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

FOUNDATION P1 and P2

Overall Winner: _Levi Banks_

Key Stage 1- (P3, P4) Overall Winner Austin Gault

CLASS WINNERS

Key Stage 2 P5, 6 & 7

Overall Winner Joy McGuigan

CLASS WINNERS

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.

Congratulations to the boys' team AND the girls' team, who both won their area tournaments and will now participate in the National Futsal Finals during Easter.

This is the second year in a row the boys have won and a first for the girls.

Girls team: Hannah, Tilly, Ellie, Emma, Grace, Amelia and Chloe

Boys team: Luke, James, Alex, Caleb, David, Rhys and Dean. 

Well done to all!

Our Charity Day is on the Wednesday 21st March.

Sponsor forms have been sent home to raise money for the chosen charities. Thank you for all your support!

Girls Hockey - A Team

We played our final league match at home against Carrick PS on Monday 12^th March. We had some great play from the defence and midfield, with great balls coming through from Hannah Whaley and Haydn McKinley to the attackers. We scored our first 2 goals in quick succession, by Emma Latimer. After half time we kept our formation well, and another 2 goals came from Chloe Gordon, and another from Grace Cochrane. This 5-0 win has set us up well for our next tournament - the NI Qualifying Tournament that is on next Wednesday 21^st March.

Team – Chloe Gordon (C), Tilly Douglas, Haydn McKinley, Hannah Whaley, Kate Holmes, Grace Cochrane, Alex Kerr, Emma Latimer

Girls’ hockey B team match report:

On Monday 5^th March, the B Team played a match against Waringstown Primary School. Ellie Cousins scored the first goal in the first half. This was followed by 2 goals from Kate Holmes in the second half. The score was a 3 - 2 win to King’s Park. The B team was Brooke Armstrong, Grace McNeill, Sophie Tate, Abbie Knox, Miriam Latiff, Kate Holmes, Ellie Cousins, Aimee Brown and Victoria Alexander. Well done girls!