Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

• Carmen wins the Flower Shop Cup at Portadown Festival!

  Sat 22 Mar 2025 Mrs Vaughan

  P4 Star! 

  Carmen Bird from P4 was presented with the Flower Shop Cup in the Primary Section at Portadown Speech Festival, for her impressive recital of ‘The Wind’ by Dorothy Grayson. 

  

• Masked Readers celebrate World Book Day

  Sat 22 Mar 2025 Mrs Vaughan

  We had a fantastic range of Masked Readers on World Book Day! The boys and girls decorated masks using a book for their inspiration. We loved hearing all of the children reading from their books too! 

  

• Pupils shine at Portadown Speech Festival

  Sat 22 Mar 2025 Mrs Vaughan

  Donacloney Primary School pupils were in fine voice this year again as they represented the school at Portadown Speech Festival. 

  27 children from P1-P7 travelled to Portadown to recite their poems and all achieved 80% or higher. We are so proud of each and every one of them as they bravely stood in front of an audience and adjudicator to deliver their poems clearly, loudly and with appropriate pausing and expression. 

  Special mention should go to the following children: 

  Carmen Bird (P4), Tilly Radcliffe (P5) and Stephen Kirkwood (P7) were awarded First Place in their year groups. 

  Ella Wallace (P4), Mayah Sole (P5) and Tom Emerson (P7) won Silver Medals for second place. 

  Lucia Larmour (P6), Nancy Emerson (P6) and Alexandra McLaughlin (P7) were awarded Bronze Medals for third place. 

  Sarah Morrow (P6) and Poppy Dunwoody (P7) won Certificates of Merit. 

  Well done to all of the children and thank you to all of their grown up helpers, who I’m sure could also recite the poems now! 🌟