Merit Badge Winners 25 October

P4 Mr Eves

Cerys and Luca for working very well in pairs to create a book about Uranus on the iPad .

 P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith

Naomi for writing an informative space acrostic poem.

Rob for making a great start to T U adding with exchanging.

P4 Mrs McKeown 

Ella Rose for working hard in her grammar work, identifying proper names correctly.

Freddy for working hard at his maths test even in the parts that were challenging. 

 P5 Mrs Curran

Adam for excellent problem solving.

Erin for writing a fabulous story about her 'Missing Teacher!' Erin's work was perfectly punctuated and beautifully presented.

P5 Mr McConnell 

Oliver and Benjamin Crowe for excellent USA state presentations. Both boys put in lots of effort and produced excellent posters. Well done boys!

P5 Mrs Brown Darcy and Finn for excellent projects on their chose USA state.

P6 Mrs Eves 

Emma and George for excellent work classifying triangles.

P6 Mrs Hart 

James for writing all his literacy activities in pen.

Joshua for increased effort and completing a greater amount of work in the given time.

P7 Mrs Clarke 

Molly and Georgie for producing excellent story boards on the final chapter of The Iron Man.

 P7 Miss McGuile

Christian for an amazing drawing of the Titanic Museum.

Georgia for super hockey skills during PE lessons

Posted on October 25, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

James in contention for BMX title...


Since joining Lisburn BMX Club in May 2017 James has caught the bug and started competing within a month. He has raced in the Irish summer series and the Ulster summer series and went on to come 1st in his category at the Ulster Championships. James has since been nominated for Best Newcomer in Ireland by BMX Ireland at their annual awards event coming up in a few weeks.

What a great achievement James, WELL DONE!

Posted on October 16, 2017 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Stars of the Week 11 October 2017

P1 Mrs Fulton: Conor for trying hard to share with others and for lovely work in class.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Mya for excellent work and behaviour.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Peter for having a great attitude to school!

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Katie for fantastic balance and control when using the large equipment.

Miss Dobbin: Daisy for doing great adding!

P3 Mr Atcheson: Lexi for fantastic creative writing in the class topic, 'Once Upon a Time.'

P3 Mrs Gibson: Jayden for writing fantastic stories.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Mollie for trying very hard to complete her work in the given time. Well done Mollie!

Posted on October 11, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Stars of the Week 4 October

P1 Mrs Fulton: Blake for being so careful with all his work. Blake colours in so neatly – like a big P2!

P1 Mrs Elliott: Alex for being a kind and helpful boy.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Tate for always being enthusiastic and he has a BIG smile on his face each day!

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Aminah- Grace for developing her confidence to walk along the climbing frame by herself. She didn’t give up!

Miss Dobbin: Sophia for trying to write by herself. Sophia for trying to write by herself.

P3 Mr Atcheson: Mia for super work in her spelling activities.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Riley for painting a wonderful Tinkerbell. Mrs Gibson loved all the glitter!

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Maia for making a beautiful feelings flower.

 

 

Posted on October 4, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Merit Badge Winners 4 October

P4 Mr Eves

Lexi and Lucas for super recount writing on their first trip to swimming lessons.

 P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith

Roo for making a great start to swimming.

Ander for a great September in P4. Ander has worked consistently well and has been a great helper around the room.

P4 Mrs McKeown 

Mollie for working hard at counting up coins.

Reid for identifying proper nouns and giving them capital letters in his grammar work. 

 P5 Mrs Curran

Aleyna and James for fantastic research on their minibeast topic.

P5 Mr McConnell 

Jack for displaying excellent problem solving skills.

Lilly for excellent research on millipedes!

P5 Mrs Brown Fionnbharr and Dylan for super work in problem solving.

P6 Mrs Eves 

Eva for a fantastic 'Marvellous and Fantastic Dream Story!'.

Zach for excellent attention to detail in telling the time and time duration word problems.

P6 Mrs Hart 

Ellie for working hard in class and completing a super Time Duration activity.

Oliver for writing a fabulous poem about flying a kite.

P7 Mrs Clarke 

Abbie for writing a super description of the Space Bat Angel Dragon from the Iron Man novel.

Blayney for great use of Pic College to create a Selfie Poster.

 P7 Miss McGuile

Niamh and Zach for great squared and triangular number work.

Posted on October 4, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Stars of the Week 27 September

P1 Mrs Fulton: Cara is a great listener.She is always so helpful at tidy up time.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Calvin for making Mrs Elliott smile every day as he is so well behaved and kind.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Elsa is an absolute star! She always tries her best.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Erin for settling into her new school brilliantly and working really hard.

