School Community events

• First week back

  Fri 05 Sep 2025 Mr Dinsmore

  A first week of full attendance and a fantastic, positive attitude towards learning deserves a Friday treat!

   

  

• Beach Art and Dunluce Lodge visit

  Thu 04 Sep 2025 Mr Dinsmore
  

• Making birds nests

  Wed 02 Apr 2025 Mrs Turner

  Today the children were challenged in making a birds nest using materials they found outside.  They were amazed to discover that birds have to do it with only their beaks.

  

• App development

  Thu 27 Mar 2025 Miss O Kane

  Over the past few weeks we have been working on an ‘App Development’ Project. 

  This has proven to be a very successful and enjoyable activity, covering many areas of the curriculum. 

  Literacy: The children used their persuasive writing skills to write Dragon’s Den Style pitches, which were presented to our special guest last Friday. 

  Art & ICT: The children used their ICT skills to create engaging and intriguing logos for their app. 

  Maths: The children thought about ways to maximise profit and promote their idea. 

  Drama: The children spoke confidently and engaged with their audience whilst explaining their ideas. 

  It was fantastic to see all children work hard over the last few weeks and present their final business plan. 

  This will prove to be a very worthwhile project, with a number of subjects in Post-Primary School now involving an aspect of App Design and Coding. 

  Well done to everyone for putting their all into this and a massive thank you to our special guest, Conor Brolly (IT Consultant), for calling down to see and hear about our ideas and pick a lucky winner.

  

• Saving water

  Thu 27 Mar 2025 Mrs Mc Ilvar

  P2 and P3 enjoyed an informative talk about water and how important it is to us. We learned about ways to save water such as only taking 4 minutes to shower. We were given timers to help us time our showers.  We thank the ladies from NI Water for talking to us.

  

• Healthy foods

  Tue 25 Mar 2025 Mrs Turner

  Today the children were learning about the importance of washing their teeth and how sugar in foods and drinks can give us cavities.  We all agreed that drinking WATER IS BEST!!

  

• Making apple juice

  Thu 20 Mar 2025 Mrs Turner

  Today the children got to use instructions to make ‘apple juice’. First they had to cut the apples, Next munch the apples, Then press the apples and finally taste the apple juice.🍎🍏

  

• Break the Rules

  Wed 05 Feb 2025 J O Kane

  The School Council have organised a ‘Break the Rules’ day at school this Friday 7th February. 

  The poster attached outlines the rules that are allowed to be broken.  The children are only allowed to break these 6 rules.  For example, children do not need to wear uniform, children will be able to wear temporary tattoos, children will be able to wear their hair down, etc. 

  Children WILL need to stick to other school rules such as no mobile phones and follow our school rules (Talk and act positively, Embrace and follow instructions, Act kindly keeping hands and feet to yourself, Make yourself the best you can be).

  PLEASE NOTE: ANY SNACKS MUST BE NUT FREE - NO NUTS and NO ENERGY DRINKS! 

  Whilst the poster suggests a donation of £2 please note that this is not an expectation. We are extremely grateful for any donations, no matter how large or small!

  Thank you for all your ongoing support.

  

• P.6/7

  Fri 17 Jan 2025 Mr Quinn

  Good morning, 

  Another fantastic week in P6/7! Our topic at the moment is diet and healthy eating, we had lots of fun this week using our measuring skills to compare levels of sugar in popular foods and drinks. We examined the number of calories in many foods, using our data handling skills to present our findings in a range of graphs. 

  We were also delighted to welcome Miss Finlay, BEd Student at Stranmillis University College. Miss Finlay was in the class for observation days, before we welcome her back for 6 weeks for her placement. We look forward to the learning opportunities this provides. 

  Have a fantastic week and well done to all in P6/7 for their continued focus, effort and positive attitude towards their learning.

  

• Seabank concert

  Fri 06 Dec 2024 Mr Quinn

  ⭐️🎅🏼School Choir Spread Christmas Cheer🎄⭐️

  Our Senior Choir travelled to Seabank Residential Home today to entertain the residents with their fantastic singing and festive music. They’ve been working incredibly hard throughout the year with our Music Tutor, Miss Bell, and couldn’t wait to perform today.

  Thanks to Seabank for the invite, we look forward to visiting again soon, and thank you to our pupils for making us so proud once again! 🎄