Carrowdore Primary

We welcomed Caoimhe McCann into our assembly to talk to the children about the charity, Mary’s Meals. Due to your generous donations on Friday mornings we were able to present Caoimhe with a cheque for £200! Thank you to Julie and the ladies in the kitchen who prepared delicious porridge for us to eat on to celebrate National Porridge Day. This may become a feature on our break menu as it was such a hit!

Newtownards & District P.S.F.A. League Match:

On Thursday, Carrowdore Primary School proudly played the very first matches in our newly joined football league — and

what a fantastic debut it was! A huge thank you goes to Nigel for preparing the team and for his excellent coaching on the day. The children showed impressive skill, stamina, and most importantly, outstanding sportsmanship and manners throughout the event. We’re also

incredibly grateful to all the parents, friends and family who came along to cheer on the team and helped with transport

— your support made this day possible! Our first match was against Carrickmannon PS, where we secured a 5-0 win. We then faced

Greyabbey PS and won 6-0, followed by a final match against Ballyvester PS, finishing with another 5-0 victory. What a brilliant start!

Would you like to sponsor a kit?

We’re excited to be taking part in several sporting events and tournaments this year, and we’re looking for local businesses to sponsor our kits. If you or your business would like to get involved, or if you can help in any way, please contact Mrs. Billington.

We collect charity donations on Friday mornings to support a range of worthy causes. On Friday 17th October we wore our slippers to school to raise funds for AgeNI. We are pleased to report that we will be sending a cheque for £100 to Age NI.

Fancy Dress Costume ‘Free’ Shop!

We know how costly fancy dress costumes can be, so we’re inviting you to come along to our FREE costume shop on Tuesday 21st October from 8:40am. Enjoy a cuppa while you browse through a fantastic selection of costumes — all available for free! We’ve got some brilliant outfits waiting to be discovered. Come and find the perfect one!

Scholastic Book Fair:

The Scholastic book fair will be visiting school on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd October from 1-2:30pm with a range of books and stationery items available. Please feel free to pop in and browse the gorgeous books and stationery items. We will also be running a competition in school and one winner from each class will win a £5 book voucher.

Harvest Collection

We are once again collecting for the local foodbank in advance of our Harvest Assembly

on Wednesday 22nd October. We invite the children to donate an item of in date, non-

perishable food before this date. The foodbank are grateful for any donations they receive.

Please send all items to Mrs Billington in the school office. Your support makes such a

massive difference.

We celebrated Eurpoean Day of Languages by travelling around school learning about different countries with singing, crafts, dancing, games and ICT tasks. A huge thank you to TESCO Castlebawn for providing croissants for our treat at breaktime!

Cash for Clobber
Thank you to the PTA who organised this fundraising event. It was so lovely to see members of the community, as well as our school families, coming down to drop off items. Thank you to the PTA who helped out on collection morning. The boys and girlshad a lot of fun loading up the lorry!! The clothing bin has also been emptied and is ready for more donations!

A huge thank you to everyone who called in or donated to our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon. 

We raised over£275!!!!