St. Teresa’s Primary School
The Magazine
Issue 15 Spring Term 2019
Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of St. Teresa’s, Welcome to our Spring Term Newsletter. Term 2 has been another very busy but exciting time in school. The children have had many opportunities to extend their learning experiences in school with a wide variety of extra-curricular activities. There are so many notable events to highlight such as: The Outdoor Learning Programme in the Fall’s Park, BBC Radio Ulster School Choir of the Year, Peace Proms, Catholic School’s Week including Grandparents Day, our celebrations for Chinese New Year and Chinese Language classes, the Civica Coding Challenge, Basketball Blitzes, soccer matches, camogie and hurling tournaments, Cross Country races, the Credit Union Quiz and a range of educational trips and visits to name but a few! Numbers in excess of four hundred pupils registered for our extensive after-school activities. I congratulate the children on all their successes both in and out of school. One of the many highlights of the term was the opening of ‘Serenity Playground’, a momentous occasion for our school and indeed a special opportunity to remember and celebrate the life of one of our past pupils, Serenity Joubert’ who died last July after battling cancer. Also this term, the P7 children celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation and P3 made their First Confession. It is on occasions like this, when the home, school and wider parish community come together, that the Catholic ethos of our school becomes tangible. Our Whiz Kidz Child Care Service continues to thrive and the club is able to continue to provide outstanding child care as reported in our recent inspection by Social Services. The FoST have also been working hard securing funding of £1800.00 which will be used to introduce counselling for children. With some of last year’s funds raised from the FoST we were able to purchase a new home reading scheme for P1-3 children costing £8000.00. This will be introduced in September of next year. Our very successful Book Fair raised just under £3000.00 to further help us purchase new reading materials. We also held two parent workshops on Jolly Phonics and Accelerated Reading to further help parents support their children at home. I would like to thank the staff of our school who are so passionate about everything they do and work tirelessly to make each child feel unique and special and to give them a positive experience in school. I would also like to thank you our parents for all your support at so many of the events in our school. We are truly blessed to have such a strong school community. Details of each of these events can be found throughout the magazine as well as much, much more. I hope Mr T. Rodgers you enjoy reading all about our school this term.
Principal
Glen Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT11 8BL
Tel: 028 9061 1943
Fax: 028 9060 5644