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

• Road of Hope Shoe Box Appeal

  Wed 31 Oct 2018

  In recent years, the St. Columba’s community have generously supported the Christmas ‘Shoe Box Appeal’.  This year you are invited to contribute and the items donated will be distributed to young children, teenagers and the elderly.

   

  Road of Hope have appealed particularly for boxes for teenage boys (15+), teenage girls (15+) and the elderly. We have included ideas of suitable items to include. 

   

  The shoe box should be wrapped in Christmas paper and have a label attached to

  indicate the age/gender for which the shoe box gift is intended. Also, if possible could a donation of £2 be given with each box to help cover the cost of transport. 

   

  Our shoe boxes will be collected on Tuesday 13th November. 

   

  Thank you in anticipation of your generous response to this appeal.

  

• October Pupil of the Month Awards

  Sat 27 Oct 2018
  Congratulations to all our pupils who were awarded 'Pupil of the Month' for October! 

  

• Spooktacular Spookathon

  Fri 26 Oct 2018
  🎃 There was a scary, spooky air around St. Columba’s today as all the pupils managed to complete their sponsored 'Spookathon' in style.  There were no broomsticks used, just lots of little legs running around in an effort to keep fit and raise much needed funds for our school.  Thank you to all our PTA members, some of whom joined us this morning and distributed prizes.  Special congratulations to our Nursery Class which raised the most money.  A massive thank you to our parents and guardians who put so much effort into the children’s costumes and who continually support their children in so many ways.  So far we have raised over £4000 and the 'Spookathon' has certainly proved to be the most successful fundraiser so far! The B.O.G. and staff would like to wish everyone a very Happy Hallowe’en and remember to “stay safe”. 🎃

  

• Maths Week Ireland

  Sat 20 Oct 2018
  We celebrated Maths Week Ireland this week in St. Columba’s by carrying out a range if practical activities and investigations in each class. Oh what fun! 

  

• Cash For Clobber

  Fri 19 Oct 2018
  👕👚👖Thank you to everyone who donated to our recent 'Cash for Clobber' collection, it was another successful lift! 👖👕👚

  

• Shared Education Week

  Sat 13 Oct 2018

  We started the week off with a shared staff meeting with the teachers from Kilrea Primary School to plan the year ahead. Miss McKiernan attended the Shared Education Conference on Tuesday. Year 1 carried out a community 'Litter Pick' with our friends from Kilrea Primary on Wednesday and Year 4/5 will officially launch the song that they composed together at the end of the Summer Term.

  

• Code Week

  Sat 13 Oct 2018
  📱 All classes participated in a range of coding activities in celebration of EU Code Week! 📱

  

• Ditch the Dark Day

  Fri 12 Oct 2018

  🔦🌟 We held a very successful 'Ditch the Dark Day' today in St. Columba’s.  Johnny from Sustrans was highly impressed by the efforts made since his last visit to increase the number of children opting to walk all or part of their journey to school.  He was also amazed at the efforts made by pupils and parents alike to wear their bright colours!🌟🔦

  

• Silver Rights Respecting Schools Assembly

  Thu 11 Oct 2018

  👭🎉 Today we celebrated our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award.  We were joined by Father Cargan, members of the Board of Governors and members of our P.T.A. Our special guest was Koulla Yiasouma, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People.  The whole school community took part in a spectacular assembly filled with music, song, humour and culture. Pupil groups were represented and a presentation by the Rights Respecting Ambassadors, Eco Committee, Anti-Bullying Ambassadors and School Council was warmly received by everyone! 

  #rightsrespectingschool #niccy 👬🎉

  

• Sustrans

  Fri 05 Oct 2018

  Johnny from Sustrans visited last week to talk to our pupils about sustainable transport, particularly on our journeys to and from school.  He also spoke about our upcoming 'Ditch the Dark' day, which will take place this Friday, 12th October. Please refer to the note sent home earlier this week for further details. 🛴🚲