Damhead Primary School News

This week we are celebrating anti-bullying week with the theme ‘Choose Respect’. On Tuesday we took part in odd socks day, celebrating our differences.

We can’t wait to hold this special event. Tickets go on sale from the school office from 8:45am on Monday 11th November . Please book ...

Have you a child due to begin Primary 1 in September 2025? Please come and visit our amazing school on Tuesday 3rd December 2024. Contact ...

Congratulations to our first School Value winners who received their badges for the Kindness Value today in our special assembly with Alice.

Well done to both the boys and girls hockey teams who represented our school in their first matches at Rugby Avenue this week. They all ...

A table quiz will be held in Portstewart Golf Club on Friday 25th October 2024 at 7pm to raise money for Fields of Life. All ...

Congratulations to all our wonderful readers who were awarded in Assembly this morning for their fantastic efforts!

Well done to these pupils for their achievements in football and jiu jitsu!

Our Halloween Disco for the children will take place on Thursday 24th October. Times are as follows: P1-P3 6-7pm P4-P7 7-8.15pm All money raised will ...

The Book Fair will take place in school from Thursday 17th – Tuesday 22nd October and will be open for parents to visit from 8.00 ...

Well done to this P7 pupil who won the colouring competition and received 4 tickets for Beauty and the Beast.  

Congratulations to our P7 Leadership Team! Our P7’s applied and attended interviews for important leadership positions within the school. We were so impressed with how ...

Well done to the girls football team who played really well today as a team during their four matches!

On Friday 4th October we celebrated World Cerebral Palsy Day by allowing the children to wear non-uniform and raised £166.80 for ‘HemiHelp’ Cerebral Palsy Charity. ...

Well done to these pupils who have had success in various musical and sporting activities including gymnastics, motocross and jiujitsu.  

Our parent and toddler group will return next Friday. This is a lovely social group of mums, dads, grandparents and childminders getting together with their ...

Congratulations to our Football team on their success in the Doherty Cup. It is such a huge achievement for the boys and school. Never before ...

Always a brilliant evening for all the family.

Today this team of footballers made history for Damhead Primary by reaching the final of the Doherty Cup . Never before has the school made ...

Well well well what can we say !! Our school had two boys representing us at the Irish Schools swimming championships on Sunday in Dublin. ...

Today we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day with all the children and raised £200 for our local Down Syndrome Support Group . Well done everyone

A huge well done to all the children who took part in Coleraine Music Festival last week . We are very proud of you all ...

Thank you to everyone for making this morning such a successful morning at our big breakfast . A lovely morning spent with family and friends ...

Congratulations on a fabulous performance and second place by our school choir this morning at Coleraine Music festival. Congratulations to Bushvalley for their winning performance. ...

Totally over the moon today for these boys as they won their Quarter final match against DH Christie 2-1. They worked so hard and got ...

Well done to our four swimmers who took part in the Swim Ulster Primary School Championships at the weekend.

Well done to all our Responsibility Value award winners . Thank you to Alice for presenting their awards and talking to all the children in ...

Have you a child due to begin Primary 1 in September 2023? Please come and visit our amazing school.  

This week we have been celebrating Anti-bullying week in school . On Monday we had a special assembly and celebrated Odd Socks Day.

We invite you to our Bingo night on Thursday 30th November @ 6.30pm.  Admission: Adults- £3/ Children- £1.50. Everyone welcome!  

We are very proud of our football boys who played an amazing game of football against a very strong side from Millburn Primary . They ...

Well done to these two little ladies who achieved Distinction in their Musical Theatre exam . Well done girls

Thank you to everyone at school today for contributing to the Non-uniform day to raise funds for Ballymoney Rugby P7 tour, we raised an amazing ...

Congratulations to our first School Value winners who received their badges for the Kindness Value along with a  ’Kinder’ chocolate treat today in our special ...

A big well done to this little lady for winning Star baker in the Balnamore Community Association autumn fair/bake off . Con

We were delighted to be part of the Grand Opening of the new Knocklynn Spar last Friday . The choir performed to all the shoppers ...

A big well done to these 3 superstars who took part in a gala and represented Coleraine and Ballymoney Swimming Clubs last weekend . Plenty ...

Today P6 had a visit from a STEM Ambassador, Timothy. He is a Civil Engineer Apprentice currently studying at Ulster University and working with Translink. ...

Congratulations to all our wonderful little readers who were awarded in Assembly this morning for their fantastic efforts . Keep up the great work

Our annual Grandparents Christmas Lunch will be held on Tuesday 12th December. The cost will be £8.00 per person. Bookings can be made via Schoolcomms ...

Our Halloween Disco will take place on Thursday 26th October.  Times as follows: P1, P2 & P3 – 6.00–7.00 pm P4, P5, P6 & P7 ...

A BIG WELL DONE to Jack in P7 who took part in the Twighlight Walk for Marie Curie on Friday night and raised an fantastic ...

Congratulations to the P1 & P2 Prize Winners of the Mountsandel Spar Colouring Competition which was held last week.

As always, we try to support charities by taking part in different events throughout the year.  This year we are aiming high by supporting a ...

A BIG Thank You to Mr Mark Stirling (dad of Jake P5) for donating footballs to the school from Portstewart Football Club.

We really enjoyed a visit this morning from the author/publisher Kate Butler. Kate told the children about her work including her work as a publisher ...

We are really looking forward to having our Parent and Toddler group back up and running again from this Friday (8th September). Why not come ...

The children have now completed a full week back in school and are all settling in very well. We are delighted to welcome all pupils ...

A great night was had by all at our Reloved event. Plenty of bargains were got and an amazing amount of money was raised for ...

Congratulations to all the children in years 4-7, who have been nominated and elected by their peers for the following positions. These children will represent ...