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• Boys’ book a place in the Tyrone Indoor Football 5-a-side final

  Fri 31 Jan 2020

  ALLIANZ Cumann na mBunscol

   BOYS’ INDOOR FOOTBALL HEAT 4: OMAGH

   

  Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Thír Eoghain held the fourth Heat of its annual Boys’ Indoor Football 5-a-side competition in Omagh’s Station Centre. A total of eight schools competed in another action-packed day of tremendous football providing thrills and skills to a high degree.

   

            Teachers helped draw the teams into two groups of 4. Section ‘A’ featured St. Colmcille’s P.S. Carrickmore; St. Catherine’s P.S. Strabane; St. Mary’s P.S. Strabane and St. Dympna’s P.S. Dromore. The lads from Strabane played tremendously throughout but they just missed out on progression despite their worthy efforts. Instead, Carrickmore topped the section with 3 wins from 3 followed by runners-up Dromore picking up a brace of wins. Both of these schools, therefore, secured a semi-final place.

   

            Section ‘B’ comprised St. Conor’s P.S. Omagh; St. Patrick’s P.S. Castlederg; St. Patrick’s P.S. Newtownstewart and Holy Family P.S. Omagh. St. Conor’s topped the section with a couple of wins, and they were joined in the semi-finals by group runners-up Holy Family P.S. (after a tense 2-1 play-off win over a classy Newtownstewart). Castlederg played some great stuff but just came up short on progressing by a single point.

   

            We were now ready for the semi-finals. A talented Holy Family P.S. Omagh took on Carrickmore in an excellent game. Carmen, however, prevailed 3-1 to earn their place in the heat final whilst maintaining their 100% record.

  A battling St. Conor’s pushed St. Dympna’s all the way before the Omagh lads fell to a 3-1 reverse. Holy Family and St. Conor’s both deserve enormous credit.

   

  Allianz Cumann na mBunscol Thír Eoghain held the fourth Heat of its annual Boys’ Indoor Football 5-a-side competition in Omagh’s Station Centre. They now proudly advance to the Tyrone Co. Finals to be held in March.

  We wish them well. Ádh mór oraibh!

  

• Keeva's fantastic poster for GUNG XI FA CHI (HAPPY NEW YEAR): Chinese Year of the Rat!

  Fri 24 Jan 2020

  As Mrs Hendry, Mr O’Neill’s and Miss Owens children are currently participating in Mandarin classes, we are celebrating the Chinese New Year which commences on Saturday 25^th January (the year of the rat).

  The children took part in a poster competition to celebrate this event and Keeva McCullagh’s (P3) poster was highly commended from 4,000 entries and she was invited with her family to a Chinese New Year Celebration at the Waterfront Hall and was also invited to a special award ceremony in Omagh South West College. Well done Keeva.

  

• Cumann na mBunscol Sporting Successes

  Thu 23 Jan 2020

   

  Indoor Hurling & Camogie: Our Camogie team Eimear Hurson, Saorla Loughran, Éilis Loughran, Clodagh McKenna, Katie Marley, Róise McCallan, Aoibhe Kerr and Tatiana Tracey were beaten in the Tyrone semi-final; likewise, our boys’ team;  Sean Donnelly, Oisin Conlon, Conall Bennett, Fionnan Magill, Connla Coney, Ruairi Daly, Vincent Gormley and Joseph Hughes played heroically throughout the event and came third in the Tyrone hurling finals.

   

  Handball: Our boys’ & girls’ teams recently competed in the Tyrone finals. The girls; Eimear Hurson took the U13 championship medal while Tatiana Tracey and Aoibh Kerr were crowned Tyrone U11 Doubles’ champions. Ruairi McElduff and Niall Morris picked up runners’ up medals in the U11 competition. Ava Mullin, Sean Donnelly and Phelim McCrory also played with pride and energy but on this occasion didn’t bring back any medals.

  

• Open Day at White Hare Day Care Creggan

  Thu 09 Jan 2020
  

• INCREASE IN OUR ADMISSIONS & ENROLMENT NOS.

  Thu 09 Jan 2020

  As you are aware, the school has been over-subscribed in recent years and the school trustees and governors had requested that the Department of education increase admissions and enrolment numbers in our school.

  Following lengthy deliberations as part of the Development Proposal consultation process, we are delighted that the Department has approved the proposal to increase our P1/R1 admission number to 55 and our enrolment number to 385 from 1st September 2020. This is excellent news as the approval recognises that the school is popular and growing and that an additional classroom will be required.