SCHOOL COUNCIL 2022 – 2023 The following children were elected to serve on School Council for the year 2021 – 2022: Evie, Mark, Holly, Dan, Dathan, Toby and Isla. They are now looking forward to working alongside the teachers, to try to implement some of our changes that pupils have suggested, to make our school a better place.
We have been enjoying fruit and vegetables on Fridays, free of charge. With many thanks to NACN for a grant that made this possible and the parents who help prepare the delicious snacks.
P6/7 enjoyed and educational workshop on communication, celebrating Marconi’s work from over a hundred years. Facilitators from W5 helped the children to explore the different ways of communicating, including string telephones, flag Semaphore and Morse code. Marconi used his knowledge about the ‘spark gap’ to build a better spark machine for communication between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island. Many thanks to Causeway Coast and Glens for making this possible.
We are delighted to welcome our new P1s to shcool this year. Click here to see them enjoying their days.
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We are always pleased to have the help of our playground buddies. Click here to find out who was willing to help this year.
Each day we help children to be thankful for good food by giving thanks at lunch. All children are invited to enter their prayer of thanks. Click here to see the winners for this year.
The school councillors enjoyed hot chocolate and crisps while discussing ideas for this school year.
There’s still time to enter Queen’s University Belfast School of Maths and Physics’ STEM #Unfiltered Photography Competition, open to students and grown-ups from Key Stage 2 up across Ireland and Northern Ireland!
We're looking for original photographs or images related to Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) with a short description. We want you to take a look at the science around you in your everyday life, and share it with us! We’re judging based on the beauty and originality of the image and how clearly you describe the subject matter.
The top entries will be featured in our online gallery and will receive certificates recognising their work. First and second place from each age-category, as well as several runners up, will also receive an Amazon voucher. Some of the top entries will also be selected for display as part of NI Science Festival 2023.
Find out more, and send in your submission here: http://go.qub.ac.uk/STEM2022
Last year’s winners’ gallery, as well as a gallery of photos from our own researchers showcasing their cutting edge research, is available (http://go.qub.ac.uk/STEMPhotoGallery2021 for inspiration!
For any queries please contact us at mp.outreach@qub.ac.uk
Looking forward to hearing from you.
The QUB Mathematics and Physics Outreach Team
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All schools are encouraged to advocate a consistent message about healthy eating, as per the Food in Schools Policy. This means all food and drink provided and consumed within the education setting should be nutritious and of good quality. School meals are a great choice, however if parents decide to provide a packed lunch, or morning break or snack, the following guidance may be useful for healthy eating tips and ideas.
The ‘Are you Packing a Healthy Lunch?’, ‘Healthy Breaks for Schools’ and ‘Healthy Choices’ resources are all available by clicking on each title.
The Public Health Agency, in partnership with Health & Social Care Trust dietetic teams, are running a series of nutrition webinars including sessions on healthy lunchbox and snack ideas, which parents may find useful. For further details and joining instructions please check the PHA social media channels. If the dates/times don’t suit or you would like to find out more about other nutrition topics, pre-recorded sessions are available to watch on the Public Health Dietitians - YouTube channel.
Well done to Dan on his success.
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On Tuesday 28th June, P6/7 went orienteering to Portglenone Forest under the guidance of Mr Fred Corscadden who had taken the children for an after schools orienteering club during the year. Despite the heavy rain, the children had a great time and completed two courses with some fast times.
Today we had a very entertaining morning in school watching our annual Rasharkin’s Got Talent competition. Thanks to Mrs Wright and the P7 children for organising this :- gathering music, doing powerpoints, posters, organising prizes and sorting out the running of the competition.
Everyone enjoyed listening to piano, violins, drums, jokes, songs and watching football demonstrations, gymnastics, dancing and magic tricks. It was a very varied programme, show casing the many talents of our children.
The shared winners of the trophy were Brooke with a beautiful ribbon dance, and Thomas drumming.
On Wednesday 22nd June we had our Prize Day to celebrate the many succesess of our pupils throughout the year. This year we had two sessions, P1 - P3 and this was followed by P4 - P7. We were delighted to welcome parents and friends to these events. Our special guest speaker was Mr Jonny McCrystal from Sustrans. He encouraged us all to be more active when we are travelling locally. Congratulations to everyone who received certificates, achievements awards and special trophies.
Best wishes to the children in P7 who will be moving to their new schools in September. We look forward to hearing how they are getting on in the years ahead. We are also saying goodbye to Mrs Morrison who has been with us as Classroom Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor for the past six years. We thank her for her faithful service to our school.
Well done to all the children who took part and enjoyed the team games on Sports Day. A massive thanks to Mrs. McIlmoyle who worked hard to carefully collate the points. Thanks to Mr. Wilson who judged the mascots for us. The winning team was the ‘Royal Racoons’, who also had the winning mascot. Second place were the ‘Regal Tigers’ and third place went to the ‘Jubilee Winners’..
On Friday 17th June P4/5 went to CAFRE Greenmount campus as part of the ‘Bank of Ireland’s’ Open Farm Weekend. While there they had the opportunity to:
Make their own butter
Experience what it would be like to milk a cow
Visit and identify vegetables growing in the vegetable plot
Visit the milking parlour
Make their own flower arrangements to give to their dads, grandads, uncles etc in the floristry department
See lots of different types of farm machinery
After we left Greenmount we went to Antrim Castle Gardens where we had a picnic and then visited the new garden that was created for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee before walking along the river path to Antrim Loughshore where the children played in the park and fed the ducks.
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