Year 6/7
🌟Year 6/7 Class Page🌟
Welcome to the Year 6/7 class page. This page will keep you updated on all our news as well as sharing photographs of our day-to-day activities.
📱A New School Year📱
We had great fun creating digital graphics to share some facts about ourselves and what we look forward to in the year ahead!
🧘🏻♀️Yoga🧘🏻♂️
We enjoy taking time out to practise yoga in order to relax and recharge.
🍫🍭Roald Dahl Day🍭🍫
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day by creating beautiful bookmarks to use when reading our class novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 🍫🍭🍦
🏐 Gaelic Skills 🏐
We were delighted to welcome Eoin Higgins from Derry GAA to begin a coaching skills programme aimed at enhancing our gaelic skills.
🍂 Autumn Art 🍂
Year 6/7 explored shading and blending to create beautiful autumn artwork.
📱Code Week 📱
We carried out a number of lessons on Code.org during Code Week. We will continue to complete the course over the next few weeks and look forward to enhancing our coding and computational thinking skills.
Biomes
🦁🐯🐘🌵🐪🏜️🐳🐢🐠
We showcased our amazing biomes projects that we created as part of their World Around Us topic during the first half term. Everyone who visited our display was blown away by the outstanding level of creativity shown by all pupils.
Congratulations to the three overall winners.
🎃👻Halloween Fun👻🎃
Anti-Bullying Week
🧦Odd Socks Day🧦
We kicked off Anti-Bullying Week by celebrating Odd Socks Day today. Odd Socks Day is special celebration of all our unique qualities that make us different!
🔦🚸Ditch the
Dark Day 🚸🔦
We celebrated Ditch the Dark Day in St. Columba’s. We were blown away by the incredible efforts made to ‘be bright’ and ‘be seen’ and all those who made an active journey to school. Winners were selected in each class for the brightest/most innovative outfits. Well done everyone!
💛Fairy Thorn
Pot Bid 💛
Year 6/7 had the responsibility of preparing a bid on behalf of our school to help support our ‘Toast for Tots’ initiative. The children prepared posters to promote our bid and had the opportunity to speak with voters on Voting Day. Although we were not successful in securing the majority vote in the ballots, we were beyond grateful to receive the news that Donaghy Bros are providing all other bids with their requested funding. What an amazing act of kindness and generosity that the whole community with benefit from! Thank you!
⛄️ Christmas Art ⛄️
Pupils in Year 6/7 created beautiful winter globes using soft pastels.
🎄Year 6🎄
🎅🏼Shared Education🎅🏼
Year 6 had a wonderful morning visiting their friends in Kilrea Primary School. The children thoroughly enjoyed participating in a range of Christmas craft activities and games.
🙏🏻 Saint Brigid 🙏🏻
We created our own prayers to Saint Brigid, our Patron Saint of Ireland.
🐟 Year 6 Salmon Project 🐟
Year 6 began their Salmon Project with a visit from Stephen McIlwaine from the Irish Society. Stephen delivered 150 salmon eggs which the children will observe hatching and monitor their early life as alevins over the next six weeks.
Year 7
Confirmation Assembly
Year 7 performed a special assembly in preparation for their Confirmation.
🕊️🔥Confirmation 🔥🕊️
Congratulations to our Year 7 pupils who received the Sacrament of Confirmation. Our sincere thanks to Fr Crowley and Fr McDermott who con-celebrated the ceremony and for all their spiritual guidance.
☘️ Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit ☘️
🙏🏻 Year 6
Easter Drama 🙏🏻
Well done to our Year 6 pupils who took to the stage today to re-enacted the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. The boys and girls put on an excellent performance. Thank you to everyone who joined us and for your generous donations to Trocaire.