2025-2026

Our Friends in St. Brigid’s

We have been extremely fortunate to have worked closely with St Brigid’s Primary School for a number of years now. The funding that we have received during this time has enabled a wide variety of learning experiences to be organised and enjoyed by the children.

Ballykeel P.S and St Brigid’s P.S. believe that emotional health and well-being is critical to developing a healthy and successful school community where each child achieves their full potential. Therefore, last year four year groups took part in five shared lessons with the focus being placed on our ‘Take 5 Initiative’.  This is something that we are passionate about in our school and that is heavily embedded in all that we do here. The core themes are as follows;

• Connect Connect with the people around you: family, friends, colleagues and neighbours at home, work, school or in your local community. Think of these relationships as the cornerstones of your life and spend time developing them. Building these connections will support and enrich you every day.
• Be active Go for a walk or run, cycle, play a game, garden or dance. Exercising makes you feel good. Most importantly, discover a physical activity that you enjoy; one that suits your level of mobility and fitness.
• Take notice Stop, pause, or take a moment to look around you. What can you see, feel, smell or even taste? Look for beautiful, new, unusual or extraordinary things in your everyday life and think about how that makes you feel.
• Keep learning Don’t be afraid to try something new, rediscover an old hobby or sign up for a course. Take on a different responsibility, fix a bike, learn to play an instrument or how to cook your favourite food. Set a challenge you will enjoy. Learning new things will make you more confident, as well as being fun to do.
• Give Do something nice for a friend or stranger, thank someone, smile, volunteer your time or consider joining a community group. Look out as well as in. Seeing yourself and your happiness linked to the wider community can be incredibly rewarding and will create connections with the people around you.

We have secured funding to enable the  P3, P4 and P7 pupils to participate in the same programme again this year in 2025-2026. 

Below are the dates for the year groups taking part:

Primary 4: 

• Tuesday 4th November
• Tuesday 11th November
• Tuesday 18th November
• Monday 24th November
• Tuesday 2nd December

Primary 7

• Tuesday 27th January
• Monday 2nd February
• Tuesday 24th February
• Tuesday 10th March

Primary 3:

• Tuesday 13th January
• Tuesday 20th January
• Tuesday 24th March
• Tuesday 21st April