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• St Patrick's and St Brigid's help promote legacy of past pupil

  Fri 27 Oct 2023

  The Public Health Agency (PHA) has launched new primary school organ donation education resources aimed at introducing organ donation education at an early age, and pupils from St Patrick’s and St Brigid’s Primary School and Nursery Unit  are delighted to be taking part. The initiative was designed by the mother and sister of a past pupil from the school who have went on to establish the programme in her memory.  With the educational curriculum in mind, the resources will provide Key Stage1 and 2 pupils with the information they need to find out more about the topic of organ donation and to discuss it with family and friends.

  This initiative was significantly inspired some years ago by Lucia Quinney Mee, a young multiple liver transplant recipient in Northern Ireland, whose passion for and commitment to organ donation awareness led her to begin a campaign, Live loudly Donate Proudly, and to raising the importance of organ donation education directly with the education minister and representatives from the Department of Health. 

   

  Lucia’s mum and sister Alice who is also a past pupil of St Patrick’s and St Brigid’s Primary School  were involved in the working group and her sister Alice, a Learning Support Assistant commented:

  "Lucia was passionate about organ donation conversations. She had complete faith in children’s abilities to learn about the topic and potentially save lives. She knew that these young people could be proud of making a real difference by finding their own voice."

  

• Hillwalking Club Winners

  Fri 20 Oct 2023

  Primary 7 pupils have recently been taking part in a range of outdoor adventure programmes each Friday.  They have walked many of the local hills and went rock climbing and abseiling at Runkerry Head.  They entered a competition for the Northern Area Community Network aimed at promoting people to get outside and won a £50 voucher for Go Outdoors !

  The money will be used to purchase more outdoor equipment to support further outdoor programmes for the pupils. 

  

• Congratulations to the Irish Dancers who took part in Lougiel School of Irish Dance Class Festival

  Fri 20 Oct 2023
  

• Maths Week 2023

  Fri 20 Oct 2023

  To celebrate Maths Week we took our learning outside. Congratulations to the Maths Week Winners who showed lots of enthusiasm in the activities they took part in. 

  

• Playground Charter

  Mon 25 Sep 2023

  School Council talked to us about the importance of being a good friend and making right choices when in the Playground. They also reminded the children to look out for all of the 'Playground Charter' posters which are in all of our playgrounds. 

  

• Good Relations Cultural Workshop

  Tue 19 Sep 2023

  St. Patrick's & St. Brigid's PS were delighted to host the Go Fly Your Kite’s Good Relations Cultural Kite Workshops on Monday morning.  The 60-minute workshop was based on the theme of Togetherness and was offered to small groups of P5 children from BIPS, Gaelscoil and St. Patrick's & St. Brigid's PS. The children had great fun tracing, colouring, building and flying their kites together. The mayor of Causeway Coast & Glens came along to see the work that the children were doing and even tried his hand at flying one of the kites!

  

• Welcome Back!

  Tue 12 Sep 2023

  Mrs McCarry welcomed the children back to school as we begin a new and exciting academic year. 

  

• Prize day 2023

  Tue 27 Jun 2023 P7 website club

  On Monday 26th June 2023, our school and some special visitors gathered in the assembly hall to give prizes to some of our pupils. There were loads of awards to give out, sports day trophies, school and eco council awards and lots of awards for our primary 7 pupils. A very big well done to all the pupils at prize day who worked very hard to recieve these awards. 

  

• Sean Maloney

  Fri 23 Jun 2023 P7

  Today,we had a special assembley Sean Maloney came in to give out prizes for football and tennis after school activities.There were prizes for the world cup,penalty shoot outs,tennis overall winners,good behaviour prizes and much more.A big congratulations to anyone who received a prize from sean,and a big thankyou to sean for taking time and effort to give a fun time and to come in and give out those prizes!

• Dreams Ahoy!

  Thu 22 Jun 2023 Mrs R McCarry

  If anyone is at the Seafront on Saturday, please call into Sheskburn 11.30-1.30pm and give us a vote to get new planters for our school garden and/or books for our library. All votes are much appreciated!