Computer tests next week!

All the P4 - P7 children will be sitting INCAS Computer testing next week. These Maths and English tests are completed by all children of this age throughout N. Ireland and will give each child a Reading Age and a General Maths age. Parents will be told the results of these tests at the Parent/ Teacher interviews in October.

RAIN in Earlview

During this year all the Primary School teachers will all be involved in a R.A.I.N. Project (Raising Attainment in Numeracy). This will involve training in maths teaching and also getting time out of class to work with groups of their children with the aim of pushing the children to a higher level of attainment. This should be a great help to many children. We''ll see in June 2010!!

Adult ICT Classes up and Running

It was great to see the two adult Essential Skills ICT classes up and running in school yesterday. There was a great buzz around the ICT Suite and all the adults seemed to enjoy it! It is great to see the school being so widely used by the community.

Still on their best behaviour!

I am giving out more awards for great behaviour and working hard than I have done for some time. It is great to see such a good attitude to work about the school throughout all classes.

Adult Computer Class starts

There will be a meeting of all who put their names down for any of the adult classes in the school on Wednesday 16th September at 9.30am. This will be to sort out who goes to which class.

The adult Computer Class will then start on Thursday of next week - 17th September - at 9am. However since 39 people have registered I'm not quite sure where everyone is going to go! We will get something sorted though. There will be at least two classes 9 - 11 and 11 - 1pm so we'll see what happens!!
Great to see such an interest.

Class Newsletters

Hope you like the new class newsletters. The idea is to keep you informed about what is going on in your child's class so you can help them with the topics they are covering in school. Sometimes it is hard to get information from your child about what is actually happening in the classroom!!

Toilets

If you have been in school leaving your child to the After School Day Care, you will have noticed work going on in the toilets in that area. We are putting in disabled facilities and eventually hope to re-new all the toilets throughout the school.

What a day..........

What a day today was - the canteen staff told me that everyone in the dinner hall had said "please" and "thank you" for their meal!
I also gave out two awards to older children for excellent work in class and the children have been exceptionally well behaved around the school!
On walking throughout the day I sensed a great attitude of work by all the pupils (and teachers!!) - well done to everyone!

Day one over

It was a great day - lovely to see all the new P1 children, some new pupils throughout the school and some of the Nursery ones also. They all seemed happy once they got settled in. School was looking well and there was a great buzz of excitement around the place.