Nazareth House Primary School

Our prize-giving ceremony took place on Friday 25th. We were entertained by our orchestra and our school choir before the proceedings got under way. This year saw the first set of Academic awards with the specially commissioned school badges in English, Maths, I.C.T. and Endeavour. We also had special excellence badges for children who had had exceptional success during the year. In addition this was the first year we presented our St. Cecilia’s Award for Performing Arts.

Well done to all the prizewinners and for those who were not successful perhaps they will redouble their efforts next year.

Wow! Another super sportsday in the Brandywell Centre. Well done to Mrs McDevitt for organising the whole thing and congratulations to all the boys and girls who took part with such gusto and sportsmanship.

Mr. McDowell’s White team were victorious on the day. Well Done!

Congratulations to our Swimming team that competed in th eNorth west Schools Gala. Our under 12 girls were most successful winning first in the Medley relay, 2nd in the Freestyle Relay, 1st in the Butterfly, 2nd in the Backstroke and 3rd in the Freestyle. And….. we won overall best Girls U12 school. Yippeeeee!!!!!

Well done to all team members who took part. Our new caps also looked smart.

Teams were….

Girls U12: Leah Casey, Ellen Kindlon, Siun Herron, Molly Shiels.

 Girls U11: Olivia Quigley

 Boys U12: Ben Gallagher, Noel Doherty, Cathal Roarty, Joeseph Gillen, Michael Doherty

Boys U11: Piaras Casey, PJ Casey, Aodhan Wade, Feargal Wade.

June 5th was a glorious day weather wise but it also was gloriuos because our P4 children made their First Holy Communion. The church was packed with family members as Fr. Mongan celebrated the mass. The children were so beautiful and their behaviour was so dignified and respectfuil. They were a credit to their families and to Mrs. McGill and Mr. McDowell who had put in so much work in preparation. The chapel was looking magnificent, as usual. Many thanks to the Sisters of Nazareth for their continued hospitality.

P3 parents also hosted a “feast” afterwards in the canteen and not forgetting Carmel and David at the ice-cream machine in teh playground! All in all, a wonderful day!

As we speak our school dvd magazine is nearing completiton. We hope to have them available from Monday 14th June. You can pre-order dvds now priced at £5. Only pre-ordered DVDs will be produced so don’t miss out. Get your order in quick!!!!

As a precursor to our Premier League Fantasy Football which we hope to run in October, we are having a free run at a World cup League. No football knowledge is required so even Mums and grannies can get involved. ( Sorry Mrs.Quigley)

Teams should be registered by Friday 11th June. Log on to www.schoolsfl.com/worldcup and click on register a team. Make up a username and a password and away you go. You’ll have to pick a team of 11 players and you have £11m to spend.

All the details are on th ewebsite regarding transfers and scoring points but you will need our school PIN to submit a team to our school league. The PIN is 111145.

Please get involved, parents children, friends. It costs nothing and should be good fun!

You can log on by following the link in our Top Links section.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as M&M productions brought their production of Charlotte’s Web to our school. All classes from P1 to P7 were enthralled by the performance, the P6s especially so, as this is their class novel.

We have recently changed over to Pennyburn Kitchen to supply our school dinners. The format of the dinners are a little different from before so it may take a bit of time for the children to get used to the choice options.

We will try to post the monthly rota for dinners each month on this site, but that is proving difficult at present. We will send the rota home by hardcopy or through email to those parents who have given us their address.

Sio far we are very happy with the quality and quantity of the dinners. Each day should have a choice of 2 dinners or soup and sandwiches,  with all the trimmings and a desert.

Please let us know yur opinions on the meals. You can see a sample of some of the dinners so far in the gallery. I’m starving just looking at them!

All children who had 99% or over attendance since September all received Easter Eggs as a reward. Well Done Everyone.

Was there ever a day that didn’t turn out quite as you expected? Well Grandparents’ Day was one of those days. But not in a bad way.

Firstly we had planned a mass for Key Stage 2 and an assembly for Key Stage 1. We honestly expected @ 20 to 30 Grandparents. Boy were we wrong as over 200 swarmed the school. Some came very long distances just to be here. The atmosphere in the school was so cosy and relaxed. It was just wonderful.

Poor Miss Harkin was run off her feet making tea but she managed brilliantly.

Some of the grandparents visited the classes and shared their experiences with the children. And, of course, the children were bursting to show off their classrooms and “their wee world” to all the grannies and grandfathers.

Let’s have more days like this! Next time we’ll be ready!