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The Craigavon Area Food Bank were overwhelmed by the generosity of the Waringstown parents when they collected the food items.As usual, you went over and beyond our expectations. All of the food items have now been received by the Food Bank.
Thank to Mr & Mrs Taylor who collected the food items and transported them to the centre.
The P6 children enjoyed helping to pack the car full of food!
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Choose TWO pupils from your class to be ‘litter pickers’ for this week. They will pick litter on ONE occasion during the week in an allocated area. The litter picking session is during break time and the ‘litter pickers’ are to come to Mr Gault’s room to collect their litter grabbers, orange hi-visibility vests, gloves and bin bags.
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Monday |
KS1 Playground |
P4 Mr Gault |
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Both FS Playgrounds |
P5 Mrs Williamson |
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Muga |
P6 Mr Somerville |
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Main Path |
P7 Mrs Erskine |
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Friday |
KS1 Playground |
P4 Mrs McClelland |
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Both FS Playgrounds |
P5 Mrs Peacocke |
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Muga |
P6 Mr Brown |
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Main Path |
P7 Mrs Sloan |
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We want to say a huge thank you to Rebekah from Cancer Focus NI, who has worked with us this year in delivering a 'healthy living' aspect of the curriculum. Today Rebekah came in to follow up on work that had been going on in the classrooms during the year.
She worked on 'Fit Factor' with our P3s, 'Food Detectives' with our P4s, 'Sun Scientist' with our P5s and 'Smoke Busters' with our P6s and P7s.
Click the 'Read More' link to see some pictures
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On Monday 20 June, New-Bridge College Bio Diversity Team joined us to plant a native tree species (cherry tree), to celebrate their 20 Year anniversary. New-Bridge College has nurtured a collection of three native tree species since 2012, provided by the Woodland Trust. In recognition of the bonds established with our own school, both in the past and the present, their Bio Diversity Team students came to plant one of the native tree saplings in our school grounds with the help of our Primary 7 student due to follow in their footsteps to New-Bridge College in the autumn of 2016.
We would like to thank Mrs McIlvor (Head of Geography Department/Bio Diversity Group Leader at New-Bridge College) at their Bio Diversity Team for organising this significant event.
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Some of the School Councillors came together this week to enhance the raise flowerbeds in the Foundation Stage Playground. After some magnificent painting the Gardening Club stormed in along with Mrs Sloan to plant some alpines and add some shingle to the help keep the weeds down.
We're sure you'll be amazed at the photos so please take a look. Some budding entrepreneurs would like you to know that they are available for hire at very keen prices!
The old adage proves to still be true ... many hands make light work.
Thank you boys and girls and well done indeed!
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Another action that our School Eco Council are carrying out is to try to save energy within our school. To promote this idea we are having a 'Turn off, Switch off' week which will encourage all pupils to remember to turn off taps and switch all lights and other electrical devices. Some of our Councillors have created posters which are being displayed in classrooms and can be seen below.
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The School 'Eco' Council have the 'litter picking' now in action. Every class from P4 - P7 is now timetabled to send a couple of representatives to clean certain areas of the school grounds.
See the School 'Eco' Council's Notice Board for the timetable
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The School 'Eco' Council recently met to decide upon a new Eco Code. The looked through all the entries that were handed in and picked the one they thought best represented us as a School. This winning entry is now on the main School 'Eco' Council notice board.
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Yesterday and today, the P6 classes had a visitor called Pamela from Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council. Pamela came into school to talk to our P6 and 7 children all about litter.
This is part of a scheme run by Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council to raise awaeness of the problems associated with litter in our area. Each class had an interactive session which was designed to teach them all about the perils of littering and what we can do to stop it.
All P6 children really enjoyed the session, which fits perfectly with the new topic of materials the children are just starting in thier WAU Studies.
Our thanks must go to Pamela and the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council for such a wonderful session and all the wonderful leaflets and information provided.
Click on the readmore link below to see more images from the day.
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We just want to thank ABC Council for providing our Year 6 and 7 pupils with 'Litter Awareness' lessons adding to our curriculum element of ECO SCHOOLS.
We also want to thank the Council for providing us with ten new 'litter grabbers,' which our School 'Eco' Council wanted so that they could begin their 'litter pickers' timetable as discussed at our previous School 'Eco' Council meeting.
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Our School ‘Eco’ Council are inviting yparents and pupils to take part in another competition, which is to create our ECO CODE. We want an ECO CODE which we will display on our School 'Eco' Council notice board (soon to be unveiled) and in every classroom.
What is an ECO CODE?
- This is simply a poster displaying our commitment to making Waringstown Primary School a more ‘eco-friendly’ place.
- If you type 'Eco Code' into any search engine, you will see numerouse examples of Eco Codes.
Competition details:
- In your own time, create an ECO CODE. It can be created on the computer or be hand written.
- Give it to your class’s School Councillor before FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY
- When the School Council meet again they will bring all the entries and will select a winning one which will be used as our School ECO CODE.