December 2023
Dear Parent,
- Our Christmas School Play is tonight – “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” at 7.00pm in Braddox Presbyterian Church Hall. We hope to see you all there tonight, as the children have put in so much hard work. There will be a donation basket at the door for school funds.
- P.E. next term will be with Brian on Wednesdays, so P.E. gear and runners should be worn then.
- Our pupils will avail of funded hot school meals after Easter.
- Christmas jumpers may be worn on Thursday and Friday 21st and 22nd December.
- School will close on Friday 22nd December at 12 noon and will reopen on Monday 8th January 2024.
Aladdin – by Joshua
On Tuesday 12th December we went to the Pantomime in Armagh. The characters were Aladdin, Jasmin, Widow Twanky, the Genie, the Policeman, the Baddie – Alkazar, the Fairy Ring and Jasmin’s Mum. There was also Flip-Flop and Klip-Klop the horses. There was lots of singing and dancing. Aladdin was in love with Jasmin but the Baddie wanted to steal Aladdin’s lamp and Jasmin’s mum didn’t think he was rich enough for Jasmin. My favourite part was when Aladdin and the Fairy were on the magic carpet and they flew out over the audience. They were trying to find Jasmin so he could marry her. The Genie granted 3 wishes to Aladdin. The first was the Jasmin would fall in love with him, the second was that he would be rich and the third that the Genie would be free form the lamp. It was a very funny pantomime and at the end the fairy and Widow Twanky taught us some sign language.
Peace Proms – Abigail, Danielle and Holly
On Wednesday 6th December we travelled by bus to Dublin for our practice for the Peace Proms. We are taking part in it on the 3rd February. We were there for 2 hours. There were lots of children there and it was exciting. Everyone clapped at the singer when she came in with a school to their seats. We started practicing with “Pompei” and they stopped the song several times to learn the actions. Some of our favourite songs were “We are one” – The Eurovision song, “The Revolting Children” – from the Matilda musical and “Electric” – Katie Perry. We got back to the bus and travelled 20 minutes to Apple Green and got something to eat in Burger King. The food was good and then we went down the road and we were back to school at 4.30.
P.E. with Ross – Joseph, Lenex and Zac
For the last term we had P.E. with Ross who was a past pupil. He is working with the G.A.A. We started off with hand/throw passing. He was teaching us good control techniques (control of the ball). We had an actual Gaelic game and worked together as a team. We won some games and we lost some but we had fun. We would collect the cones that Ross would set out in the middle of the yard between 4 teams. When the cones were gone, we would take each other’s cones from each team. If you collected more than 1 cone per team Ross would take them from us. It was great fun and we enjoyed working as a team with our friends.
‘Twas the Night before Christmas Practices – Arianna, Bonnie, Elea and Lucy
For the past few weeks we have been travelling down to Braddox Church Hall for our Christmas Play practices. It was great to see the hall and new extension. It was fun bringing the costumes and having dress rehearsals. It was cool using the microphones and hearing our voices echo. We’re having our final practice at 1 o’clock today and then the actual play is tonight at 7.00pm. Our families are all coming to see us tonight. We’re excited and also a little bit nervous. It’s fun doing the actions and our costumes are comfy and pretty.
