Ballymoney Model Integrated Primary School

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Our New Playground Equipment

Our pupils are delighted with their new equipment and want to say a massive THANK-YOU. We are all thoroughly enjoying playing with our new resources during break and lunch time.

New Banners

Our new music stand banners have just arrived in the post. Mrs Arlow worked very hard on this project to ensure every aspect of our school logo looked its best on the banner.

Well done to the Year 4 pupils who received prizes at the Coleraine Music Festival. The group included in the link below achieved two highly commended, joint third and second place in their Year 4 class. Already they are saying they can’t wait to attend the Festival again next year. Well done to all!

A huge congratulations to the Year 4 pupils who gave fantastic performances at the Coleraine Music Festival last week. This was the first time these pupils performed at the festival. They all did our school proud!

These three pupils did the school proud as they achieved a third place, second place and highly commended places in the Year 5 classes at the Coleraine Music Festival. The girls sang “I’d like to teach the world to sing” and the boy solo was “Michael Finnegan”

Well done to all three of these pupils!

Coleraine

Music

Festival

We are so sorry to be losing this group of talented singers at the end of this year. Between them they achieved three third places, joint second place and two first places. These pupils really enjoy their singing. They enjoyed hearing many other soloists from lots of other schools and they were delighted with their own achievement

Year Six pupils were certainly hitting the high notes!

They achieved first, second, third and highly commended in their respective boy and girl solo classes.

These children enjoyed their performances and took on board any advice the adjudicator gave for future performances. A great achievement for all.

A huge congratulations to all pupils who participated so successfully in the Coleraine Music Festival.

It was just fantastic to have so many pupils take part.

Very well done to our woodwind soloists who performed so well at the Coleraine Music Festival. They really did entertain the audience present. All instrumentalists played to a very high stand and achieved three highly commended, third and joint second place In their class. Congratulations to all.		A special award was made for the most memorable of the Coleraine Music Festival. The adjudicator said he was very impressed by the performance as it was a highly communicative and well executed performance. Special congratulations on receiving this special prize.

	This year all vocal soloists formed a choir to perform at the Music Festival. We welcomed the Music Festival Adjudicator and a member of the Festival committee to our school to listen to our choir. The adjudicator commented very positively about the singing. The choir sang two hymns. The adjudicator presented the choir with a cup. Needless to say, the members of the choir were delighted!

Last week, a number of pupils from Year 1 to Year 7 performed on stage at Coleraine Festival in the Speech and Drama section. We are so proud of them all!

This year all vocal soloists formed a choir to perform at the Music Festival. Watch the video of our fantastic school choir singing the two chosen hymns we preformed. Congratulations to all who took part, you all sang beautifully. The adjudacator presented our choir with a cup, we were over the moon.

Eco Committee getting ready...

Eco Week is being held in school this week. The Eco Committee members have been busy last week and this week, preparing and carrying out a variety of whole - school activities.

Ballymoney Model IPS, participated in Outdoor Classroom Day Uk on Thursday 19th May and the Eco- Schools Committee, also held a special Outdoor Eco Week in the school grounds. Such a busy week throughout the school with classes in Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, planting a variety of seeds in the School Polytunnel and Outdoors in the school garden, along with so many other fun, Outdoor activities, such as Scavenger Hunts, Outdoor Poetry, Making Woodland Maps using natural materials, observing and identifying the plants and animals living in our school habitats.
Thank you to Year 4 S&L Committee members today for helping with our school gardening activities and during Eco Week 2022.

Football - National Finals

On Thursday 19th May the football team travelled to Lurgan Town Arena to compete in the NIFA National Primary Schools Final. The team started off strong in the group stage winning two out of their three matches (3-1, 3-0, 0-1). We knew the competition was going to get harder moving in the Quarter Final, however, with fantastic communication and teamwork we won 2-0. Unfortunately, our journey came to an end in Semi Final! All players should be extremely proud of their performance and what a fantastic football year it has been for our team.

