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St Columba's Primary School, Draperstown, Magherafelt

Staff

In St. Columba's we have a highly motivated and dedicated staff.  They work together as a caring and happy team to ensure that all our children have a fulfilling experience each day that they come into school.
We also have a number of teaching students, classroom assistants and volunteers who do their work placements in our school.  We highly value the contribution that they make to our team.

 
Mrs McAlister - Acting Principal
Mrs McAlister - Acting Principal

Mrs McAlister is the best teacher ever. She is very kind to us and helps us with our sums. I like it when she lets us play in the shop. She loves gardening and teaches us how to plant flowers. She is happy when we are being good and she works very hard.

Mrs Bradley - Primary 1
Mrs Bradley - Primary 1

Mrs Bradley is the best. She likes teaching and she is good at explaining our work. Mrs Bradley is good at art, singing and camogie. Mrs Bradley is kind and she is funny. I like it when she changes her voice for the different characters in our stories. We learn about lots of fun things in Primary 1.

Mrs Kelly - Primary 2
Mrs Kelly - Primary 2

Mrs Kelly is a wonderful teacher who is kind, generous and lovable. She is very musical, creative and is superb at doing mindfulness. Mrs Kelly is really funny and calls speech marks ‘chicken nuggets’ and tells us to get a ‘wiggle on’ when we are doing our work.

 

Mr Henry - Primary 4
Mr Henry - Primary 4

Mr Henry is the best teacher on earth. He supports Leeds and I support Spurs and that’s ok. We will still be boy and teacher. He is very fair and I trust him very much. He takes us outside for lots of lessons so that we are fit and healthy. He’s a funny character and he’s got a sense of humour.

Mr Brunton - Primary 5
Mr Brunton - Primary 5

Mr Brunton lets us do lots of fun stuff like PE, gardening, learning outside and caring for our school. Mr Brunton gives us lots of responsibility and the thing I love about him is that he makes everything fair. Mr Brunton loves Arsenal, Star Wars, electronics, hurling and farming. He is smart and funny. He has a very important job in our school and does it very well.

Mrs McElhatton - Primary 7 Teacher, Acting Vice Principal
Mrs McElhatton - Primary 7 Teacher, Acting Vice Principal

Mrs McElhatton teaches P7. She is great at numeracy and teaching. She likes pizza and great work. What I like about my teacher is that she cares for me. She is nice and kind. When I don’t know what to do she helps me.

 

Mrs Reid - Classroom Assistant
Mrs Reid - Classroom Assistant

Mrs Reid is so lovely. She likes doing art and helps you to do chalk drawings. She has a funny cookie monster that eats words. She is always happy. Mrs Reid is so proud of our school. She is very artistic and puts our work up around the school in cool displays.

Mrs Murray - Classroom Assistant
Mrs Murray - Classroom Assistant

Mrs Murray helps Mrs McAlister to teach the P2’s. She helps you if you are stuck. She helps us find mistakes in our work and she helps us fix the mistake. She plays games and makes us happy. She keeps us safe when we are outside. She is a really nice teacher.

Mrs Hegarty - Secretary
Mrs Hegarty - Secretary

Anne Hegarty loves her job because she loves all the children at this school. She thinks the school is a very happy place to be. She loves to walk and read in her time after school. She has worked in St Columba’s for 30 years she started in 1986.  Anne is the best school secretary in history. She is nice, funny, helpful, supportive and full of surprises.

 

Mrs Bigger
Mrs Bigger

Stephanie Bigger is one of our school cooks. If she wasn’t a school cook, she would like to be a classroom assistant. She has a dog called Gizmo and her favourite colour is purple. She has one son who is 11. Her favourite dinner to cook is the roast dinner. When she isn’t at school she likes spending time with her family.

Mrs Conway - Kitchen Staff
Mrs Conway - Kitchen Staff

Anne- Marie is our cook and she loves her job. She makes the best roast dinners. She likes meeting the children. When she is not working she goes to the gym or walks her pet dog Lily-Anna. She also likes to dance. She supports Tyrone and Liverpool. Anne- Marie makes us the best dinners ever.

Mrs Heagarty
Mrs Heagarty

Una loves her job she says everyone is really friendly and she loves the atmosphere in our school. She likes that she lives near school but she doesn’t like that she lives far away from her parents as she comes from Cork. She says she doesn’t mind doing all the paper work. She has 2 children aged 2 and 3.

 

Miss Conway
Miss Conway

Classroom Assistant

Miss Kennedy
Miss Kennedy

Primary 3

Mr C. Brunton
Mr C. Brunton
School Caretaker
 

Mr Gervin
Mr Gervin
Primary 6
Mrs McNicholl
Mrs McNicholl
Classroom Assistant