A Great Start to 2012 for eveyone at St. Colman's Primary School

It has been a very good start to 2012 for everyone in St Colman's Primary School. Our Primary 7 children were confirmed on Thursday 26th January .Our new school building is progressing really well and we are all looking forward to moving in this year. We also hit the news when we welcomed famous athletes from the olympic and paralympic games as part of our participation in the Disability NI programme.

St Colman's in the news - click on the picture below.

On Wednesday the 18th of January we were all delighted to host a number of prestigious visitors to our school including the Minister for Arts, Culture, Arts and Sport, Carál Ní Chuilín and Olympic and Paralympic gold medal winners, Jonathan Edwards and Michael McKillop.

Ellen McDonnell became the 20,000th child in Northern Ireland to participate in the Disability NI programme and the school received a special certificate in recognition of this achievement.

Competition - The opportunity to Review films in Lisburn Omniplex.

Are you in Primary 4 - Primary 7 and would you like the opportunity to win cinema tickets and also have the possibility to go to exclusive screenings of new releases in the Lisburn Omniplex?
Competition closes on Wednesday the 18th of January. Click here for more information on how to enter.

Click on the logo to find out what is on at the Cinema this weekend.

Would you like to play some games?

Click on the picture to play a 'rubbish' game or click on our Green Games to try out more games.

Wow! We have made a difference!

Paperless Friday Note - We have now saved 1450 litres of water, 190 kWh of power and 6.6 kg of greenhouse gas emissions. Click here to find out how.

Congratulations to the young entrepeneurs from the wwwdots. Aswell as helping to protect the planet they made £50 for our school funds.

Congratulations to the Robinson family

Mrs Linda Robinson signed up for the paperless Friday note and helped to save paper and money for the school. She also entered the draw (sponsored by Lisburn Omniplex) and she was the lucky winner of 5 cinema tickets. She vowed that the whole family would have a great day out at the Omnipex over Christmas.

Many Thanks to all the parents who have signed up. If you want to join us add your e-mail address on the registration on the top right hand corner of this home page.

Click here to read more information about the paperless Friday note.

Click here to see how we are Protecting our Planet!

A planet Protector from each class (P1-P7) are photographed helping to protect our planet.

Look how many planet protectors we had during our planet protection week! They did a great job helping us with our efforts to recycle and to save energy.

Great news; Graham FM - committed to helping us reduce our carbon footprint.

Emer Robinson had written a letter to Graham FM (the management company that runs our school site) to ask them if they could help us (and the Regional Training Unit that are part of our site) in our energy conservation and recycling efforts. They are very keen to help us and Ian Campbell, in charge of Energy Conservation at Graham, will be happy to come out to speak to our children.

Not only that, but representatives from Graham came to meet our school board of Governors on Thursday 8th December to discuss ways of helping us to save energy and reduce our carbon footprint.

Help from Tesco to protect our school and our planet

Andrew and I handed in a letter to Tesco asking them to sponsor and assist us with our planet Protection Programme. We chose Tesco in Dunmurry as they are a popular local shop and they have a very good recycling policy and place a lot of emphasis on Green Living. Click on their logo to see for yourself. We also think their slogan is very suitable.

Everyone in our school has particpated in our planet protection programme and helped to protect the environment. We should all keep it up. Every little helps!

By John Johnston (Primary 6 and member of the www dots)

Have you taken the 6 at 6 challenge? Beware the vampire Teachers!

Don't forget to take part in the poll at the bottom of the page. Caoimhe Gillen helped to design it.

A lot of our children have taken the challenge... saving energy and money. Children can go on learning NI and tell us what they switched off or children and adults can go to the 'contacts us' section on the website. Can you guess which St Colman's Primary School teachers are really vampires? Click here for more information on our challenge and to see vampires!.

Anyone who lets us know what they turned off will join our Friday Note Paper Saving Parents in the draw for the cinema vouchers. A maximum of 2 entries (adult or child) into the per family. Click here to enter the competition. Good Luck!

Exciting Link with Lisburn Omniplex

Carole King from the Lisburn Omiplex came out to our school to speak to the wwwdots on Tuesday 6th December. Carole said that she was very pleased to establish a link with St Colman's and she was impressed with the e-mails she had received. As well as presenting the children with more cinema tickets to use as prizes she said that there are a lot of exciting opportunities for our children.

Congratulations Matt Duffy - Winner of poster competition

Mr Kernan and I awarded Matt his 2 cinema tickets for the best website poster. The competition entries were amazing and we were so impressed. Every child who entered the competition to design a poster to advertise our school website received a cool St Colman's pencil and class winners will receive our exclusive St Colman's calculators. Caoimhe Gillen (www dots)

This was Matt's winning design - we thought it was a great mixture of ICT and Art and we loved his concept of using a spider web.

Switch off fortnight

Our School are participating in "Switch off fortnight" from the 21st November - 4th December 2011. We are trying to check that lights and computers are switched off when not being used. We would encourage children and parents to think about saving energy at home.

Success for us and we are on TV!

Congratulations to Miss Phoenix and last year's Primary 5 children who won a fun-filled day in W5. They came in third place out of 600 schools in the reduce reuse recycle competition. We are very proud of them and of their success. They even appeared on Daybreak and they will feature in a lot of the local newspapers aswell. Click here to see photographs of their project.

Our Open Night was a huge Success

Thanks to all our staff and children who turned out to welcome the huge number of prospective Primary 1 children who came to visit us at our open night on Monday 28th Novembe. We were delighted to meet all the children who will who will form part of a very special year group as they will be our first ever Primary 1 class in our brand new school when it re-opens in Lambeg in September 2012.

In order to celebrate this we would like to give any parents with a child starting in Primary 1 in September 2012 the opportunity to enter a draw to win a school uniform. The competition will close on Friday 16th of December and the draw will be made after the Primary 1 places have been allocated.