Four of our Primary 7 pupils attended the NI Road safety Competition at Mossley Mill today. Lois, Alex, Thomas and Ryan were great ambassadors for our school.
Groggan had another eventful afternoon at Allen Park, on Wednesday taking part in the Antrim and Randalstown football league. Team member Ben takes up the story-
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Yesterday Groggan Football team had a unfortunate first match against Round Tower, scoring 0-2, but they had a massive comeback against Parkhall when we won 9-1.That's another three points in the bag for Groggan Primary!
The weather in the first match was good although the sun was beating down in our eyes. During the second match, it was rather rainy , the hail stones were beating down on our cheeks but we still played on.
Our choir, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Greer performed at Greenmount College as part of their annual Carol Service. The children as always sang beautifully and made us all very proud.
We had a wonderful time at our annual Christmas dinner and jumper day on Wednesday. Mrs Bell and Mrs Nicholl served up an impressive 115 dinners to all the children and staff here at Groggan, the traditional Christmas Raffle was held and a great time was had by all.
We have had an very successful week promoting coding amongst all the classes. It is an important skill to learn for the future, each class has taken part in this year's Hour of Code, a worldwide initiative to promote computing skills to all children.
Watch out Bill Gates! the children of Groggan are coming!
For the first time in a long time, Groggan are taking part in a football league! We are part of the inaugural Antrim and Randalstown football league, which will take place monthly at the new state-of-art 4G facility at Allen Park. We had our first two matches today, against Ballycraigy and St Josephs.
We we started off strongly, despite playing into the sun, a goal from Harry was the difference between the two sides, it could have been two or three. Ballycraigy's 'keeper was in fine form, denying Tommy who played out of his skin in both matches, leading the line with both courage and skill. Special mention also for Grace who played excellently in defence.
In game 2, Groggan came unstuck against a strong St. Josephs team who took the lead early and never looked back. Groggan were playing catch up for the whole 20 minutes in a physical encounter that saw excellent work from our forward players but without the luck of a goal.
Two games down, three points in the bag and roll on next time!
The children did so well in such a big day for the school, there were many, many new faces in the team and for their first time playing together as a team, they did brilliantly, I was so very proud of them.
Many thanks also to the parents who lent their support today.
Watch out Alan Sugar! Our entrepreneurial Primary 6 children attended a session in Mossley Mill this morning facilitated by Young Enterprise NI. It's aim is to educate children on how businesses work and encourages them to think like a business person. Everyone had a wonderful time and as usual, they did the school proud!
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