Please have a look at our highlights video of our day in Lurgan!

Year 4 & 5 Football

On Friday 27th May the Year 4&5 footballers travelled to Coleraine Showgrounds to compete in a football tournament. The team played extremely well for their first tournament and made it all the way to the semi-final. Fantastic performance, well done!

Thanks,
Mrs Boyd

Lifeguard Visitors

Thank you to the RNLI lifeguards who visited Year 4 today to tell us all about water safety. The lifeguards talked about the risks and dangers of water and how to react when caught in a rip current. They also showed us the flags which are used on our beaches and what they mean. This was a fantastic experience for all pupils and so valuable especially as we move towards the summer months.

Mrs Boreland, Mrs Hamill and Mrs McGinley’s classes really enjoyed their visit from the lifeguards today.

First Holy Communion

A big congratulations to some of our year 4 pupils who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday. Tiarnán, George and Rory were joined with their family and friends for this special occasion. A big thanks to Fr McCaughan for the lovely service and his warm welcome. We will mark this occasion during our assembly this week.
Mrs Thom (Sacrament coordinator)

After Schools Tag Rugby

A massive thank you to Ballymoney Rugby Club for donating boot bags and water bottles to each pupil who attended the tag rugby after school club. This was a very kind gift and the pupils will look forward to using them.

Mr McLean's Assembly

Yesterday Year 2, hosted our Key Stage Assembly and what Great hosts they were. We started with a quote on how teamwork can represented ‘ Individually, we are a drop together in a team we are an ocean!’ Then we talked about what team work means to them, worked in a team to complete a task and ended with a lovely teamwork song. A fantastic effort by Year 2. Well done!!

Mrs Thom's Assembly

Mrs Thom’s class led the Key Stage 2 assembly on our monthly value of ‘Teamwork’. We talked about what a team was and why teamwork was important. We finished with a prayer and a song about teamwork.

Everyone spoke out very well- great work year 5!

Technology Challenges

Year 5 Technology Challenge

This morning all of year 5 worked together in teams for this years technology challenge. In groups the children had to make a parachute that would take the longest length of time to drop to the floor. They started by discussing how they were going to make their parachute and what materials they could use. They then drew their labelled design on to their planning page before they started to make their parachute. When they had completed their design they tested their parachutes by timing them. All the children worked very well together.

Year 6 Science & Technology Challenge

The pupils in Year 6 classes, 6AM and 6 FG, had the opportunity of participating in the Yr 6 Science & Technology Challenge. Great to see super Teamwork in planning, drawing and making the different designs of each bridge. Well done to all the boys and girls in Year 6 and to the Yr 6 Team Leaders, in working together, to make the bridges at this Science & Technology Challenge.
Many thanks,

Year 7 - STEAM - Science - in - a - box.

Year 7 pupils in Mrs Kennedy’s class participated this week in STEAM Science in- box of resources Lesson 3, Introduction to Living Cells and Organisms. The pupils found out about all the shapes and contents of What is inside a living cell?
In groups, the pupils observed the structure of Animal, Bacterial and Plant Cells and then had great fun using plasticine and play dough to making models of each type of the cells. Great Science work as scientists modelling and labelling the different types of Living Cells. Well done 7LK!

Year 7 - STEAM - Science - in - a - box

Today, Mrs Kennedy’s Class participated in an Outdoor Plant Kingdom activity in our school grounds. The pupils enjoyed making leaf rubbings and leaf dials to identify the collection of the Tree leaves, as part of STEAM Science- in a box of resources Lesson 4. This new STEAM project, sponsored by Almac, the pupils in 7LK are enjoying learning about Science and finding out about the local and global environment.

Yr 7 Science & Technology Challenge : Constructing the Designs

The Year 7 Teams in the Science and Technology Challenge showed great skills in planning and making the different designs for a Space Landing Station. All the boys and girls worked together to construct their design.

Fantastic to see Year 7 enjoying their Science and Technology Challenge, held on Thursday 26th May.