P1 Mrs Donald:
P1 Mrs Elliott:
P1 Miss Armstrong:
P2 Miss Dobbin:
P2 Mrs McGonigle:
P2 Miss McGuile:
P3 Mrs Gibson:
P3 Miss McKeown:
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood:
Belfast Music Festival success for Kathryn !
We were delighted to hear some great news about Kathryn (P6). Kathryn entered the solo brass section in the Belfast Music Festival and won the trophy for her level. ( Wow, the trophy is so big!)
The piece Kathryn played on her cornet was the theme from Star Wars. CONGRATULATIONS KATHRYN. You should be very proud of yourself.
Stars of the Week 8 February
P1 Mrs Donald: James for excellent behaviour and super manners.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Ethan for being very polite.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Noah for being a good friend.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Annabelle for doing great adding and subtracting.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Missy for fantastic number work.
P2 Miss McGuile: Ashton - Khloe for super work.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Katie for being very enthusiastic on her fitness day with Fitness Freddy.
P3 Miss McKeown: Freddy for being a fantastic chef during our 'food' topic- making sandwiches / fruit salad etc.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Ander for trying hard with Fitness Freddy!
Merit Badge Winners 2 February
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Thomas for demonstrating a wide vocabulary when reading.
Alexandra for consistent hard work and lovely illustrations.
P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown
Rebecca for trying hard to improve the neatness of her writing.
Lennox for being very enthusiastic about class topics. Lennox always shares interesting facts with the class.
P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.
Matt for working extremely hard in all aspects of learning especially his work on plurals.
Jorja for always doing her best work each day with enthusiasm and producing detailed answers in her reading activities.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Finley for great reading during reading activities.
Oliver for excellent grammar work.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Isabella and Isaac present their work beautifully when using an ink pen.
P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Alana for excellent work in dividing.
Toby for making interesting contributions to discussion especially during the class Young Enterprise Programme.
P6 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Benjamin for good thinking skills in maths.
Emily for making a real effort to complete more difficult maths topic work.
P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Benjamin for superb work on adding fractions with different denominators.
Izzy for a well prepared talk on her 'treasures'.
P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Jake for excellent maths and stretching himself even further by completing challenging extension activities.
Cameron for completing all homework and trying very hard to improve his handwriting.
Blue Peter Badge for Naomi
Congratulations to Naomi ( P3). Naomi was very excited when she opened her post. Inside was a very special badge that had been sent by Blue Peter! Naomi had drawn a great picture of one of the presenters and was commended for her talent.
Well done Naomi. We can tell from your picture that you are very pleased!
Stars of the Week 1 February
P1 Mrs Donald: Leah always knows her reading words really well.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Evan for being able to help make the Story of 3 in number activities.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Louis for excellent dribbling skills during P.E.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Abbie for always working hard!
P2 Mrs McGonigle: George for speaking really well about Norther Ireland in Show & Tell. George was full of enthusiasm!
P2 Miss McGuile: Sophia for super double end sounds. Fabulous!
P3 Mrs Gibson: Jamie for working really hard. Mrs Gibson is so pleased with him.
P3 Miss McKeown: Arianna for excellent number work and mental maths skills. Well done!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Toni for excellent writing when recording the scientific process of how her class made jelly.
It's a podium finish for Emmy.
Congratulations to P7 pupil Emmy who recently ran in an International Cross Country race and came a very close 3rd. It was a competitive race with children and adult runners from all over the UK. There were even a few Gold Medal Olympic Kenyans there.
What an experience for Emmy and what a result!
Merit Badge Winners 19 January
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Leah has been accurate when completing H T U place value and adding H T U too.
Joshua for consistent hard work and for listening well in class.
P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown
Grace consistently works hard and has good listening skills.
Ryan is always well motivated to complete his grammar work each week.
P4 Room 8 Mrs Eves
Matthew works extremely well and is very focused on all his work.
Lilly for excellent work when exchanging with hundreds, tens and units.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Grace for excellent work on digital time.
Sofia has worked extremely well to complete work on digital time. Well done!
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Jamie for writing very good descriptions of characters in novel work.
Tia for trying very hard to learn X3 tables.
P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Sam for an excellent Power point which he explained very clearly to Mrs Curran.
Hannah for beautiful presentation in all her work.
P6 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Jake for a good newspaper article about Holywood Festival.
Esther for completing a very difficult comprehension independently!
P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Georgia & Bailey for super intriguing mystery stories with twists and turns, clever clues and detective deduction!
P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Harry & Eve for catching up on all his activities so quickly after extra music rehearsals and performances.
Stars of the Week 25 January
P1 Mrs Donald: Charlie for really confident reading of his books.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Sophia Robertson for excellent reading and always remembering to say please and thank you.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Olivia for always doing beautiful work and drawing amazing pictures for Miss Armstrong.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Jessica for doing great sentences.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Lawson for concentrating on his work really well.
P2 Miss McGuile: Jason for fabulous mouse control when using Colour Magic in the ICT Suite.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Tamara for being very kind.
P3 Miss McKeown: Mollie for trying really hard with her reading. Mollie has been able to read some tricky books recently. Well done!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Joshua for trying very hard in his class Assembly. He learnt all his words and was very enthusiastic during singing too.
