We were delighted to present certificates to these children for ‘Being Kind and Caring’ and ‘Great Effort with Talking and Listening’, during the months of March and April
Congratulations to Jace, Sophie and Caleb who received these Easter eggs as prizes for their winning entries into the colouring competition for Autism NI.
Congratulations to Ted, Caleb, Penny Emilie and Jace who received certificates for Reading Eggs in P1 and P2.
Archie, Daniel and Ruby were certificate winners in P3
Congratulations to the children in P4 - P7 who received certificates for Accelerated Reading for the Easter half term.
Some children received special prizes for 100% accuracy in their quizzes.
There were also prizes for Top 5 children, who exceeded their target by the greatest percentage.
This year, we as a school, have been looking at talking and listening. The training below may be of interest to some parents.
Pupils enjoyed helping their team mates find the eggs hidden in the school grounds.
After their Fair trade assembly, P7 held a competition for each class to win an Easter egg. Thank you to all those children who entered. Jace won the P1/2 colouring competition, Lexi won the P3/4 colouring competition and Harry won the P5/6 Fair Trade quiz. Well done and enjoy your Easter eggs!
Congratulations to Izabelle P4 and Sophia P6 who were joint winners of the Accelerated Reading Cup for this half term.
Today was our Easter Assembly and we were delighted to have Mr Stanley Lee, former Principal of our school, as our special guest. We were also pleased to see so many parents and friends who had taken time to be present with us.
P 1- P3 sang ‘It’s a Happy Day’
Recorder Group played, ‘God is so Good and God’s not dead’
P4 - P7 sang ‘Thank you for Loving Me’
Mr Lee then spoke to us about the Easter Story and about how Jesus died to take away our sins.
Thanks to Laura Calderwood and Charlene Calderwood for serving refreshments. Also thanks to the P4 and P5 children who drew some beautiful Easter pictures for our programme.
On 28th March, four of our pupils, Dan, Mark, Harry and Isaac, attended a Table Tennis Tournament at Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre. This competition was run by John Fall, who is the Sports Development Manger with Causeway Coast and Glens Council. The boys had already enjoyed table tennis coaching in After Schools Club, earlier this year.
There were seven teams at the event, and each child played twelve games. We were delighted that Rasharkin Primary school came joint second. The four boys were presented with their medals at Easter Assembly.
Fair trade fortnight takes place every March to celebrate all things Fair trade. It focuses on encouraging people to switch to Fairtrade products so that farmers and workers overseas can protect the planet and safeguard the future of some of the UK’s favourite foods. P6/7 took assembly to tell the other pupils what fair trade was about and ways they could support it. They acted out a small skit to show how fair trade began and then reminded us from the Bible that God encourages us to be fair and share with others.
They also organised a Fair Trade break, selling Fair Trade bananas and Rice Krispie buns that they made themselves. The profits from the break sale will be sent to the Fairtrade Foundation which works directly with businesses and consumers to secure better deals for farmers and workers.
Our school councillors reported that the playground toy baskets needed refreshed. We were able to apply for a grant to fund this and they created shopping lists along with their classmates. The new toys arrived and were distributed and then the school councillors surveyed everyone to find out what they thought. Everyone was delighted with the new resources. With many thanks to the Children’s and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSY) for partnering with us in this and making it possible.
Many congratulations to Ruby, Tilly, Amelia and Mark who represented the school at the Causeway Coast and Glens Final. We were delighted to hear that all pupils did well and received a goodie bag, and especially so that Mark won the Primary Bake Off category. Well done!
We are delighted that Benji, Ballyoney Rugby Club is coming into school to teach P6/7 some tag rugby skills.
P6/7 have been looking at Fair Trade during their WAU topic. Some pupils opted to enter the local Causeway Coast and Glens, ‘Bake Off’ competition. We held a semi final in school to choose who would go on to represent the school. Well done to everyone for their efforts.
To help encourage everyone to choose to make an active journey to school, we celebrated Active Travel week with the help of Johnny McCrystal, Sustrans. Some children made a special effort to walk, cycle or scoot to school this week. Well done!
We also dressed in bright clothing on Wednesday to help remind us of the importance of being seen when out and about. It was delightful to see the pupils who made a special effort to ‘bling their bikes’ and all received a prize for their hard work. Three special prizes were also awarded.
Johnny also came to school on Wednesday morning to help teach pupils how to ride their bikes without stabilisers. We thank him for all his help.
Congratulations to our football team who made it to the finals of the Coleraine & District Small Schools League. Many thanks to Simon and Lewis (Coaching for Christ) who have worked hard with the team and encouraged them to reach this high standard of football and become team players.
P4/5 enjoyed the activities in their classroom today as part of our World Book Day celebrations. Everyone in school came dressed in their pyjamas to fit in with our theme of ‘Bedtime Stories’. The children in P4/5 read stories to the children in P3 in pairs. They also brought in books to exchange as part of a book swap scheme.
Rasharkin Primary School Loves Books! We enjoyed creating a whole school art piece with our favourite books
P6/7 enjoyed sharing stories with the children from Playgroup and P1/2
