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First Communion and Confirmation

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Published: Tuesday, 01 May 2018 20:27

Family, friends and school staff gathered together at St Paul’s Church to celebrate the First Communion and Confirmation of some of our Junior School pupils.

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Father Wright welcomed us and our friends from Ceara School for a beautiful service.

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Class 6 Update - March 2018

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Published: Monday, 09 April 2018 17:06

This month we have been learning about the different food groups and how these foods are good for our body.

We made delicious toasties for sandwich day which were a big hit! We have also made shortbread, banana oat cookies, and Lucky Charm buns for St. Patricks Day.

This month we have celebrated 2 birthdays, Daniel turned 9 and Morgan turned 10. Happy birthday!!!

We had lots of fun on Green day, eating green food and dancing at the disco. We have had lots of fun engaging Spring and Easter themed fine motor tasks.

Our favourite activity this month was making funny fruit faces in art, we had a real giggle mixing and matching different eyes, mouths and noses on the fruit faces. We have also been reading the Supertato stories and we even made our own Supertatos and evil peas...mwahahaha!!

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Charity Juice and Jive!

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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:59

There was a sea of green on St Patrick’s Day for our Charity ‘Juice and Jive’. Pupils in both junior and senior school came together for a shared fruity break and then boogied at the jive disco. A grand total of XXXX was raised for The Barnardo’s Charity. Thank you all for your kind donations.

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Yoga Workshops

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Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:57

A series of yoga workshops have started for both Junior and senior school. They have been funded by ‘Extended Schools” and are being led by Mrs Blanche Thompson. Blanche’s training is in Yoga for Children with Special Needs. These support our other ongoing initiatives to improve health and wellbeing for all our pupils.

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BBC School Report

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Published: Tuesday, 13 March 2018 09:36

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BBC News School Report gives 11-18 year-old students in the UK the chance to make their own news reports for a real audience. This Year we have chosen to report on our Eco-School Project – The Grassroots Challenge.

Take a look at this year’s BBC News Report.

If you want to have a look at other school reports and to see our own on the BBC website follow this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41775798 

 

Our Work this Month with The Ulster Wildlife Trust

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Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:58

Another great month’s work with The Ulster Wildlife Trust.

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The pupils have been very industrious making bird boxes and bird feeders. They enjoyed hanging up the feeders on trees within our grounds, ready for hungry birds during the winter months. Everyone was very excited when we had a visit from a barn owl and a hedgehog. We have created a hedgehog home in some bushes. We made clay models of the little hedgehog that visited. The pupils also learned about mini-beasts. We went on a mini-beast scavenger hunt and made a mini-beast hotel from wooden crates and logs. Hopefully will have some wildlife visiting Donard School very soon!

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Extended Schools – Sibling’s Group

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Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:55

Our sibling’s group has been a great success.

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The siblings have created masterpieces with Mount Ida Pottery, played games to get to know each other and had a ‘snowball fight’ to tell each other what they enjoyed. We look forward to seeing the group again on 28th February for a drumming workshop.

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