A big thanks to Dave Wiggins, our Sustrans officer to taking many of our P5s out today and teaching them cycling skills.
We really appreciate all the work Dave and Sustrans do with us.
This week our Primary fours went out for two separate sessions of forest schools. One class built bug hotels, using vegetable peelers, tent pegs, elder wood and anything else they could find.
The other class worked on numeracy, revising 2D shapes and lines of symmetry.
Click 'read more' to see some pictures
European Elections
The school is closed to facilitate the European Elections on:
Thursday 23 May, 2019
The cook would like to inform parents that the menu for Wednesday 22 May 2019 has been changed to the following:
STEAKBURGER AND FISH FINGERS ... NO CHICKEN CRUMBLE
Recently the Nursery children had great fun exploring the grounds around Oxford Island. They ventured into the forest, hunting for mini beasts and learning about all the wildlife that live there. The children also enjoyed a craft activity and they made their own dragonfly to take home. They ate their lunch together and even managed to have some time to play in the park before heading home!
Primary 1 recently enjoyed a super day at Streamvale Farm! The P1 children have been exploring the topic of the Farm and were very excited to meet the animals they had been learning about at first hand. Take a look through our photo gallery to see all the fun activities and animals we met at Streamvale Farm!
Sports Day
We’d like to remind you that Sports Day is scheduled for Tues 28 May. If the weather is inclement we will be forced to re-schedule to Thurs 30 May.
Please remember that Sports Day starts at 9.30am and ends at approx 12 noon.
Refreshments will be served over the children’s mid-morning Break time at 10.40am.
All welcome.
It was great to have Dave Wiggins, our Sustrans Link Officer, in with us today taking our Primary 4 pupils for orienteering. The pupils were placed in groups and had to use a numbered map to find pictures. At the end of this the groups had to use the words of the items they found to label a bike. This was followed up in the classroom with a conversation about bike safety. Click on the 'read more' link below to see the P4s in action.
Dave also popped in with P5W to inform them that with 88%, they were the best class with Active Travel journey's recorded for April. Well done P5W...winners for the second month in a row.
Which class will win the Interclass Active Travel competition for May?
Today in Forest School P4 completed a literacy task, in which they had to use materials to represent fiction, make a fiction story and use describing words for their fictional characters. Children were split into groups and one 'leader' from each group was given a container. The group had to collect a small amount of material which was placed in the container and missed together to make a 'potion.' The children then all gathered together to discuss their potions (what they were called, what they did).
Next, the groups had to decide on a fictional character that lived in the forest. Once they had decided on their character, they had to build a den for the character.
The forest school lesson was concluded with the usual evaluation session.
15:59 hrs: ETA for arrival at WPS is around 16:35 hrs.
15:09 hrs: Flight has landed in Belfast.
14:12 hrs: In the air with estimated landing time of 15:03 hrs. Follow the flight live here: https://www.flightradar24.com/SHT86Y/20611bd6
13:31 hrs: Flight delayed. Estimated departure 13:55 hrs (45 minutes late: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ba1416 )
13:06 hrs: Boarded aeroplane and on time for a 13:10 takeoff. Flight tracking will be posted once in the air.
All on schedule. Flight expected to depart/arrive as scheduled. This thread will be updated if there's any news during the day.
but we're all missing you and can't wait to see you tonight. 
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