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Dana

Dana backs save St Columba’s campaign as Paul Givan visits Newbuildings school

Foyle MLA Ciara Ferguson and Sinn Féin colleagues, campaigning for the Holiday Hunger payments.

MLAs back holiday hunger Bill for children

Mrs. Joyce Logue, vice-chair, Review of the RE Core Syllabus (second from right) and Hollybush PS principal Feargal Friel at the Stormont Education Committee. Also pictured are Francine Walls, St Patrick's College, Maghera and Professor Noel Purdy, chair of the Review of the RE Core Syllabus.

Joyce Logue proud of ‘pluralistic’ draft RE syllabus

From left, DUP Alderman Niree McMorris, SDLP Councillor Martin Reilly, St. Columba's Principal Tina Lyons, Chair of the Board of Governors Gareth McFadden and PTA head Orla Ferguson.

Campaigners urge Givan to refuse St. Columba’s PS closure in Newbuildings

St Columba's Primary School.

Givan to be invited to visit St. Columba’s PS which is under threat of closure

Sinn Féin Councillor Sandra Duffy.

School uniform trousers option 'an important win for girls'

Sandra Duffy and Ciara Ferguson MLA.

Sandra Duffy welcomes multi million pound investment to St. Brigid's College

Education Minister Paul Givan and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood.

Derry MP warns teachers 'shouldn’t have to keep fighting'

Long-awaited St. Brigid’s College redevelopment green-lit by Paul Givan

Education Minister Paul Givan

Belmont extension and new build among nine options for Ardnashee second campus

Councillor Harkin successfully proposed writing to EA and the Education Minister.

Call for urgent action on school placements

Two thirds of controlled and maintained schools in Derry were in deficit at the end of March this year, according to figures released by Education Minister Paul Givan.

66% of schools record negative financial position with collective deficit of £8m

Education Minister Paul Givan

Consultancy team for work at Derry bunscoil ‘as soon as is practicable’

Education Minister Paul Givan

Nine modular classrooms installed as temporary solutions at schools still in use

Greenhaw Primary School and Chapel Road Primary School.

Two schools to get refurbishment go ahead

Councillors Shaun Harkin, Brian Tierney and Emma McGinley.

Derry/Strabane council warns vital youth services face ‘cliff edge’
Derry City and Strabane District Council has warned planned funding changes will leave local youth services providers under threat.
Andrew Balfour

Pádraig Delargy

Summer schemes at special schools to go ahead following talks and U-turn

People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin.

School dinners price hike concerns raised

Foyle MLA Pádraig Delargy.

'Huge support' for all pupils having the option to wear trousers

Education Minister Paul Givan has welcomed the School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Act (Northern Ireland) 2026 coming into operation, having received Royal Assent.

Derry families to pay less for school uniforms as new Act comes into effect

Education Minister Paul Givan

Givan says closures on table as school enrolments decline and deficits rise

Education Minister Paul Givan during his visit to the Naíscoil Dhoire and Bunscoil Cholmcille, Steelstown Photo: George Sweeney.

Teachers in Derry and the North secure 4% pay rise

Sinn Féin councillor Caroline Devine has voiced concern that schools are operating under food standards guidance that is almost 20 years old.

Council concern schools operating under food standards guidance past use by date

The Mayor of Derry Ruairí McHugh received pupils at a reception in the Guildhall, saying ‘their energy and smiles brightened the Mayor’s Office, and it was a real pleasure hearing about their studies and aspirations’.

Nazareth House pupils to resume face-to-face learning at St. Anne’s in January

Nazareth House Primary School

Derry MLAs raise plight of Nazareth House and St. Eugene’s due to roof problems

Nazareth House Primary School

Derry’s Nazareth House PS temporarily closed due to concerns over roof

Councillor Shaun Harkin.

Civic buildings to be lit up in Palestine colours
Derry City and Strabane District Council members have agreed to light council buildings in solidarity with Palestine.
Andy Balfour

DUP MLA Paul Givan (File picture by Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker)

Council join calls for Paul Givan resignation

Professor Siobhán O'Neill

O’Neill says withdrawal of guidance for trans pupils ‘incredible concerning’

Education Minister Paul Givan pictured with one of the P5 classes in the new playground during his visit to Holy Child PS, Derry on Wednesday afternoon. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography) : .

Paul Givan meets Holy Child pupils and staff in visit to Creggan in Derry

Paul Givan

Givan asks for withdrawal of trans guidance and issues new policy for schools

Education Minister Paul Givan. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

All schools must be involved in SEN provision

Pádraig Delargy

8,380 children in Derry in receipt of school meals

Culmore Primary School Principal Clare McMenamin

Culmore Principal expresses disappointment over rejection of Integrated bid

Education Minister Paul Givan

Blow for Culmore Primary School Integrated bid as Paul Givan rejects proposal

Pádraig Delargy

61% of Derry schools in the red with collective deficit of £6,487,559

Magee College

Harmonising Irish university applications processes will benefit Magee, MLAs say

Holy Child Primary School

Plans for improved Holy Child Primary School accommodation moving forward

St. Brigid's College

Design team appointed to improve St. Brigid’s College disabled access

The group praised People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin, who tabled the motion.

ESG thank Council after support pledged

Pictured are left, Mairead Fox, right, Nadine Radcliffe, and front, Cali Morrow, who spoke to the Journal recently about living with Endometriosis. Photo: Brendan McDaid.

Derry & Strabane unanimously demands better for those living with endometriosis

An artist's impression of the new Ardnashee College on the Northland Road.

Expanded Ardnashee campus a departmental priority, says Givan

DUP MLA Alan Robinson.

Destruction of Drumrane primary roof by Storm Éowyn ‘heart-breaking’

The Foyle bridge has been closed.

Derry bridge closed as Storm Éowyn makes landfall in Ireland

The whole of Ireland is now under a rare red alert. Image: Met Éireann.

Storm Éowyn: All schools to be shut amid red alert upgrades

Gina and Project Partners.

Over 7 million euro to be awarded to youth mental health programme

Pupils celebrate the commencement of demolition work at Holy Child Primary School with Principal, Mrs. Pat Concannon.

Pupils cheer diggers as demolition paves way for major Holy Child refurbishment

Education Minister Paul Givan is pictured with Fearghal McKinney, Head of the British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland, and members of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.

Defibrillators to be provided to all schools in Northern Ireland

Education Minister Paul Givan is to make it compulsory for young people to remain in education or training until they are at least 18 years of age.

Education until 18 to be compulsory, says Education Minister Paul Givan

Holy Child Primary School

Consultancy team for Holy Child improvements to be appointed this financial year

Eighty-one children in Derry and Strabane were being home educated in 2023/24.

81 children in Derry/Strabane being educated at home

Former Education Minister Michelle McIlveen with pupils from Ardnashee School and College at the sod cutting ceremony for the new £34 million school on the former Foyle College site at Northland Road in 2022.

£34m Ardnashee school expected to be completed within four months

Education Minister Paul Givan with staff and pupils. Included are Mrs. Julie McDonagh, principal, and Mr. Ryan Brolly, chairman, Board of Governors. Credit Lorcan Doherty

New integrated primary school upgrade for Roe Valley

Kathryn Anderson, BookTrust’s Senior Partnerships Manager for Northern Ireland and Education Minister Paul Givan talking about Bookstart Baby packs.

CONFIRMED: Free book packs to be reinstated for babies

Sinn Fein MLA Padraig Delargy.

Derry Sinn Féin MLA Delargy welcomes pay deal for educational support staff

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