19 pupils from both P7 classes visited Lismore Comprehensive at the start of December. The children had a great morning’s fun, and got a real taste for what life will be like next year at post primary school, wherever they decide to go. The children took part in a coding activity in the ICT room, a drama activity, and finished off with a quiz in the hall.
Cormac from HIC delivered an anti-bullying workshop to our P7 pupils to build upon the learning already consolidated during this important week. Pupils recapped the different forms of bullying and discussed the layered impacts that bullying can have on the individual. Our pupils recognise physical, verbal, non-verbal, emotional and cyber bullying - and are aware of how this can impact the mental health of the victim. There is no place for bullying in this school and we believe that it can be eradicated when ‘Change starts with you’. Many thanks to Cormac for an engaging and challenging workshop. Great job P7!
Our class had a really fun workshop on Tuesday, facilitated by Roisin from Mensanna, where they learned all about how to keep themselves healthy emotionally and mentally. Roisin talked to us about different strategies we could use when we find ourselves in situations that worry or upset us and the importance of talking about our feelings.
P7MM had lots of fun outside on Monday sweeping leaves and tidying around the Muga.
Primary 7 were joined by the IFA’s Chris Wright for a very relevant and important workshop called ‘Give Racism the Red Card’. Children learned about the causes and consequences of Racism and to be empowered about Racism. Today gives us the opportunity to help the children know that Racism is wrong, is hurtful and is completely unneeded. At the Hart Memorial, we aim to prepare pupils to be part of a multi-cultural world and today’s workshop is another helpful way towards that. Many thanks to Chris for an excellent workshop.
P7MM have been lucky enough to have been picked to take part in the Poetry In Motion project this year. This involves a published poet, Martell McPartland, coming into our classroom and helping us to get our creative juices flowing!! The start of this process was a trip to Long Meadow Farm on the Loughgall Road this morning. Here, we were given a tour of the orchard, the warehouse and the cold store. Catherine and Pat, the owners of the farm, really made us feel welcome and explained everything in great detail to us. We saw where the apples are pressed, where they are stored, or ‘put to sleep’, for winter, where the apple cider vinegar is made, and we even got to pick and eat our own apples - the nicest we had ever tasted! The orchard provided us with fantastic ideas and will hopefully provide enough inspiration for us to write excellent poems over the next couple of weeks. We can’t wait to get started!
Our class have had a great start to Shared Education this year, with already four trips to St John the Baptist's College to meet our friends from Presentation Primary School under our belt. We have looked at the themes of culture, identity, perceptions and prejudices, and we have learned that, while we are all different, we really are very similar in many many ways. The finale of our CRED lessons saw all four P7 classes from the two schools join together at the YMCA centre in Portadown to create their own masks which celebrate their own identity and culture. There was a real community feel on the day and we hope the children enjoyed it.
The boys and girls in P7MM had a great day on Wednesday 2nd October when they spent the day rehearsing their Rainfroest play before performing it for P4-7 that afternoon. They worked so hard all morning; contributing to the script, rehearsing, editing amd rehearsing again and again. Well done to all of them!
Pupils and staff were treated to a wonderful afternoon spectacle of song, dance and piano playing from the participants of We've Got Talent 2019. A fun afternoon had by all. Many thanks to Asda for supplying drinks and snacks, many thanks to Steve and Paul from Healthy Kidz for judging and many thanks to Paul for supporting acts with their music. Many congratulations to all participants, but most of all, well done to the winning act Aimee and Megan for their winning act of Irish Dancing. The winners take home the big We've Got Talent trophy, with each performer taking home a trophy! Everyone also got a forty pound gift voucher for Sketchers. Brilliant! Inspirational stuff all round!
Thursday 13th June 2019 - Today was arguably the busiest day of the week with children in bed now a alot quieter than the two previous nights. We allowed them a lie with the changes made to the timetable! With another good breakfast this morning, children got onto the bus in good spirits as we travelled to the Edinburgh Butterfly World outside of the city where they really enjoyed seeing ants, poisonous frogs, giant snakes and lizards, scorpions, and tarantulas up close. It's also not every day you see free-flying exotic butterflys from one side to the next! A few were happy to land on the heads of some visitors. The children really enjoyed observing these unique creatures in the rainforest style environment, they also got the chance to spend some money in the impressive gift shop, many stuffed animals are coming back to Ulster! This part of the week could well occupy many of the conservations when we get home. From here, we made our way to the Time Capsule Swimming Pool, think of Lisburn Swimming Pool with more slides, more water and a wave pool! The kids loved it, and if they weren't tired before, they definitely are now! They were having the time of their lives together. Then to McDonalds, a fitting way to end the day! Hard to believe that tomorrow is our last day, and the beginning of the journey home but the children still have M&Ds to look forward to. The fun never stops!
