A sports coach from Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is coming into school to provide coaching for Kurling, Archery, Boccia and Table Tennis for children in P4 - P7. The first session, which was on Wednesday, was Table Tennis.
The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (NI) has relaunched their safeguarding app for parents, carers and professionals. This is a very useful tool to have on your phone, giving instant access to local and regional support services, information on a range of safeguarding issues, access to the regional child protection policy and procedures, and a rang of resources.
The App provides regular ongoing up-dates and short videos on new, emerging themes and risks in the on-line world. It also provides access to Regional Policy and Procedure.
The free App is available in the APP Store for IOS and Android.
Protecting our children on line is fast becoming one of the biggest issues facing parents and guardians, in this ever changing age of technology. Dr Helen Dixon, Head of Creative and Innovative learning, NRC Ballymena, came to school on 24th January to give our P4 - P7 children lots of information about keeping safe online.
Since then, the children have been preparing questions on Internet Safety for parents and friends, in the form of a ‘Who wants to Be a Millionaire Quiz’. At a special parents’ evening, the children presented their quiz, and then Dr Dixon gave parents useful information on ‘Keeping your Children Safe Online’. Probably the most important message from the evening would be
TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN AND BE AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING ONLINE
DON’T RELY ON AN ‘APP’ TO PARENT YOUR CHILDREN..
This can be summarised by using the letters of the word TEAM
Talk regularly
Explore together
Agree rules
Manage settings
Thanks to everyone who worked really hard to make this a very useful evening.
The four pupils chosen to receive a Lunchtime Award for this half term were, Annie P6, Dan P4, Ethan P2 and Thomas P5.
Once again we are delighted that so many of our pupils have reached their Accelerated Reading Targets for points and accuracy in their AR Quizzes. Certificates were presented in assembly to mark their achievement.
Not only was Sharon our Accelerated Reading Cup winner for this half term, but she also became a ‘Millionaire Reader’ as she has now read more than one million words since the beginning of September
Congratulations to Sharon P7, who was the winner of the Accelerated Reading Cup for this half term.
