Mrs Una O’Hare visited St. Ita’ before Christmas to collect a cheque of £1,250, for St. Vincent de Paul. We would like to thank everyone in the school community for contributing to this charity. Your generosity is always very much appreciated.

Robert, the ‘Community Champion’ at Tesco’s at Newtownbreda visited St. Ita’s to present awards to the winners of the P1-P3 Christmas Art Competition.

Despite the cold and mucky conditions in Newcastle, our cross-country runners performed brilliantly, just before Christmas. The competition was fierce with plenty of competing schools.

Both the girls and boys teams were fantastic, with the girls coming joint first with the lowest combined scores and the boys coming second with the second lowest combined score.

This is a great achievement for all involved, well done!

Moving forward to the next round, we wish all the runners the best of luck.

A huge congratulations to Noah from Ms Flanagan's P6 class who raised an incredible £2,063.60 for Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice. Noah has been selected for TeamNI as part of the Barcelona Experience and will be heading to Spain in May for the Nations Cup tournament. The children are allowed to get sponsored and display logos on their kit. Noah and his family thought it would be a lovely idea to support a charity and approached the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice to fundraise and to display their logo on his kit to help give the charity some exposure. Noah's fundraising efforts included taking part in the Festive 5k at the V36 Valley Park where he came 38th out of 430 runners that included mostly adults. He also spent two hours in Tesco Newtownbreda doing a bucket collection. The class and their parents were significant contributors to this total and Noah and his family are so thankful for everyone’s generosity. Noah, your hard work and kindness are truly inspiring. Well done!

A selection of St Ita's P4 and P5 children have had their work published through Art Club. The children entered a competition called ‘Perfect Pets’ where they had to design and name a pet creation. The children that entered had their work proudly published in the ‘Perfect Pets’ book! Well done to those P4 and P5 children for their creativity and ambition!

The P7 girls had a Fantastic time last week at OLSPCK. They took part in a music class, sampled flakemeal biscuits in Home Economics, learned a dance routine and took part in a netball tournament which ended in a St Ita’s v St Ita’s final. Congratulations to Mrs Dolan’s girls who won the shield and Mrs Fogarty’s girls who were runners up. A fantastic day had by all. Thanks you To OLSPCK for their welcome and hospitality. It was lovely to be guided throughout the day by our wonderful past pupils.

This year, the pupils and staff of St. Ita’s came together to create a vibrant display in celebration of Diwali. The main entrance of the school was transformed and adorned with beautiful artwork, created by the P1-7 children. Parents, Mrs Moharana and Mrs Mishra very kindly came into our school on Thursday 24th of October to share Diwali celebrations and engage in traditional artwork with the P1&2 children. We extend our sincere thanks to Mrs Moharana and Mrs Mishra for giving their time to make the celebration memorable and meaningful for the children.

Primary 2  gave us our final St Ita's Christmas production of the season this morning with Christmas Eve in the Toy Shop. To see the wonderful show click here