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 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.

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.

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 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.

 

 

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

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.

On Wednesday the girls A team played two league matches against Armstrong and Maralin.  The Kings' Park girls put on strong performances in both matches and were duly rewarded with two great 5-0 wins!

 

Against Armstrong, Alex Kerr bagged a hat-trick whilst Millie Dowds put two in the net.  Despite the score line, Armstrong did battle hard but the Kings' Park defence were just too good.

 

Against Maralin, Kings' Park got off to a great start with an early goal from Alex Kerr.  Maralin created a few opportunities but all were again denied by an strong defence.  Emma Latimer got goal number two just before half time.  The second half saw goals from Chloe Gordon, Ellie Cousins and Emma Latimer got her second. 

 

Well done girls!