It’s that long-awaited time of the year when the children in Reception have all learned to read. What better way to practise their new skills than to read to their Y6 Buddy from their favourite books? And, of course, the older children love sharing the stories with their buddies.
Nursery and Reception were very lucky to travel by mini bus to St Columba’s Church as part of their RE ‘Welcome’ topic. Mrs Dodds greeted us at church and we all made the sign of the cross with the Holy water. We gathered around the font and discussed how we are…… Read More
This year, for the very first time at St. Columba’s, as part of their Sacramental Preparation Journey in Faith, Year 4 decided to support ‘Operation Christmas Child’ – the Shoe Box Appeal. A shoe box is Christmas wrapped, filled with toiletries, toys and school items before being sent to a child in natural disaster zones…… Read More
Thank you to all the mums, dads, grannies and grandads that came along to our Buddy assembly this week. The Reception children already love their Buddies in Year Six. The older children have been brilliant at helping the Reception children settle into the longer days at school and they have especially been super at helping…… Read More
I’m back from a hectic few days teaching science in the beautiful Italian town of Tarquinia as part of our on-going Erasmus project, straight into the preparations for one of the best weeks in Y6 – the week of the Buddy assembly. The Y6 pupils have completed a superb hall display of pen portraits of…… Read More
It was our annual CAFOD fundraising event in Y6 this week, where we collect in all the spare vegetables from the bottom of the fridge at home, bring them to school, peel them, chop them up, and turn them into the most delicious soup imaginable. The soup is served with crusty bread and water and…… Read More
Last week Year 2 read the story ‘The Trouble with Dragons’. We quickly realised that these dragons cause all sorts of problems! They eat all of the food, litter the world and breathe hot air everywhere! After reading the story we also looked at a different story from CAFOD, ‘Laudato Si’ , a message from…… Read More
On Friday we celebrated St. Columba’s feast day in school. In year 2 we made mosaics of our St. Columba’s cross. They took a long time to make because we had to concentrate very hard to make sure we placed all of the little squares in the cross. It was well worth the patience and…… Read More
This morning, with great reverence and dignity, Y3 presented the Passion of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. A truly moving experience: … Read More
Having just passed the half-way mark our of school year, I thought it would be a nice opportunity to reflect on some of the lovely things that the school have managed to fit in to our academic year so far. Led by the Mini Vinnies on many of these initiatives we have worked together to…… Read More
