P5 had a brilliant time at the 'Hit the Surf' safety event run by Portrush Lifeguards. They learnt a number of very important safety facts about using the sea and the beach. Some were even brave enough to go into the sea on a very cold day. Thank you to the lifeguards for a very well presented event which is relevant to all children living in Portrush.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 15/5/13; 3:13:30 PM to the Mrs O'Neill's Class dept.
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Hit the Surf

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/5/13; 3:30:59 PM to the Notices School Trips dept.
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School Trip 2013 Port Meirion Visit

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/5/13; 3:14:41 PM to the Notices School Trips dept.
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School Trip 2013 Roman Chester Visit

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/5/13; 2:47:43 PM to the Notices School Trips dept.
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School Trip 2013 Pili Palas Visit

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/5/13; 2:41:17 PM to the Notices School Trips dept.
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School Trip 2013 Slate Mines visit

The P5's spent a day visiting the Ulster Museum. First they examined Egyptian artefacts under the guidance of an Egyptologist. Next came the highlight of the visit - they had the opportunity to meet Takabuti the Egyptian Mummy. After a very informative day, we have some budding Egyptologists in the making!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/5/13; 1:45:17 PM to the Mrs O'Neill's Class dept.
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P5 Trip to Ulster Museum

# Posted by Mr Birch at 9/5/13; 10:21:06 AM to the dept.
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P6 have been investigating sources of renewable energy

Primary 7 had great fun designing and

trying out a wide variety of kites!!!

# Posted by Mrs McNeill at 2/5/13; 5:18:18 PM to the Mrs McNeill's Class dept.
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Flying High

P5 have been investigating how different drinks can affect your teeth.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 13/4/13; 2:27:26 AM to the Mrs O'Neill's Class dept.
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What makes holes in our teeth?

We have been very busy in Primary One!! We have been learning how to use Beebots and also learning all about Post. We wrote letters to each other and went to the Post Office to post these. There was such excitement when they arrived! We have also been making bandanas with Liz Waddell who is an artist. We decorated them for our bananas and bandana day on Friday. Today was so exciting as we were able to use our new play equipment. We had great fun as did the adults!!! Can you spot them?

# Posted by Mrs H Henry at 9/4/13; 4:57:53 PM to the Mrs Henry's Class dept.
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We are busy in Primary 1!!

Primary 5, in their role as scientists, spent a fun day exploring rocket fuel and racing balloon rockets across the classroom. Watch out for all those budding scientists of the future!!!







# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 21/3/13; 8:19:25 PM to the dept.
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Mad Science Day

Primary two had a great day being scientists. They made mice move, colours mix, created tunes with musical bottles and watched a special mixture fizz. Thankfully there were no explosions, although Mrs Carruthers did get a bit wet!

# Posted by S Carruthers at 20/3/13; 4:16:47 PM to the Mrs Maguire's and Mrs Carruther's Class dept.
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P2 are scientists!

Portrush Primary School was buzzing with all sorts of sights, sounds and smells during our Science Day. Mad Professor O'Neill and her class of nutty scientists inspired us at the start of the day with some interesting, and somewhat puzzling, science experiments. Mr. Birch was used as a (reluctant) volunteer during one! All classes enjoyed being scientists for a whole day. If we have inspired some creative minds to become scientists of the future, just remember...it all started here!

# Posted by S Carruthers at 20/3/13; 3:08:48 PM to the Subject Science dept.
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Science Day

# Posted by S Carruthers at 20/3/13; 2:51:54 PM to the dept.
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Pupils of the Month

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 15/3/13; 10:15:13 AM to the Mrs McNeill's Class dept.
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P7 Rise and Shine with St Patrick

# Posted by Mr Birch at 14/3/13; 3:44:30 PM to the dept.
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P6 attended The Causeway Enterprise Roadshow 2013, held at Kellys!

