St Ita’s have been fundraising for ADSUM Foundation since Autumn 2016. During that time money has been raised through,  Mad Hair Days, Christmas Jumper Days and Trocaire.

 The Borehole projects sponsored by ADSUM  ensure that schools and their communities in rural Madagascar benefit from clean drinking water. The latest installation  of a borehole and hand –pump in August 2021  has provided clean drinking water for  Nanarena Primary school and the surrounding area in the Southeast of  Madagascar.  Follow the link below to the report which gives gives detailed information and photos on the different stages of the project.

https://www.stitas.co.uk/st-itas-supporting-adsum/

Thank you for your contributions to this latest project.

Over the Lenten period St Ita's raised £4213.95 for Trocaire’s Ukraine fund through various fundraising activities with the children including a  bingo afternoon, wacky hair day, dance-a-thons and many other fundraising activities. Children from P2 and P6 presented Mark from Trocaire with a cheque for the magnificent total. We would like to say thank you to all our fabulous fundraisers!

Primary 7 raised £600 for the charity Concern Worldwide. The children really wanted to do something collectively for the people of Ukraine. Ayla Hunt came up with the idea to do “Kilometres to Kyiv”. Children in Primary 7 got sponsored to walk 100k during Lent to collectively make the journey from St Ita’s to Kyiv. Well done to all involved.

The Easter News Letter can be viewed by clicking here. Wishing everyone a peaceful and restful holiday. Stay safe.

Two of our runners, Odhran P7 and Caoimhe P6, qualified for the NI primary school cross-country endurance training squad. Only the top 20 runners in the whole of Northern Ireland were chosen for this squad so it was a very proud moment for both Odhran’s and Caoimhe’s families and the school when they were chosen.

St Ita's Staff enjoyed a great Printmaking Workshop organised by Mr Murphy on Tuesday 29th March.

It was great for our P7 boys to get playing their first gaelic football match of the year in a friendly against St. Bride’s Primary School on Thursday.

A film crew from the Education Authority visited St Ita's to film pupils for a video to be published on the C2K Newsdesk on World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March.

As part of Science Week P5 accepted the Egg Drop Challenge.

Their experiment was to design and build a shock-absorbing system that would protect an egg when it lands on the ground.

Pupils came up with lots of ways to protect the egg!