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Tag rugby at PRFC
Fri 25 Oct 2024This morning 40 children from P6 and 7 took part in a tag rugby event at Portadown RFC. The teams played against teams from other local schools. Everyone played really well and had great fun. Well done to all the players on their fine performances.
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Reading Partnerships
Fri 25 Oct 2024This week KS2 classes met up with their peers in their partner FS and KS1 classes to read stories, enjoy exploring words and illustrations together and share what they like about different books, characters and authors. Our Reading Partnership focus coincided with Book Week NI and later on in the year we will share stories and the enjoyment of reading again during World Book Day.
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Big Walking Bus
Thu 24 Oct 2024A huge thank you to all our parents and children who joined us for our Big Walking Bus from Tiplers this morning. It was brilliant to see so many people leaving the car behind and walking to school. We hope we have inspired some people to make more combo journeys, which would help eliminate the huge amount of traffic around our school.
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Hockey
Tue 22 Oct 2024On Monday we all went to Edenvilla to play matches against Seagoe PS. We had lots of fun and played really well.
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SCHOOL CROSSING PATROL REVIEW – BALLYHANNON ROAD
Mon 21 Oct 2024As you will be aware we are very sad to say goodbye to our much-loved School Crossing Patrol Person Ms Eida Andriusiene at the end of this week. We will miss her and wish her well as she returns home.
Further to liaison with the Education Authority Transport Section, who recruit and employ staff for School Crossing Patrol duties, we have been informed that the Ballyhannon Road crossing is subject to a review prior to a new person being deployed. We have not been given a timeframe for this review and have been informed that they are conducted expeditiously in date order, as their resources allow within the Transport Section.
Despite raising this on 23rd September, it now seems unlikely that EA will have completed the review and appointed a replacement in time for our return to school on Monday 4th November. EA Transport have asked the school to inform parents that if no School Crossing Patrol (SCP) is available it would be recommended that the school “…communicate to parents that there will be no SCP in operation at the site and parents should be encouraged to follow road safety guidance which is publicly available at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/road-safety.” Additional information is also provided on the EA webpage at Safe School Transport. They have also highlighted that “It is important to note that even where an SCP is in operation, parents remain primarily responsible for their child’s safe journey to and from school. Parents should be encouraged to follow road safety guidance which is publicly available at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/road-safety.”
Clearly, we are very concerned about the safety of our pupils crossing the Ballyhannon Road and will be vigorously arguing for the retention of the SCP on the Ballyhannon Road. I would also ask that full use is made of our crossing patrol this week in the event of the review/survey being conducted during the last week of term – this will be unannounced. It will be the outworkings of the review/survey that will determine the future of the SCP. In the interim I am asking all parents and carers to make suitable arrangements after half term to supervise their children crossing the Ballyhannon Road from 4th November onwards. Unfortunately, as a school we are not permitted to employ a replacement ourselves. I will keep parents/carers informed of the progress of the review and how we can lobby for its retention.
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October Football Festival
Fri 18 Oct 2024Well done to our football team for their efforts in the October Football Festival. The boys managed to come second in their group. Some great football was played and we all enjoyed the morning out.
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Maths Week Tuckshop
Fri 18 Oct 2024Today we celebrated the end of our Maths Week by coming to school wearing our own clothes with numbers, shapes or patterns on them. We also got to go to the first School Council tuckshop of the year, which was a huge success.
School Council made £220 profit today and have enough stock for their next tuckshop, which they hope to run in December.
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Maths Week Assembly
Wed 16 Oct 2024To celebrate Maths Week we had a special Assembly today and we had 10 very important visitors who joined us.
We played a game of matching the job titles to our visitors and then the winners of Numberhunt received their prizes. Well done to everyone who took part - the teachers had a very hard decision to make to choose their winners!
All classes have been taking part in lots of different Maths activities around the school this week.
On Friday we are celebrating the end of Maths Week by coming to school dressed in something that has a number, pattern or shape on it and bringing money for an exciting School Council tuck shop!
Huge thank you to our visitors for coming in and helping to make our Maths Week a roaring success.
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Hockey Tournament
Wed 09 Oct 2024The girls and I had a great day at Lurgan College. They played six matches and won 3, drew 2 and lost 1. They played some super hockey. Well done.
