Congratulations to our pupils who made their First Confessions today.

 

May they know the greatness of God's love and forgiveness on this special day.

No camogie or hurling after school tomorrow, Wednesday 6th March.

THANK YOU to everyone who donated bags of unwanted textiles for our Cash for Clobber Collection this week... raising £24! We really appreciate your support for this scheme - recycling and fund-raising! 

Thank you to Primary 4 for loading the lorry. 🚛♻️

 

Please continue to save your unwanted textiles for us. Our next collection is on Wednesday 3rd April.

A huge thank you to everyone for supporting our Bun Sale this week and to all who made and donated yummy treats. 😋🍰🧁 🍪 

We raised £160.46 which will be used to purchase resources for our Breakfast Club. 

Need help to strike up a conversation with your child about online safety? Want to know what questions to be asking when they’re online? Take a look at these questions put together by National Online Safety that will help you start an initial conversation with your child. 

These and more are available to download at https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/
Be aware and be proactive! 

Following recent media coverage of the online issues and ‘viral media scares’ affecting our children, please make sure you know what your child has online access to. 

Make sure that your child knows not to give out personal information to ANYONE they don't know, that NO ONE has the right to tell them to or make them do ANYTHING they don't want to.

 

Great information from National Online Safety about the most popular apps and games on the posters below.
These and more are available to download at https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/

 

Be aware and be proactive! 

We are celebrating World Book Day next Friday 8^th March 2019. As part of our celebrations, we would love the children to dress up as one of their favourite characters from a book. Each class will take part in a rangeof activities throughout the day linked to World Book Day. There will also be a whole school assembly and a parade which will give pupils the opportunity to show off their costumes. There will be a number of prizes on the day for the best costume in each class. Following the success of last year, we have decided to partner up once again with our Eco Committee to run an extra competition. Mrs Mulholland and Miss Cassidy are offering a special prize for the best costume made using reusable materials.

 

‘SHARE A STORY’

For the first time, this year we are inviting parents, grandparents or relatives to come into school to read their favourite story to a class of their choice. If you or a relative are free next Friday, we would LOVE to have you in our classrooms. All you need to do is pick your favourite book or novel and be brave enough to read it or a short extract to your chosen class. This is an opportunity NOT to be missed!!

 

‘GET CAUGHT READING!’

Last year’s ‘Get Caught Reading’ competition was an AMAZING success so we are going to run it again!We would like children to bring in a photograph of them getting ‘caught reading’ in an unusual, inspiring, magical, funny place or situation. Each photograph must have a suitable accompanying caption. Please send the photographs into each class teacher by Thursday 7^th March. Prizes will also be awarded for the top 3 entries.

 

We’re looking forward to having a wonderful celebration next week.

 

Thank you,

 

Miss McGoldrick(Literacy Coordinator)

 

‘You can find magic wherever you look, sit back, relax, all you need is a book!’

Dr. Seuss

 

Primaries 4, 5, 6 and 7 had a great time taking part in the RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch before half-term. They counted the different kinds of birds that visit our school grounds and are looking forward to using their data to create graphs to analyse and interpret the results.

Primary 5 and their friends from Portstewart Primary School had an amazing day yesterday taking part in the Peace Proms at The SSE Arena, Belfast. What a wonderful experience for them as they performed with schools from all over Northern Ireland accompanied by the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland. Four thousand voices!!... the biggest choir in the history of the Peace Proms.

To promote safe use of the car park and correct use of the pedestrian gate, the main gates will be closing at 8:45am for two weeks starting on Monday 25th February.

 

Help us make the area around our school safe for everyone.

 

Many thanks for your continued support.