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AWARD WINNERS!!! We have just been awarded the ENTHUSE Award for STEM Primary School of the Year! (Regional winner for Northern Ireland). We are thrilled and honoured to be awarded this prestigious award! @STEMAware @STEMLearningUK @STEMAmbassadors #projectenthuse 🚰🔬🌍🌿🌧

⭐️Good Luck⭐️ We want to wish our P7 pupil the best of luck as he plays in the half time games, during the Ulster Final today! He was one of the highest scoring players, during the County Derry P7 skills test, which means he gets to play at Clones! Have a wonderful day @ScreenGAA

🌟Double Millionaire🌟 This P6 girl is feeling very proud of herself! She has read an incredible 2,000,000 words in Accelerated Reader! An amazing achievement! Congratulations 👏👏 @LiamRenlearn

How good do our pupils look in their Halloween costumes? It has been a fantastic week for these pupils who are proudly holding their ‘Super Seven’ certificates for either excellent listening to the teacher or for completing great homework. Very well done, children! 🎃👻🧙

🌟AR Millionaire 🌟 It’s only October and this P7 girl has read an amazing 1 million words in Accelerated Reader. A wonderful achievement! We’re all very proud of you! 📚📚📚📚📚📚@LiamRenlearn @AccReader

Wow 🤩 Another iPad donated to our school! We are so grateful and thankful to Rogers Fencing Supplies Ltd for this extremely kind gesture. Thank you. If you want to get involved in our fundraising efforts, to get enough iPads, for our children please contact the school.

Another step closer to our goal. 🙌 A huge thank you to H & J Martin for donating an iPad to our school. We are very grateful and the boys and girls are putting the new devices to good use. @HJMartinLtd

The PTA are so grateful to McIvor Sand and Gravel for helping us with our fundraising efforts by sponsoring an iPad for our school. Thank you so much! We are getting closer to our goal.

The PTA want to thank O’Kanes Pharmacy for supporting our ‘Sponsor an iPad’ initiative. The children are so excited about all the new iPads. We are so very grateful.

The PTA are so thankful to Sperrin Metal Storage Solutions @SperrinMetal1 for helping with our ‘Sponsor an iPad’ initiative. Director Peter Gormley making the presentation to @StrawPS. 📚👩‍💻 The children are thrilled, thank you!

Congratulations to our ‘Super Seven’ pupils this week, who received their certificates for working to achieve their personal best, excellent listening well or for following instructions. Well done, children! 👏👏👏

P4, you are making wonderful progress in Accelerated Reader. Very well done, boys and girls! Keep up the great reading! 👏👏👏 @LiamRenlearn

P5 are making great progress in Freckle Maths and Accelerated Reader. These children received their Freckle certificates for achieving excellent accuracy in the Freckle programme. Check out their word counts in Accelerated Reader. Well done, everyone! 👏👏👏 @LiamRenlearn

Check out how many questions these P6 pupils have answered correctly in Freckle Maths, in just 4 weeks! @LiamRenlearn . This is wonderful progress children! Very well done! Keep up the wonderful numeracy work!

Wow!!! Look at the wonderful progress P7 are making in Accelerated Reader! Your word counts are amazing, P7! Very well done! 👏👏👏 @LiamRenlearn

Primary 6 really enjoyed completing their Maths Trail, which Mr Henry designed, for @mathsweek . Using the outdoors the P6 pupils completed tasks in number, shape and space, data handling and measures. The trail was fun and also challenged their mental maths! Very well done, P6.

An inspiring day at the recent Derrytrasna Awards ceremony, hosted by the Department of Education and @publichealthni. Congratulations to @StrawPS, @boysmodelschool and @knockevin on winning their pastoral care awards. Read more - education-ni.gov.uk/news/local-sch…

@Education_NI @publichealthni @boysmodelschool @knockevin We had a fantastic day, thank you!

Well done to the lads from @StrawPS who represented the school at the All County Hurling Championship on Tuesday. After 3 very tough group games they made it through to the Semi finals before bowing out. Keep up the hard work. @ScreenGAA @Doire_mBunscol

Well done to this wonderful P7 boy who represented Derry during the half time games in Celtic Park! This fantastic pupil was placed among the top 20 footballers in Derry during the All County Skills tests and as a result was rewarded with a place on Saturday. @Doire_mBunscol

✨✨✨Breaking News ✨✨✨✨ We are delighted to announce that St Columba’s PS has been awarded the prestigious Derrytrasna Primary Pastoral Care Award! 🤍