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St. Clare’s Primary School Receive Prestigious Green Flag Award From Eco-Schools NI

Dear Parents,

This week in St. Clare’s we are delighted to have received our third internationally recognised Eco-Schools Green Flag Award. The Eco-Schools award programme, which is run by Tidy NI, encourages schools all over Northern Ireland to address a variety of environmental issues, ranging from biodiversity and litter to transport, which was our focus for this year.

How did St. Clare’s Primary School achieve ‘Green Flag’ status?

We worked very hard in our school to achieve this great award. We did things such as making a few girls out of each class a member of our Eco-Council. We met with Miss Mc Shane each week to work on achieving the things set out in our action plan. We also met with the Eco-Council each half term to discuss our progress and consult them on any action which needed to be taken.

In addition, we also did our litter log once a month and refurbished God’s Garden and around the school with Mrs Rafferty. This year we also participated in the Environmental Youth Speak and did very well.
Mr Murphy was very helpful in advising us about how to dispose of our rubbish correctly. We are now really good at recycling properly.

In February we took part in the Translink Travel Challenge which encouraged us to travel less in our cars and more on foot and on the bus. The Eco-Schools assessors were very impressed with our results.

This year we also had a very successful bird watching season. We noted down how many of each bird we saw in our school grounds and made a pictogram of our results. More recently we have been planting lettuce which we shall be eating as part of a delicious Eco-Council summer salad celebration in June. We can’t wait to taste food which we have grown ourselves!

All of these things helped us to get our third Green Flag. We are very proud of our award and we can't wait to see our Green Flag flying high in our school.

Thank you to everyone who helped us to achieve our award.

To find out more visit the Eco Schools website.

http://www.eco-schoolsni.org/

Yours sincerely,

The Eco – Council 2013

The school holidays for 2013 / 2014 have been added to the calendar above and are also available in "Letters" under the Parents' menu.

Dyslexia Friendly School Charter mark:

Earlier this term we had a verification visit from the British Dyslexia Association. Lessons were observed, staff, pupils and parents were interviewed and results were analysed. We were informed by the assessor that our work was most impressive and have been awarded the British Dyslexia Association Dyslexia Friendly charter mark. This is a huge achievement for St Clare’s as very few schools in NI have gained the award. We are deeply committed to helping our pupils with Dyslexia and have worked for 3 years to improve our skills and knowledge. It was very affirming to have our practice hailed by the external experts in this field, and our pupils with Dyslexia, through their determination and work ethic, are a source of great pride to us all.

March News from P1

Dearbhla - I went to see the parade with my daddy on St. Patrick’s Day in Newry, I saw a man dressed up as St. Patrick.

Rhiannan – I watched my brother in the parade.

Eabha – I went to the parade too and I saw a big octopus and a giant.

Caitlin – I was in the newspaper with my brother for St. Patrick’s Day.

Lara – I saw a real life horse in the parade, I love horses, and they are my favourite animals.

Jasmine – we wore green clothes in school.

Eabha – we went to a bun sale over in the hall, the P7s were selling the buns. I bought marshmallow buns and a drink.

Tara-Rose – we had a Celi, it was so much fun, the teachers and Miss Vardy were dancing. Some of the big girls did Irish dancing. Miss O’Hanlon taught us to sing ‘Molly Malone’ and “I’ll tell my ma”.

Kelsey – we made green St. Patrick’s day cards and shamrock badges.

Alanna – we made little boxes and decorated them for Mother’s day, we put in some tissue paper and a chocolate inside for our mummy.

Tara – I made a beautiful card for my mummy, on the front was a picture of my mummy, I gave her black hair and purple earrings, purple is her favourite colour. My mummy thought her card was fabulous.

Katie – A policewoman visited our classroom. She told us to be safe and to shout `NO` to strangers.

Rhiannan – we dressed up for world book day.

Neila – The P.5’s came down to our classroom to read us a story.

We said farewell to Miss Patterson, she taught us during March. Now she has gone back to study at College. Thank you Miss Patterson, we will miss you a lot. On Miss Patterson’s last day she brought some chicks to our classroom.

Zuzanna – the chicks were in a box, there was little holes on the top of the box.

Mia – there were five chicks, they were very small, they were walking about on the mat.

Eabha- there was one black chick, three yellow chicks and one brown chick.

Our Merit Award winners for March were; Klaudia for being Forgiving, Jasmine for being Polite and Neila for being Respectful.

A big Happy 5th Birthday to Rhiannan, Eabha, Lara, Julia and Zuzanna, all these girls celebrated their birthday in March.

April News from P1/2

This Month, Samanta won the polite award. Erika was a very responsible girl and Grace H was very respectful.

Eileen is now 6 years old. She had a lovely birthday cake and had a party on the same day as her brother’s Confirmation.

I went to the circus, a clown asked me to come into the ring. I got to ride a horse. I wasn't afraid, I was good. Grace H

I went for a walk in the forest. I went exploring and I saw a rabbit. I think it was an Easter bunny. Grace M

I went to the circus. I saw the ringmaster. I saw a girl acrobat. I got pink candyfloss. It was great fun. Emily

My granny got me new shoes. They are sparkly yellow and pink and they light up! Abi

I played with my sister on my holidays. Oliwia

I went to Kilbroney Park. I went on a dangerous roundabout and you have to stand up on it. There are swings and slides in the park. Aoife

I went to the circus with my family. Eileen

My daddy made room in the garden for me and my sisters to run and skip. He had to chop the swings down. Grace H

I like using the instruments during music time. Weronika

I came first in Newry feis for saying my poem. I also had to go to the winner’s night on Friday. We went to watch the P7 play about Alice in wonderland and then I read the story of Alice in wonderland on the ipad. Emily

I like playing with Roksana and colouring in. Julia

I can count to 20 and I can do sums. Erika

I know lots of shapes, circles, triangles, stars and squares. I made a giraffe in playtime out of boxes, toilet rolls and wool for the hair. Oliwia

I am good at doing my sums. I know the numbers up to 50. Samanta

We count up to 20 and put the right number of cubes on the number line. Emily

I was good at doing my writing. I did lots. Eileen

I like learning my sounds on the ipad. Roksana

I made a big map for pirates with my friends. I wrote the labels to put on the map. Aoife

Daddy got me a trampoline for my garden. I wrote a sentence about my trampoline. Olivia

I wrote sentences with Miss Kavanagh about animals. Chelsea

We drew things in our books that began with Z. Tamara

Well done to the girls who participated in Newry Feis. Every girl was wonderful and we are very proud of you.

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