News 2023

Nursery Visit to 360 Creative

The nursery children had a brilliant time visiting 360 Degrees Creative on Friday 21st April. They got to see printing machines, Oisín’s office and much more. A massive thank you to Oisín’s parents Michelle and Dermott for having us to visit! ...

Nursery visit to OB Construction

On Friday 28th April the nursery children visited OB Construction. They had a great time seeing all the different machinery they use, the cool Super Mario character cut outs, the big computers the staff use and lots more. A big thank you to Michael’s parents Damien and Shauna and all the staff at OB Construction! ...

Choir Trip

Mrs Milner and Mrs Brookman treated the choir members to a fun day out on Friday 14th June as a special thank you for all of their hard work and dedication this year. They danced and rolled the day away!...

Confirmation

Primary 7’s Confirmation was a wonderful day of celebration. The Choir and Mrs Brookman helped the Primary 7’s with the music. A big thank you to Fr Curran and Mrs Goldring as it couldn’t have happened without them. The P7 pupils from St. Paul’s P.S. joined our Primary 7’s on their very special day. We were privileged to be confirmed by Fr. Curran, our parish pri...

First Holy Communion

First Holy Communion for our P4 pupils was celebrated on the 27th May 2023.  We were all so excited.  For weeks before the big day we were practising.  The day finally arrived, the girls all looked so beautiful in their white dresses and the boys all looked so handsome in their suits.  Mrs McLaughlin said she almost didn’t recognise us!   The whole ceremony...

Camogie Success

Congratulations to our Camogie 1st team who won the South West Camogie Tournament this week. They have trained so hard with their coach, Clare Doherty. Thank you also to all the schools who came along and made it a wonderful day, where all the teams got to display their amazing skills....

Service of Light

On Wednesday the 8th of February 2023 Primary seven had a very special Service of Light. This  was held in the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Church in Portglenone at 7 o’clock. In preparation beforehand P7 made clay candle holders. We took these to the church and they were lit from the Paschal candle. We made promises to prepare well for our Confirmation, prayed and sang. We are now lo...

Branching Out

Mrs Milner applied for funding for new hedging at the front of our school. To our surprise we were granted it and were able to purchase more beech hedging and trees to add to the front of our school. Everyone in the school planted a  little bit of hedging, starting with Primary 1 up to Primary 7. I think I can say we all enjoyed it.It already looks great and hopefully it will grow and mature ...

World Book Day 2023

Each year our school takes part in World Book Day and this year was no different. We know our parents look forward to it too!! We all go to the hall for a parade. We love seeing all the fantastic characters created by our pupils. The staff choose their favourites- something they find very difficult to do, but everyone still gets a treat from Mrs Milner for taking part. ...

Ditch the Dark Day February 2023

Everyone enjoyed taking part in this year's 'Ditch the Dark Day' by wearing bright or fluorescant clothing to travel to school. We all learned about the importance of being seen while travelling on or near the roads....