The recipe was:
1/2 Cup Salt
1/2 Cup Water
1 Cup of Flour
and about 5 mins in the micro.
Ready to hang.
Our finished decorations.
The recipe was:
1/2 Cup Salt
1/2 Cup Water
1 Cup of Flour
and about 5 mins in the micro.
The recipe was:
1/2 Cup Salt
1/2 Cup Water
1 Cup of Flour
and about 5 mins in the micro.
Its Christmasssssssssssssss!!!!!
Today we made salt dough decorations. We'll paint them and add some glitter tomorrow.
A Prickly Business.
We had a visit today from T.A.C.T. Wildlife Centre when we met Becky the Ferrit, Fudge the Rabbit, Spike the Hedgehog, PK the Owl and Linnie the Fox.
Pedaling for Pudsey.
The Children are having a Sponsored 'Pedal in the Playground' this year for Children in Need.
A special BIG THANK YOU to Claire's mum for knitting 52 Pudseys for the school to sell and put towards our total raised.
Thank you Phyllis!
A special BIG THANK YOU to Claire's mum for knitting 52 Pudseys for the school to sell and put towards our total raised.
Thank you Phyllis!
Halloween Delivery.
Winnie the Witch stopped off on her Broomstick this morning to deliver the Pumpkins for this weeks 'Pumpkin Hunt'.
A Visit from Jim.
Newry artist Jim Russell spent an afternoon with us for In Service Training 'Supporting Young Children's Creative and Aesthetic Development'. He showed us how to utilise plasticine and paper modelling to support spontaneous learning from the children.
WE'RE BACK!
Everyone's refreshed and ready to go after the summer break. Our Summer Scheme ran from the end of June to the end of July and once again proved extremely popular. The school was also rewired and new automatic lighting installed both inside and out. That's about all the biz but there's plenty planned so keep checking.
Totem Pole
One of our projects came to fruition this week with the assembly and placement of a Totem Pole in the ground to the front of the school. This was a project funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and completed by the children and parents with the help of the artist Katie Blue.
Messy but Good!
Todays Art Activty with our new paint balls. Needless to say a huge hit with the children!
Best Kept School Awards
We were pleased to be Awarded Runner Up in the Best Kept School Awards, Pre-Primary category. In the last nine years since we have been entering the competition we have won it three times and been Runner Up the remainder, a record we are very proud of. The Best Kept Awards, in conjunction with SupaValu, judged in April and the awards were presented this month. The judges comments were:
'This school never fails to impress with its range of iniatives and the appearence of new features every year.'
Award of £2500 from EAGA
Energy efficiency company EAGA has given us £2500 towards buildng proper vegetable beds in our garden.
Lisa who was presented with the cheque explained that 'Activities like this help the development of the children across a broad range of skills'.
'They learn maths and science through the maintenance of the vegetable garden and even at this young age we broach topics like photosynthesis'.
'Problem solving is a big part of activity too – like learning how to distribute the vegetables evenly around the garden so they grow to the best of standards'.
'Our school has been carrying out activities like this for a while on an ad-hoc basis – for example we've grown potatoes in pots and sacks, but this gives us the chance to really implement a proper structured programme'.
Lisa also stressed the importance of the project to the family lives of the children, saying 'Parents are invited to help harvest the vegetables and we produce a special pack with nutritional and environmental information which helps life long learning at home'.
A big thank you to EAGA for their responsible approach to helping us develop our vegetable garden. In these times of difficulty for the private sector they provide a great example of corporate social responsibility in action.
Doing our bit for the BEES
These are some of the Alliums we have in our flower bed along the front of our Fairy Forest. They're reckoned to be pretty rich in nectar so hopefully will encourage some Bees, which seem to be in short supply of at the moment.
Little Green Fingers
The pupils are starting to reap their rewards from our new vegetable beds. We planted beans, cauliflowers (above), lettuce, radishes and potatoes. So far we have have picked some lettuce and the radishes.
When it came to the eating the pupils preferred the radishes to the lettuce.
