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

• Year 7 Shared Education

  Tue 21 Mar 2023

  Year 7 enjoyed a brilliant morning in Portglenone Forest with their friends from Kilrea Primary School. They were getting inspiration for our Pushkin topic 'Reforestation of the Imagination’. Thanks to Lynn and Liz our forest guides for a very interesting morning. 🌲💭

  

• 5-a-Side All-County Football Finals

  Wed 15 Mar 2023

  Well done to our girls’ football team who competed at the 5-a-side All-County Finals today at Meadowbank. 🏐

  

• St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations

  Wed 15 Mar 2023

  ☘️ We celebrated St. Patrick’s day in style today in St. Columba’s by wearing green and participating in lots of fun activities. ☘️

   

  Article 30: You have the right to practice your own culture, language and religion.

  

• Year 4 Explore Polar Lands

  Mon 13 Mar 2023

  Year 4 are currently exploring the topic ‘Polar Lands’. What brrrrrilliant fun they’re having! 🐻‍❄️🐧❄️

  

• Fairtrade Fortnight

  Mon 13 Mar 2023

  Pupils in St. Columba’s have been learning about the significance of supporting Fairtrade farmers in developing countries during Fairtrade Fortnight.  🍌🍫🍍

  

• Farewell Kathleen!

  Fri 10 Mar 2023

  We held a wonderful assembly to mark the
  retirement of Mrs Kathleen McGuckian, our school cook. Mrs McGuckian has served our school community for the last 33 years. We wish her a long and happy retirement. 💖🎉💐

  

• St. Columba’s Feature in ‘The Net’

  Thu 09 Mar 2023

  This month our school features in ‘The Net’. The Net is a monthly publication covering faith activities in the parishes throughout the Derry Diocese. Follow the link below and you can find our school on page 3 celebrating how Catholic values are very much threaded through each school day in St Columba’s PS.

   

  https://www.derrydiocese.org/news/the-net-february-march-2023

   

  

• Zomba Action Project

  Wed 08 Mar 2023

  Mrs Elizabeth Snelling from the Zomba Action Project charity visited St Columba’s this morning to talk to the children in Key Stage 1 and 2. She gave a presentation about schools in Zomba and how the money donated by our school goes to help educate the children there. We presented Mrs Snelling with a cheque to show our continued support of this wonderful project.

  

• Celebrating International Women’s Day

  Wed 08 Mar 2023

  Celebrating International Women’s Day in St. Columba’s! 

  

• People Who Help Us - Nursery

  Fri 03 Mar 2023

  The boys and girls in Nursery have enjoyed exploring the topic ‘People who Help Us’. They visited Mrs Martin and Mrs Mellon and invited Bridie our caretaker and Tony the lollipop man to visit their classroom. They were also visited by Aideen’s mummy who is a doctor, and Katie and Tomas’s mummies who are nurses. 👩🏻‍⚕️🩺🚑🚸