St Patrick's PS Donaghmore

Our School Council were delighted to distribute 45 new iPads & covers to our classes. 42 iPads were purchased with money fundraised & 3 iPads were gifted.🎉🎉 We are absolutely overwhelmed with all the support received from our parents, school community & local businesses.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We were delighted to welcome Orlaith Moore, Young Enterprise NI, into school. Orlaith got into the ‘spirit’ of the occasion & guided our Year 6 pupils through the ‘Our World’ section of YENI🏦💷 It was good craic watching ‘the robber’ give money away rather than take it! 😆😂

Congratulations to our amazing Top AR Readers & all the boys and girls who reached their first targets this term.🥳 The pupils were treated to popcorn and a drink while chillin’ in the hall watching a Hallowe’en movie 🎥 🍿 🥤 Keep up the super duper reading! 📚 👏🏻 @AccReader

Digital Leaders 💻 Congratulations to the children from Years 5, 6 & 7 who have been chosen as Digital Leaders.👏🏻 They completed a day of training in school with Niall from The Amma Centre. We look forward to them supporting the children in our school develop their ICT skills.

Wowee!, Lots of success at the dancing feis this weekend !🏆🥇🥈🥉🎖️ I am so very proud of all our talented boys and girls and we love celebrating their successes. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 💜💙💜💙 #IrishDancing #Talent #CelebratingSuccess

Our children had a Magnificent time celebrating Maths Week. 🗓️🧮 All classes participated in fun Maths lessons, in & out of the classroom!👏🏻 There should be lots of tired boys and girls tonight, so there will be no need for counting sheep to help them sleep!🐑🐑😉 #MathsWeek2024

Maths Week Our Year 7 class had great fun, & learning, during the Mega Quiz with our old friend Frank Schlindwein today.🧮 It was lovely to see our pupils collaborate as one team & compete against hundreds of other classes from across Ireland.💜💙 #MathsWeek2024 #LearningisFun

Mr Lavery, Mrs McGirr & Miss McKenna had the lovely opportunity of meeting with our local partner primary school principals to discuss and review Year 8 Transition and planning the way forward for this academic year.

Celebrating Maths Week We were delighted to welcome Suzanne and Julie Anne, from @DanskeBank_UK, to talk to our children about being MoneySmart. 💶 The children thoroughly enjoyed the lessons ~ and spending money. 😉 #mathsweek #MoneySmart #lifeskills

We are Hallowe’en ready ~ enter at your peril!! The children and staff are really excited and are looking forward to our dress up day on October 29 🕸️🕷️💀🎃👻🧙 #Halloween2024 #Dressing Up #School

It’s cheese, cheese and more cheese this morning as Jim Hamill our school photographer is in! I am loving all the hairstyles and smiles 😆😆

Cycle to School Week Our cycling to school got off to a great start this morning with lots of boys and girls cycling & scooting to school. 🛴 🚴‍♂️ 🚴‍♀️ 🚴 Fingers crossed the weather holds up for the rest of the week.🤞🏻 #CycletoSchoolWeek @Sustrans @Education_NI @Ed_Authority

Leavers’ Ceremony and Prizegiving We had a packed house for our Leavers’ Ceremony at the end of June. Our Guest Speaker this year was past pupil and past parent, Conor Grimes, who entertained staff and children with anecdotes from his own school days. 😂🌟

We are participating in the CYPSP School Uniform Recycling Initiative.♻️ Our parents can donate and take uniform items in a bid to save them money 💷 and save our planet 🌍 #reducereuserecycle

We had a lovely surprise today….. 😀 Mrs Aideen Nugent presented our school with a £200 donation from the Torrent Credit Union.💷 Thank you to our wonderful Credit Union savers who were on hand to receive the cheque on behalf of our school. ✨

Michelle & Francine from Viberoptix called into school today to present 3 iPads to Emily & Darcey. The staff in Viberoptix were really impressed with Darcey’s letter & they wanted to present the iPads to her personally. Thank you @Viber_optix for supporting our pupils👏🏻👏🏻💜💙

We were delighted to meet @ChrisNICCY in Cookstown this morning. 💜💙 It was refreshing to meet someone who truly has the children and their voice at their core. 🙌 We wish Chris the very best during his tenure and we look forward to meeting him again. @nichildcom

With 1000s of bike fans heading to @northwest200 over the next few days, drivers should look out for the many motorcyclists with whom they share the road. A bike is 3 times harder to see than a car so #TakeAnotherLook for motorcyclists. @deptinfra @NIRoadPolicing @nifrsofficial

…Donaghmore cross in the Village 📸 ☕️There will be refreshments afterwards in the torrent 💸Donations are all on the morning. 🦺Be sure to bring a hi vis or wear any bright clothing for the walk for your safety and safety of others!