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Welcome

 

As the Principal of St Brigid’s Primary School, I extend to you a very warm welcome to our website.  Through this we aim to give you a flavour of some of the school events, visitors and experiences offered to our children.

St Brigid’s is a Catholic maintained, co-educational primary school, where the children are at the heart of every decision we make and everything we do. We value the great relationships that we have formed with our parents and acknowledge the dedicated work and commitment of the Staff, Governors and Parents Association.

We enjoy a warm, welcoming, inclusive atmosphere and it is this distinctive ethos which enables the children to flourish and succeed giving them the skills, attitudes and desire to achieve their full potential. 

I hope that you find our website informative and interesting and gain some insight into how we fulfil our school motto: 'Learning and Growing Together'.  If you would like to see our school and experience our ethos I would be delighted to meet with you.

Thank you for visiting our website.

Kind regards

Dolores Miller

Principal

Mission Statement

St Brigid’s  Primary is a Catholic primary school which seeks to provide a caring, secure and challenging environment in which all its pupils have an equal opportunity to reach their full potential, spiritually, academically socially, physically, emotionally, morally and culturally. 

   The school aims to provide effective education for all its pupils with the co-operation and support of their parents, the parish and the wider community.

 

Life in St Brigid's

 
 

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✨ Out-of-this-world creativity! ✨ Primary Five got hands-on with papier-mâché to create and paint the planets of our solar system. 🌍🪐The results? Truly stellar! 🌟 🎨We’re so proud of their hard work and creativity—each planet is out of this world! 🚀
✏️ Whole School Self Evaluation✏️ Our pupils have been participating in a range of self evaluation activities to help us gain their views on well-being, the school environment and the quality of teaching and learning at St Brigid’s. They gave us lots of great feedback, that we look forward to developing this year. We will use their feedback to inform our School Development Plan and Curriculum Area Action Plans this year.
Eco-Council Outing to the Harvest Feast at Down High🥕👩🏻‍🌾🌍 Today, our senior Eco-Council members proudly represented our school at Down High, where they joined in celebrating St. Brigid’s growing journey through the ‘Grow Bag Seed to Feed’ initiative, led by the students of Down High. They shared our school’s journey, from cultivating our plots and planting seeds to reaping the rewards of a successful harvest. 👩🏻‍🌾 Following their presentation, the group enjoyed a delicious harvest feast, featuring soup, pizza, and apple juice—many of the ingredients had been grown and harvested by the students themselves. 👏🏼 A big thank you to Down High for hosting us and supporting our planting journey! 🌎🪴
🗺️Grid References in Primary Three 🗺️ Today we worked in groups to navigate around four grids using our knowledge of grid referencing. We located 2D and 3D shapes, items for a birthday party and food for a dinner party. We then collected the items using our Beebot and sorted the 2D shapes from the 3D shapes. What a fun morning of learning we had 😊✅
P2 have been enjoying getting outside to our forest area ‘The Bank’ for their weekly outdoor play sessions! Some examples this week included: 🖌️Mud Painting Tricky Words 🔤Phonics Wordbuilding using Outdoor Sound Mats 🍃Counting in 2s using natural materials 👩‍🍳Mud kitchen recipes 👷Marble Run and Bridge construction 🌿Natural materials clay prints 🔢 Outdoor Numeracy Trail 🚲 Exploring wheeled vehicles ‘Outdoor learning enriches the curriculum by providing hands-on, meaningful, memorable experiences that cater to different learning styles.’
Today marked the much anticipated opening of our inclusive and accessible new state of the art playground for the children of St Brigid’s. You can see from the photos it was an exciting day for all the children. It includes: - ⁠Trampoline - Seesaw and Spinners - Multiplay Equipment Unit - Two Playground Swings - Interactive Play Panels - Soft Safety Surfacing In St Brigid’s PS we strive to ensure our children have access to the highest quality facilities and resources. This new playground development will be an excellent addition to our school grounds providing an innovative and inclusive area to meet the needs of all our pupils.
Primary Five enjoyed exploring their times tables today using nature to create Multiplication Arrays.🍂🌳🪵
✨👩‍🎓 St. Brigid’s Student Council 👨‍🎓 ✨ This afternoon our 2024-25 Student Council attended their first meeting. Today they discussed their role, and also the characteristics a Student Councillor should possess as representatives for their respective classes. A fantastic start to what will be a productive year!

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Our school hours are:
8:30am - 4:30pm Monday to Friday
Phone: 028 4461 2253