At the Harvest Assembly five children from P4 and P5 and six from P6 and P7 were chosen to receive special rewards for high achievement in their Accelerated Reading quizzes.
We had our Harvest Assembly this morning. It was great to be able to welcome so many parents and friends to our school for this special occasion.
Thanks to our P1 and P2 children who drew some beautiful harvest pictures for the programme.
P1 - P3 children sang the song ‘The Sun Came Shining Down’
Our speaker for the Harvest Assembly was Rev Watt from Killymurris Presbyterian Church. We especailly thank him for stepping in at short notice for Colin Tinsley, who was ill.
P4 - P7 sang the song ‘You’re the God of the Sunshine’
Five girls from P6 - Evie, Hollie, Jane, Beth and Katie, gave us their Take 5 presentation. Take 5 shows five different ways in which people can maintain and improve their mental well being.
Give
Be Active
Connect
Take Notice
Keep learning
The collection today was to support the people of Ukraine.
Thanks to Laura Calderwood for preparing tea and also to Mrs Elsie Calderwood for providing the delicious traybakes.
Rasharkin Community Association are looking for thinking ahead to music at Christmas. Click here for more information
Today P3 had their Shared Education trip with the children from St Patrick’s Primary, to Portglenone Forest. This session was taken by Liz and Petra from the forest service. Liz allowed the children to explore and learn about the forest through stories and fairytales. They all had a great day in the Autumn sunshine.
Last week in their shared education session with St Patrick’s children, our P3 children enjoyed making ‘Small Worlds’ using natural materials from outdoors. From the photos, you will see that there were fairytale worlds, dinosaur worlds, princess worlds and farms and zoos.
Each year we ask our P6/7 to prepare a presentation to share with the whole school on ‘Take 5’. This helps us reminds ourselves how we can take care of our bodies and our minds. Chris Lindsay, EA, came to present our winning group, the ‘Take 5 ambassadors’ with their badges. Well done!
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P1 and P2 have had their second morning of Shared Education with the children from St Patrick’s Primary School. The lessons which they are working on together are under the title ‘Growing Together’.
In small groups, they had a short ‘Getting to know you’ activity - their names, the things they liked or didnt like to do etc
They then heard the story ‘Tree’, which is a story about trees through the seasons.
The next activity was a scavanger hunt. The children had to find the letters of RASHARKIN which had been put up around the playground
At the end of their session, they had to evaluate their morning. All the children agreed that they had all enjoyed it a lot.
For the month of September, certificates were presented for:
Being Kind and Caring
Working well in the new school year
Congratulations to those pupils who received certificates for September!
Our P3 children along with the P3 children from St Patrick’s Primary school are meeting together for Shared Education under the title ‘EXPLORING THE OUTDOORS’
Today they had a very busy session where the made dens and mandalas.
Having fun while learning with our Shared Education friends from St Patrick’s PS.
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.
Click here for more information on this Art competition.
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