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

• Groggan Football Success

  Fri 13 Jan 2017
  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-
  
  Breaking News
  
  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.
  
  
  
  
  

  

• Choir on Tour

  Thu 15 Dec 2016
  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.

  

• Christmas Dinner and Jumper Day!

  Fri 09 Dec 2016
  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.

  

• Hour of Code at Groggan

  Fri 09 Dec 2016
  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!
  
  

  

• Football League Match Report Day 1

  Wed 23 Nov 2016
  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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

• P6 Young Enterprise Visit

  Tue 15 Nov 2016
  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!

  

• MacMillan Cheque Presentation

  Wed 09 Nov 2016
  Our Charity Committee presented £330 to Sarah from MacMillan today. This was the proceeds from our recent Coffee Morning. Thank you everyone.

  

• Harvest Hoedown

  Thu 27 Oct 2016
  We had a brilliant time today dressed as Cowboys and Cowgirls, even all the staff joined in!

  

• Harvest Service.

  Wed 26 Oct 2016
  Today at our Harvest Service we were delighted to have James Thompson as our special guest. James has served on our Governors for over twenty years and has been a great support of the school during this time. The Governors presented him with a gift to thank him for his contribution to our school. James will be missed at our Governors' meetings but we know he will continue to support our school.
  
  Our pupils were stars today at our Harvest Service today. Thank you to Rev Jonathan Sloan for speaking to us all and to all our parents and friends who supported the event. Thank you to Mrs Weir who loaned us some fabulous Harvest resources for our display.
  We made a presentation to Cathy from the Shine Charity for £400 which was the proceeds from our Harvest Service. We also were able to send a number of Christmas Shoe Boxes to Bylthswood Care to help boys and girls in other countries. We also gave lots and lots of children's books to help children in Malawi.
  
  
  

  

• P2/3 Assembly

  Fri 21 Oct 2016
  Today, P2/3 took Assembly and told us all how to recycle and look after our world. Well done to a really talented bunch of children.