Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Literacy and Numeracy Workshops

  Tue 10 Oct 2017 MMcG

  📖🎯Literacy and Numeracy Workshops🎯📖

  The school hosted a very successful and enjoyable set of Literacy and Numeracy workshops for our parents and pupils. 

   

  Thanks to our Literacy Coordinator, Mrs Wilson, Numeracy Coordinator, Mr Burns, and all our teaching staff, along with Donal O'Hare and Stephen Rooney, who made the night an informative and enjoyable one.  

   

  A big thanks also to our parents and pupils who came along and participated so well throughout the evening. 👍

  

• Spanish Day

  Sun 08 Oct 2017 MMcG

  🇪🇸Spanish Day at St Nicholas'🇪🇸
  The boys and girls had a great day celebrating our Spanish Day. The school was awash with lots of colours and each class was buzzing with copious Spanish themed activities. 

  Miss McGrady's P5/6 class finished the day by presenting their Parental Assembly on celebrating the Spanish language. They acted and sang Spanish beautifully. Well done everyone! 👍🏻

  

• Canon Esler Cup GAA

  Thu 05 Oct 2017 MMcG

  🏆St Nicholas' Ardglass hosted the Preliminary of the Canon Esler Cup in the school grounds. 11 schools in total were represented and all teams played some great Gaelic Football; so well done to all of the boys and girls that represented their school jerseys with pride. 

   

  The following teams progressed to the knockout stage: St Nicholas' Ardglass, Holy Family, St Mary's Newcastle and Our Lady and St Patrick's Downpatrick.

   

  Holy Family narrowly beat St Nicholas' by one point in extra time. St Mary's, Newcastle & Holy Family will play in the county finals day. 

   

  Thanks to all the teachers, classroom assistants and adults that accompanied their schools and who helped out with refereeing etc. 

   

  Schools in attendance were: St Nicholas', Holy Family Teconnaught, St Mary's Newcastle, Our Lady & St Patrick's, Legamaddy, St Colmcille's, St Parrick's Saul & Ballycruttle, St Patrick's Ballynahinch and Millennium IPS.

  

• House Team Fun

  Thu 14 Sep 2017 MMcG

  🏅House Team Fun🏅
  St Nicholas' welcomed Acti-Sport to the school this morning for our annual House Team bonding activities. This was an opportunity for our four teams to all come together from all classes to work together and have fun through sport. The boys and girls had a great day, with lots of activities laid out for them. Which House Team will win the trophy this term? 🤔

  

• Curriculum Night

  Tue 12 Sep 2017

  Parents' Curriculum Night- Tuesday 12th September 7pm

  Our annual Parents' Curriculum Night for our P1 - P7 parents will be held on Tuesday 12th September at 7.00pm. Tea & Coffee will be on arrival. This is you opportunity to meet your teacher and they will outline the year ahead in your child's class. A full turnout of parents is requested to this very important evening.

  

• Super Students & P1 Buddy System

  Fri 08 Sep 2017 MMcG

  Super Students

   

  Our School Chaplin Fr McCloskey dropped by this morning to see how our pupils were settling into school life after the Summer.  He presented certificates to our Super Students at Assembly.  Well done to Dylan, Ellie, Odhran (missing from picture), Caitlyn, David & Keeley.  Playground Award went to Maeve.

   

  Our Primary 1 pupils today met up with their P6/7 Buddies for a fun play session in the Eco-Garden.  Each Primary 1 pupil now has a new special friend to look out for them this year to help them settle into school life and help point them in the right direction when unsure about the life in the big school.

  

• Staff Development & Team Building Day

  Fri 25 Aug 2017 MMcG

  🎓Staff Development & Team Building Day🎓

  Today, the staff and some governors spent the day in the Mournes as part of a Staff Training Day. We focused on Safeguarding and Developing our Catholic Ethos of our school at Glassdrumman GAC. 

   

  After, we took a walk up the Mournes and developed our skills in Archery, followed by lunch in a cafe in the mountains. A great day was had by all!!

  

• Start of School Year News

  Wed 23 Aug 2017

  School News - Start of School Year 2017/18

   

  A letter will be issued later this week to all families in our school community with information regarding the 2017/2018 School Year including important dates for your diary.

   

  School reopens on Wed 30th August for 2017/18 for all P2-P7 pupils. 

   

  As outlined in the P1 Induction Meeting in June our new P1s are having a staggered induction with small groups coming into school for their one induction morning either Wednesday 30th August, Thursday 31st August or Fri 1st Sept to 12noon. (The letter to P1 parents this week will have their child's Induction Day info included)

   

  On Monday 4th September all our P1 pupils will be in school together. For the first two weeks our P1s will be in school to lunchtime and thereafter our P1s will be in to 2pm every day as normal.

   

  Our School Office is open this Thursday morning if any parents need anything e.g. To purchase Homework Folders. 

   

  Thanks Mr Burns (Principal)

  

• Movie Night and Cheque Presentation

  Thu 29 Jun 2017 MMcG

  🎥 Movie Night and PTA Cheque Presentation 📺 

  After what can only be described as the maddest Movie Night ever a group of Parents presented Mr Burns with a cheque for £2700 to fund the purchase of the new Interactive Panel now fully installed in our P4 classroom.

  Thanks to all involved in recent fundraising activities and to all parents and friends of school who helped with this great success. 👍👏✅

  

• P7 Leavers' Assembly

  Wed 28 Jun 2017 MMcG

  P7 Leavers' Assembly
  It was a sad day today as we said a final farewell to our lovely P7 pupils. All the best as you start your new journeys into secondary school. We'll miss you all.