Camphill Primary School, Ballymena

We will be supporting the NSPCC 'Talking Pants' awareness campaign during May - see NEWS below (8th May). | This week sees Summer Assessments continue in school - all P3/P4/P5/P6/P7 pupils will be sitting assessments this week. Please make sure your child is in school so they do not miss these important summer standardised tests. | TUES 14th May - SAFER SCHOOLS APP Launch - Parents who have booked a place .... arrive to the Main Hall from 9am (a 9:15am start) - 10:45am - come along and hear up-to-date information from SAFER SCHOOLS about keeping your child safe online - See NEWS - 29/4/24. | All parents - look out for an 'Expression of Interest' online form this week via PARENTMAIL regarding 'Little Stars' & a new 'Big Stars' afterschool club from Sep'24 - please complete this online form by Mon.20th May as your information in your 'return' will be important to us in planning ahead. | Tinylife - Can you help? see NEWS below (13/5/24) | P1 parents/P2 parents - have you given permission for your child to go to The Peoples Park this Wednesday? - information online form sent out 9/5/24. | P2 parents - have you completed the permission form/paid for your child's summer trip? - last day to do this is this Friday 17th May. | P2 pupils can now purchase from the CANTEEN at BREAKTIME on a THURSDAY during May & June - see breaktime menu (under PARENTS area) - children will be able to purchase an item such as a pancake/slice of toast etc.... this is to prepare the P2 children for having access to Breaktime snacks everyday from P3. | P5 parents - have you completed the permission form/paid for your child's summer trip? - last day to do this is this Friday 17th May. | P6 parents - P7 2025 residential school trip and summer class trip to Windsor Park Football Stadium information sent via Parentmail - please note last day for booking a P7 residential trip place is this FRIDAY 17th May. | P7 parents -see information in CLASS webpage & via Parentmail re: notifications of Post-Primary Schools this Saturday. | * New date - P7 'Leavers' Ballymena Guardian photo for their June supplement - will be taken this Tuesday 14th - normal school jumper/uniform/black shoes to be worn. | Afterschools JuJitsu begins this THURSDAY - BOOKINGS open until Tues.14th - (information home via Parentmail on Weds. 8th May) | Online School Uniform shop is opened - closes - Friday 24th May for delivery to school wk.bg. 17th June....... if you require new school uniform for September please order as soon as possible. | New P1 Families (Sep'24) will be receiving OPEN AFTERNOON information via PARENTMAIL on Monday 13th May.

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'Journey to Santa' - Sustrans Challenge

11th Nov 2021

To get us into the Christmas spirit, we are going to be hosting a 4 week Sustrans challenge called 'Journey to Santa'. The challenge begins on Monday 15th November and will finish on Friday 10th December. The aim of the challenge is for our school pupils to try and collectively travel 2500 miles to reach the North Pole before Santa begins his deliveries at Christmas!

Each pupil will be able to travel a maximum of '3 miles' per day. Miles can be gained in the following ways:

Walking / scooting / cyclying to and/or from school (1 mile)
At least 15 minutes of active activity within school, e.g. The Daily Mile, PE lessons, Playpark visit, etc. (1 mile)
At least 15 minutes of active activity outside of school, e.g. football, hockey, walking the dog, playing with friends outside, etc. (1 mile)

Pupils or parents will then able to record their daily total on a recording sheet which will be home on Monday 15th. Pupils can bring these into school each day or at the end of a week so that their teacher can record their daily/weekly totals.

Your child's class teacher will be keeping the class weekly total and Mrs McCullagh will then collect these weekly totals at the end of the challenge to see if we have reached our destination! The NORTH POLE here we come!