Miss Dobbin: Noah for being a great listener and working really hard!

P3 Mr Atcheson: Charlie for being a great role model in the class and always listening so well.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Ethan for being very helpful.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Jackson for excellent acting as Jesus in his class assembly.

Posted on September 27, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Stars of the Week 20 September

P1 Mrs Fulton: Carl for fantastic number work. Carl can make a brilliant play dough number 4!

P1 Mrs Elliott: Ethan for settling into school so well.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Finn is an absolute star. He listens so carefully, I well behaved and a good friend.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Lacey for writing independently.

Miss Dobbin: Sophia for writing fabulous detailed sentences all by herself.

P3 Mr Atcheson: Emma for great use of capital letter for a person's name.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Zac for being a ST*R! Zac works really hard, he listens well and also walks really well along the corridor.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Lori works really hard to complete her work all by herself.

Posted on September 20, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Merit Badge Winners 20 September

P4 Mr Eves

Alana for superb work in the ICT Suite understanding and using Word to type a poem and format it.

Joshua for working hard in Numeracy. Joshua has made a great effort to understand clocks and adding Tens and Unites in practical maths.

 P4 Mrs McCartney & Mrs Smith

Logan for concentrating hard to make a poster about Neptune.

Daisy for making a lovely planet picture with oil pastels.

P4 Mrs McKeown 

Mason for working in class especially on adding and taking away 10 when working with Mrs Harper.

Anna for great dictionary work, looking up and finding the definition of unfamiliar words.

 P5 Mrs Curran

Jemima for being a great ‘Questioning Queen’ in her class reciprocal reading task.

Thomas for quick recall of his number facts.

P5 Mr McConnell 

Grace for learning her times tables so well.

Thomas for always working hard and demonstrating good manners in class.

P5 Mrs Brown 

Matthew and Holly for super work on problem solving.

P6 Mrs Eves 

Oliver for excellent work on factors.

Erin for excellent thorough work, finding all the factors of larger numbers.

P6 Mrs Hart 

Jamie for completing a great amount of work in the given time.

Lottie for using excellent verbs and adjectives during her Literacy activities.

P7 Mrs Clarke 

Sam and Danny for showing great thinking skills in their class Investigation.

 P7 Miss McGuile

Jake and Skye for brilliant listening skills during their PE lesson. They both took part enthusiastically.

 

 

 

Posted on September 20, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Stars of the Week 13 September

P1 Mrs Fulton: Rene for a beautiful smile all the time! Rene has also made lots of friends in P1! 

P1 Mrs Elliott: Ella for being such a kind and helpful girl in class.                 

P1 Miss Armstrong: Leon for excellent listening and being so well behaved.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Charlotte for brilliant listening and great work.

 Miss Dobbin:  Jacob for using lovely manners.

P3 Mr Atcheson: Elis for working really hard on his handwriting.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Ben for working really hard on his numberwork.                       

 P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Lucy for writing lots of independent sentences in her ‘All about me’ book.

Posted on September 13, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Stars of the Week 6 September

P1 Mrs Fulton: Taylor for lovely polite manners and for being an amazing listener in P1!

P1 Mrs Elliott:  Natasha for bringing lots of lovely items in for her class ‘s’ sound table and also being such a good girl in class.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Willow for beautiful manners and listening so carefully. 

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Ruby for writing brilliant sentences by herself!

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Esther for writing lots of sentences about her summer holiday!

P3 Mr Atcheson : Bea for great work in Maths. Bea has completed super ordering of numbers and recognising odd and even numbers.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Chloe for fabulous ‘joined up’ writing when completing her spellings using glitter and glue.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Bihan for settling in so well to P3 Room 7 and doing fabulous work.

Posted on September 6, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Merit Badge Winners 6 September

P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.

Esme for settling in very well to P4 and working very hard.

Nathan for working quickly and quietly with great enthusiasm.

Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney    

Lucas for sharing great facts about Space and for bringing in a book about Space.

Lily for showing kindness to others in her class.    

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown

Carling for beautiful joined writing when practising her spelling pattern.

Lucas for his good hard working attitude and trying his best. What a great start to P4!

P5 Room 5 Miss Riddell / Mrs Curran

Loic for settling in really well to his new school.

Ella for sharing super facts about her new topic on minibeasts.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell

Max for settling in so well in Primary 5.

Daanyaal for giving great suggestions during class discussion.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown

Domhnall and Nina- Grace for settling in so well to their new school.

P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves

Casey for neat presentation of her written work.

Finley for dusting off the cobwebs and remembering subtraction rules!

P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart

Ben for settling well into Primary 6 and trying his best.

