Welcome to latest news

• Sign Language Programme

  Wed 13 Feb 2019

  Mrs Devlin's and Mrs Matchett's class are very fortunate to have been asked to participate in a Sign Language Programme organised by the Controlled Schools’ Support Council and funded by the Department of Communities. We are one of the nine schools chosen out of 43 schools to engage in these sessions. This Programme aims to raise awareness of sign language as a language of need for the deaf community and to teach the children some valuable sign language skills. The engaging and interactive workshops will be led by the sign language tutor Anthony Sinclair and the children will enjoy learning a variety of signs associated with themes such as colours and emotions.

   

  As part of the programme of workshops, King’s Park will also host a parent workshop. This is your opportunity to share in your child’s learning and to develop some of the skills that they will have developed during these workshops. An invitation will follow.

   

  You can watch a video of the children singing a song in sign language by clicking here link

   

• Annual Charity Event - Readathon

  Wed 13 Feb 2019

  This year's charity event will be a Readathon and will run from Monday 25th February until Thursday 7th March.  Our main chosen charities this year are:  Air Ambulance NI, RNIB, Reach and a small number of other charities: The Wings Appeal, The Poppy Appeal, RNLI and Guide Dogs.

   

  Children will be sponsored to participate in various reading activities in school and at home during the sponsorship period, with the event finishing on World Book Day, Thursday 7th March, when children should bring in their favourite book and dress up as their favourite book character.

   

  Sponsorship forms will be sent home with the children or can be found by clicking here 'newsletters'.

   

   

  

• Stormont Cross Country event

  Mon 11 Feb 2019 KM

  STORMONT CROSS COUNTRY SATURDAY 9^TH FEBRUARY 2019

   

  Congratulations to King’s Park Girls’ Cross Country Team who won the Stormont Cross Country event Primary age category.

  The team finished as winners by 6 points ahead of two athletics clubs. There were 17 teams entered in all and included a mixture of athletics clubs and Primary schools.

   

  Stand out performer was Nicole Penny who was our first girl home, finishing in 15^th place.

  Special mentions also go to Alex Kerr and Leah Balfour who finished 16^th and 18^th respectively.

  

• Abaana New Life Choir

  Fri 08 Feb 2019
  The Abaana New Life Choir are in Northern Ireland  for the next few weeks,  performing at various venues.  They will be in Shankill Parish Church on Saturday 9th February and St. John's Parish, Moira on Wednesday 20th February.  For other concert dates visit www.abaana.org/choirdates.

• Cross Country Northern Ireland Finals

  Tue 05 Feb 2019 KM

  Both Girls' and Boys' teams represented King's Park in the Flahavan's Northern Ireland Cross Country Finals on Wednesday 30th January at The Billy Neill Centre in Belfast.

  Congratulations to the girls team who came in second to a very strong Stranmillis team and to the boys who came in 5th.

  A special mention has to go to Ellie Cousins who came in second place. Other top placed girls were Alex Kerr (P6) who came in 13th and Leah Balfour (P6) who came in 21st.

  The girls are the 2018.19 Southern Area Champions by a huge margin for the 4th year in a row.

  

• Sustrans Hi-Vis Jackets

  Fri 01 Feb 2019

  Sustrans kindly donated hi-vis sleeveless jackets for all children in P1-P7. Hopefully this will encourage the children to ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’ during the dark evenings.

   

   

  

• Netball

  Fri 01 Feb 2019

  King’s Park are pleased to be hosting a mini netball tournament involving local schools on Wednesday 27^th February.

• Water Talk

  Fri 01 Feb 2019

  Northern Ireland Water came in to talk to all of the classes about saving water and being safe around the installation of new water pipes, which will be taking place in local areas.