STARS OF THE WEEK 31 MAY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Myla for being a kind friend.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Elsie for being so enthusiastic and having a great attitude in everything she does.

P2 MRS CLARKE & MRS McGONIGLE: Merryn for writing an excellent story about an enormous strawberry.

P2 MRS HUNTER: Zoe for coming up with excellent ideas for her creative writing on The Enormous Carrot!

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Jake for always offering to help others.

P3 MR FIELD: Ella for great ideas when writing using speech bubbles.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Ellen for a fabulous creative story about a dinosaur.

Helping others

Huge congratulations to Saoirse, Selena and Penny from P4 who raised £90 for Ukraine by making and selling lemonade at the recent Croft Hill Climb Car Event.
They donated their takings to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Human Appeal www.dec.org.uk

Thank you girls for being so enterprising and raising money for such a worthy cause.

NumBot Stars!

Well done to all the boys and girls who have been working hard on NumBots! Keep going, you are all super!

Absolute Rockstars!!

A huge congratulations to P6 Room 12 who came first place in the Times Tables Rock Star Contest!

Well done to all of KS2 who took part!

STARS OF THE WEEK 7 APRIL

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Evie-Rose for doing super work with double sounds.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Lucy for amazing sounding out and reading.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Noah for great reading and writing.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Harriet for trying really hard to get work completed on time.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Eliza for being a lovely friend.

P3 MR FIELD: Charlotte for always having excellent manners.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Henry for working hard on his reading.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 7 APRIL

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Liilia for settling well into P4 R14. Logan for making great progress in his reading and spelling work.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Adam and Vanessa for being able to workwell as part of a group.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Chloe and Rudy for good reasoning in maths.

P5 MRS BROWN: Betty and Josh for wonderful upcycling projects for the UFU competition.

P5 MRS WILSON: Scarlett and Ethan for always working hard and putting 100% effort into each task.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Isobel for excellent work on percentages. Charlie for good work on decimals.

P6 MRS HART: Polly for being much braver around wasps and bees in class. Jacob for doing his spelling homework all week.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Ellie and Zoe for excellent explanation writing including all important features.

P7 MISS McGUILE: Annabelle and Matthew for a fantastic piece of explanation writing. Well done.

P7 MR McCONNELL: Abbie and Tilly for writing brilliant pieces of explanation writing - including paragraphs, adjectives and time connectives. The ‘Wakey-Bakey 6000’ and ‘Wake-a-tron 2000’ will definitely wake up the deepest sleepers.

Hockey success for Harriet!

What exciting news! Well done to P1 pupil Harriet!

Harriet plays hockey at CIYMS. At the end of season awards ceremony, she won P1 player of the year!
What a fabulous achievement and trophy to go with it too! Congratulations Harriet.

Beaming about basketball!

Polly (P6) was chosen to play in the Basketball NI finals which took place in Craigavon. She has been playing for Queen’s since September and her team (U12 girls) won the League. CONGRATULATIONS to Polly and her team. We look forward to hearing of her involvement in other basketball tournaments and hopefully more finals too!

Hockey success for Jamie

We were delighted to hear about Jamie’s hockey success.

Jamie is in P7. He competed in the Ulster U11 hockey finals. His team, Lisnagarvey won the Cup.

As you can see Jamie is very happy! What a great outcome. We’ve no doubt there will be many more hockey trophies for Jamie and his team mates in the future! GREAT JOB JAMIE!

STARS OF THE WEEK 31 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Faye for using her knowledge of phonics to do super reading.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Sophia for a great effort when retelling about Humpty Dumpty’s visit to Room 3!

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Lynne for fantastic indepedent writing about the Three Little Pigs.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Rafferty for great retelling of the Three Little Pigs.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Annie for beautiful presentation and lovely handwriting.

P3 MR FIELD: Layla for working really hard on her handwriting.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Maahi for super work on her number bonds in maths.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 25 MARCH

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Eden & Penny for great work on telling the time an hour later.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Grace & Ella for good work and good behaviour throughout P4 so far.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Blake & Oscar for having a really good understanding of x6 tables facts.

P5 MRS BROWN: Iris & Rama for making a great start to TU multiplying sums.

