We were delighted to have Eve (SU) with us to share the story of Joshua in assembly, reminding us that God is trustworthy.
Pupils throughout the school have been enjoying many aspects of ‘Take 5’ when attending our free after school clubs, kindly supported by the Public Health Agency through the Clear Project. To date pupils have been active, whilst enjoying the benefits of fresh air at the ‘Great Outdoors’ club and ‘Orienteering., taking notice of the wonderful world we live in.
NI Water’s Waterbus (a double decker bus, which has been transformed into a mobile education unit) visited school and KS2 pupils enjoyed learning amazing facts on the many aspects.
P6/7 have been working on what it means to ‘Take 5’. Isla, Charlie, Erin, Lexi (and Izabelle although absent from below) worked together to create this presentation. They shared it in assembly to help teach all the pupils in school how they can look after their minds and bodies. Congratulations to our ‘Take 5 Ambassadors’ who will work to champion Take 5 throughout the school year.
P6/7 talked about where we see reflective things out and about and why it was important to wear reflective clothes in the winter time. We checked how reflective our clothes were and what we could do to make them better. They then designed their own reflective coats with lots of different designs and safety messages.
P6/7 have been trying to make sense of the early books of the Old Testament. Jenny, from Bible Explorers, has taught the children key words and a hand signal for journeying through the bible from Creation - Ruth, to date. Lily, Joy and Evie have done really well to memorise all the signs and key words so far - well done! Thanks also to Jacob and Charlie who were our cameramen.
We are delighted to have Dianne back to teach children some new hockey skills in an after school club. P2&3 have also been learning new skills in their club between 2-3pm.
It is great to have holidays, but it is also lovely to be back in school. P6/7 revived their spelling skills with a game of Banagram.
We are are delighted to welcome our new children to Primary 1. They have all settled in really well. We also enjoyed eating lunch with their parents and grandparents and younger siblings. This gave us all a chance to get to know each other.
We were delighted to have a visit from the NI Waterbus. Children learned about the importance of looking after the water we have by using it wisely and remembering to only flush the ‘3 Ps’. Children were amazed to see how sand was able to filter the dirty water and the end product of the water cleaning process.
P4/5 have had a great start to their Shared Education programme with children from St. Patrick’s PS. They worked together to solve a variety of team building challenges. EA TV were present to film the session. You can watch our film stars here.
P6/7 enjoyed learning about healthy food choices with Wenda Bristow from LMC. After discussing with the children the ‘Eatwell Plate’ and the importance of balanced choices, pupils learnt about ‘Farm Quality Assured’ meat and then had the chance to taste the delicious meatballs.
We were delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate with pupils, staff and parents the achievements and successes of another year at our annual prize day. Mrs Alison Gilmore, who is retiring after twenty five years of service, was our guest of honour. With mixed emotions, a gift was presented to her from the school community.
We had great fun on Wednesday at our annual end of term talent show. We had everything from football and hockey skills to piano playing and singing. Well done to P7 who organised the show. They showed off their talents being hosts, organising props and making PowerPoints. Thank you to Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Gurney and Miss McIntyre for doing the very difficult job of judging.
Congratulations to Mason who was the overall winner with his rap song.
Congratulations to all our children who have worked hard on their reading in this last summer term of clear evenings! These children received special awards for reaching their targets with 100% accuracy; Evie S, Evie A., Beth, Izabelle, Robbie-Leigh and Lily. Many congratulations to Isla, Erin, Katie, Jacob, Hollie and Evie A. who were ‘Millionaire Readers’ this year and special honour goes to Joy and Izabelle who have read two million words!
Special thanks to Johnny McCrystal from Sustrans who came along to school today to help some children move from riding a bike with stabilisers, to riding without them. Congratulations to the three boys who took part. Archie, Daniel and Caleb all did brilliantly and were riding confidently around the playground.by the end of the session.
On Tuesday we were delighted that we were able to hold Sports Day. Although it was a little bit cold, it was dry, and we all had a really enjoyable time. Our theme for this year was the Olympics and the team games were : Olympic torch, Relay, Penalty shoot out, Long jump and of course Snack Attack. Thank you to all the children who participated in the races and a huge thanks to all the parents ad friends who came along to support their children.
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To celebrate our school’s 50th anniversary the pupils worked hard to put on a performance of ‘A lemonade Bottle for Clabberin’ Hitler’. This narrative play was a very ambitious project, but the children rose to the challenge and put on an amazing show. Well done everyone! With special thanks to all staff who helped to produce the play.
Our school councillors organised a birthday party for our school, after a request from P1/2. Children enjoyed a special lunch and party games, along with a delicious chocolate cake.
