Welcome Back to Term 3...... Our Summer Term is here and we look forward to a busy active term. Please regularly check the website calendar as we move through the last few weeks of the school year.
| Term 3 'Afterschools' information will be out via Parentmail/website on Wednesday 15th April.
| Lafayette Photograph orders placed via school will be home with your child on Tuesday.
| This Wednesday morning is 'Walk in Wednesday' - Park and stride from Ballee Baptist or Ballee Presbyterian Church carparks.
| ECO DAY is coming on next Friday 24th April - we are going to plant sunflowers on Eco Day. Please remember to bring in to school a clear 2L bottle. Please wash this and cut the neck of the bottle off before bringing it into school. No milk cartons please!
| P1 School Nurse appointments - this Friday - Parents please check your date/time.
| P7 pupils will receive their Leavers Hoodie on Tuesday 14th April - this can now replace their school sweatshirt during Term 3.
| P7 Cycling Proficiency and afterschools Eco Club are running this week - dates on website calendar.
| Good Luck to our Football Team who head to Allen Park this Friday to play in the Co.Antrim Invitational Shield.
| School Holidays 2026 - 2027 are now available under 'PARENTS' area of the website...... School starts for pupils on Thursday 27th August 2026.
The pupils in Primary 7 enjoyed a day of working together to complete two different science activities and a history activity. Great fun was had by all, and it was brilliant being able to work alongside our friends from the other class!
Experiment 1: Making a working pulley system We worked together in small groups to create a working pulley system to lift heavy objects. This was lots of fun, but required a lot of experimenting before we got our pulleys to work how we wanted them to. We learnt about forces and how changing the direction of a force (pulling down rather than lifting up) can reduce the amount of effort required to lift an object.
Experiment 2: Making a working propeller We used some corrugated plastic sheets, scissors and rubber bands to create a moving 'boat' in the water. We had to cut a piece out of our plastic sheets and experiment twisting the propeller to wind up the elastic band before letting it go in the water. We learnt that the spinning propeller pushes the water backwards, allowing our boats to thrust forwards in the water. We also measured how far our boats travelled in the water.
History: Creating a timeline for the night of the Titanic's sinking We watched a video about the night Titanic sank and created a timeline of the events of the 14th-15th April 1912. We were shocked to see how quickly Titanic sank and how long it took for aid to come.
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