Open Afternoon - ‘The Elves of Loughries: A Magical School Adventure.' Thursday 4th December 2025 - 3pm-4:30pm. [Open Image] | Art Gallery Afternoon Wednesday 19th 2pm-3:30pm. [Open Document] | Good Luck to all of our P7 pupils who are sitting the SEAG Assessment on Saturday. We are very proud of you all. | Ulster Scots Education Workshop P1-P7. Wednesday 19th November. | Science Experiment Day! Thursday 20th November P1-P7. | PTFA Bag Pack - Saturday 29th November 10am - 4pm. Volunteers required. If you can help please contact a member of the PTFA. | Christmas Card House Teams Competition week commencing Monday 1st December 2025 | Whole school trip to the Pantomime - Wednesday 3rd December. | Guess the name of the Elf! From Thursday 4th December to Thursday 18th December. | Nativity at the Ards Evangelical Church on Wednesday 10th December at 9:30am - 10:30am. | Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 12th December.

Learning about our Skeletons

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4th Sep 2018

In P5/6 we have been learning that bones help us move, protect our organs and give us support. We were given the challenge of building a structure to support a tennis ball off the table using 10 A4 sheets of paper and a metre of sellotape. The most successful structure supported the ball 60cm high. We noticed that cylindrical and cone shapes worked best.