Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Wombling in Crossgar

  Mon 22 Jun 2026

  P5/6 were out and about today helping to keep our village looking its best, joined by some of our fantastic Eco Committee members.

  A huge thank you to Declan from Crossgar Community Association for organising the session and providing the litter pickers and bags. Your support makes such a difference.

  Our pupils loved doing their bit for the environment and our local community and enjoyed a well‑earned play at the playpark afterwards. Great teamwork and great community spirit. 💚♻️
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• Celebrating our Coding and Computational Thinking Efforts

  Fri 19 Jun 2026

  A few weeks ago, Mrs English and Mr Milligan visited the SSE Arena to join other schools taking part in the Create Partnership Programme. Mrs English proudly showcased the fantastic work our Glasswater classes have been doing, presenting it to fellow partnership schools, the team from Nerve Centre, political representatives and Northern Ireland Screen.

  We were delighted to receive a certificate recognising our achievements in coding and computational thinking. An incredible celebration of our pupils’ creativity and hard work.
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  Nerve Centre
  Northern Ireland Screen

  

• 📱Digital leaders grand day out!

  Wed 17 Jun 2026

  🚍Our Digital Leaders enjoyed a fantastic trip to Belfast today! 
  During their visit to the Apple Store, they learned all about the products available and discovered the wide variety of roles carried out by the store team. They also took part in a GarageBand workshop, where they explored digital music creation, designing their own loops and experimenting with mixing different sounds. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on experience and showed great creativity throughout the session.
  A huge thank you to Donna and Aaron for their support and guidance during the visit.
  Afterwards, we enjoyed lunch in CastleCourt Food Court before taking a walk through the city to Grand Central Station. Of course, there was time for a little detour to enjoy an ice lolly along the way! 🍭
  It was a wonderful day of learning, creativity and fun, and our Digital Leaders represented the school brilliantly.
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  #TranslinkNI
  Apple

  

• ⚽️ Friendly Football at Robert Adams Park ⚽️

  Mon 08 Jun 2026 Mrs Gill

  Today our boys football team enjoyed some friendly games against some local schools in the gorgeous sunshine. They played some wonderful football, scored goals and showed fantastic team spirit and sportsmanship throughout the day! They came top of the league before going out in a close game in the semi-final. 

  We are so proud of each of our boys who took part today! And a special congratulations to our Year 7 pupil who got a Referee’s Player of the Tournament Award! 

  Thanks to Mr McFerran for organising a great event! 

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• Shared Ed Celebration

  Thu 04 Jun 2026

  P5/6 enjoyed their final shared education day with St Joseph's P.S Crossgar  where we had a fantastic celebration event in the War Memorial Hall with PlayBoard. Both schools have been enjoying the Our Generation programme in their individual schools so it was great to meet up together and Play sharing our experiences and highlighting the ways we can interact and play together. A massive thank you to the PlayBoard staff who have organised the sessions and materials and trained us all up on being play champions.
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  PlayBoard NI

  

• Mathletics Awards

  Fri 22 May 2026 Mrs Gill

  Congratulations to this group of pupils who have achieved Gold, Diamond or Legendary status in Mathletics! Mrs Gill was particularly delighted to see so many pupils becoming Mathletics legends….a massive well done!

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• ⚽️ Kilmore Rec Tournament ⚽️

  Fri 15 May 2026 Mrs Gill

  Today some of our P5-7 boys enjoyed a morning of football at Robert Adams Park against some local primary schools.  Thanks to all at Kilmore Rec who were involved in organising a great event! 

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• Interactive AI Workshop

  Fri 08 May 2026

  💻Our Key Stage 2 pupils today enjoyed an engaging workshop led by Donna and Danny from Nerve Centre on behalf of Ofcom. The session encouraged pupils to think critically about images and videos, exploring how to spot content that may have been created using AI.
  A favourite activity was the game “Is it real or is it fake?”, which sparked lots of lively discussion and thoughtful debate. Pupils then had the opportunity to use Adobe Express to design their own images based on creative, fictional criteria—resulting in plenty of laughter and enjoyment!
  The adults were truly impressed by the pupils’ understanding of AI, particularly as they shared how they are already using it safely at home and in games.
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• Happy Birthday Miss Creighton

  Wed 06 May 2026 Mrs Gill

  Today all our pupils and staff wished the lovely Miss Creighton a very happy birthday! A lady worth celebrating! Our whole school family are so grateful for you - for all that you bring and all that you do for us here in Glasswater! 

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• We have the right to play!

  Wed 06 May 2026

  PlayBoard Our Generations Session 2 for P5/6 -ME and My Connections Session 2 focused on our close connections, like friends, family and people who help to keep us happy and safe. When we are finding it difficult to deal with emotions, these are the people we can trust to help us. Today we looked at how we can build RESILIENCE, by thinking about our own coping strategies and how developing EMPATHY can help to keep our connections strong. Having an INgroup is really great, it helps us to feel safe, and we always have something to talk about. It is also really important to know that even in our groups, everyone is different and brings different values and perspectives. It’s good to have things in common, but it’s great to be unique! In our activities today we all got to build our own ‘Tame it Toolkits,’ full of really great items to help us cope with big emotions. Did you know that blowing bubbles is really useful to help you get your heart rate and breathing back under control? We got to play with loose parts again this week. Loose parts are mostly free and found materials, quite often things that just go in the recycling bin, but for us they are a chance to negotiate, problem solve, consider construction and dimensions, work in a team, be creative and take control of our freedom to build and design whatever we want!
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