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Tickets for the summer competition will be going home in early May and everyone is asked to support this annual event sponsored by McCabery’s Bicycles and local businesses. The competition draw will be made at our Fun Night on 7th June.
Well done to Phoebe Reid in P6S who has had her creative writing selected out of hundreds as a winner of the ‘Head Over Heels’ project. The Children's Writing Fellow of Northern Ireland Myra Zepf has invited Phoebe and P6S to watch her story be illustrated and told by authors and illustrators at a special event this April.
Congratulations to our two futsal teams who both won at the ABC Area IFA tournaments this term. Both teams will now represent the Area at the Northern Ireland finals. The boys team will compete on April 11th and the girls team will compete on April 12th. Girls team: Hannah Watts, Tilly Douglas, Emma Latimer, Ellie Cousins, Grace Mackay, Amelia Steele and Chloe Gordon. Boys team: Luke Adair, James Wright, Alex Dillon, Caleb Lyle, David Ward, Rhys McCreanor and Dean Bradbury.
Boys Hockey – NI Qualifiers
On Wednesday 7th March, The Boys Hockey Team travelled to Killicomaine J.H.S to compete in the Northern Ireland Qualifiers. In our first match we played Drumgor P.S. and came away with a convincing 2-0 win, with both goals being scored by Harry Kerr! Our second match was against a very strong Armstrong P.S side. Our boys played very well and came away with a respectable 0-0 draw. Our final match was against Millington P.S. The boys knew that they had to win by 3 goals or more to make it to the Northern Ireland Finals. The team played fantastically well and won the game 1-0, with Harry Kerr again scoring our goal. Unfortunately, this meant that we didn’t make the NI Finals on goal difference. Special mention must go to Lewis Robinson who was outstanding in nets and didn’t concede a goal throughout the whole tournament.
Girls Hockey – A Team
The girls played in the NI Qualifying Tournament on Wednesday 21st March at Killicomaine JHS. We played our first match against Bocombra. We were a little shaky to start, and conceded a quick goal, but then we equalised shortly afterwards with a great finish from Chloe Gordon. Bocombra had some lovely passing, and scored a well-executed goal just before the final whistle. Our next match was against Hardy, we were more settled in this match and came away with a 1-0 win with a great goal from Emma Latimer. Last up was Armstrong, who had shown great skills in midfield and attack in previous matches. We struggled to keep up with their pace, and unfortunately lost 2-0. The girls played really well in this match however, and were very unlucky not to get a goal.
This meant we didn’t qualify for the Finals after Easter, however we have lots of players staying with us next year, and we look forward to building upon our skills then. We would also like to wish Martha and Hannah all the very best for starting their new schools. You have both played some great hockey for our school over the years, make sure you keep it up!
Team - Tilly Douglas, Hannah Whaley, Haydn McKinley, Martha McTernaghan, Alex Kerr, Chloe Gordon (C), Emma Latimer and Grace Cochrane
Girls Hockey - B Team
On Tuesday 20th March, the girls played two friendly matches against Maralin Primary School. In the first match, King’s Park won 6-0 and in the second match, King’s Park won 7-0.
Team - Kate Holmes, Ellie Cousins, Brooke Armstrong, Aimee Brown, Grace McNeill, Abbie Knox, Sophie Tate and Victoria Alexander. Well done girls!
