A big thank you to Fiona Shannon who took P7s for their first handball coaching session. P7AL were mastering their underarm passes and getting familiar with the rules of handball. The class are so excited to continue their coaching over the next six weeks!
Our talented P7 classes have been hard at work creating stunning Christmas centrepieces to sell as part of their Apprentice topic 💫
They collected jars, handcrafted the centrepieces and sold their artwork all to raise funds for school trips later in the year. Well done P7! 👏
P7AL embarked on an historical educational trip to the Down County Museum where they immersed themselves in the mysteries of the Stone Age, exploring artefacts, handling ancient weapons and embracing the role of archaeologists in a hands-on learning experience 🔍
The outdoor classroom became a culinary hub as P7AL enthusiastically crafted vegetable soup, showcasing their teamwork and culinary skills. We used our practical experience to create some fantastic posters that included features of our persuasive writing genre. ✍️ 📚
To celebrate Maths Week, pupils from Red High brought some maths challenges for us to have a go at!
All of the P7s were so engaged and worked so well with the Red High pupils and their brilliant problem-solving activities 👏🏻
The P7s worked hard this week to create their very own board games for the P4 classes. Our board game theme was Shape and Space. P7AL designed some very innovative and creative board games, the P4s had a great time!
Today we celebrated World Mental Health day! We all wore something yellow and raised awareness for AwareNI - mental health charity.
We took 10 minutes at 10am to read our class novel together. This gave us time to talk and discuss the book with each other, time to relax and escape into a great story. After our webinar with Susie Dent, we discovered that research has shown that when you read and write positive words more frequently, this can positively impact your mindset.
We also had an Adobe Express Live Lesson in which we made posters using 'Adobe Create' to spread awareness of mental health and the importance of keeping a healthy, happy mind.
To mark Dyslexia Awareness Week, we discussed dyslexia and how this can impact different people.
We talked about how everyone is unique and ‘dyslexia is not a disadvantage, merely a different way of thinking’ - Richard Branson.
Each Wednesday, we have a wonderful workshop with Aoife from EA Reach. She helps to us understand our emotions, develop our confidence and boost our self-esteem. We have been learning about the different breathing techniques we can use when our emotions feel 'heightened'. We had the opportunity to identify where we feel our emotions. This isn't always in our heads, we can feel our emotions all over our body, and we identified how emotions can cause physical feelings. This workshop allowed us to become more 'in tune' with our emotions and identify ways to relax our brains and 'ground' ourselves.
Happy European Day of Language! 🌍
We had a great day celebrating all things ‘Spain’ 🇪🇸
The P7s were brave and tried new foods typically native to Spain. Eva brought in her beautiful castañuelas and Faye showed us some fabulous fans from her Spanish holidays!
A massive thank you to Josh who also made each child and adult a yummy Spanish cupcake. They were delicious!
To celebrate Coding Week we created our very own Stone Age cave animations using JIT5 and Scratch Junior. We utilised our knowledge of the Stone Age, the Neolithic people and their lifestyles.
Well done P7!
Our first topic of P7 is Stone Age to Iron Age.
As an introduction to this topic we have been analysing the Stone Age cave painting as a method of communication, to warn other tribes, to decorate their homes and for entertainment.
The children have utilised pastel pencils and tea bags to create a blended, textured book to resemble the chalk and earth Neolithic people used.
Massive well done to all of our School Council applicants! They all spoke with such confidence and had amazing ideas to contribute to the pupil voice of OLSP. Congratulations to our appointed representative of P7AL - Cathan O’Reilly 👏🏻