Our children in school really entered into the spirit of World Book Day with a wonderful array of costumes on display. Children also willingly helped themselves and others by bringing a book to school, some of which will go to our Accelerated Reader Scheme and some to War on Want, who were represented in school today by Liz Ward from the Coleraine Branch. There was an Easter Egg for the best dressed child in each class, not an easy decision to make! Thank you to all the children and in particular the parents who helped make the day so special.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 11/3/13; 9:11:59 AM to the Subject Literacy dept.
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A Wonderful World Book Day Event

Our boys have qualified for the next stage of the 2013 Killowen Cup, finishing second in their group and take part in the finals next week!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 7/3/13; 12:15:04 PM to the Football dept.
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Killowen Cup Football Fun

P3 have been learning some cool dance moves with their student teacher. They have been doing the funky moves to The Cha Cha Slide. Look out as we have some great dancers in P3.

# Posted by E Cameron at 6/3/13; 3:08:30 PM to the Charity Work dept.
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P3 learn to dance

# Posted by Mrs H Henry at 1/3/13; 1:52:22 PM to the Mrs Henry's class dept.
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Learning all about Post in Primary 1.

Two hardy souls qualified for the NI Primary School Cross Country finals and hard great fun competing in atrocious conditions this week! Both boys still have either one or two more years left to compete and can be very proud of their finishes this year. Tyler finished 57th and Patrick, 71st out of 181 finalists.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 15/2/13; 11:22:38 AM to the Cross Country team dept.
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Fun in the mad mud!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 15/2/13; 10:55:45 AM to the Mrs Maguire's and Mrs Carruther's Class dept.
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P2 Rise and Shine together

The children in school and a large number of parents were treated to an Egyptian treat this morning as O'Neill's Primary 5 children put on a Rise and Shine Assembly that was full of both facts and laughs, a great reflection on how the children have been learning!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 25/1/13; 1:33:57 PM to the Mrs O'Neill's Class dept.
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Egyptian fun and frolics with P5!

Kathryn from the First Trust Bank visited P6 & P7 giving a most informative talk on all aspects of banking. The children were very interested and asked lots of intelligent questions at the end!

# Posted by Jane McNeill at 22/1/13; 2:06:28 PM to the Mrs McNeill's Class dept.
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First Trust Bank

Our cross country athletes travelled to the Roe Valley Leisure Centre on Wednesday and battled the conditions to record a third impressive performance! The boys team had the agony of missing out on a place in the NI finals by the narrowest of margins, but we excitedly await news on whether one or two of our boys will qualify as individuals! Star performance of the day went to Patrick Irwin, still only in P5, who romped to a third place finish in the mile long run.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 18/1/13; 2:17:21 PM to the Cross Country team dept.
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Wet, windy and almost winning!

In Primary 2 our new topic is 'Helping Hands & Happy Hearts'. We are learning how to use our hands to help others. This will give them happy hearts and will also make us feel good about ourselves too. Take a look at how we help each other to have happy hearts!

# Posted by S Carruthers at 18/1/13; 12:38:43 PM to the Mrs Maguire's and Mrs Carruther's Class dept.
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Helping Hands & Happy Hearts in Primary 2

Some of our P6's and 7's were lucky enough to start drum lessons in school today, something they found exceptionally cool with tutor Nick! The best news is they get to take their practice drums home to work on their skills at home!! No need to thank us mums and dads!!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/1/13; 3:46:38 PM to the Notices Clubs dept.
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Drumming to the beat!

Our Primary 5 children got to take part in another exciting after school activity to kick off the new year with Chris from The Range Archery Centre (http://www.therangearcherycentre.co.uk/) showing them the safe skills required to become a hot shot!






# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 10/1/13; 2:51:25 PM to the Notices Clubs dept.
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Hitting the target in Portrush PS!