Stars of the Week 18 January
P1 Mrs Donald: Lucy for being a lovely kind girl especially in the playground.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Ruby for being a great listener and giving help when needed.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Isaac for beautiful writing copied from the whiteboard.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Susannah for always being very helpful.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Dylan for always being kind and having beautiful manners.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Grace for lovely work retelling the Journey of a Banana.
P3 Miss McKeown: Reuben for trying to do his work really neatly.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Emily for learning all her words for her class Assembly.
Stars of the Week 11 January
P1 Mrs Donald: Sarah for being a very kind and helpful girl.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Jack for excellent work and behaviour.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Rachel for being a good friend and working hard.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Evan for writing very detailed weekend news. Well done!
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Seth for great bouncing and catching in PE.
P2 Miss McGuile: Zac for being a kind friend during playtime.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Anna for beautiful work and always doing her best.
P3 Miss McKeown: Chestha for a lovely helpful attitude. Chestha is always volunteering to help tidy up or wash paint pots. Nothing is ever too much trouble for her.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Cerys for always smiling at Mrs Hunter and making her feel so welcome back to school !
Congratulations to our musicians
Well done to Charlotte, Emily, Georgia & Imogen who each passed their Grade 1 Flute exam.
Centra Art prize winners
Congratulations to our Prize Winners. Thanks to Centra for providing the lovely prizes!
Well done boys & girls.
Well done to: P1 – Clara P2 Zoe P3 Nathan
P4 Brooke P5 Elsa P6 Jack P7 Annabel
P1 - P7 Stars of Term 1
Congratulations to a number of our boys and girls who recently received prizes for being Superstars this term. Each did something special that members of staff noticed.
Evan (P2) was a great help in the Dining Hall. Mrs Gibson noticed that he offered to tidy up without being asked. Well done Evan!
Freddy (P3) was most polite and very pleasant to a visitor he was sitting beside at the Carol Service. Thank you Freddy !
Well done to Katie (P3) for being so thoughtful. Katie noticed another pupil wasn’t sure where to go and she stopped to give them directions.
Ben (P4) was a great help in Mrs Elliott’s afternoon class. He took time to brush up sharpenings from the floor without being asked.
Hannah (P4) helped to tidy up in the Dining Hall without being asked. Mrs Gibson was very impressed!
James (P4) was very thoughtful. Mrs Curran noticed that James helped to tidy up the classroom without being asked.
Keelin (P5) was extremely helpful. Without being asked one day in the playground, he offered a younger girl a tissue for her sore eye.
Ella (P6) was a great help to Miss Armstrong. She tidied up her room one afternoon without being asked. (Just like your mum does Ella!) Well done!
Well done to Hamish & Zach. (P6) Mrs Elliott noticed that they took time to hang up coats along the P1 & P2 corridor without being asked.
Alison (P7) was very kind and helpful when Primary 7 were being taught by Mrs Heawood. Mrs Heawood appreciated this very much.
Maia receives a Blue Peter Badge!
One afternoon Maia was visiting the School Office. We noticed she was wearing a bright purple Blue Peter Badge. We were all very interested to hear how she got it as we had NEVER got one when we were younger and had always wanted one!
Maia got the Blue Peter badge for writing a review of the programme. She told them that her favourite part was when a boy did some football tricks. Maia hopes to get another badge. Maybe it will be a green or blue one the next time.
Well done Maia!
Stars of the Week 9 December
P1 Mrs Donald: Sophia for reading her new reading book brilliantly!
P1 Mrs Elliott: Eve for being a very kind girl. She made a lovely present for a visiting student.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Max for trying hard to work by himself and having a lovely smile!
P2 Miss Dobbin: Jackson for working hard to complete his work in the given time. Well done.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Scarlett for super writing about Firefighters.
P2 Miss McGuile: Luke for sharing super facts with the class.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Zac for fantastic work on tricky triangles.
P3 Miss McKeown: Alice Jane for writing a fantastic story about 'The toy that came to life.' It was brilliant!
P3 Mrs Curran & Mrs Heawood: Carling for performing very well in the Nativity Play.
Stars of the Week 30 November
P1 Mrs Donald: Sadhbh for working hard to learn her reading words.
P1 Mrs Elliott: T.J. for beautiful artwork.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Alfie for having impeccable manners and for always being so helpful.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Arianna for writing a great letter to Santa.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Lucy for excellent sentences about Winter.
P2 Miss McGuile: Cole for super writing about Winter.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Aoife for being a wonderful angel in the Nativity Play.
P3 Miss McKeown: Lucas for lovely manners. Lucas is always polite to everyone.
P3 Mrs Curran / Mrs Heawood: Eva for excellent work at all times.
Smokey's on stage at the Grand Opera House
Well done to Smokey (P5) who is performing in the pantomime Cinderella at the Grand Opera House this year. Smokey has been involved in the pantomime over a number of years and really enjoys performing. Look out for him if you are going to see the pantomime over Christmas!
Ruan races to victory!
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Congratulations to Ruan ( P5) who won a gold medal in the under 8s freestyle at a recent gala hosted in Bangor for all swimming clubs in County Down.
Ruan has also has been selected to represent Bangor in their Aquasprint team. Very well done Ruan. Keep it up.
Arianna skates to success!
Well done to Arianna (P3) who was delighted to win a bronze medal in her ice skating competition.