Today was NSPCC Number Day and P4S had fun measuring themselves with rulers, metre sticks and measuring tapes. They collected the data into a table and then investigated to see if the tallest child had the biggest hands and feet. The children also dressed up in Number themed clothes which ranged from sports tops and self-decorated t-shirts to an evacuee costume complete with evacuee label which had lots of numbers on it. We had a great day.
P4S recently travelled to the Palace Stables in Armagh for an educational trip to extend their knowledge of WW2, our present World Around Us topic. Some of the boys and girls dressed up as evacuees and they really did look like children from the 1940s. Firstly we made identity cards (to ensure there were no spies in our party 😉)and evacuee labels. Then we learnt more about food rationing. After that, we visited Mr Heaney in his war time kitchen. When the siren went off, he and Air Raid Warden, Cole, led us to the Anderson shelter. Finally we met Sergeant Willis, an American GI, who taught us how to drill and send coded messages. The children thoroughly enjoyed this experience of war time life.
Thanks to all of you who donated to this charity before Christmas. On Friday 17th December we all wore our Christmas jumpers or festive outfits.
We raised a phenomenal £735.40 so many thanks. The cheque was handed over this morning to Rebecca who came into school to represent this very worthy charity.
We recently travelled to the museum in Armagh to take part in an art workshop led by Orla, a local artist, who taught us a simple way to draw animals. The children thoroughly enjoyed this and their work was amazing!
During the first week of term, P4S enjoyed a visit from Young Enterprise’s representative Nicola. The theme of the session was Our Community and the children really enjoyed learning about what constitutes a community and how communities are funded. They were most surprised when they discovered that they had to give lots of their hard earned wages to the government to pay for certain services such as health, education and policing. They decided what they’d like in an ideal community and designed these. This was a very interesting and educational session for all.
We’ve had great fun this week making a hand tree, dancing Santas, elves and reindeer. The children love our Christmassy display. Lucas suggested a collective noun ........ a sleigh of Santa’s 😀.
Congratulations to all our winners, including Lukas whose Mathletics points won him a special award for the term.
Today was a special Friday as we had 6 prizes to award — FFFB, Healthy Kidz Star of the Week, 2 Teacher’s Stars of the Week and 2 Teacher’s Monthly Certificates. The children were delighted to be rewarded for their hard work.
P4S loved wearing their odd socks to school this week. Our odd socks reminded us of how we are all different and that we should celebrate our differences and uniqueness. After all, the world would be a very boring place if we were all identical!! As the theme for this year’s Anti-bullying week was ‘One Kind Word’, we wrote down as many kind words as we could and then took turns to say kind things to each other. We also enjoyed an assembly from Sarah Emerson (Scripture Union) where we learnt that in the bible it says in
Ephesians Chapter 4 verse 9: When you talk, don’t say anything bad, but say the good things that people need ——- whatever will help them grow.
We decided that this will be our new class motto.
Congratulations to our prize winners:
FFFB........ Mason and Lucas
Teacher’s certificates..... Joao and Elyssia
GTBG raffle winner...... Christopher
Also many congratulations to our Mathletics certificate winners and to Rosie who showed us her keyboard skills today. She’s a talented little musician!!
