat 16 Mar 2024

  Tá muid ag ceiliúradh Seachtain na Gaeilge! We are celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge!

  Seachtain na Gaeilge is an international celebration of our native language that takes place across Ireland and a number of countries around the world. Over the next few days we will be sharing some of the fantastic and fun learning that has been taking place at St. Colmcille’s during Seachtain na Gaeilge 2024!

  Tá an Ghaeilge do chách - Irish is for everyone!

  Bain Triail Aisti – Surprise Yourself!

  Scoil Spreagtha