Our new Primary 1 pupils are having a wonderful time settling in to school. Watch this space for lots more action as we progress through the new school year.

June marked the end of an era at St Ita's. After 20 years at the helm, our Principal, Mrs Joanne Browne  took early retirement. Another, school stalwart, Mrs Kavanagh also retired. They were given wonderful send offs by the whole school community including 2 fabulous assemblies. You can view some photos below. The assemblies will soon be available to view on the school videos tab.

We wish Mrs Browne and Mrs Kavanagh a long, healthy and happy retirement. We know that they have lots of exciting things planned and look forward to following their adventures - Bon Voyage!

This week St Ita's presented a cheque to the Children's Cancer Unit Charity for £9,700. Maire from the Children's Cancer Charity visited St Ita's for the presentation. We would like to thank everyone who helped us raise such a wonderful total!

A selection of Primary 6 and 7 children from Miss Houston’s Art Club entered the ‘Mythical Creatures’ art competition by ‘Young Artists’. They had to design and name a mythical creature. This competition was UK-wide and all of the children that entered from St Ita’s proudly got their work published in the book. Leo  from Mrs Fanning’s class actually won the whole competition and got her art displayed on the front cover! Well done to those children for their creativity and ambition, and congratulations to Leo who got a winning goodie bag also.

On their last day at St Ita's, pupils were presented with the P7 Leavers' Awards. Amongst the many awards were the Sports Boy and Sports Girl of the Year, the Niamh Beattie Sports Endeavour Award and the Pupil of the Year Award. Congratulations to all our Award winners. You can view photos from the Leavers' Parade on the Gallery Page

St Ita's has just been announced as winning first prize in the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council 42nd Annual Schools' Art Competition. Congratulations to all our pupils who participated!

Current and future television presenters were very much a part of Mrs Browne's Early Retirement Assembly yesterday!

We finally caught up with a very busy Nikolas, just long enough to get his photo with Miss Harney and his winning poster. Nickolas is off next week to the Award Ceremony. Well done Nikolas! 

St Ita's last Class Assembly of the school year was well worth waiting for. Miss Sloan's P1 class told us the story of The Lion Who Took a Chance with the theme of trying new things. To see this amazing assembly and a farewell from P1 to Mrs Browne, click here