Keep up-to-date with all the latest news happening in our school.

• Credit Union Quiz

  Thu 06 Feb 2020 Mrs H

  Well done to our Credit Union quiz team who took part in the competition on Monday. They weren't placed, but worked well as a team and Mrs H was very proud of them. congratulations to St Mary's Greenlough and St Colmcille's who are through to the next round.

  

• Mental Health Week

  Thu 06 Feb 2020 CH
  This is Child's Mental Health Week. Staff work hard at Groggan everyday to promote positive mental health and well being with our pupils. We encourage the children to use their Thought Books, Worry Boxes and each day we check how they are doing with our feelings boards in each room. This week, our teaching staff met with our friends from Millquarter Primary School for Emotional Health and Well being training. The children have been learning about positive thoughts and good mental health in class activities. Our Primary 7 pupils are taking part in the Fresh Little Minds programme each Friday and are really enjoying these sessions.

  

• Learning about Burns Night

  Fri 24 Jan 2020 CR
  P5 and P6 children were very lucky to receive a visit from Matt Warwick, from the Ulster-Scots Agency, this morning. He entertained us all with an informative session all about Robbie Burns, and taught us all about connections between Scotland and Ulster. We learned that ‘dander’, ‘foundered’ and ‘scunnered’ are all words we use that come from Scotland. We learned about haggis and some famous songs, with ‘Auld Lang Syne’ being our favourite!

  

• Drones!

  Thu 19 Dec 2019 Mrs H

  There was great excitement today in MaxCoding when the children got the opportunity to fly drones!

   

  

• Fluffy!

  Thu 19 Dec 2019 Mrs H
  Well done to this P2/3 star who correctly guessed the bear's name was Fluffy. Eight children guessed correctly and this lucky boy's name was pulled out of the hat.

  

• Choir sing at Radio Cracker

  Wed 04 Dec 2019

  The Choir's annual trip to perform on Radio Cracker in Ballymena took place this morning. It was very well supported by all of our lovely parents, grandparents and friends and the choir sang beautifully, led as ever by the talented Mrs Wilson! Well done everyone!

   

  Please check out the recording of the choir's performance on the P5/6 class page!

  

• Shared Education

  Tue 03 Dec 2019 Mrs H

  Our Shared Education partnership with Millquarter Primary School is now in its third year and is growing from strength to strength. This year, all of the classes will have a chance to take part in shared lessons with the pupils from Millquarter.

  To date the staff have had a chance to train together in August with HIP Performance on Mental Health and Wellbeing.

  Both schools are working this year towards gaining their Mental Health Award.

  Primary 1 pupils from each school and Taylorstown Community Playgroup, watched a performance at Millquarter by Mr Hullabaloo, this is an annual event which takes place alternatively in each school.

  Primary 5/6 were evacuated to the coast and had a super day at 'The School at the Sea' experiencing life in World War 2.

  We have formed a joint choir, who had their first practice together recently and are performing at the Grange village Christmas Lights switch on.

  Our P2/3 pupils have been invited to Millquarter to watch their Christmas Nativity and we hope to host them next year.

  We have a lot more exciting activities planned for Terms 2 and 3...

  

• P5/6 Evacuated to the coast!

  Fri 29 Nov 2019

  P5/6 have just returned from an excellent experience at the 'School at the sea'. Our class were asked to be at school early and joined our friends from Millquarter on a bus, for an unknown destination. As both classes are currently studying World War Two, we joined the evacuation and met some interesting characters along the way, including an American GI and a nurse. We learned to break codes, how to load a Tommy gun, bandage a head wound and even how to Jive! All children had an amazing time and behaved impeccably. 

   

  BEST. DAY. EVER.

  

• Fundraising Success

  Wed 27 Nov 2019 Mrs H
  Thank you to everyone who sent in sponsor money for our Half Marathon run in September. We were so chuffed when these were delivered to school - all made possible down to your generosity and support.

  Thank you

  

• Kindness Awards

  Wed 27 Nov 2019 Mrs H

  Today two more Praise cards were posted home to parents to say a super well done to their children on the kindness and superb manners shown each day to others.

  We are so proud of them.