We were delighted to participate on our Term 2 Shared Education event at the St. Bernard’s Parish Center, where our friends from St. Bernard’s Preschool hosted us for an art and games morning.
We hope to see everyone from our partnership during Term 3 for a big 4 schools event.
We were delighted to welcome our Shared Education friends from St. Bernard’s Preschool on Thursday 30th November 2023 for a morning filled with play focused on The Arts (Preschool Curriculum of NI).
We dressed up, painted, imagined and even got to make our very own musical instruments!
We look forward to seeing them again on the St Bernard’s and Knockbreda Primary School’s Nativities rehearsals during December.
As expected the sun is out now that the kids are back to school. Here are a few things to do in the outdoors.
More than 140 children were able to get together at St. Bernard’s Primary School for our 4th Shared Education event of the year. The children played some number related games, enjoyed a healthy snack and were able to see some friends!
As part of our Shared Education Partnership we were able to visit our friends from St. Bernard’s Preschool before the half-term break. We met at the Parish Centre for a Sorting and Matching Activity. The children really enjoyed it and demonstrated good early mathematical skills.
The children enjoyed our range of play resources and a delicious snack!
Thank you to all our parents, families and grandparents who attended our Shared Education Celebration of Love coffee morning at St Bernard’s Primary School. What a wonderful way to celebrate Valentine’s Day!
Thank you to all our families, grandparents and friends who joined us for our Shared Education Coffee Morning. It was a wonderful opportunity to find out more about this year’s programme of events and to further strengthen our Shared Education School Community. Thank you also to Sainsburys for kindly gifting the refreshments.
Knockbreda Nursery School has had a busy two days enjoying our Community Eco Activity Days!
As part of our ongoing commitment to outdoor learning, environmental awareness and our work towards eco school status, Knockbreda Nursery School hosted two Community Get Together events on Wednesday 13th (Red Apples) and Thursday 14th November (Green Apples). On these dates, friends and family of Knockbreda Nursery School were invited to join us during our Forest School sessions.
Our Forest School sessions involve a range of outdoor activities including planting, gardening and seasonal activities. As part of these sessions, we planted some vegetables, flowers and also undertook a campus litter pick.
As part of Children in Need fundraising, during our Forest School sessions the children also enjoyed Pudsey storytelling sessions and planting carrots for Pudsey!"
We are grateful to the eco committees from our Shared Education partnership schools (Knockbreda Primary School and St Bernards’ Primary School) for also joining us; their pupils were such great eco role-models for our Nursery children.
Knockbreda Nursery School was delighted to welcome friends from St Bernard’s Pre-School for our first Shared Education event this year.
The children were invited to join in our Forest School sessions with the Red and Green Apple classes.
A wonderful morning was spent planting bulbs, hammering pumpkins and enjoying snack together in our Reco Box classroom.
To finish a wonderful year of Shared Partnership, Knockbreda Nursery School and St Bernard’s Pre School enjoyed a shared visit from the Petting Zoo. We had lots of fun learning about the animals together!
The children from Knockbreda Nursery School, Knockbreda Primary School, St Bernard’s Primary School and PreSchool enjoyed a carousel of activities as part of our Shared Education Fun Days. The children played together indoors, outdoors and enjoyed shared stories from the P5 pupils.
A highlight of the day was taking part in a yoga session with Laura from Primary Yoga. This session allowed the children to apply their effective listening skills; this has been a focus of our Shared Education Partnership work this year.
Many thanks to all the parents and friends of Knockbreda Nursery School, Knockbreda Primary School, St Bernard’s Pre School and St Bernard’s Primary School who joined us for Shared Education Celebration morning. This was a wonderful opportunity to socialise together and to celebrate the success of another positive year of shared partnership between our schools.
The Nursery children enjoyed visiting Knockbreda Primary School to take part in shared reading sessions with their friends from Knockbreda Primary School and St Bernard’s Primary School. After enjoying their story sessions, the children loved taking part in playground games together. What a lovely start to our summer term!
Today, the Nursery children enjoyed a shared story session with the children from St Bernard’s Pre School. The children joined together in small groups to enjoy story sack stories, songs and games.
The children at Knockbreda Nursery School and St Bernard’s Pre-School enjoyed a shared Circle Time focusing on growing plants and healthy eating. The children planted cress, carrots, tasted a variety of fruits and even enjoyed a fruit smoothie! The children were delighted to enjoy a shared play session both indoors and outdoors and many new friendships were formed!
Shared Education Update
As part of our Shared Education project, each school involved in the project has benefitted from a small amount of money to spend on literacy resources. To further promote talking and listening through outdoor play, Nursery chose to spend this money on a shop for the playground. Staff have created a new Famers’ Market shop pod, which the children can visit as part of their role-play scenarios. This new play pod has been a welcome addition to the range of provision available on the playground and further embeds the staff’s vision of creating a ‘mini town’ through the role-play provision available on our playground.
The children from Knockbreda Nursery School met with their Shared Education partnership friends to enjoy a performance from Mr Hullabaloo. His animal themed story was the perfect topic starter for our work on animals from around the world, in advance of P1’s shared trip to Belfast Zoo!
The children in the Red Apples enjoyed shared Circle Time with our friends at St Bernard’s Preschool as part of our Shared Education Partnership. The children all took part in a Circle Time session about keeping fit and the importance of exercise, after which they enjoyed shared play together.
What a great day we all had! The Green Apples are looking forward to their turn to take part in shared Circle Time with St Bernard’s Preschool next month!
