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

• SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS, FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER

  Mon 30 Sep 2019
  REMINDER:

  The photographer is in school this Friday, 4th October, to take individual and family photographs. Say cheese!

  

• AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES BACK ON THIS WEEK

  Mon 30 Sep 2019

  After school activities restart this week...

   

  Monday... Art & Craft  P3-P7

      

  Tuesday... Art & Craft P1&P2

                ... Art & Craft P3-P7

                ... Choir P5-P7

   

  Wednesday... Camogie/Hurling   P5-P7

   

  Thursday... Football  P5-P7

                 ... Eco-Committee     

   

• PARKING REMINDER FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

  Sun 29 Sep 2019

  Back to school tomorrow. Please remember to avoid parking on the school entrance markings and pavements, allowing pupils and parents a clear view to cross the road safely.

  
  Reduce congestion in front of the school by using Convention Avenue Car Park(beside the fire station) and 'striding' the short distance to school. 

   

  Many thanks for your continued support.

  

• UPDATED CANTEEN MENU

  Fri 27 Sep 2019

  Our canteen menu has some slight changes from Monday ...and chips have moved to Friday! Yay!

  Updated canteen menu now available ... https://www.stcolumsprimaryschool.co.uk/canteen/

   

• BOOK FAIR THANKS!

  Thu 26 Sep 2019
  WOW!! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported our Book Fair. All your shopping allowed our school to chose books to the value of £587 for our class libraries. Happy reading everyone!!

  

• CASH FOR CLOBBER - THANK YOU EVERYONE!

  Wed 25 Sep 2019

  THANK YOU to everyone who donated bags of unwanted textiles for our Cash for Clobber Collection this week... raising £80! We really appreciate your support for this scheme - recycling and fund-raising for our school!

   

  Thank you to Primary 7 for helping to load the lorry. 🚛♻️

  
  Please continue to save your unwanted textiles for us. Our next collection will be on Wednesday 23rd October. 

  

• PTA AGM

  Tue 24 Sep 2019

  PTA AGM

  Please come along!

  Monday 7th OCTOBER 2019

  School Hall 7.30PM

   

  Stay informed and get involved!

   

   

   

  We’re holding our AGM next Monday and would like to invite all parents, guardians and carers to attend. It will be a fairly quick meeting mainly involving a run down of the previous year’s activities but in order to run our AGM and elect the 2019/20 PTA committee, it is vitally important that we reach the required attendance to run the meeting. Even if you are not wanting to go onto PTA (and we promise there is no obligation, we are happy to just have as many at the meeting as possible), please please come along and show your support! Meeting should last approx 30mins.

   

  We love to see new faces on committee. 

  If it is something you’d be happy to be part of, please let any current member know!

   

  2018/19 Committee Members : Olivia McLaughlin (Chair), Angela Cassidy (Treasurer), Nial McSorley (PRO), Alice McGill (Secretary), Daniel Turner (Vice Secretary), Miss McGoldrick (Teacher Rep), Steven Wright,

  Donna McCandless, Paddy McLaughlin.

   

   

   

• ICE CREAM SALE, THURSDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER

  Tue 24 Sep 2019
  Breakfast Club are holding an ice-cream sale at break time on Thursday 26th September (£1).

  

• REMINDER: NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER

  Mon 23 Sep 2019

  REMINDER: No school on Friday 27th September to facilitate teacher training.

  

• CASH FOR CLOBBER COLLECTION, WEDNESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER

  Sat 21 Sep 2019

  Help us recycle and raise funds for our school!

   

   

  Cash for Clobber Collection

  Wednesday 25th September

   

   

  
  This year we are again taking part in the Cash for Clobber Competition as we continue our work on the Eco-Schools Program. The Cash for Clobber scheme is aimed at raising awareness of textile recycling among children and to show how essential it is for everyone in the ‘developed world’ to reduce, reuse and recycle and is also a great way of raising funds for our school. Schools which collect the most textiles per pupil are in with a chance to win the annual ‘Cash for Clobber’ competition with fantastic prizes of up to £1,000 for schools who collect the most clobber.

   

  In the past 3years our collections have raised £1708 for our school and recycled 4270kg of textiles. Fantastic effort everyone! We have used the money raised to purchase new sports equipment and gardening items from our Wish List which benefits all the pupils in our school.

   

  Our next collection is on Wednesday 25^th September at 11am. Bags of clean, unwanted textiles may be left in the school assembly hall for collection by Cookstown Textile Recyclers, one of the Eco-school program partners, who will sort and recycle. Low grade material is used for industrial wipers and fillings, good quality clothes are re-used in the developing world. 

   

  Why not have a post-summer clear out of old and unwanted items? Please encourage family and friends to donate their unwanted textiles too. 

   

  What can you put in the bag??

  • All types of clothing (even with holes or broken zips)
  • Bags and shoes (please tie shoes together with laces)
  • Hats and belts
  • Towels and curtains
  • Bed linen (sheets, pillow cases, duvet covers)
  • Remember NO QUILTS OR PILLOWS and ALL ITEMS MUST BE CLEAN..

   

  Many thanks for your continued support.

  St. Colum’s Eco-Committee