News 2023/2024
‘Red & Black Day
Today we held a ‘Red & Black Day’ in support of the Down senior men’s team who take on Armagh in the semi-final of the Ulster Championship this Saturday!
Special thank you to Conor Laverty, Down Manager for visiting us today and taking time to chat, sign and show us some training drills!!
Usborne Book Buddy
Many thanks to Martina Murphy, Essence's of Beauty who very kindly sponsored books for Holy Cross PS through the Usborne Book Buddy scheme. All books received support mental health and well-being for children. Thank you to Laura Johnston, the book buddy representative for Usborne in our area. Pictured with Laura is Martina's 3 nieces Eva, Faye & Niamh.
Primary 7 Leaver's hoodies
It gave great pleasure to present our P7’s with their leaver’s hoodies. We hope the children love wearing their new hoodies and it will always remind them of all the good, fun times they had during their time here at Holy Cross.😊 There was great excitement as they were finally delivered. Don’t they look great?
RNLI
Today we had Stephen & Chris from the RNLI to teach the the children how to stay safe in, on and around the water and to still have fun!
We heard about the 4 fundamental water safety messages, which are:
- Stop & Think
- Stay Together
- Float
- Call 999
Special thanks to Rory Donnan from Cnag boirche ioctar who came to school this morning to present the winners of their Easter Colouring In competition
On Friday we held our tern Spelling Bee competition. Children from P2-P7 have been practicing for the last few weeks. Many congratulations to our winners this term.
We were so lucky to have a special guest just before the Easter holidays! The Easter Bunny hopped on by and brought the children some eggs! We would like to say a big thank you to our guest, the smiles show just how delighted the children were! Also a special thank you to our Friends of Holy Cross!
Cancer Fund for Children March 2024
A cheque of £860.02 was presented as a donation to Aisling from the charity organisation, Daisy Lodge Cancer Fund for Children. This was made possible because of the children’s generous sponsorships from our Readon which took place on World Book Day. Many thanks to everyone who left in sponsorship forms for this worthwhile cause. Well done to Kobi & Eden-Rose who got a voucher from Aisling for raising the most money.
Green Day 15th March 2024
All pupils came in today dressed for Green Day Celebrations! ... We also celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a whole school assembly!
Well done to all the children!
Irish Dancers success at Warrenpoint Feis March 2024
Congratulations to our P6 and P7 boys and girls who participated in the Primary School football Blitz through Irish on Friday 8th March 2024 at Atticall GAC.
The aim of this Blitz was to provide an opportunity for primary school children to use their Irish socially.
Thank you CnaG Boirche Íochtar for organising this blitz- a fantastic experience!
We celebrated “World Book Day” on Thursday 7th March 2024. We were encouraged to create a prop to support our favourite book. We all had the opportunity to speak to our peers about our book and why we chose it and then about our prop and how we made it. Lots of Talking and Listening Skills in practice. There were some fabulous and very imaginative props on display, ice dragon eggs, castles, guitars, golden tickets, octopus, hot air balloons, potions to name a few.
We also took part in the annual “Read-On Challenge” in aid of the Cancer Fund for Children. Thank you so much for your very generous donations for this extremely worthy cause.
Science met Art at P6’s etching and printing workshop on Monday 4th March.
We started with a tour of Bagenal’s Castle and the museum exhibits which provided us with inspiration for our own art work, we then:
1. sketched a few ideas before choosing the one we were happy with
2. coated a metal plate with hot wax
3. etched into the wax our chosen sketch
4. set up an etching station, which involved creating a circuit, using a battery, a salt solution and leads
5. submerged our metal plates, the wax prevented the acid solution reaching areas of our plate
6. observed the changes taking place during the submersion before taking out and cleaning our plates.
7. Finally, inked our plates and used a press to create a print from our plate.
It was a wonderful opportunity to work alongside professional artists, Mary and Ann and also to see around and learn about the role Bagenal’s Castle played in the history of our local area from Declan, the Educational Officer at the Museum!
The Outlook newspaper came last week to speak to the boys & girls in Primary 1&2 to talk about what they would wish for😍
Cumann na mBunscol quiz
Well done to our school team who competed admirably at the annual Cumann na mBunscol quiz in Kilcoo GAC this morning. Jack, Raymond, Brandon and Daniel were proud to represent the school and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Special thanks to Jack's mummy who offered to transport the boys this morning.
Well done to our camogie team who played in the camogie tournament in Burren GAC this morning. The girls reached the semi final and played brilliantly against St Dallans.
