Today in maths lessons P4’s were using Base 10 and counters to look at maths questions involving subtraction. This allowed pupils to use a range of pictorial, abstract and concrete ways of exploring the theme.
Some staff took part in ‘The Glens Healthy Places 2’ project. We are one of eleven schools taking part and the next section of the program is called ‘Sunrise’. It will focus on building emotional health and resilience for the children and parents will also be involved. We pla...
We had a great day celebrating world book day. Pupils brought in their character teddy with their favourite book. Throughout the day we took part in book activities including peer reading with older and younger pupils, the DEAR (Drop, Everything And Read) bell and we had a special book day assembly...
We are happy to announce that we taking part in 'The Irish News Young News Readers' Media Project. This project provides a weekly School Edition newspaper accompanied by an educational resource booklet to aid the development of literacy skills and critical thinking at Key Stage 2.
Spring has 'officially' arrived as we embark on our garden project. Over the course of the term, we are going to use our school garden on a regular basis. If you have any expertise in this area, please speak to a member of staff as we could do with some help to get the garden into shape. We...
Last week in Topic we looked at how light is reflected and learned that light travels in straight lines. We then had to design our own book bag based on the results of our experiment.
'Live Loudly, Donate Proudly'.
We are delighted to take part in the pilot scheme of a new organ donation project, promoted by the Public Health Agency, for N Ireland schools. It is inspired by Lucia Quinney Mee and her campaign, Live Loudly Donate Proudly. This campaign is all a...
Today, we celebrated Children's Mental Health Week in school. The theme of the day was 'Be unique: Be yourself'. We had a lovely yoga session, a wellbeing walk and finished the day with some healthy smoothies. We welcomed back last year's P7's and past pupils Freyja and Jago. A b...