News 2022

World Down Syndrome Day

🧦World Down Syndrome Day 21/3/22🧦 Monday 21st March The date for World Down Syndrome day, the 21st day of the third month, was selected to signify the uniqueness of the 21st chromosome. For a child to be born with Down Syndrome their 21st chromosome instead of being doubled is tripled. To celebrate this day we asked all pupils to wear odd or your craziest and most col...

St. Patrick's Day

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a ceili and a 'Green' day. The children all donated £1 to Trócaire. ...

Rosary Campaign for Peace

🙏Praying the Rosary for Peace🙏 The pupils and staff have been praying a Rosary every day for the children in war torn Ukraine. To date there are one million child refugees from Ukraine. We have joined together with the Diocese of Derry as part of the ‘Rosary for Peace’ campaign to pray a Hail Mary for each one of them....

World Book Day

📚 WORLD BOOK DAY 📚 March 3rd was World Book Day and we loved the activities we planned for the children. We had; 📚 Whole School zoom assembly where the Teachers dressed up and read an extract of their chosen book. 📚 Pupils brought their favourite book for a class Show & Tell. 📚 We watched pre-recorded videos of...

Ash Wednesday

Fr. Crowley visited the shcool to give us our ashes to mark the beginning of Lent. We thank him for his time as we enter a special time of reflection. ...

Pancake Tuesday

On March 1st we celebrated Pancake Tuesday. Patricia O'Kane came into our school and made pancakes with each class. What a treat we had! Butter and sugar were our favourite toppings throughout the school. ...

P.3 Assembly

✨Primary Three Assembly✨ Hi everyone, we hope you enjoy watching our assembly. It's all about 'World Book Day' we had so much fun preparing it. Please follow the link below to view: https://youtu.be/W-WlvBGJj6A...

Sacramental Talk

P4 & 7 Parents and children For anyone who missed the Sacramental talk by Therese Ferry and Mary O’Boyle last night, you can watch it by clicking on the link below https://catecheticalcentre.org/webcam/ From there click ‘Recordings’ and then download ‘Garvagh Parish Sacramental Talk 22 Feb’...

Coding Week 2022

We celebrated Coding Week throughout the school from 31st January 2022 to 4th February 2022. Each class took part in differentiated activities. Everybody developed their skills through using position and direction, writing code and collaborating together. Examples of apps we used were Scratch Jnr, BeeBot, Tynker, Kodable and KeyNote. ...

St. Brigid's Day 2022

The whole school celebrated the festival of 'Imbolc', otherwise known as St. Brigid's Day. Everyone had lots of fun making their St. Brigid's crosses using rushes and pipe cleaners. These were blessed by Fr. Crowley and sent home. ...