Last Updated on Monday, 02 April 2012 12:50

The P5 class had a fantastic day at the La Mon Hotel where they took part in the Science Challenge.  To cap a very enjoyable and well organised Science day they won the competition, beating 58 other primary schools.  Well done boys and girls! 

Congratulation to Miss Boyd, our student teacher who won the Teacher Award.

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:21

There were lots of nerves in the Down District Council offices yesterday as boys and girls from schools all around gathered to compete in the Youthspeak competition.  This year's theme was, Shrink your bin! - One less bag in landfill, and hours of work had gone into the speeches of Christopher and Cara who were representing our school in the competition for the first time

Soon it was Cara's turn to take to the podium and she presented a wonderful speech that had everyone engrossed. Relieved, she made her way back to her seat with applause ringing in her ears.  It was clear that everyone was impressed.

Christopher's name was called next and he settled himself at the podium.  He introduced himself as a reporter from the BBC and went on to pretend to interview some local people, asking them for their opinions on recycling. Again the audience were captured by the novel way that he got his messages across.

After their presetnations, Cara and Chrisopher relaxed as they listened to the rest of the speeches.  The judges then left the room to discuss the winners and soon returned to announce the results.  Everyone listened quietly, hoping that their name would be called.

A look of shock appreared on Christopher's face as his name was read out as winner of the Primary School section and he beamed with pride as he went up to meet the Mayor.  Everyone was delighted to see that he had won and wished him good luck in the Northern Ireland finals which take place next month.

It was a very special day for both children and we are very proud of their achievements.

Well done Cara and congratulations to Christopher.

Good luck in the finals.

Hi everybody!

All the girls woke up really early this morning, 3 O'clock to be exact.  Why? Well the P7 girls told the P6 girls that was time to get up so they got up and dressed.  Mr Coulter heard the noise and was fuming.  He told them to get back into bed and get to sleep.

So this morning all of the girls were exhausted.

The boys stayed in their dorms all night but not much sleep was got.  This was because they kept shining torches into each others eyes.  They also played cards for sweets until about one.  They slept from then until half three and played more cards.  Ross and Dylan are the best at Jack change it but maybe Jack would have something to say about that.

Eveyone got up at half seven and got breakfast,  It was nice but Finn wasn't too keen on the cornflakes.

After breakfast we all got ready for bouldering up bloody bridge.  It was really funny seeing everyone in wetsuits that were really tight.  We could hardly breath in them.  Ross thought they were class!

Bloody Bridge has loads of rocks and we had to climb over them.  It was fun but sometimes frustrating because it was hard to move in the suits  and we kept falling over because they were so tight.  The best bit for Ross was plunging into the freezing cold pool. Niall M. loved jumping into the water from the really high cliff.

That's all we've time for now.  Going to get our dinner - Pizza and chips.  Yippee!!

Then  on to Coco's.

Finn, Ross, Niall M.

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:57

Finally the bus to Ardnabannon pulled up in front of our school.  Everyone got their bags and took them down to the bus.  Everyone was so excited!

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