Primary Four have had a visit from a dog called Ushi. She is a guide dog for a blind lady called Tori who came along with her helper called Alison from Guide Dogs to tell us about her life as a blind person and the impact that having Ushi has had on her life. Alison also gave us some information about the work of Guide Dogs as a charity. SHe told us that when the charity began 81 years ago, they had only four guide dogs. They now have around 5,000 dogs. It costs £50,000 to pay for the training, feeding and vet fees for each dog during the whole of its working life and they receive no government funding. Ushi certainly enjoyed all the pats, stroking and attention she received during her time with us. At the conclusion of our work on 'Our Senses' it certainly gave us an insight into what life is like when one of our senses is missing.

# Posted by Miss Scott at 21/12/12; 6:26:52 PM to the Miss Scott's Class dept.
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P4 have a very clever four-legged visitor

 

Our PTFA Christmas Cash Tree draw took place today with some very happy winners!

Our kids donated decorated envelopes filled with miscellaneous amounts of silver coins, and the winners were then allowed to select varying amounts of envelopes!

The first prize came to £60, whilst the fourth prize got £10 and one lucky child took home a cuddly toy!

Nobody left empty handed as every child took home a selection box as a gift from school.



On behalf of PTFA and everyone in school, have a lovely Christmas.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 20/12/12; 2:28:09 PM to the Our P.T.A. dept.
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PTFA Christmas Cash Tree Winners!

Primary five have been studying different types of homes. They decided to make their own tepees to create a new settlement in Portrush.

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 17/12/12; 3:06:30 PM to the dept.
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Making Tepees

# Posted by Mr Birch at 14/12/12; 12:19:40 PM to the dept.
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P5-7 were kindly invited to The Giant's Causeway for a fun-filled festive visit!

Our cheery junior choir performed during a recent Christmas Fayre in Portrush Town Hall. 

# Posted by Miss Scott at 10/12/12; 10:12:15 PM to the Miss Scott's Class dept.
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Christmas Choir Cheer

# Posted by Mr Birch at 4/12/12; 2:40:19 PM to the Charity Work dept.
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Laura and Paul from the Food & Fitness Dairy Council programme visted P5 & 6 today!

# Posted by Mr Birch at 29/11/12; 8:35:47 AM to the dept.
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P6 are following in Sir Isaac Newton's footsteps!!!

Ben Best from the Tree of Knowledge visited school this week sharing his knowledge and skills with the children who had a ball during his visit!

# Posted by Carwyn Guy at 23/11/12; 10:52:25 AM to the Visitors to School dept.
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Sowing the seeds of a bright future with the Tree of Knowledge

# Posted by Jane McNeill at 21/11/12; 10:45:13 AM to the Charity Work dept.
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October Rise and Shine Certificates

# Posted by Mr Birch at 15/11/12; 4:03:27 PM to the dept.
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As part of their Forces topic, P6 made their own Force Meter that allowed them to measure the weight of objects in grams and newtons

Mr Birch organised a Healthy Breakfast for the whole school this morning. Everyone was encouraged to try something new for breakfast. Some even tried grapefruit!!!!!!!!! The breakfast was a huge success and thanks must go to Hillcrest Eurospar and First4fruit for sponsoring the event.

# Posted by E Cameron at 13/11/12; 3:38:33 PM to the Mrs Cameron's Class dept.
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Healthy Breakfast in P3 and P4

We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 1. It started when one of our children won the Lidl colouring competition. She had to go to the shop and buy food for our class to have a class party. We had a great party!!

We have also been learning all about our numbers and we can now write numbers 1,2,3 and 4.

We have also been making plans for our new Pet's topic. We started off our discussion by using our Kagan sticky fives to find a partner and we discussed our ideas with each other before sharing each other's ideas!

The best bit has been putting our plans into action as we have had fun in the play area being Vets and Pet owners! We have also been painting pictures of our pets. Come and have a look at our paintings if you are passing our classroom!

# Posted by Mrs H Henry at 8/11/12; 2:54:39 PM to the Mrs Henry's Class dept.
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Lot's of fun in Primary 1!!