Mrs Joanne Browne, Principal

Whole School Nativity and Carol Service was Wonderful Evening.

Due to the treacherous road conditions around the school and in our school catchment area, St Ita's Open Morning (which was due to take place on Friday 8th December) has been rescheduled for Tuesday 12th December 9.15 - 11.00. 

Mrs Browne (Principal) will address parents at 9.30am in the School Assembly Hall.

On the 12th December - 

• There will be no AM nursery session. 
• The PM session will continue as normal. 
• Primary One pupils will begin at 11.45am. 
• No school meals on this day, packed lunches only for all pupils (P1-P7). 

Thank you for your cooperation. 

Alderwood Hill is too treacherous and we can not put anyone at risk of serious injury.

St Vincent de Paul Hampers

This year St Ita’s pupils brought in enough food items to make up 30 hampers. A big 'Thank You' to parents for your amazing generosity. Thanks also to Mrs Seeds and Mrs Bacova who wrapped most of the boxes in festive paper. Mrs Duffy’s P7 class assisted by Peter, did a great job of sorting the food items and the PTFA ladies kindly gave up their time to pack the hampers. The hampers were collected today by St Vincent de Paul staff (assisted by Sean and Peter) and will be distributed to families in need before Christmas. Many thanks to all those who helped. Brilliant team work!

What a ‘Brilliant Performance!

The Junior Choir was invited to perform at the ‘Big Light Switch On’ event at the Four Winds restaurant. The children sang a variety of Christmas carols and had fun being on stage. This is always a lovely event to begin our Christmas season and the children really enjoyed having the opportunity to perform in front of Santa. Despite the freezing conditions the junior choir did themselves proud, sang beautifully and melted the hearts of everyone in the audience.

Carryduff GAC has submitted a grant called 'Floodlights4Youth' to the Aviva Community Fund for £25,000, to fund the installation of floodlights on their training pitch (Pitch 2).

The GAC really need as many people as possible in the community to take a few minutes to vote!

The video below shows the 4 easy steps to vote.

1. REGISTER here: (https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/user/login)

2. CONFIRM EMAIL

3. VOTE here: (https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-5732)

4. SHARE this post

https://youtu.be/9DAC6UtX2VM

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A Primary 6 pupil called Sarah is raising money for the Chest Heart and Stroke Foundation . She is doing this in memory for her friend Isobel who sadly died recently. Each child will be entered into a draw for the lovely prize hampers if they can complete the 'St. Ita's Baby Picture Challenge'.

Information on this was sent home with the pupils on, Wednesday 8th November. Closing date for entries is Wednesday 15th November. Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to raising money for the Chest Heart & Stroke Foundation. The  contributions were overwhelming.

You can see who won the prizes below.