Well done the the children who were presented with Headteacher awards in assembly this week for the month of April. The focus for April was Being Kind and Caring and Great Effort with Reading.
Plenty of fun for our footballers in P5,6&7 on Friday 16th May at the Coaching for Christ football tournament. The boys took part in a 9 a-side tournament on Friday at Ballymena Showgrounds with lots of success. Our group stage matches gave us three wins and and narrow defeat with Carniny Primary School. We headed into the quarter final against Clough with determination and great football skills on show. It was a warm day and the boys were full of hope heading into the Semi final against a very strong Carniny team. The boys put in an incredible performance and with only one goal separating the teams, it was the end of the road for us. A fantastic day out and the boys should be very proud of their achievement! Big thanks to the parents who came down to support and provide refreshments at the end! Well done to our footballers who worked hard in the sun and showed great team work and perseverance!
Many thanks to staff and volunteers from Ballymena Baptist Church who came to school to share the ‘Amazing Journey’ with our pupils. The children thoroughly enjoyed the engaging exhibition, even trying on clothes to become some on the characters and sampling food.
Congratulations to these pupils, who outside of school, play football for Coaching for Christ and were winners in both their sections in the South Belfast Football League.
The children from our Stay and Play Afterschool club took part in this year’s ‘Really Rubbish Scarecrows’ competition at Garden Show Ireland. The challenge was to build a scarecrow that’s utterly useless at scaring off birds—but brilliant at attracting them! We were delighted to receive first place in the Special Category: Best at attracting Birds. The school received £50 of vouchers to spend at the Garden show and we used these to purchase two bird houses to attract birds into our school grounds. Many thanks to Mrs. S. Calderwood and all her inspiration in directing and supporting the children to create a winning entry!
Sports Day was a delightful event—pupils gave their best effort, and parents thoroughly enjoyed watching the action unfold. Our pupils gave it their all in every event, showing great sportsmanship and determination. A big thank you to all the parents who came to cheer—your support made the day even more special! Special thanks to all the staff who worked hard, both behind the scenes in preparations and during the event.
Children in P1-3 have enjoyed the opportunity to stay after school, which is a great help to parents who make great use of the extra hour.
P7 children had the opportunity to take part in Pedal Ready Cycle Training. They were taught bike skills to enjoy fun, safe cycling and to become confident road users. Many thanks to Mrs. S. Calderwood who took them through this programme.
P6/7, along with P6 from St.Patrick’s Primary, got a lovely, sunny day to visit the Salmon Station in Bushmills. They learned all about the life cycle of a salmon and got the opportunity to look for and identify minibeasts. Thank you to Stephen who led the session and made it very enjoyable.
Living in a rural community, we felt it was very important the children learn how to keep themselves safe on the farm. Julie, NHSCT, shared with all pupils some of the potential dangers and what they can do to be safe.
We have been delighted to have Fred back to share in the joys of discovering new map reading skills, whilst enjoying being active. The family events detailed here, may be of interest to those who have attended the club and anyone else.
We are very fortunate to live in a country surrounded by a beautiful coastline. To help pupils enjoy the sea safely, Hannah and Anna, from RNLI, came into school to share important safety messages. We are very grateful to RNLI for providing this service to schools.
We were delighted to welcome Pantosaurus to our assembly on Friday. Pantosaurus reminded children of the important safety message of ‘PANTS’ and gave all pupils a copy of the booklet to take home. You can see along with the song again here.
Coaching For Christ have been working in partnership with our school community, helping to provide sessions in a range of areas from PE, PDMU, anti-bullying, cross-cultural experiences, pastoral care and after school clubs. The programme offered children the opportunity to experience quality coaching in a fun environment, alongside discussions based from topics from the Bible. We finished the year off with a fun day on 12th May. The children very kindly made donations towards this and we were able to present £300 to the Coaching for Christ Team. We would like to thank all the coaches for all their work throughout this year.
We were delighted that Toby and Jacob were invited to represent the school at the Ulster Table Tennis Finals. Both boys were very able to play at this high standard, with Toby getting to the quarter finals and Jacob the semi-finals of the consolation group. Well done!
P1, 2 and 3 joined with St.Patrick’s PS for their 3rd Shared Education day. The theme for this year’s activities is Stories in nature. There was shelter building, role play and nest building all taking place. Everyone had lots of fun while learning about characters and settings in books.
We were delighted that our application for a grant to CYPSP was successful. This allowed for the purchase of new football nets for the school, as was requested by the school council. Many thanks to CYPSP for their support and the school councillors for organising it and sending a note of thanks.
Well done to our P6/7 Table Tennis team who were amazing representatives of our school. Fourteen schools took part with thirty- two individual entries in the boys under 12 section. Toby was 3rd overall with Luke getting knocked out in the semi-final. Jacob knocked Ethan out in the consolation semi - final going on to win the consolation group. A very high level of skill was on display in all the matches from our talented team.
Congratulations to these pupils who received certificates for Accelerated Reading, ReadingEggs and for showing kindness to others or excellent number work.
It was a pleasure to welcome parents and friends to share a special Easter assembly with us. The pupils performed beautifully, some musical pieces and P7s shared their amazing Easter Week animations. Mrs. Eve McMullan (SU), along with her intern, Ruth, shared a children’s Easter lesson. With many thanks to everyone who worked hard to make this event possible.
