Choir begins on Tuesday 11th September for children in Primary 5 to Primary 7 only from 3pm to 3:45pm in the hall.

Children in Primary 4, with an interest in learning to sing, are welcome to join from Tuesday 2nd October.

After-school Art & Craft starts on Mondays and Tuesdays, 2:50 - 3:50pm for Primary 3 to Primary 7 and on Tuesday 1:50 - 2:50pm for Primary 1 and Primary 2.

Please return reply slipsasap if your child in interested.

Check out our schedule for this term...

Roald Dahl Day is next Thursday 13th September 2018 and we are hoping to celebrate it with a bang! Each class will take part in a range of literacy activities throughout the day linked to Roald Dahl’s novel, ‘The Twits.’ Pupils from Primary 3 to Primary 7, along with thousands of school children from around the world will also watch ‘The Roald Dahl Day Show’. We will find out which famous authors were inspired by Roald Dahl and we might even get the opportunity to see what is inside the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. The Show will finish with a fun ‘draw along’ section which will suit a lot of our budding young illustrators!

‘BEARD PARADE’

As part of our celebrations, we are inviting the children to participate in a fun competition. We would love the children to create their own version of Mr Twit’s smelly, disgusting beard! There will be a whole school assembly in the afternoon which will give all pupils the opportunity to show off their creations during the ‘Beard Parade!’ There will be a number of prizes on the day for the best beards.

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

Canteen menu for the new school year now available... http://www.stcolumsprimaryschool.co.uk/canteen/

School meals are £2.60 per day, £13.00 per week.

Please note all cheques for school meals should be made payable to "Education Authority".

The PTA will be holding its AGM on Tuesday 18th September at 7pm. At this meeting they will run through the highlights of the previous year, review the finances and discuss plans for the upcoming year. The meeting itself should take no longer than 30 minutes.

They are be losing several PTA members this year. A big thanks to them for their efforts over the last few years. Although the shoes will be hard to fill, new volunteers are needed, so please consider helping out. It's not a huge commitment and is great fun and very rewarding.

There will be teas and coffees, so it'll be a good way to meet new parents in a relaxed environment. Please use the link below to reply so we can gauge how many pots of tea to put on!

Many thanks for your support. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://mailchi.mp/fe6d5f7d5174/st-colums-pta-agm-627085

Welcome back! What a super first day back at St. Colum's! It was lovely to see our pupils looking so smart in their school uniforms and to hear about their summer holidays. A special welcome to our all our new pupils. We hope they had a great first day in St. Colum’s.

Please remember to check school bags for dinner menus and notes over the coming days. Looking forward to a fun-filled year of learning!

#welcomeback #backtoschool #newschoolyear 

#stcolumsfamily#learningisfun #schooldays
#firstdayofschool

Our new school year starts on Wednesday 29th August. We look forward to welcoming everyone back and meeting our new Primary 1 class.

To help you with your back to school shopping... http://www.stcolumsprimaryschool.co.uk/back-to-school-shopping-list/

Enjoy the rest of the holidays!

Remember our Air Monitoring Tubes we put up earlier this year? We're delighted that our air monitoring results have returned from the lab.

Our second result for the tube put up at the front gate is 8.7 µg/m³.

The techy bit...

These are a snapshot of the air pollution for the places and times we were monitoring.  

Thanks to everyone who bought tomato plants at the end of term... raising £12.50 towards new seeds next year. Hope you all have a bumper crop of delicious tomatoes.

Many thanks for your support.