After School Art Club

The work begins

Working on the Mosaic

Children who attended the Art Club

The Finished Article

School Holidays

School will be closed for Mid-Term Break from Monday 14th until Friday 18th February. There will be a staff training day on Monday 21st so the children return to school on Tuesday 22nd.

St. Brigid's Assembly

Congratulations to all the children who did so well in our assembly for St. Brigid's Day. Thanks to all the parents who attended and to Miss Cullinan for preparing the children.

Visiting Vet for P4 and 5

On Friday 4th February Primary 4 and 5 were visited by Ballygawley vet Ena who originates from Germany.

Prize Winners January 2011

Play Scripts

Primary4/5 children were very busy recently writing and performing plays. The playscripts were excellent and we had some quality acting to match!

Question Time

The Primary 1 children were recently investigating people who help us. Part of their work involved them interviewing Mr McCreesh and asking him lots of very hard questions!

Boxes in the Attic

The children from P6/7 will be travelling to the Palace Stables in Armagh on the 10th of February for the "Boxes in the Attic" tour which focuses on the life of the Victorians. The children are currently studying this area in World Around This. The school will cover the cost of the trip.

Camogie News!

Good luck to the girls from Primary 6 and 7 who take part in the Camogie Indoor All-County Finals tomorrow in Omagh.

Arts and Crafts club

Arts and Crafts club will be open to children in Primary 5,6 and 7. As we expect a big interest in this club, we have had to limit places to 15 children. The first fifteen children who register for the club and pay £6 for the six weeks will get a place in the club.

Guitar Club

After school clubs will begin again on Tuesday 25^th January for 6 weeks. Guitar club will be open to children in Primary 6 and 7 and children may use their own guitar or borrow one from the school.

School Trips

The Primary 7 children will be travelling to St. Patrick’s Academy on Wednesday 19th January to take part an activity day which is part of the STEM initiative. The event will begin at 11.40 am and finish at 2.15pm and a packed lunch will be provided.
On Friday 21st of January the Primary 7 girls will travel to St. Catherine’s College in Armagh to take part in a Technology day.

Christmas DVDs

Thanks to all who worked so hard to make the Christmas Show such a success, especially the children. The DVD recording of our Christmas Production is available now from the school office priced at £5.

Children return to school on Friday 7th of January.

DVDs of the Christmas play will be available priced at £5 per copy.

Due to the usually hard weather we are experiencing, we have had to change some of the arrangements for the coming week. Our Christmas show will take place tomorrow Tuesday 21^st at 1.30pm in the Parochial Hall. We are very aware that this will present problems for some parents getting to see the show but the safety of everyone must take priority. We feel that this is a better option than taking children, parents and staff out at night in such dangerous conditions. The show will finish at around 3.30pm and all children will be going home at that stage. We will be running a raffle as usual and we would appreciate any prizes that parents feel that they would like to donate. We hope to video the show tomorrow and DVDs will be available after Christmas.

School Holidays

School will finish up on Thursday 23rd December at 11am and children return to school on Friday 7th of January 2011.

Primary 0ne Party!

Primary One children celebrated their party on Friday 3rd of December. Mrs Magill, Mrs McGleenan and Miss Quinn had worked with the children organising and planning the party. A fun day was had by all and the children looked great in their fancy dress.

Tesco Vouchers

Thanks to all the parents who contributed Tesco Vouchers to the school. We used the vouchers to buy musical instruments for the school which ties in with the work we are doing presently with the SELB's music service.

Wizard of Oz

The Primary 6 and 7 children will be travelling to St. Catherine’s College in Armagh on Thursday 25th of November for their school production of the Wizard of Oz. Admission is free and break will be provided.

Christmas Play

The children have started to rehearse and practice for the school Christmas play. This is an important part of the school year and something the children really enjoy.

The Christmas Play will take place on Tuesday the 21st of December at 7.30pm

Pantomime

The children will be travelling to The Market Place Theatre in Armagh on Friday 10th December to see the Pantomime ‘Cinderella’. The show starts at 10am so we should be home in time for school dinners. The cost of the trip is £10 per child and we would appreciate if everyone is paid up before the day as all seats booked in the theatre have to be paid for by the school.

Halloween Festivities

Scary costumes, Halloween arts and crafts, cooking, poems and song were all on offer at our Halloween Day on Thursday.

Prize winners

Congratulations to the children who received their most improved pupil awards on Thursday.

Halloween Cooking

The Primary six and seven children enjoyed making chocolate apples, gingerbread pumpkins and shortbread on Thursday afternoon.

Primary Four and Five

Miss Cullinan's class entertained all the children on Thursday with their version of the 'Time Warp'

Primary Two and Three

Some of the Primary Two and Three children enjoying our Halloween festivities

Primary 0ne

The primary one children entertained the other children with Halloween poems and songs on Thursday afternoon.

Halloween Disco

A big thank you to the parent support group and all those who helped in any way to make the Halloween disco such a success. We had probably our biggest crowd ever in the Parochial hall enjoying the music and party games. The costumes were fantastic and we had prizes galore for the children and parents.

After School Clubs

The after school camogie club is now finished and we are very grateful to Mrs Leona Gallagher and Miss Francis Bigley for their time and hard work in promoting camogie at primary school level. The after school football club and cooking club will finish on Tuesday evening and the basketball club will continue for two more weeks.

Road Safety

Due to the increase in pupil numbers in the school, home time continues to be a very busy time around the front of the school. Cars should be parked on the school side of the road. This prevents traffic build up and allows the children to walk up the footpath home. Please inform those who are picking your child up from school about this. We really appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

Parent Teacher Meetings

The children will be going home from school at 11 O’clock on Wednesday 10th of November to facilitate the parent teacher meetings. Please ensure that your child has a lift home at that time. We will send out a date and time of your meeting. If this time is not suitable please contact the school office and another time will be arranged.

School Photographer

On Tuesday 19th of October, County Photographs will be sending their photographer to the school. This year there will be a greater variety in photograph styles and backgrounds.

Basketball Club

Basketball club will now be open to children in Primary 4 on Monday evenings. Any Primary 4 child who is staying for the basketball club will need to be collected at 4pm at the school. The cost is £1 per session.

After School Cooking Club

There will be no afterschool cooking club on Tuesday 12th of October. The club will resume on Tuesday 19th.

Linguistic Phonics

We are inviting all the parents of children in Primary 1,2 and 3 to join us for an evening of Linguistic phonics on Wednesday 13th of October. This will be led by our own teachers here in the school and will be very helpful for parents interested in helping their children's development in reading. The evening begins at 7pm.

Golf Lessons

Primary 6 and 7 children were treated to their first golf lesson by Mr Chris Jelly on Friday at Dungannon Golf Club.

The children began their series of lessons learning how to putt on a golf green.

Our new Primary 4 and 5 class enjoying the September sun.

A Visit from Bryson House

The message was Reduce, Reuse and Recycle at this week's visit from a representative from Bryson House.

Cooking Club

Cooking Club has been a great success again this year.

We have gone very international this year with Italian

Pizza and Garlic Bread and even Mexican Fahitas.

Basketball Club

Basketball Club for children in Primary 5,6 and 7 will begin on Monday 27th of September. The club will last for approx. six weeks and cost £1 per session per child.

Travelling Book fair

Travelling Book Fair

Our annual Book Fair will begin on Monday 27th of September and will run until Thursday 30th of October. Parents are welcome to come along and view the books at the fair from 9am -12pm each morning and again at home times. All commission earned from the fair is used to purchase books for the school.