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

• Young at Heart/P1 Forest School

  Tue 25 Feb 2025

  Young at Heart, along with their P1 friends, explored the wonders of spring during a Forest School lesson at the castle today. They embarked on a scavenger hunt, discovering various signs of the season and later gathered to enjoy a spring themed story.

  Northern Ireland Forest School Association

  

• Drama Workshop

  Mon 24 Feb 2025

  P7 had a great Monday morning participating in a drama workshop. In partnership with the St Patrick’s Centre and led by Anthony, the boys and girls  played a variety of drama games and then worked in groups to create a dramatisation of the story of St Patrick. There was lots of fantastic acting and creativity on display!

  

• Principal’s Award

  Fri 21 Feb 2025

  *** Principal’s Award ***

  Caolán P3

  Caolán is a very clever and hard-working boy who absolutely loves school life. He is caring, polite and well-mannered and always does what is asked of him. 

  Caolán is a very enthusiastic learner and can retain information excellently. He thrives in a working environment and loves a challenge. Caolán always tries his best and is regularly on hand and willing to help others. 

  He has enjoyed the introduction of Just2Easy and has had fun using it across the curriculum in Numeracy, Literacy and World Around Us. Caolán has a particular affinity with Numeracy and can use Mental Maths strategies such as partitioning and counting on to work sums out in his head. 

  Caolán has high engagement with the Accelerated Reader programme and has enjoyed participating in quizzes. He excels in playing games in PE and is competent at any sport that he takes on. 

  Caolán is a fantastic role model for Sacred Heart PS and is a very worthy recipient of this award.

  Well done!

  

• Pupil of the Week

  Fri 21 Feb 2025

  Cara P1, Laughlin P2, Úna P3, Korey P4, Aoife P5, Austin P6 and Alfie P7 were all acknowledged with Pupil of the Week awards at today’s assembly. A very deserving bunch who were all thrilled to be recognised for their efforts in relation to these last five days in Sacred Heart P.S.

  

• Water Bus

  Wed 19 Feb 2025

  P5/P6 and P7 all had the opportunity to visit the Water Bus this morning!

  Downstairs, the boys and girls learnt all about the different processes of cleaning water and what we can do to help as responsible and aware citizens. 

  When they went upstairs, the focus was on the water cycle and how we can help to save water and ultimately, our planet.

  

• JEP Business Venture

  Wed 19 Feb 2025

  Conor McKibbin, proprietor of Brennan’s, visited the P7 class today. Conor, who incidentally is also a past pupil of Sacred Heart P.S., came in the capacity of our JEP (Junior Entrepreneur Programme) visitor to talk about all things business!

  The boys and girls have been busy setting up their own business, Sacred Heart Scents, and they really appreciated the great advice Conor gave and all the questions that he answered. 

  Conor very kindly gifted each member of the class with a voucher for some ice cream. The children are extremely grateful and are looking forward to using these!

  Brennans Seaforde & Dundrum

  

• New Pedestrian Crossing

  Tue 11 Feb 2025

  We were delighted to see the commencement yesterday of the construction of the new pedestrian crossing on Main St (opposite the chapel). This instalment will be of huge importance to our school, allowing parents to use the adjacent car park and cross safely to and from our entry points with their children.

  The creation of the new pedestrian crossing stems back to late 2023/early 2024 when initial meetings took place with the DFI. Our local Sinn Féin MLA Cathy Mason along with Councillor Oonagh Hanlon and Councillor Róisin Howell have been instrumental in seeing the process through to where we are at now. Similarly we place on record our thanks to past parents Frank and Sue Spence for all the work that they put into building the case for this development. Not to forget our children who strongly advocated for this new instalment along with our parents!

  We as a school community look forward to the completion of the project and the essential use that we will get out of the new pedestrian crossing.

  Cathy Mason MLA

  

• HIP Psychology’s Children’s Mental Health Week Megathon

  Fri 07 Feb 2025

  P4 to P7 logged on for a highly captivating ‘Know Your Emotions, Grow Your Emotions’ online workshop led by HIP Psychology as part of their Children’s Mental Health Week Megathon. The learning and understanding was clear and concise with a host of important messages conveyed through the different activities.

  #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
  HIP Psychology

  

• Safer Internet Day 2025

  Fri 07 Feb 2025

  Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online was the theme for this year’s Safer Internet Day. The Digital Leaders led the thematic aspects of this important day of awareness as they held a competition for internet safety posters. The Just2Easy platform was used for this whilst every class undertook awareness training in relation to modern day aspects of scamming.

  #SaferInternetDay

  

• Stone Age Jewellery

  Fri 07 Feb 2025

  P4/P5 are currently immersed in their Prehistoric World WAU topic. As part of their learning discovery, they made some amazing Stone Age jewellery. Superb craft from everyone!