School Council Raffle Draw 14-2-24
A Huge Thank You
to all the pupils and parents for the amazing support in our recent 
Valentine’s Raffle. We raised an incredible £510 to go towards our Sensory Markings in school.
Mass in Attical Church, Wednesday 14th Feb 24 @ 9:30am - Whole school in attendance
Well done to our Hurley team who played in the tournament in Burren GAC this morning- 2/2/24
Warrenpoint Feis TImetable for Holy Cross Primary School 2024
Grandparents' Mass
On Friday 2nd February the whole school will celebrate a special Mass for our Grandparents.
We invite our Grandparents to attend the school Mass, where we offered prayers and then they were welcomed into school for refreshments. It is a lovely celebration which we all enjoy.
Grandparents
Few can bring the warmth
We can find in their embrace,
And little more is needed to bring love.
Than the smile on their face.
They've a supply of precious stories,
Yet they've time to wipe a tear,
Or give us reasons to make us laugh,
They grow more precious through the years.
We believe that God sent us Grandparents
As our legacy from above,
To share the moments of our life,
As extra measures of His love.
Author Unknown
Road Safety NI Table quiz Mourne Country Hotel, Newry 02-02-24
P6 & 7 Hurley Indoor Tournament in Burren GAC 02-02-24
Credit Union Quiz
Our school was represented at Kilkeel Credit Union Quiz by five teams from Primary 6&7 at St Colman's Primary school on Monday 29th January 2024 at 7pm.
We are so proud of all the children who answered a range of questions on general knowledge, local and world knowledge and current affairs.
Camogie Coaching
We are delighted to introduce Edel Magee, Atticall GAC who will join us on on Monday to coach our P3-P7 girls.
Our girls are having great fun and working on their core strength and hand to eye coordination during our camogie coaching with tremendous interest being shown by the young camogs.
Hopefully their confidence and skills will improve every week.
Shea & Cohen
We have Shea & Cohen over in the big school today showing all the boys and girls a lovely chair that they have been busy building all by themselves in playtime. They will be taking orders shortly!!
MOURNE HURLING INFORMATION
Clann Mhúrn held our second indoor hurling taster session at Longstone last Sunday with a large number of primary and post primary boys in attendance (PHOTOS). We would like thank guest coaches Marty McNeill, Daithí Young and Joseph Young for helping out. It was great to see a number of new players trying hurling for the first time.
Indoor Practice returns to Dunavil this Sunday p1 to p5 at 10am and p5 & Secondary ages 10:45am. Hurleys and helmets will be provided as needed.
Clann Mhúrn are delighted to host a Coach Education session on Monday 29th January 7:30pm in the Kingdom Sports Hall. This is aimed at anyone new or recently involved with coaching underage Hurling or Camogie. This will focus on basic fundamentals of the game and will be facilitated by Danny Toner of Ulster GAA. No need to register beforehand and no charge.
Danny Toner Ulster GAA has started coaching in Grange PS on Wednesday morning until the Easter break.
There will be coaching on Mondays after Easter in the Gaelscoil p1 to p2 from 1:30pm and p3 to p7 from 2:30pm for 8 weeks.
Martin Fogarty will facilitate a practical ‘coaching the coaches’ workshop at An Ríocht on Friday 2nd February 7pm to 9pm & Saturday 3rd February 9am to 1pm for camogie and hurling coaches. Martin managed Kilkenny to two u21 All Irelands and was a selector with Brian Cody between 2005 and 2013 when Kilkenny won six Senior All-Ireland Hurling Championships. He was the first GAA National Hurling Development manager 2016 to 2021.
Information about how to apply for a Primary One place for your child in September 2024
Our School Council with the help of Primary 7's organised a 'Winter Wonderland' for the whole school.
What a lovely treat for all the children!!
Watch our photographs below:
Congratulations to all the boys and girls who won the December Spelling Bee! Keep up all the hard work!
Aisling from Cancer Fund for Children collected our Cheque this morning after raising £102 on Christmas Jumper Day...thank you
Congratulations to our Credit Union Art Competition winners. This year the theme is "My Community & Me"
Christmas Plays 2023
Two brilliant performances of our children this week. Well done to all the children and staff, who worked very hard to create two super shows.
Blythswood Care Shoe Box Appeal 2023
36 Shoe boxes were collected today (8/12/23). Thank you for your kindness and generosity.
Your gift truly makes a difference.
Woolly Hat Day 2023
Everyone had great fun with Woolly Hat Day on Friday 10th November. This fun fundraiser helped raise vital funds for the amazing, local charity Mourne Stimulus. Roberta from Mourne Stimulus was presented the cheque for £100.