Well done to all who took part in our Easter Competition. The creations were magnificent and our judge was very impressed by the artistic talent on display! Congratulations to the winners who were:
OVERALL WINNER (Whole school)
JOY McGUIGAN_(P5SG)
NURSERY – Overall Winner_-_Rebekah Lamont
CLASS WINNERS
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1st |
2nd |
3rd |
Nursery 1 Mrs Quinn
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Keturah Warburton |
Austeja Maciulskyte |
Luke Hunter |
Nursery 2 Mrs Myers
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Rebecca Lamont |
Chloe Gilmore |
Mollie Aubrey |
Nursery 3 Mrs Bartholomew
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Tilly Scott-Palmer |
Hannah Mooney |
Aaron Wilson |
FOUNDATION P1 and P2
Overall Winner: _Levi Banks_
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1st |
2nd |
3rd |
P1 Mrs McClements
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Caeden Cousins |
Anna Kakuru |
Tara Gowing |
P1 Mrs Henning
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Elijah Preston |
Connie Kinkead |
Luke Morrison |
P1 Mrs Thomson
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Lily Patterson |
Sophia Calvert |
Shaelyn Rowe |
P1 Miss Russell
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Chloe Wilson |
Casey McNeice |
Alicja Lewandowska |
P2 Mrs McBride
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Joshua Honeyford |
Lydia Devlin |
Grace Neville |
P2 Miss Brown
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Joshua Upton |
Emily Girvan |
Brooklyn McClure |
P2 Mrs Glenn
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Levi Banks |
Adam Sloan |
Poppyanna Cameron |
P2 Mrs Ward
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Kayla Mooney |
Poppy Heasley |
Zach Stewart |
Key Stage 1- (P3, P4) Overall Winner Austin Gault
CLASS WINNERS
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1st |
2nd |
3rd |
P3 Mrs Cowan
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Luke Wells |
Caitlyn McKinstry |
Emilia Zukauskaite |
P3 Mrs Chambers
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Anna McGuigan |
Julia Kepowicz |
Liliana Pindral |
P3 Mrs Devlin
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Olivia Devlin |
Lily Cooke |
Georgina Smith |
P3 Miss Douglas
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Poppy James |
Dylan Mitchell |
Sophie Harrison |
P4 Miss Gardiner
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Claudia Murphy |
Tomas Rumbutis |
Gracie King |
P4 Mrs Thompson
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Damian Lastik |
Archie White |
Lauren Megaw |
P4 Mrs Ferry
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Austin Gault |
Madison Flanagan |
Jadon Turner |
P4 Mrs McShane
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Viktoria Walkiewicz |
Chloe Kerr |
Jack Stanislaw |
Key Stage 2 P5, 6 & 7
Overall Winner Joy McGuigan
CLASS WINNERS
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1st |
2nd |
3rd |
P5 Mrs Grey
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Joy McGuigan |
Alexander Wilson |
Emelia Pearson |
P5 Mrs Woods
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Alicia Tiu Brown |
Ryan Honeyford |
Marcelina Kulinski |
P5 Mr Kirkland
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Abbie Knox |
Matthew Lamont |
Grace McNeill |
P5 Miss Spiers
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Faith Cooke |
Daniel Kedra |
Emily Smyth |
P6 Miss Porter
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Lilien Schumann |
Lilli Cowan |
Leah Heasley |
P6 Mr Shields
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Jonas Morales |
Luke Megaw |
Carly Fong |
P6 Mr Magowan
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Jodi White |
Emma Gordon |
Victoria Alexander |
P6 Mr Forbes
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Mollie Pedlow |
Lucy Hamill |
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P7 Mr Russell
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Elena James |
Bethany Love |
Nicholas McCavery |
P7 Mr Martin
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Hannah Watts |
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Congratulations to Phoebe Reid who has had her story chosen by the Children's Writing Fellow of Northern Ireland Myra Zepf to be illustrated at a special event this April!
In February P6S had a class visit from the author and The Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland Myra Zepf. Myra discussed her ‘Head Over Heels’ programme and ‘upside down’ creative writing.
Following Myra’s visit P6S wrote their own creative stories along with hundreds of other pupils across the country. Phoebe Reid in our class created ‘The Scaredy Prince and the Daring Princess’ which was subsequently chosen as one of Myra’s favourite five stories. As a prize for her writing the class has been invited to the Seamus Heaney Home Place Centre in Bellaghy on Monday 16th of April.
The Laureate na nÓg – PJ Lynch – will be there along with 4 other illustrators. They are:
Margaret Anne Suggs
Tarsila Kruse
Peter Donnelly
Andrew Whitson
Author Dave Rudden will also be there to act as narrator of the stories, as the five illustrators illustrate the stories live.
Well done Phoebe!
A very big THANK YOU to all of our families and friends who recently contributed to the Sponsored "Glow for it!". The amount raised to date is £7190.09. The named charities will be receiving their donations after the Easter break and we hope to involve as many of our children as possible in the photographs to celebrate this excellent charity collection. Could all outstanding sponsor money be sent into school as soon as possible.