P5 MRS WILSON: Lucas & Archie for working hard on converting units of measurement in maths.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Meadow for great work on Times Tables Rock Stars. Emily for excellent work on decimals.

P6 MRS HART: Ollie for becoming more organised in class and for his continued excellent manners. Isabelle for her excellent work on fractions and decimals.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Jessica for great work on rounding to 10 and 100. Patrick for trying to improve presentation - keep going with this.

P7 MISS McGUILE: William, Luke & Evan - for working very hard to master problem solving strategies.

P7 MR McCONNELL: Abi for super detail in her sentence writing this week. Mia for excellent problem solving.

Let's dance!

Charlotte participated in the Greenisland Irish Dancing and came away with the following accolades - 3rd in her Reel, 2nd in the Slip Jig and 3rd in the Trebel Jig. Clara also participated in the same festival and was awarded 1st in her Reel, 1st in the Single Jig and 1st in the Treble Jig. These fantastic placings gave Clara an overall 1st place title. Well done girls!

Clara participated in the Portadown Irish Dancing Festival and came away with another four podium finishes. She was 2nd in her Reel, 1st in the Single Jig, 3rd in the trebel Jig and 3rd Overall.

STARS OF THE WEEK 24 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Aidan for being a great listener and for always working so hard.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Darcie for always taking such care to make her work beautiful.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Luke for great money work.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Ellie for lovely work for her mum, Ellie completed this work independently.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Tom for brilliant writing about a ‘suitcase adventure’.

P3 MR FIELD: Jake for always working hard and offering to help.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Maisie for writing a wonderlly detailed diary account of the first ever flight.

All smiles for Lexy's wonderful results!

Lexi had a fantastic haul of three trophies and two medals at a dance event in Newry she competed in at the weekend. She attained firsts in her Lyrical and Jazz group dances, 2nd in her Jazz partner dance and two thirds in her Lyrical solo and partner dance. Well done on another great series of performances.

STARS OF THE WEEK 16 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Nao for always trying his best.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Eloise for being so helpful and kind and always looking out for others.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Luca for accurate measuring in outdoor numeracy.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Ellie for doing great measuring work during outside numeracy time.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Ciara for her amazing account of the Three Little Pigs story.

P3 MR FIELD: Daniel for great time work.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Olivia for wonderful sorting of famous landmarks around the world.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 10 MARCH

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Toby for always being helpful. Emily for always trying her best in all she does.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Indie and Caleb for following instructions well to get work completed. Books are well presented and handwriting is always neat.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Carl for good reading. Zoe for good answering on equivalent fractions.

P5 MRS BROWN: Charlie and Will for writing very creative stories all about getting lost in the Stone Age. Also for including extra information from the topic.

P5 MRS WILSON: Oliver and Natasha for writing a great story about ‘The Stone Age Boy’.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Ciara for excellent co-ordinates work (Viking Longboat). Vivien for working hard to read aloud in class.

P6 MRS HART: Katie for excellent defending/interupting during our netball sessions. Ethan for displaying excellent manners and always greeting me in the morning.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Jessica and Maria for both working hard to master problem solving strategies.

P7 MISS McGUILE: Matthew and Jude for always putting in 100% during spelling activities. Well done boys!

P7 MR McCONNELL: Frankie and Missy for great work when using co-ordinates.

STARS OF THE WEEK 10 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Josiah for being a super friend.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Esme for being such a kind and caring friend.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Indi for excellent writing about ‘Our homes’.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Freddie for doing excellent money work includng the 10p.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Zach for fantastic facts about transport.

P3 MR FIELD: Emily for excellent writing in her ‘Travel Diary’.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Sofie for brilliant coding work while in the ICT suite.

Martial Arts Magic

BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Caleb (P4) who won a gold and silver medal in his martial arts competition. He was very proud of the medals he received. Well done Caleb.

Fabulous result for Harry

WOW Harry! What agreat outcome on your competition. Harry was placed first in his competitions and received two medals! Super duper Harry!

Super Susannah!

Well done to Susannah (P4) who took part in her first ever Irish dancing competition. She got first place and a highly commended. We think the smile tells all just how happy Susannah was! VERY WELL DONE!