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Maths Week Ireland

Maths Week Ireland took place this year from the 11th to the 23rd October. This year the focus was on practical maths and problem   solving with every class participating in a     different activity. In Foundation Stage the Primary 1s went on a Number Trail.  They counted lots of different objects around the school; whilst the Primary 2 children had to orga...

Welcome to our New P1 pupils

We are BIG Primary 1 children now! In September we all came to our new Primary 1 classroom. We had been to Mrs. Martin and Annie’s classroom lots of times last year, so we knew where we were going and who was going to be there. Getting to play with the new toys is the best fun. We get to go out to the big playgrounds at break and lunch times. We do hard Primary 1 work now and we even get ...

Farewell to P7

This week we said a final farewell to P7 who begin a new stage in their lives as they head to post primary schools in September. On Wednesday we travelled to Co. Meath to Tayto Park for their end of year trip.  It really was a very memorable day especially as it was their final trip in primary school. Then on Friday 24th June we celebrated their achievements at a Prize-giving Assembly. We ...

Tidy Schools Competition

We did it!! We were runners-up this year in the Tidy School Competition. We are all very proud of our school and work very hard to keep it looking lovely and also making it green!...

Eco News

Barry Tapster from Mid and East Antrim Council helped us to build a greenhouse from empty plastic bottles this year. Thank you for all your help in supplying the bottles. Look out for news next year on how we plan to put it to good use.   ...

Shared Education

Throughout the school year Primary 6 have been participating in the Shared Education scheme with Portglenone Primary School. The aim was to work with different schools in our community and also to make new friends. The subjects we were learning together were ICT, PDMU, Literacy where we studied a novel called Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. In PDMU we got to do walking debates about re...

Camogie Blitz

On the 2nd of June our school hosted a camogie blitz at Gortgole Road. We had 3 teams entered into the competition. The other schools who took part were: Millquarter, Glenravel, St. Patrick’s Rasharkin, St. Brigid’s Ballymena and Creggan. Glenravel were the well deserved winners on the day but most importantly, we all had a lot of fun!...

Football

On the 16th May our school team went to Kickham's GAA club to play against other teams from County Antrim in the Cumann na mBunscol Large Schools competition. The tournament was a very tough one with the best of the local schools all trying for the win. Unfortunately we lost out overall but we displayed good team work and skill throughout. Also this term all the P7 boys got to attend the S...

Confirmation

Congratulations to P7  who were confirmed in Christ by Bishop Anthony Farquhar in Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Church, Portglenone on 31st of May 2016 .  ...

Rio Olympics Sports Day

Sports day this year was on Wednesday the 25th of May. Our whole school was organised into teams. Each team was made up of children from P1—P7, with the P7 children being the captains. We picked a country that was taking part in the Olympics this summer to be our team name.  We then had to wear the colours of that country. We made flags to represent our country and had an opening cere...