Thanks to Anna from NI Water for visiting our whole school to educate us on looking after our water and reducing water use and blockages. We were given some great advice on how to make better choices such as having a shower over a bath. Anna challenged us to have a shower in just 4 minutes! We are so excited to try to improve our use of water in school, watch out, our eco kids are coming!
Nursery - Katie and Nathan
P1/2 - Rosa
P2/3 - Martha
P3/4 - Sadie
P5/6 - Ellie-May
P6/7 - Matthew K
Well done to the winners of the Ballinascreen Credit Union Easter wordsearch competition. A huge thank you to Ballinascreen Credit Union for their generous Easter grant donation, we are delighted to receive this. The children in school would love to enhance our after schools activities through outside facilitators, we can't wait to plan for this! 😊
Well done to everyone on a fantastic sponsored walk. Thankfully the weather stayed on our side to allow us to walk all day. Have a look at these fantastic pictures. We even had a special visitor 🐰 A huge thanks to our fantastic PTA and Lidl, Strabane for donating treats to the children on the day. 🍫🍬
Today we drew out the winners for the hampers. Thank you to everyone who bought tickets. We are still counting the money but we will let you know in due time.
Hamper 1 - Carrie
Hamper 2 - Lucy
Hamper 3 - Lottie
Today we held out annual Easter egg competition. The canteen staff chose the winners and announced them this morning in assembly. Well done to everyone for their wonderful creations.
Nursery - 1st Ava, 2nd Zachary and 3rd Ruby
P1 - 1st Arlo, 2nd Caiden and 3rd Cameron
P2 - 1st Martha, 2nd Evie and 3rd Evie
P3 - 1st Amy, 2nd Nevaeh and 3rd Shaun
P4 - 1st Willow, 2nd Annie H and 3rd Jacob C
P5 - 1st Sophie, 2nd Poppy and 3rd Charlie
P6 - 1st Willow, 2nd Matthew M and 3rd Zara
P7 - 1st Eva, 2nd Ethan and 3rd Arthur
Well done to all the boys and girls for taking part in the egg decorating competition and congratulations to all the winners.
We were very pleased to host a Kids’ Court here in Artigarvan Primary School & Community Nursery. As many of you know, the busy road outside our school continues to be a concern for everyone.
Seven of our Year 7 pupils were chosen to take part in this special project. It was a wonderful opportunity for them, especially as they begin preparing for their move to secondary school and will soon have more responsibility for travelling to and from school.
We are extremely proud of how well the children represented Artigarvan Primary School. They were enthusiastic, eager to get involved, and keen to help raise awareness about road safety—especially the dangers of speeding near a school.
Take a look at some of the media coverage below and please do pass on the message to others- slow down, our children matter!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxpxx4xllo
https://www.psni.police.uk/latest-news/speeding-drivers-face-kids-court-schools-across-northern-ireland
https://www.thejournal.ie/speeding-drivers-face-kids-court-at-schools-across-northern-ireland-6998185-Mar2026/
https://highlandradio.com/2026/03/30/psni-says-kids-court-at-artigarvan-ps-was-a-success/
https://www.irishtimes.com/video/video/2026/03/30/psni-use-kids-court-to-tackle-speeding-on-ni-roads/
