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NI Hospice - Kindness Counts

Mon 14 Nov 2022

NI Hospice Donations

Kindness Day kicks started Anti-Bullying Week.
Just look at the kindness that takes place in our school every single day. These are just some of the amazing things that our pupils do.

Keep being kind - thank you to all who donated to the NI Hospice. Donations will be welcome until the end of this week.

#kindness counts

Ballyclare High Grammar Interviews

Mon 14 Nov 2022

14.11.22 Ballyclare High Grammar

Supporting pupils moving on to Post-primary is also an important part of our role at Rathcoole.
We regularly host placement students from Stranmillis College, Queens University Belfast and Ulster University.
Last week Mr Davies and Mrs Quinn had the pleasure of being invited to support Year 14 career talks at Ballyclare High Grammar School - one of our feeder schools for Primary 7.
We were both blown away by the quality of responses to our interview questions.
We wish them all every success in their A-levels and their potential future career in teaching.

Thank you for the kind invitation.

Emma Quinn and Joe Davies

#MoreThanJustaSchool
#WeCan teach

ODD SOCKS DAY

Mon 14 Nov 2022

MONDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2022

WEAR YOUR ODD SOCKS ....

Odd Socks Day marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week on Monday 14th November.

We have everything you need to celebrate what makes us all unique and spread kindness!

All you need to do is wear your odd socks to school!

Looking forward to seeing the mix and match

See youtube video for more fun and information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNR2eyOzLKw&t=1s

E Quinn

KINDNESS COUNTS - Supporting NI Hospice

Thu 10 Nov 2022

KINDNESS COUNTS - small donations welcome

Supporting Northern Ireland Hospice

Dear families
As we come to World Kindness Day soon, the children will be celebrating what it means to be kind and what we can do to be kind to others.

To help support the NI Hospice we are asking that children bring in a small donation tomorrow to help us raise much needed funds for this local charity. This can be handed in to the class teacher in the morning or at the front gate. Any donations welcome.

Children will take part in a number of different lessons tomorrow to learn more.

See if you notice how kind they are being and let them know. See if you can be extra kind to them and see if they notice you.

We look forward to a great day tomorrow.

Many thanks

Emma Quinn

Parent Advice Workshop 11th October 2022

Tue 11 Oct 2022

Workshop for Parents - Inivite from Community Advice

We will be holding a Debt Advice and Money Management Workshop in the Dunanney Centre on 11th October from 11am-12pm.

MR SPORTS - TAKE 5 FUN FRIDAY

Fri 23 Sep 2022

Friday 23rd September 2022

MR Sports comes to Rathcoole to take PE throughout the day for Primary 1 to Primary 7.

This is going to be part of our #Take5 Friday every week. As a school we know the importance of a structured PE curriculum so we have invested in the support of MR Sports to help our provision througout the school day.
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Please remember to wear full PE kit tomorrow. No football tops or bottoms please.

See you then

E Quinn

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II : 1926 - 2022

Mon 19 Sep 2022

School will be closed on Monday 19th September 2022.

The Queen’s state funeral will take place at Westminster Abbey at 11am on Monday 19 September, Buckingham Palace has announced, on a day of mourning that the King has declared will be a bank holiday.

Exciting news ...

Thu 09 Jun 2022

9th June 2022

Thanks to the continued support in our community we are excited to announce that Rathcoole Primary School is returning to straight classes in the new term in P1-P7.

Nursery will continue with the 2 full time classes as usual.

We have also had confirmation of the additon of a second Autism Specific Classroom. The Willow Room, for KS2 pupils will now work alongside the Sunflower Room.

We are busy re-opening some of our upstairs rooms and repurposing additional rooms.

We have a busy few weeks and summer ahead of us.
We could not have done this without the support and faith of you, our families.

We have grown so much in the past 7 years and are stronger because of it. Thank you all.

I am asking if anyone might be able to help give some of our classrooms a new coat of paint to help freshen them up. We have new seats and some new furniture to order too.

Please do contact us if you could offer your services and skills in any way at all.

Many thanks from a very excited staff team

E Quinn