Fivemiletown Primary School and Nursery

Fivemiletown Primary and St Mary's Primary completed their successful year of shared education with a Celebration Day event held at Fivemiletown Primary school on 9th May 2025. A large audience enjoyed each of the classes reporting back on the fun learning experiences they shared. Primary 1, Primary 4 and Primary 6 classes were involved in the planned programmes this year. In addition every other class was involved in a link up session with their St Mary's counterparts e.g. P2 went to Scott's bakery, P3 are going to the Play park, P5 went swimming at Fivemiletown Youth Annexe while P7 visited the Methodist church and St Mary's chapel. These link up sessions were suggested by the Joint School Council comprising children from both schools.

Planning is well underway for next year's activities.

Mr M Bloomfield

Shared Education Co-Ordinator for the Fivemiletown Partnership

Mrs Pryce welcomed everyone to the Celebration Day event which was extra special as it marked forty years since the commencement of the two schools working closely together.

Key Stage 2 children who participated in the Celebration Day event at Fivemiletown Primary school in May 2025.

 Primary 6 have enjoyed their week of sport with St Mary's P5,6 & 7 and have been supported by Fivemiletown United, Clogher Valley RFC and Fivemiletown College in sessions on football, rugby and basketball respectively. They also enjoyed a dance session hosted at the Wesleyan Hall, Fivemiletown and a basketball tournament held at Fivemiletown Primary.

Primary 6 met up with St Mary's P5-7 classes for a joint session on Internet Safety provided by the Thrive Academy. The children enjoyed meeting new people alongside sharing their experiences and opinions about staying safe online.

Shared Education Joint School Council meeting held at St Mary's PS in January 2025. The children were sharing ideas on how we can further develop joint class activities this year.

Shared Education Partnership Vision Statement

Fivemiletown Primary School and Nursery Unit and St Mary's Primary School wish to build a shared environment within our schools where pupils, staff, parents and governors have a mutual respect for the diversity within our local and wider community.  Every person within the partnership will feel safe, valued and respected as an individual.  The children will be at the centre of everything we do as we strive to raise educational outcomes and lay the foundations of a society built on respect for diversity in all its forms.

Shared Education 2024/25

We will be doing three programmes this academic year namely:

Programme 1 - Primary 1 with St Mary's P1 & P2 developing literacy and numeracy through play

Programme 2 - Primary 4 with St Mary's P3 & P4 where the children will learn together through the Forest Schools programme

Programme 3 - Primary 6 with St Mary's P5,6 & 7 where the children will enjoy a range of team sports