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P7 Mrs Humphrey's class has proudly completed the Zero Waste Champions Programme, marking a significant step in their journey towards sustainability and environmental awareness. As part of this exciting initiative, we were delighted to welcome George Gillespie from the Northern Ireland Resources Network (NIRN) into our school for a very special celebration.
To honour the pupils’ hard work and commitment, George presented each child with a beautiful wooden badge—a unique and meaningful keepsake. Even more special, these badges were crafted from trees that had fallen during Storm Eowyn, giving new life to what nature had left behind.
In recognition of the school’s collective efforts, we were also awarded a certificate of achievement, along with a bird box and a bat box—all made from the same reclaimed wood. These will be proudly displayed and installed in our school grounds, providing safe habitats for local wildlife and serving as a lasting reminder of our commitment to protecting the environment.
The Zero Waste Champions Programme has inspired our pupils to think differently about waste, reuse, and sustainability. Through hands-on learning and creative thinking, they’ve shown that even small actions can make a big difference.
A huge thank you to George Gillespie and NIRN for their support and for helping us celebrate in such a memorable and eco-friendly way.
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A huge thank you for all your donations for our Bag2School collection. The items were collected yesterday and will be making their way to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
The weight of all our collections came to 292.5kgs, which has raised £117.00 for the school. We have been participating in this initiative for four years now and in total have raised £927.24. This money is used by our School Eco Council to purchase things for their work. Items in the past have included water butts, bird boxes and several items for sensory motor activities.
Many thanks indeed for helping us with this unique recycling and fundraising opportunity.
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We are delighted to announce that we have successfully achieved the International School Award Intermediate Certificate: Developing Internationalism, due mainly to the work completed through our current Erasmus+ Project with schools in Italy, Spain, Finland and Ireland.
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Thankyou to all those parents who donated uniforms and books for our pop-up shops. We raised £207 pounds from the Uniforms which will be used by the School Eco Council during the next academic year. The surplus uniforms have been bagged up and are ready for our Bag2School recycling event which will take place between Monday 25 November and Tuesday 3 December.
The second hand books raised £50 which has been donated to Habitat for Humanity, a charity who worked with our P5 year group this year, and will again next year.
Thanks again.
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We are delighted to have received two awards at the ‘Best Kept’ Awards ceremony at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. Our Nursery were runners-up in the ‘Tidy School’ preschool category, which is a fantastic achievement as this is their first time entering. Also, one of our P7 pupils was put forward for the 'Best Kept Pupil Achiever Award' due to her work on our School Eco Council and Eco related activities and initiatives over the past number of years. We are delighted to announce that our entrant won this award, which had some very tough competition.
Huge congratulations from all at Waringstown Primary School.
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Our P3s have now created their new 'bug hotel' using reusing pallets that have been left behind from several deliveries. This is now our second bug hotel on the school grounds.
Let's see who or what comes to stay!
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On Thursday 21st March Mr Gault, Mrs Johns and six pupils (Our two P7 Eco Councillors and four of our P7 Wrigley Litter Less Team) travelled to W5 for the Teachers' Eco Conference 2019. It was a wonderful opportunity to exhibit many of the Eco related activities we've been doing throughout Waringstown Primary School and to officially receive our Ambassador Eco School award. We are now one of only 20 Ambassador Eco Schools throughout Northern Ireland.
Check out the photo gallery to see our exhibition.
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We are delighted to share that one of our Primary 3 pupils entered and won the '2019 Marine Litter Art Competition,' which she entered at home with her parents. The competition was judged by Ulster Wildlife and N.I. Science Festival representatives, this being the 'Judge's Special Commendation.'
Our winner said, "I shredded some rope and glued it on the sculpture. I made corals out of dummies, bike tyres, bottle caps and other plastic. The sand is cut up sponge. The pearls are of a necklace."
As a school we are so proud that families are sharing in our Eco Journey to make Waringstown and areas further afield better and cleaner places.
We are so delighted for our P3 Winner. Well done!
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Meet 'Nancy the Flamingo,' made by some of our 'Wrigley Litter Less Campaign' P7 girls.
Nancy has been made using recycled materials including toilet roll tubes, ping pong balls and papermache. The girls decided to make this all by themselves after they met 'Opsie' a few months ago. Opsie was a bird made from recycled materials and was travelling to all the countries taking part in the Wrigley Litter Less Campaign.
Well done girls.
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As part of the Erasmus+ project our school had a few classes take part in Coding Week. One of the activities we did in Key Stage 1 was to use the app ‘Daisy the Dinosaur,’ which involved pupils giving instructions to move a dinosaur. Evidence was shared between our partner schools in Spain, Italy, Finland and Ireland, who all seemed to have fun with their coding projects.
We are delighted to have been awarded this certificate for our efforts.
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A huge thank you to NI Water for donating a new water butt along with several 'save-a-flush' bags which our School Eco Council will place in all of our toilet cisterns to save water! NI Water have already donated drip free water bottles to all of our pupils and staff in school along with teaching P4 and P6 about the importance of water!
We as a school very much appreciate their support.