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During our Ditch the Dark Assembly we celebrated with Mr McCambley's golden postcard recipients. Everyone had a bright smile on display, well done to all!
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Our whole school community celebrated with four of our Primary 7 pupils who represented Waringstown Primary School at the Road Safe NI Charity quiz roadshow at Craigavon Civic Centre for our council area heat.
During assembly the team were presented with their medals and trophy. The team came first place in the area heat and are now preparing for the final in March!
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Congratulations to all of Mr McCambley's Golden Postcard recipients this week. Everyone shared their success during our whole school assembly.
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Four of our Primary 7 pupils represented Waringstown Primary School at the Road Safe NI Charity quiz roadshow at Craigavon Civic Centre for our council area heat.
Out of the 17 Primary Schools that took part, two got through to the Final. We are delighted to announce that our team came first place in the heats, with a massive 86 points, and therefore are through the the final which will take place in March.
We must say thank you to Mrs Erskine and Mrs Humprheys who have prepared the team so well. We are thrilled that in our first ever entry to the competition, we have done so well!
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On Wednesday we had Mrs. Stevenson come in and talk to p7 about bats . She is an ecologist with the Environment Agency and was a bat worker in her previous role. She helped people who found roosts in their roofscape. She made a lovely PowerPoint presentation telling us lots of facts about UK bats and the different species that live here. She told us the average roost of bats is 10-20 bats and the biggest she worked with was 3000 bats in a single roost. We had the opportunity to ask lots of questions and Mrs. Stevenson shared amazing bat information and lots of great stories with us.
Written by : Tom and Scott -P7
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Mrs Matthews children enjoyed doing gymnastics for their PE lesson. They had fun exploring all the different apparatus.
See images below.
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The Challenge
This February we are challenging you to sleep on the floor for a weekend or week of your choice. You can decide how difficult you want to make it. Will you sleep on the floor for a week, all the weekends in February or one big Friday night as a group or class? Will you sleep on carpet, under a blanket or in a sleeping bag? Every £281 raised from being sponsored can help children pursue their dreams, providing beds, uniforms, school bags and breakfasts so that they can have the best start to their school day!
What do I need to do?
Signing up is very simple to do and we are here to support you through every step of your challenge.
- Pick a week or weekend in February to sleep on the floor and sign up to the challenge. Using the link provided. We'll send you an email with the information you need and set up your personal online fundraising page.
- Ask your friends, family and colleagues to sponsor you.
- Make sure you tell as many people as possible about your challenge before, during and after, whether on social media, by email or face to face. We'll even provide example social media posts to help you.
When you've completed your challenge we'll send you photos of the children and families who have benefitted thanks to you taking on the challenge!
The Waringstown Primary School ‘February on the Floor’ Challenge link;
https://www.standby.me/appeals/waringstown-primary-school
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In preparation for our World Around Us topic, "Life in the Recent Past," which includes the war years, P4 made a visit to the Palace Stables in Armagh for the day steeped in the 1940's! We started off with an interactive discussion about how WW2 actually started which was very informative.
The classes were separated and went to different activities; One was an interactive information session looking at the contents of an evacuee's suitcase and learning about what life was like in homes during the war as well as looking at gas masks for babies and children.
Another station was into a 1940's school room - very different to our own where children were "seen and not heard." Here we made our identity cards and personal labels which would have been with us at all times on our evacuation.
We also met "Sergeant Balton," the GI soldier from Texas. He told us what his job was like and how he ended up in Northern Ireland. He also helped us to decode some secret messages.
In another room, we met the evacuation officer, Mr Smyth. He told us all about how and why evacuation took place. He also told us about the importance of "black outs" for homes and air raid shelters to keep us safe from German bombs. We even visited an air raid shelter in the grounds of the Palace Stables. He made some of us wardens, who kept the rest of the class in order.
We enjoyed a picnic lunch before heading back to school.
This day has really made us excited for all that we will be studying in World Around Us! While it was great fun we are all glad however, that we live in 2024 and not 1940!
Click on the link below to see pictures of our trip.