Elsa for outstanding work in the first week of Primary 6.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke

Jack for settling quickly into the new school year producing some great joined handwriting.

Alana for some great answers in her comprehension on the duck billed platypus.
P7 Room 10 Miss McGuile

Kristian for an amazing improvement in the presentation of his work.

Rebecca for being a fantastic friend.

 

 

Posted on September 6, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Ella is 'Top of the World' !

During the summer Ella took part in the UDO World Street Dance Championships.Her team, the lil Playaz, scooped 1st place in the Under 14 category. They were up against forty two other teams from all around the world! 

What a fantastic result.WEL DONE ELLA, we are very proud of you!

 

 

 

Posted on September 4, 2017 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Terrific Trio take top prize!

CONGRATULATIONS! We were delighted to hear that Nina, Grace and Megan competed as a Trio recently. They represented Queens Gymnastics Club at Belvoir Activity Centre. All their hard work and practising paid off! 
They came first and all received gold medals 🥇🥇🥇

Posted on August 31, 2017 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Pupils of the Term 3

Abbie for being a super Buddy and takes real interest in the children. She organises and plays games with them too.

 

Bryn (P5) has been a great friend to one of his classmates. Bryn has encouraged him to join in with others when they are doing activities in class and when playing in the playground too. 

Flora (P7) has been so good with the P1 children. She always asked what she could do to help.

Harrison (P5) has been very kind and helpful in the Dining Hall. One day he also helped a younger child to their feet when they had fallen over. 

Darcy (P6) had found money in the playground. He immediately picked it up and gave it to Mrs Nelson. The money stayed in the safe for months and was unclaimed. Honesty is definitely the best policy! Well done Darcy! 

Lottie (P5) has been so helpful in the Breakfast Club since she has been there. Mrs Forster really appreciated everything she did.Thanks Lottie! 

Abbie for being a super Buddy and takes real interest in the children. She organises and plays games with them too.

Paige (P5) for being so well behaved and polite all the time in the Dining Hall. Well done and thank you Paige. 

Posted on June 30, 2017 and filed under Term Superstars.

Stars of the Week 14 June

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P1 Mrs Donald: Lucy for remembering so many reading words in her class quiz.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Caleb for speaking so well in his class Assembly.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Olivia for trying to write stories independently.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Jessica for much improved throwing during PE.

                             Mia for great reading.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Missy for an excellent effort and improvement when reading and writing independently.

                                 Evie for always doing brilliant work.

P2 Mrs Curran: Holly for always doing her best in everything she does.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Toby for working very hard on his handwriting.

P3 Mrs Fulton:  Logan for brilliant work making sets of 5. Well done Logan!

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Alana  for being very helpful for Mrs Shimmin.

Posted on June 15, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Merit Badge Winners 7 June

P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney        

Roger is always very helpful, friendly and mannerly.

Connor for working really hard and making a greater effort to improve his spellings.                                            

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown

Noah for giving an Italian accent a go when practising for his class assembly!

Ella for creating a colourful, informative Safe in the Sun poster with Ruby.


P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.

Benjamin C for helping others when he finishes his work and also for being so well mannered and polite.

Amelia for producing a very creative snake skin pattern during her class Hot Lands Activity Based Learning activities.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell

Taylor for displaying excellent ICT skills when using Desktop Publisher.

Benjamin for writing a very funny story during creative writing.


P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown

Jamie for giving a very good class talk on his holiday.

Joshua for giving a very informative talk on cricket.


P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke

Louis for giving an interesting class talk on cooking.

Jack for giving an interesting class talk on cricket.


P6 Room 10 Miss McGuile

Brodie & Claire for a great class talk on their hobbies!

P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves

Josua for great European mapwork.

Ryan for excellent quality control over the class keyring production.


P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart

Jake & Sam for both coping extremely well in class and never complaining after having two very bad breaks from playing football!

Posted on June 7, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Stars of the Week 5 June

P1 Mrs Donald: Charlie for learning how to add two numbers together.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Ciara for writing a fantastic book about cats.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Louis for fantastic writing about his holiday.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Marcie for doing really tricky adding and subtracting numberwork.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Ariana for amazing creative writing. A brilliant story about an enormous pumpkin.

P2 Mrs Curran:  Mollie for super sentences about caring for plants AND trying really hard to finish her work on time.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Roo for fabulous number work.

P3 Mrs Fulton: Minnie for trying really hard when working with change from £1.00 and doing it so well. Well done Minnie!

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Laurie for really beautiful presentation of all her work.

Posted on June 5, 2017 and filed under Stars of the Week.