Best wishes to our Primary 7 pupils who were confirmed by Bishop Anthony Farquhar at St. Mary's, Star of the Sea Church yesterday evening. 

May God's love remain always in their hearts and strengthen them along life's way.

Please return Sports Day lunch reply slips by Friday 4th May to inform our catering plans.

Many thanks.

 

Tuesday 15^th May

Sports Day Lunch

Everyone Welcome

Parents/siblings and other adults are welcome to join us for lunch

PTA Tuck available for pupils   £1.00

Tea / Coffee available for parents

Lunch

 Sausages / Chicken Goujons, Chips, Ice Cream Tub and Juice

(adult lunch includes a small tub of salad)

We've had a great start to our Translink Travel Challlenge... walking, cycling and scooting to school. Remember our walking buses leave Manina and The Warren at 8.40am SHARP each day. 

 

Many thanks for your support as we work towards our 2nd Eco-Schools Green Flag.

What a beautiful evening for our Big Spring Clean of our school grounds. A huge THANK YOU to our volunteers who came to help pick up litter, weed, repair the greenhouse, decorate stones for our garden and plant seeds. Great work everyone! We're sure you all slept well on Friday night. 

Confirmation for our Primary 7 class will take place in St. Mary's, Star of the Sea church on Tuesday 1st May at 5pm.

 

School finishes for Primary 7 at 12 noon and for all other pupils at 1:50pm. There will be no after school activities on Tuesday.

 

This year our school is participating in the Translink Eco-Schools Travel Challenge being run in partnership by Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful Eco-Schools and Translink.

 

Children in all classes will be asked to take part in this challenge over 2 weeks ...

Monday 30^th April – Friday 4^th May

Monday 14^th May – Friday 18^th May

 

We will look at what transport pupils currently use to get to and from school and ask you and them to try and make sustainable improvements during this period and beyond. For example: taking the bus, train, walking or cycling – even once a week can make a big difference!  You could also consider arranging car sharing with another parent if possible.

 

This is a fantastic opportunity for our school to work towards becoming more environmentally sustainable by reducing carbon emissions caused by traffic and is a positive step towards reducing car congestion around the school. It is also a healthy and sociable option for our pupils. We will also be using the challenge as a means to achieving our second Eco-Schools Green Flag award.

 

Joining the Travel Challenge is free for the school and there are some great prizes based on sustainable transport to be won for the school and for an individual pupil and their family.

 

We hope you will support our Translink Eco-Schools Travel Challenge!

 

For further information on the Translink Eco-Schools Travel Challenge see the Translink Eco-Schools webpage at www.translink.co.uk/ecoschools.

 

 

Thank you to everyone who donated bags of unwanted textiles for our Cash for Clobber Collection today... raising £80! Fantastic! Don't worry if you missed it ... our next collection is on Wednesday 23rd May, so please continue to save your used and unwanted clothes and textiles for us. ♻️ 👚 👔 👗 👖👢👜🧥🧦👞🎒👡

 

We really appreciate your support for this scheme - recycling and fund-raising!

 

Thank you to Primary 6 for loading the lorry.

Come along and help us clean up our school grounds on Friday 28th April, 5-7pm!

We are looking forward to a fun-filled evening Spring Cleaning our school grounds.... litter picking, greenhouse and raised bed repairs, weeding, planting and some garden art.

 

EARTH DAY 2018

'What better day than Earth Day to really make a determined effort to live lives in better harmony with nature. Every single individual matters. Every single individual makes some impact on the planet every single day... and we have a choice as to what kind of difference we're going to make.'
Dr. Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall Institute

 

Eco-Schools Northern Ireland Official
#earthday #ecoschools #EndPlasticPollution #makeadifference

We have a busy term ahead! A copy of upcoming events will be sent home for each family this week. Detailed information about trips and events will be distributed by class teachers as events approach.

 

Please keep an eye on the calendar and news on our website for additions or changes to these events.