Celebrating Success 🌟

• Concern fundraising

  Wed 21 Dec 2022 P7 website team

  On Friday 16th of December, all pupils wore their christmas jumpers to school to raise money for Concern. They all brought in a pound each and walked a mile in laps around the playground. The total amount of money raised was £534.

  

• Open Days January 2023

  Mon 19 Dec 2022
  

• Ditch the Dark Sponsored Walk - Nov 2022

  Fri 16 Dec 2022

  A very big THANK YOU to everyone who sponsored our P1&2 children on their Ditch the Dark sponsored walk.  We had a very long and enjoyable walk around Ballycastle.  We raised £1201.75.  We will share the photographs of our new toys with you in the new year.

  

• P5 - P7 Christmas Carol Service

  Thu 15 Dec 2022 Mrs R McCarry

  Well done to our Primary 5, 6 & 7 children who performed so well in the school Carol Service on Wednesday evening. Primary 5 told the Christmas story through readings and the Nativity tableau, Primary 6 played tin whistles and chime bars, enhanced by a harp and violin solos as well as singing the carols. Primary 7 set the scene with three beautiful carols to introduce the Carol Service, and provided a strong choral lead from the gallery throughout the service. 

   

  The Christmas Carol Service is now available to view on the Parish website. 

   

  Please follow the link to view https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-patricks-and-st-brigids-church

   

  Scroll to the bottom of the screen to view: Recordings of Past Events and select: Primary School Carol Concert 14 Dec 2022. This recording is password protected, please use the following password to view the recording: PSCC2022

   

  On behalf of the whole school, we would like to wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas.

   

  

• School Council

  Mon 05 Dec 2022 P7 website team

  This morning the School Council headed off to Bushmills Primary School to evaluate  a digital tv screen to see if it would be beneficial for our P5 P6 playground. They had alot of fun and were treated to some hot chocolate on the way home. 

  

• Christmas Fayre

  Sun 04 Dec 2022 Mrs R McCarry

  St. Patrick's & St. Brigid's PS and Nursery Unit were delighted to bring our PTA Christmas Fayre back on Sunday 4th December 2022 for the first time since Christmas 2019. We had an amazing afternoon of fun for everyone, including Santa's Grotto, Lucky Lapland grid, Santa's Chimney throw, Reindeer food making, tombolas and our famous Rickety Wheel. There was a constant supply of tea, coffee and mince pies and the Christmas Hampers raffle was amazing with over forty hampers to win. 

   

  We are so grateful to everyone who worked so hard to make this such a successful event. Our PTA worked tirelessly in organising, coordinating and approaching over 100 local businesses to donate prizes for the rickety wheel. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of these businesses and our friends and families who contributed so generously to the hampers. 

   

  Many thanks to Padraig Hill who spent the afternoon spinning the wheel and keeping everything moving; to Donal Cunningham who has donned the Santa outfit for the 10th time. Thanks to Mr Kinney and Mrs McKiernan who coordinated everything and put in endless hours behind the scenes to get everything organised; to our staff, both teaching and non-teaching, who gave up time on their precious weekends to man stalls and welcome our families.

   

  Finally, I want to thank our parents, friends and families who came out in such numbers to support our school. We raised an amazing amount of money but just as importantly, it was a great afternoon of entertainment and joy for our children and our community.

  

• Cumman Na Bunscoil

  Fri 02 Dec 2022 P7 website team

  Today some boys from Primary 7 were selected to play at Cumann na mBuscol hurling tournament. They played really well and won overall. Well done boys!

  

• P7 Spread Christmas Cheer To Ramoan Parish Hall

  Fri 02 Dec 2022 P7 website team

  Today our Primary 7 pupils went to the Ramoan Parish Hall to spread christmas cheer to some people there. They sang a few carols and the got delicious snacks as a treat.

  

• Gaelfast/Antrim GAA

  Thu 01 Dec 2022

  We are grateful to Gaelfast/Antrim GAA for the coaching provided by Dominic McKinley over the past 8 weeks. 

  The children thoroughly enjoyed their time with Dominic, and they didn’t want their weekly hurling/camogie sessions to end.

  Not only have the children seen great progress in their skills development but also the Physical Literacy and cross-curricular learning has been impressive.

  We hope that the children will continue to work hard on their new skills over the winter period and possibly put them to good use when the local club season gets up and running again in the new year.