Let your creative streak run wild and come up with a bright and colourful design that will stand out from the crowd for a new shopping bag.
ParentNI are running our very popular Back To Basics Anxiety with Julie who is an expert in the field of children. Julie will focus on Parents/Carers anxiety and how this is projected onto their children along with their children’s anxiety and the best to communicate. For more information click here.
Dear Parent,
If you have any younger children who will be requiring a pre school or primary school place in September 2021, the deadline for making an application via the Education Authority is this Friday, January 29 at noon. If you know of any other families with children who will be starting school this September, particularly those who may not have access to social media, could we ask that you let them know of the importance of making an application. The Education Authority has help desk emails and phone numbers should there be any queries. These are listed below along with the link for making an online application. Online Application: https://pupilservices.eani.org.uk/CitizenPortal_LIVE/en
Admissions Helpdesk: 028 9598 5595
Email: preschooladmissions@eani.org.uk or primaryadmissions@eani.org.uk
Kilrea Library is open for a Book and Collect Service.
The website is kept up-to-date with dates and times. https://www.librariesni.org.uk/
The Book and Collect Service enables you to phone your local library to request a selection of books and arrange a contactless collection.
Johnny from Sustrans has shared his latest home learning activity, the ‘Wellbeing Wander’. It is is designed to help children and families to make time for their mental and physical health, which will take them outside for some exercise and to complete three short sensory tasks.
We are aware that remote learning places additional burdens on the use of IT equipment for all families. We are delighted to let you know that following a successful application, Rasharkin Primary School has been given thirty free data SIMs to help with this. The SIM cards have 30GB of data, which is valid for 90 days from activation. These can be used on some ‘smart’ laptops’ or can be inserted into a mobile phone to then ‘tether’ laptop off. If you feel this is something your family could use please contact Mrs R. Howe to arrange for collection. SIMS will be allocated on a first come basis.
The EA scheme which offers Chromebook on loan to children in P4 & P7 is still open for applications (contact Mrs R. Howe for more information). An application has also been made to the Causeway Coast and Glens COVID-19 Support fund to purchase devices that could be offered on loan to children in other year groups. More information will follow if it is successful.
RISENI helpsheet for parents is available here.
With children and young people relying on their tech at home for learning and entertainment during lockdown, it remains vital to keep conversations about online safety going and raise awareness of reporting routes if something goes wrong.
Thinkuknow have provided these resources to help parents and carers to support their child at home.
Simple 15 minute activities families can do to support their child's online safety at home. Packs are available for ages 4 to 14+. Parents can also watch our video guides on different online safety topics.
Pat from Sentinus came to school this morning to share a robotics session with children in P6 and P7. The children had to programme robotic cars to travel up a race track to the finish line, making sure the distances and turns were correct. They all had a lot of fun programming and testing their robots and making adjustments to keep the robots on the track.
RACE WINNERS
James, Thomas and Archie
2ND PLACE
Annie and Molly
Have a look at some of the lovely Christmas pictures taken at our Virtual concert. You can view the video on VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT BLOG and also here.
Congratulations to Mason, Robin and Harry who received Reading Eggs Certificates (Missing from picture Sophia P4)
Katie and Hollie received certificates for Reading Eggspress.
As you all know 2020 has been a very different year for all of us. This has been especially noticeable in school, in the run up to Christmas. However we have tried to make our children’s Christmas experience as normal as possible with parties, films treats etc.
We are delighted that we were able to have a VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT in our class bubbles. Thank you to all the teachers for making this possible. A special thanks to Mrs Calderwood for her work in music lessons over the past month preparing the music for the concert.
Also a big thank you to Mrs Henry for filming the class performances and then putting it all together in this video. We hope you enjoy it.
Congratulations to Izabelle who received her Accelerated Reading Certificate today
The Headteacher Awards for November and December were awarded in Assembly today.
P1 and P Winners
Archie P1 - Being Kind and Caring
Harvey P2 - Being Creative
Toby P2 - Super Maths Facts (Tables)
P3 Winners
Harry - Being Kind and Caring
Evie - Being Motivated and Enthusiastic
Charlie - Super Maths Facts (Tables)
Kevin - Being Creative (Missing from picture)
If your child didn’t get a Reading Eggs or Reading Eggspress certificate in assembly, this might be something they could do over the Christmas holidays. If you have forgotten the log in information please contact your class teacher.
Certificates are awarded slightly differently in each programme.
At the end of each map on Reading Eggs, the students will have to complete a quiz. In order to pass the quiz and progress on to the next map, they will need to gain 11 out of 15 correct answers.
They will then receive a certificate dependant on their result, as outlined below:
Gold Certificate - 14+ out of 15 correct answers
Silver Certificate - 12 to 13 out of 15 correct answers
Bronze Certificate - 11 out of 15 correct answers
Pupils can earn multiple certificates a week, depending on how many end of map quizzes they complete.
Reading Eggspress works slightly differently, as their certificates are based on how many Eggs earned, not correct answers in the quizzes.
1000 Eggs per week - 1 Bronze Medal
Once the have 5 Bronze Medals - they'll achieve 1 Silver Medallion
Once they have 3 Silver Medallions - they'll achieve 1 Gold Trophy
Please note: Within Reading Eggspress, students will have a quiz after every lesson and will need to receive 80% to move on to the following lesson. If a student mentions that they are stuck on a level, this is usually why.
Reading Eggspress pupils can only earn one certificate per week.
The Headteacher Awards for November and December were awarded in Assembly today.
P4 and P5 Winners
Dan P5 - Super Maths Facts (Tables)
Beth P4 - Being Creative
Mark P4 - Being Motivated & Enthusiastic
Isaac P5 - Being kind and Caring
P6 and P7 Winners
Ewan P6, Sam P6, Lucy C P7, Susanna P7 - Super Maths Facts (Tables)
Poppy P6 - Being Creative
Molly P7 - Being Motivated and Enthusiastic
Alexander P6 - Being Kind and Caring
Congratulations to Emma P6 who was the winner of the Accelerated Reading Cup for this half term.
P6 and P7 have been working hard this half term to achieve their Accelerated Reading targets. Well done everyone.
Mark in P4 and Robin P4 received lunctime awards for ‘Good Behaviour’.
Oliver P7 - I used lovely manners today
Thomas P6 - Good behaviour and eating well
