High Five

It’s time for another edition of HIGH FIVE! The newsletter produced by Primary Behaviour Support and Provisions, packed full of good ideas to inspire, support and challenge all our young people to be the best they can be.

Our theme this week is to Be Aware of Others. It is so important to keep track of how we are doing and consider our feelings. It is important to think about the people around us as well, so that we can Take Notice of their wellbeing and Connect with those who need a little support!

Paper Craft Online Session

Join Causeway Coast and Glens Good Relations Programme for a Polish Paper Cutting Craft session. Facilitated by Artsekta

The session will take place online via zoom on: 
30th November 7-9pm . To register email Bebhinn.mckinley@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk 

All you will need is an A4 piece of paper, some scissors and a glue stick and stapler.  Open to all ages resident in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.  Supported through The Executive Office’s Together Building a United Community, District Council’s Good Relations programme and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.  

Long Mountain Windfarm Community Benefit Fund

We are very grateful to the Long Mountain Windfarm Community Benefit Fund was approved an application by Rasharkin Parents’ Association for resources to help our school (pupils, staff and parents) improve their environmental decisions. £5000 was awarded to be spent on books and visualisers for each classrooms (cameras that allow an image to be instantly projected to the classroom whiteboard).

Coaching for Christ

We are delighted that Coaching for Christ are coming in for weekly sessions with the children. Each session will offer children the opportunity to learn football skills as well as having a team talk. The team talk will focus on important life skills e.g. anti bullying, resilience, illustrated by a story from the Bible.

Primary 1 and Primary 2

Primary 3

Primary 4 and 5

Assembly Awards November

We were delighted to present certificates to children for:

Being Kind and Caring

Good Recall of Table Facts

Great Handwashing

Super Presentation of Work

Parent Line, Information Sessions

ParentLine NI are running once again running our very popular ‘Bounce Back’ workshops for parents, please see attached flyer for more information.

There are two programmes running virtually in January 2022 (zoom)

�.      First starting Monday 10th January, for 6 consecutive Monday evenings 8-9pm

�.      Second beginning Thursday 13th January for 6 consecutive Thursday evenings 8-9pm

We have a limited number of spaces available. Book a place by calling our free helpline on 0808 8020 400.

P4 - P7 ASSEMBLY AWARDS OCTOBER 2021

Congratulations to all the children who received certificates for October 2021.

Certificates were awarded for:-

• Super Effort with Phonics or Reading

• Being Kind and Caring

• Excellent Homework

• Being a Good Friend

Anti-Bullying Week

The theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying week was ‘one kind word’ We decided to use the acroynmn B.L.U.E. in Rasharkin P.S. We all tried to find BLUE things to wear with our school uniform to highlight our ‘B.L.U.E.’ day (Be Loving Unto Everyone).

In assembly P1-3 thought about how Nathaniel didn’t think he would like Jesus because of where he was from. I’m sure if Nathaniel was around today he could tell you how wrong he was!

We think it is really important that everyone plays their part in helping end bullying. You can see the information here.

School Assembly Wednesday 10th November

We are delighted to welcome Lynda (CEF) to school assemblies. Lynda shared a story of a missionary to Africa with P1-3 and reminded them that God hears us when we talk to Him.

Healthy Lunches

The ‘Are you Packing a Healthy Lunch?’, ‘Healthy Breaks for Schools’ and ‘Healthy Choices’ resources are all available at the following links.

 Are you packing a healthy lunch?

 Healthy breaks for schools

 Healthy Choices – Choose wisely: advice for parents on nutrition and activity for primary school children

The Public Health Agency, in partnership with Health & Social Care Trust dietetic teams, are running a series of nutrition webinars including a session on healthy lunchbox and snack ideas, which parents may find useful. For further details and joining instructions please check the PHA social media channels.

NI100 Art Competition

Well done to all the children who worked very hard to produce these excellent entries for this competition, run by DE. Winners are to be announced in December. Please click on the links here (set 1, set 2) to view the entries.

Set 1, Emma & Kirsty

Set 2, Grace, Dathan, Brooke & Sam

Attendacnce Survey

The Education Authority are undertaking a transformation project of the Education Welfare Service to ensure an efficient and effective service to support young people to engage with education. They are seeking the views of pupils through a survey. Click here for more information.

PIRLS

We were delighted to be asked by the Department for Education to participate in PIRLS. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international assessment and research project designed to measure reading achievement.  NI has been in the top five countries, beating all of the other UK nations, in the past.  P7 children were presented with a certificate to mark their participation.

NI100

As part of our celebrations to mark NI100 a tree has been planted in the school grounds, with thanks to Mr. Calderwood for his help.

Poppy Appeal

We will be having a ‘Poppy Shop’ in school next week. Any child who wishes to purchase items should being the correct change in a labelled envelope. The items for sale can be viewed here as well as poppies (suggested minimum donation 50p).

(9/11) Chidlren were delighted to be ‘customers’ at the ‘Poppy Shops’ that opened for each class at lunchtimes this week. Thanks to the very efficient ‘shopkeepers’ from each class.

P6/P7 Tables Certificates

Children in P6 and P7 were presented with certificates for improvement in their times tables. Well done for all their hard work.

Micropython 100

We were delighted to be selected as 1 of 150 schools for this free 8 week programme delivered by Sentinus which allows our pupils to develop coding skills in Micropython language.

- Free BBC micro:bit mini computers for our school

- In-school practical coding workshops

- Children learn to use block editor & micropython

- Design & build simple games to be played on the micro:bit

Bling Your Bike

Thank you to all the families who walked, cycled and scooted to school during Bike to School Week 2021. Replacing car journeys with active forms of travel makes for a healthy and environmentally friendly start to the day. It also helps children arrive into school alert and ready to learn. If you enjoyed it, why not continue to walk or wheel to school and help reduce traffic in the vicinity of your school as well as improve health and wellbeing for all. For those who live a little farther out, a ‘Park & Stride’ location is a great option! On behalf of everyone from Sustrans, thank you for making Bike to School Week a success. Johnny McCrystal (Sustrans Schools Officer, North East)

Coaching for Christ

Coaching4Christ aims to have a positive influence on the next generation and empower young people to become impactful leaders. We are delighted that they are providing high quality coaching to all levels of ability that promotes unity & teamwork to three classes each term. Each of the sessions are custom-made to ensure everyone participates & has fun. Every session includes a group discussion from a biblical perspective that addresses important issues every young person faces, including pastoral care & anti-bullying provision and mental health and wellbeing.

Reading Certificates

Congratulations to all the children who have been working hard on their phonics and reading. Some children have earned certificates for their great progress in ReadingEgss and ReadingEggspress programmes. All children in our school have access to this programme through the generosity of school fund contributions from parents.

Certificates and a ‘homework pass’ were also awarded to children who reached their Accelerated Reading target. The ‘AR cup’ was presented to a pupil in P6/7.

Well done to everyone for their hard work.