The Mayor visits the Primary 5 children as they prepare for Sports Day

 

 

 

 

St Colman's welcomed back M&M Productions for the wonderful, crazy and fun-filled show 'Alice in Wonderland'

On Thursday the 10th of May we loved our Pantomime visit. We had great excitement.

The Mayor visits our new school

On Wednesday the 9th of May 2012 Mr McVeigh, Mr McCreesh Chairman of the Board of Governors and the site manager show the mayor, Mr Brian Heading around the new school. Photographer; Fr. Paul! Click here to see more photos of the new school.

Congratulations to the P7 children who passed their cycling proficiency!

 

The primary 7 children worked hard at their cycling proficiency. Everyone was delighted to pass their test.

 

Triumphant netballers!

The girls netball team hold their shield for winning the Lisburn league. This is the second time St.Colman's has won the league. The last time was in 1981!!

Click here to read the match report by Emer Robinson.

Primary 2 loved learning to make Pizzas!

Mrs Monaghan's class loved their visit to Pizza Express on Tuesday the 17th of April. Click here to see more photographs.

Mr Ó Faogain' class raise £ 200 pounds for Tuesday's Child.

Mr Ó' Faogain, Mrs Lowe and the children have raised enough money to give 100 children the chance of free education for a year. Ms Orla Sheehan from Tuesday's Child explained how the money will be use to take 100 children off the dump and provide them with education for the year. Well done to all who helped and supported us with the venture.

Our Talented children raise money for Trócaire

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the talent show on Friday the 30th of March. The winners are pictured above but the real winners were those who watched and participated in our talent show and the children in Africa. We will put up more photographs and a review of the show next week.

P2's win GAA colouring competition!

Mrs Monaghan's P2's were the overall Antrim county winners in a recent GAA colouring competition. With almost 20,000 entries they beat tough competition to win their fabulous prizes of reflective backpacks for the whole class. Pictured with them is Mags their GAA coach who was delighted with the great news!

St Colman's Eco-Council

Primary 7 are developing an Eco-Council in our school. We are trying to encourage everyone to become 'Eco-Warriors.' Remember 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' is our motto.

Our Teachers enjoyed visiting our new school building

Our New School building is on Target

The new school build is progressing at a rapid rate and we are delighted with the progress. Thankfully the weather has been on our side since the builders moved on site and we hope that continues. Its all systems go for the handover at the end of July and starting our new school term in September 2012 in our new building. Our Teachers went to see for themselves how the building was progressing.

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Puppetworks visit St Colman's to teach disability awareness.

Puppetworks came to our school on 26th March to raise awareness of disability. The show was very entertaining and informative. We enjoyed meeting paul the puppet and asking him questions about cerebral palsy. Melissa the puppet taught us a lot about having a visual impairment. We learnt so much about what it is like to live with a disability."Everyone loved the show and I told Paul the puppet that I have Cerebral Palsy too." Aidan McDonnell

We are proud of our winning netball team!

For the first time ever our school netballers won their League on Thursday 22nd of March 2012. Congratulations to all the girls and their coaches Mrs Monaghan and Mrs Robinson.
Click here to read the full match report by our sports reporter - Emer Robinson

St Colman's help to buy a goat for a family in Africa

Congratulations to Mr Ó Faogaín's class who presented a cheque to Aedín, a representative from Bóthar, during a fun assembly on Thursday 22nd of March.
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St Colman's wins prize at Choir of the Year Competition

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The Vikings Come to St Colman's

The Vikings came to visit the Primary 6 children on Thursday 8th of March. Everyone had a great day. The children were very good at getting into character. Luckily everyone survived the invasion!

St Colman's Win the Belfast Drama Festival

On Friday the 2nd of March our drama club won the Belfast festival. Congratulations to everyone involved. Click here to read more.

World Book Day in St Colman's

Mr Kernan's class brought in their favourite books and teachers swapped classes to read a story to children. Click here to find out more.

Mrs Monaghan taught us how to use great expression!

We are recycling batteries - can you help us?

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We are helping to raise money for Lisburn 2gether Special Olympics Club

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Primary 4 Visit The Armagh Planetarium

All the Primary 4 children had a great school trip when they visited the Armagh Planetarium on Thursday 9th of February. It was a great way to start their space topic and there are definitely some budding astronauts in both classes. Click here to see more photographs.

Primary 4 Dino Day

The Primary fours have been very busy with their topic work this week. They had a dino day on Wednesday the 8th of February. The had a dino quiz, learned dino songs and took part in a dino hunt and much more... Click here for more information.

The Ankylosaurus Group were joint winners of the Primary 4 dino quiz.

 

As part of Catholic Schools week our Grandparents came to visit us!

Primary 3 really enjoyed celebrating Grandparents Day as part of Catholic Schools week. We were privileged to have so many grandparents that came in to visit us in our classrooms. Some grandparents told us stories about when they were young, some brought in special Santa toys from many years ago, some brought in photos of them when they were children and others read stories and played instruments whilst others simply came for a special visit.

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Movie Review Winners Revealed

Congratulations to the four winners (missing from photograph is Connla Ward). They will be going to review a new film at the Lisburn Omniplex in the near future. Click here to read more details.

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January was a great month for everyone at St Colman's

January was a great month for everyone at St Colman's Primary School. Our new school building is progressing really well and we are all looking forward to moving back to Lambeg in September 2012. We also hit the headlines on the 18th of January when Ellen McDonnell became the 20,000th child to take part in the 5 star disability challenge.

On Thursday 26th of January we were delighted when our Primary 7 children received the sacrament of Confirmation. We would like to thank everyone for all their help with the Confirmation Ceremony. I was a wonderful service and the children were a credit to their families. Thank you to all the staff who helped prepare the children for the service, Fr Paul and Bishop Farquhar for officiating the beautiful mass and the Parents Association for providing the refreshments afterwards. Pictured below is Rose McCullagh alongside Bishop Farquahar.



We had a fantastic day on when coaches from Disability Sport NI, including Paralympic Gold medallist Michael McKillop and former St. Colman's pupil Jonathan McCarthy, demonstrated five different sports played by disabled athletes. St. Colman's pupil, Ellen McDonnell was the 20,000 child in Northern Ireland to complete the challenge. This milestone was marked by the presence of the NI Sports Minister, Carál Ni Chuilin and Olympic Gold medallist Jonathan Edwards.

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St Colman's In the News

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