Today marked the start of Catholic Schools’ Week 2024. The theme this year centres on ‘serving our communities.’ These next five days in school our children and staff will explore themes in relation to:

- Service in Our Community of Friends
- Service in Our School Community
- Service in Our Family Community
- Service in Our Local Community
- Service in Our Faith Community

#catholicschoolsweek2024
Dundrum Tyrella Parish

We are just over 5 weeks away from our much anticipated 50th Anniversary Gala Ball. 

Tickets are currently on sale: £50 for an individual ticket, £360 for a table of 8 or £450 for a table of 10. These can be ordered through any member of POSH or via Mr Fitzsimons (mfitzsimons956@c2kni.net) + (437 51293).

We are reaching out to current parents, members of the school community, past pupils, past and current staff members, businesses and organisations to all ensure that they are part of this special occasion.

Plans are currently afoot for a welcome reception, special guests, speeches, archive display, auction, entertainment and much more!

FunFit Sports Midterm GAA Development Day!

🗓️Thursday 15th February
⏰ 10am-1pm
💵£10 per child

For girls and boys from P1-Year 9!

Secure your child’s place at our juvenile registration day- Sat 3rd Feb in the community centre.

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Lochlan P3

Lochlan is an extremely kind and well mannered student who loves school life and enjoys learning. He always comes into class with a smile on his face and is full of enthusiasm to learn something new each day. 

Lochlan has blown Mr McCartan away with his reading and he has made massive improvements especially within the area of fluency.

He is a great listener and always follows instructions perfectly. He enjoys a challenge and has shown great independence throughout Numeracy and Literacy. Lochlan enjoys mental maths games and can figure out sums quickly using partitioning. 

Lochlan is a very deserving winner of this award as he continues each day to maximise his potential and strives to be the best that he can be.

Well done Lochlan!

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss (American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator and filmmaker).

At the beginning of the academic year Sacred Heart P.S. decided to introduce the Accelerated Reader programme as one of our main Literacy focusses. We believe wholeheartedly in the power of reading and the many benefits that it brings for our children in terms of their academic progress. 

Today we acknowledged some of our avid readers who have recently attained their respective certifications in line with their reading journey.

Well done to you all and keep reading for pleasure!

A range of worthwhile and merited reasons as to why this week’s Pupil of the Week winners received their awards were given by our teachers at today’s assembly. There was a mixture of concepts mentioned namely achievement, effort, skill and personality.

Well done to Fionn (P1), Liam (P2), Fionn (P3), Aoife (P4), Ruadhán (P5), Ellie (P6) and Charlie (P7)!

Our non-teaching and teaching staff along with the school leadership are out on strike today. We join with the rest of those in education, civil service, healthcare and transport who are calling for better pay and work conditions.

This is one of the biggest strike days ever held in the North of Ireland. We have been without a power sharing government here since February 2022. The Secretary of State is offering £3.3bn which would settle the majority of public sector pay claims. However, it is contingent on the Stormont institutions being restored.

Our first Pupil of the Week recipients of 2024 were extremely excited today to be awarded certifications at our weekly assembly. 

This was our first full week back and everyone has settled in so well, looking forward to what 2024 will bring.

Well done to you all!

Orlaith P2

Orlaith is an extremely hard working, polite and caring child who always puts 100% into everything she does. We are immensely proud of how Orlaith gets on with things in class. Once given a task she has her head down and completes it to the best of her ability. 

She is a very good friend to all in P2/P3 and shows excellent manners to the adults in the school as well. Mr McCartan has been blown away by Orlaith’s reading in school and she is thriving within the Accelerated Reader programme. 

Orlaith produces fantastic pieces of work right across the curriculum day in, day out, always ensuring that her work is neat and presentable. She shows an interest within lessons and she has shown great strengths within Numeracy and Literacy work by being able to complete tasks independently. 

Orlaith is a very diligent student and is a worthy recipient of this award.

Well done!