UNCRC Article 31: Every child has the right to relax, play and join in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.’

The following photographs portray a selection of our After School Clubs on offer in St. Columba's Primary School. 

📱 iPad Club 📱

Our Year 6 pupils had great fun during iPad Club. They had the opportunity to expore a range of apps and equipment while developing their coding skills. 

🌈Two O'Clock Club🌈

Year 1 and 2 children enjoy attending our Two O'Clock Club from 2pm - 3pm each day and are supervised by Mrs Craven. The children remain within their class bubbles and enjoy a range of fun and practical activities. 

🎶 🎭 Music and Drama 🎭 🎶

2021-2022 has again been a very challenging year in regard to the restrictions which the Pandemic has imposed upon us. However, in true St. Columba's spirit each and every year group put on a Christmas show which really was worthy of a live audience. Our intention had been to limit numbers of parents/guardians to the plays /musical presentations, but unfortunately  we deemed it to be too dangerous, especially with the arrival of the Omicron variant. This did not in any way impact upon the hard work and creative endeavour the children and staff put into their performances. These can be viewed on Facebook and from the Children's section of the website. A massive credit to one and all.

🎻 Violin / Woodwind Tuition 🎻 

 🎶 Choir 🎶

Our wonderful school choir enhance many in-school occasions and sacramental celebrations with their beautiful singing. They also participated in the heat stages of School Choir of the Year 2020. 

📱Coding 📱

All pupils (Nursery - Year 7) have the opportunity to participate in a range of coding activities. 

🏐 Gaelic Football 🏐

In St. Columba's, our Gaelic football team represent our school in a variety of competitions annually. The 2019-2020 boys' gaelic football team are pictured below representing our school at the South Derry Cumann na mBunscol Indoor Blitz. Covid-19 has meant that we could not participate in sport thus far during this academic year but we are hopeful we will be able to compete once again soon! 

Camogie

Pre Covid-19, our school Camogie teams represented St. Columba's in a number of competitions annually. Our 2019-20 Camogie team are pictured below representing our school at the South Derry Cumann na mBunscol Indoor Blitz. We are hopeful that our Camogie team will return to the pitch again soon!

⚽️ Soccer ⚽️

In recent years, we have had a number of successful soccer teams. Our 2019-20 soccer team qualified for the Quarter Finals of the Doherty Cup. 

♠️♦️ Bridge Club ♥️♣️

Pre Covid-19, our Year 7 pupils had the opportunity to participate in Bridge Club delivered by members of Kilrea Bridge Club.  The children thoroughly enjoyed learning about the game of Bridge!

Netball Club

The girls from Year 6 and 7 had the opportunity take part in after school netball. They took part in drills to help with their passing and shooting, they enjoyed playing matches at the end of each session.

• Drama - Mrs C Kielt
• Camogie - Mrs McAlary
• Choir  - Mrs Henry
• Coding/iPad Club - Mrs Keenan
• Irish - Miss Rafferty
• Cycling Proficiency - Miss Ingram
• Gaelic Football (Year 6) - Miss McKenna
• Gaelic Football (Year 7)- Miss McAleese
• Gardening Club - Mrs McGuckin
• Homework Club - Mrs Henry & Mrs Martin 
• Netball  - Mrs Kielt
• Spanish - Mrs Kielt  
• Two O’Clock Club  - Mrs Craven