Events such as plays, carol services and craft fairs will be staged at secondary schools between now and the end of term.
We’ve had a look through the Newtownabbey Times archive to find some amazing pictures from events at schools across the borough between 2006 and 2016.
Can you spot anyone you know?
17. Festive memories
Students performing at the annual Ballyclare High Christmas concert in 2016. Photo: Freddie Parkinson
18. Festive memories
Some of the cast from Edmund Rice College's production of Charlie Meets the Wizard. The school staged the show in December 2013, with all proceeds going to the NI Hospice in celebration of the life of their late teacher Peter McGuigan. Photo: Freddie Parkinson
19. Festive memories
Conor McLearnon was the Wicked Witch of the West in Edmund Rice College's production of Charlie Meets the Wizard in December 2013. Photo: Freddie Parkinson
20. Festive memories
Belfast High School hosted the launch of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) in December 2010. Pictured at the launch were Sarah Clarke (Belfast High School), Nichola Keating (Hazelwood Integrated College), Finnuala McGivern (Dominican College), Peter Bothwell (Belfast High School) and Abbie Jamison (Hazelwood Integrated College). Photo: Freddie Parkinson