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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
Big Big Christmas win!! 'SPLIT THE POT' is down to hours ...all entries close at 12noon on Weds - we now have £965 in the pot!! Someone is in with a chance of winning nearly £500 along with someone else (2nd place) winning £250! The draw happens on Thursday at 1pm....  | Little Stars/Big Stars JANUARY booking is now OPEN - and will close at 10am on Friday 19th Dec. | Wednesday - Whole School Cinema Trip - all pupils come to school as normal in school uniform. Break snack will be provided by the cinema. All pupils will be back in school for lunch.  | Christmas Party day is this THURSDAY - all classes will be in the hall at a Christmas Disco and hopefully Santa will make a visit to school as well. This will be a non-uniform day. This has all been made possible thanks to all fundraising events in Term 1. | Friday - Non- Uniform day - school closes at 12noon - school bus at 12noon - Breakfast Club and breaktime snacks all available - NO Little Stars/Big Stars | Have a look at snippets from our P3/4/5 Carol Service under the NEWS tab - Christmas 2025.......and in NEWS from Thurs. 11th Dec... well done to all the pupils involved!  | P7 parents - Last day to pay for TERM 2 swimming is Thursday 18th Dec. | P7 parents/guardians - please see invitations to Post-Primary Open events on the P7 class webpage. As we receive information from Post -Primary Schools all information will be added here.  | P7 parents - All Post Primary Schools Admission Criteria are published on the EA website - these have also been added to the P7 class webpage. | Camphill Primary School's Admission Criteria can be found on the EA website and under the tab 'Our School' - 'School Admissions'.
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Eco Day in Primary 3

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13th Apr 2018

Today we had an Eco Day. Everyone in the school was involved. In Primary 3 our day was very busy right from the start. In the morning some of us made and painted clay farm animals, others stripped wheat seeds to plant and the remainder painted lollipop sticks and made fences. These were all going to be used later in the day to fill our class trough box in the school grounds. We also all helped to make two large scarecrows. What fun we had stuffing them with straw and scrunched up paper!

Between break and lunchtime Barry Tapster gave us a very interesting talk on recycling. We learned the differences between recycling and landfill rubbish disposal. Did you know that plastic bottles take 500 years to break down in the soil or that these same plastic bottles can be recycled to make a fleece? It really does make much more sense to put them into our kerbie bins!

We also enjoyed going on a Nature walk with some members of the Eco committee. We saw the Hedgehog hotel, the pond in the quiet garden and the bug farm. Mrs McCullagh told us that the Eco committee were busy today planting fruit trees and bushes. Soon we will have plums, apples, cherries and raspberries growing in the school grounds. She also told us that the Eco committee will be using some logs and old tyres to make an activity trail that we can all enjoy.

After lunchtime we all went outside to decorate our Primary 3 trough box. As our current topic in class is "From farm to Fork" we made a farm in our box. Some of us made a big mound of earth while others built stone walls from slate and placed the farm buildings. Then we put in the fences and animals that we had made earlier. We all had a chance to sow something too. We are going to grow grass, wheat, carrots and scallions in our box. to finish it off we placed a tractor in one of the fields. We worked right up until hometime  . . . what a busy day!

Next time you are visiting the school look over by the painted wall and you will see our scarecrows and trough box. We hope that you will like them as much as we do!