Welcome to P1 and P2!

Our amazing PTA sponsored bunny bounce and Easter fun day is underway. P1/2 enjoyed the bouncy castle and garden games before heading off on the Easter trail.   Thanks to the PTA for organising this fantastic morning. #smallschoolbigheart

P1/2 took their learning outside to have a go at building a bird’s nest as well as some fun in the Outdoor Play Area.  #smallschoolbigheart

P1/2 are delighted that we have received further funding this term from the Schomberg Society for another block of Highland Dancing lessons with Kathryn.  

#smallschoolbigheart #schombergsociety

We loved decorating our gingerbread biscuits with lots of sweets and icing. 

P2 have been thinking about the characters and settings we find in Fairy Tales. 

We were excited to meet a lovely little lamb today.  Thanks to Issy’s mum for bringing him in to visit.   The children were not at all nervous and learnt lots of fascinating facts. #smallschoolbigheart 

P1/2 have had a ball over the last few weeks with our amazing SUC student Naomi Elwood.    We have loved our investigations and experiments, stories and lots of exciting learning experiences based around Spring and Easter.  Miss Elwood has captured the hearts and imaginations of the children and they are going to miss her.  Today we finished with a lovely picnic.  Thank you for everything!   #smallschoolbigheart

Thanks to Chloe’s mum for bringing in the fluffiest and cutest little chicks into school. We learnt lots of fascinating facts and would have liked to keep them as class pets. #smallschoolbig heart 

P1/2 have had a great day celebrating World Book Day.  We dressed up, brought in amazing potato characters and listened to stories.  We also used the language of Sam McBratney, our author of the month, in our Mothers’ Day cards.  Thanks to Mrs Corbett for organising.    #smallschoolbigheart

We noticed a lovely blossom tree on our Spring Hunt yesterday so we decided to do some blossom art with paint and on the SMARTBOARD.   Great job everyone!  

Our new topic is Look what is growing!   We had a Spring Hunt around the village and spotted lots of signs of Spring.   We had a little stopover at the play park of course! 

We enjoyed some Christmas activities this week including our Santa mile a day.   

P1/2 enjoyed fundraising for Pudsey today. 

We are enjoying our new topic called Light and Dark.   This week we are thinking about the sun, moon and stars and have been going on some space adventures as well as exploring 2-D shapes and symmetry. 

👨‍🎨👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 P2 have been busy as they get started on their Light and Dark topic.  👨‍🎨👩‍🎨👨‍🎨

Our creative, resourceful and simply amazing PTA brought our Pumpkin Patch inside.  There is lots of excitement here as we get to choose our pumpkins 🎃   We will take them home later so we can carve them over the weekend.  #smallschoolbigheart.

P1/2 have enjoyed counting and measuring this week for #MathsWeekIreland 

🕷️ P1 have enjoyed their Incy Wincy learning activities this week 🕷️ 

🍁  P1/2 enjoyed some fabulous Autumn learning this week 🍁 

P1/2 have enjoyed their September indoor and outdoor play.  We also have a new SMART board and it’s amazing!  #smallschoolbigheart 

It’s #WorldMathsDay and P1/2 have been very, very  busy.   P2 made some 2D shape monsters and P1 made monster masks with kits our PTA had bought us.  We counted in 2s and heard the story of Noah.  Granny D brought in some beautiful lambs so we heard a story about a man who had 100 sheep and P2 counted to 100.  We all had a go at the World Mathletics challenge and one boy was ‘top of the leader board’.   We learnt how to play dominoes and made monsters with cubes and cuboids.    What a fantastic day!  #smallschoolbigheart

P1/2 had a lovely day celebrating #WorldBookDay.  They became illustrators, thought about, and dressed up as, their favourite characters.  Thanks to Mrs Corbett, our Literacy Coordinator, for organising the day and for the sweets.  #smallschoolbigheart.

Well done to P1/2 for achieving a bronze certificate for Mathletics this week. 

A huge thank you to Wee Critters and St Joseph's P.S Crossgar for an amazing Shared Education Day #smallschoolbigheart. #sharededucation

It doesn’t take a lot of snow to have a lot of fun #smallschoolbigheart 

We raised some money for Children in Need 2022 by coming to school in our pyjamas.  Some of us got some Pudsey spots too.  We enjoyed a late breakfast and lots of children had some toast with their chocolate spread 😂.      A great day for a great charity #smallschoolbigheart #childreninneed2022

P1/2 have enjoyed the story of The Gingerbread Man this week.  We learnt about speech marks and speech bubbles, and ordered different sizes.  We have counted, added and subtracted with characters from the story as well as P1 making collage gingerbread people with different materials.  We have thought about the clever, cunning fox and made some rafts so that he couldn’t eat the little gingerbread.  Today we decorated, and ate, some gingerbread men - delicious.  

P1/2, and lots of our children, brought in their pumpkins as part our Harvest celebrations. On Thursday we put them in our playground so everyone could see what a talented bunch we are!   #smallschoolbigheart 

#BookWeekNI is an initiative celebrating the pleasures and benefits of reading.   Now in its seventh year, #BookWeekNI encourages everyone to visit their local library to read.

Today P1/2 visited their favourite library, our beautiful Glassroom.  P1 enjoyed opening their special book from Book Trust. 

#smallschoolbigheart

P1/2 are loving life on the vehicles today.  Lots of opportunities to share, negotiate, take turns, work together and practise our skills #smallschoolbigheart 

It’s Maths Week Ireland and P1 have been exploring pattern by making a safer wall for Humpty.  They also made some incredible pictures with the 2D shapes. P2 were matching Autumn objects with our new Numicon and using money to buy some delicious fruit and vegetables.  

P1/2 have been enjoying some Autumn activities this week. 

Some of our favourites from previous years …. 

P1/2 are enjoying a sunny afternoon in our Outdoor Play Area. 

Thanks to Elizabeth McCorriston and the PTA for organising a lovely pumpkin hunt for P1/2 with a few treats along the way.