Year 7

Welcome to our Year 7 page.

Miss McKiernan is our teacher and Mrs McCloskey helps us every afternoon.
We have had a very busy start to our year.

We are so lucky to have a beautiful Wild Flower Garden at the back of our school.

We are so glad to be able to re-connect with our Buddies.

We love spending time with them.

We read to them and we took them to the Wild Flower Garden.

Article 31 says that ‘children have the right to play and rest’.
We love our weekly PE Lessons with Mr McLaughlin.

We absolutely love our Buddies.

Today, we helped them with their Art Lesson.

It was a great opportunity to employ the Take 5 steps-

Connect

Be Active

Keep Learning

Give

Take Notice

European Day of Languages 2022

Article 30 states that ‘every child has the right to learn and use the language of their family’

Take 5 Friday-Connect

Year 7 pupils enjoyed their visit to Kilrea Library

Celebrating ‘Maths Week’! Year 7 enjoyed a variety of practical Maths activities. (Take 5-Keep Learning)

Halloween Dress Up

Take 5 ‘Keep Learning’ Year 7 coded with their Buddies in Year 2 (Take 5-Connect)

Year 7 are playing their part in the fight against Climate Change (Take 5- Keep Learning)

Anti-Bullying Week-We started off Anti-Bullying Week with a virtual assembly on the importance of showing kindness.

Our Anti-Bullying Ambassadors/Pupil Champions make sure that all our pupils are feeling safe and happy in St.Columba’s PS. (Take 5-Be Active)

We learned about Martin Luther King Jnr as part of our work on Anti-Bullying this week. We learned that he fought for equal rights using non- violent means to get equality for all people.

“I learned that we all have rights and that everyone is equal.” (Kora)

“I learned that we all should have an opinion irrespective of the colour of our skin.”(Sophia)
”I learned how times have changed and how big an impact Rights have on peoples lives.” (Rachel)

We made decorations for the Christmas Tree in St.Anne’s Oratory (Take 5-Give)

Santa Claus arrives in style at St..Columba’s PS

Happy Christmas Buddies (Take 5-Connect)

Happy New Year to our Buddies

Article 14-‘Every child has the right to practise their Religion’

Snow Days are the Best Days!

Sam visits St.Columba’s PS

Article 14

’Every child has the right to practise their religion’

We celebrated Grandparent’s Day with morning mass in St.Anne’s Oratory (Take 5-Connect)

Article 28 Right to Education (Take 5 Keep Learning)

Year 7 had a brilliant morning at Kilrea PS.As part of our Pushkin Project they made music with Elaine Agnew and worked together to create a Coat of Arms for our town of Kilrea.

Through our Science in a Box Project with ALMAC we were introduced to the different types of virus. We examined their shapes and organisation of their structures and made our own viruses.

Article 29 ‘Goals of Education’Chris Lindsay from ‘Take 5’ spoke to our Pupil Champions about their role as Take 5 representatives in St.Columba’s Ps.

Article 24 ‘Every child has the right to the best possible health.We learned from Mrs Snelling about how our donations are used to help our friends in Zomba. (Take 5- Give)

Year 7 pupils are working together to write a short story, using Book Creator as their ICT tool.

Happy St.Patrick’s Day Everyone!!!

Article 31

Every child has the right to relax,play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

Article 29

Education must develop every child’s personality,talents and abilities….encourage children to respect their culture and environment.

Year 7 enjoyed a brilliant morning in Portgleone Forest with their friends from Kilrea Primary School. We were getting inspiration for our Pushkin Topic, ‘Reforestation of the Imagination’.

Lynn and Liz ,our Pushkin Trust facilitators were excellent forest guides.We learned so many new things, especially the interesting names of some plants,many have Latin names. We carried out a variety of interesting tasks.