St. Teresa’s Primary School
The Magazine
Issue 11 Christmas Term 2017
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends of St. Teresa’s, Once again it has been a very busy time, not only in the lead up to Christmas but throughout the autumn term. In September we welcomed eightythree new pupils to our school and new members of staff including Mrs Letson (P2), Mr Cullen (P3), Miss McNeill (P3), Miss O’Neill (P3), Miss O’Rourke (P4), Miss McKee (P5) as well as a new member of the learning support staff, Miss Connors (SLC), Miss Maguire (SLC) and Mrs Jagiello (P2). We trust that they feel very much part of the St. Teresa’s family. The children have had many opportunities to experience a wide variety of activities, both in extending their academic learning as well as an extensive extra-curricular programme. We are delighted that the Accelerated Reading programme is now embedded in Primary 5-7 and will be introduced in Primary 4 in February. Due to the success of Accelerated Reading, we have now introduced Accelerated Maths into P4-7. We will offer parent workshops in the new year for both programmes so that you will be better informed about these initiatives. The Primary 5 children have been developing their ‘Coding’ skills as part of Time to Code with Business in the Community. Mrs Sweeney’s Primary 5 class have also been involved in the Poetry in Motion programme which will culminate with a performance in the Ulster Hall as well as the ‘Rain Falling Up project’ which will also be performed in the Waterfront Hall later this year. Once again the P6 children have partnered with P6 classes in Euston Street Primary School as part of our Shared Education Peace Players programme. We are delighted to be the only primary school in Northern Ireland to have been selected to work with the President of Ireland to create a sculpture that will be unveiled at the Aras An Uachtarain in December with our P7 children in attendance in Dublin. In addition, we have continued with our partnership with SUSTRANS and the further development of the Mandarin language through our Chinese language assistant, Miss Wang who will prepare the children for their first Mandarin language qualification in May. The Friends of St Teresa’s have been very busy this term with the ‘Halloween Disco’ and the ‘Christmas Fair’. This newsletter gives a brief synopsis of life at St. Teresa’s this term. It is by no means an exhausted list but will give you a flavour of some of the exciting events that the children and staff have been involved in. I trust that you enjoy reading about our school and I look forward to another exciting year in 2018! Mr T. Rodgers
Principal Glen Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT11 8BL
Tel: 028 9061 1943
Fax: 028 9060 5644