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."

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. 

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. 

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. 

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!

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