It’s been an exciting week in P5, we have come to the end of our class economy and now it is time to spend!

Our boys and girls have been working hard to earn a salary by completing tasks and taking roles of responsibility. They have had opportunities to run a shop, work as a banker and assist in the daily running of a classroom by collecting books, being a teacher helper or monitoring homeworks.

Each week our pupils could spend their hard earned cash purchasing items in our class shop, such as sweet treats or small toys. Many pupils saved hard over the past weeks in order to purchase some higher value items such as vouchers for a Happy meal, Chocolate Heaven or ice cream party, they could even purchase a work experience voucher to assist in the nursery for a day!

Information from Nerve Belfast:-

Nerve Belfast Creative Learning Centre is delighted to announce that we will be holding a brand new set of FREE workshops running this Easter called CodeCraft. The focus is on coding and how your kids can use their creativity to programme robots, design video games

and work together in Minecraft.

CodeCraft is completely free and each day will have two workshops running, one for P5-P7 and one for Yr8 - Yr10. As your child attends one of our partnership schools they have been given early access to register on these courses.  Pre-registration will be open from Friday 11th March 7pm - Monday 14th March 10am, then registration will be open to the public. We anticipate these courses will fill up fast.

You can apply for the full 3 days or select which workshop you want to attend, subject to availability.

Register by visiting our website www.nervebelfast.org.

We are running 6 different workshops over the 3 days, the dates are as follows and additional information on each can be found on our website:

Wednesday 30th March :- Robotics (P5 - P7)

Minecraft (Yr8 - Yr10)

Thursday 31st March:- Games Design on iPads (P5 - P7)

Girls Into Coding (Yr8 - Yr10) *Girls only course

Friday 1st April :- Minecraft (P5 - P7)

Games Design on PCs (Yr8 - Yr10)

Each day will be 10am - 3.30pm and children will need to bring their own packed lunches with them. For each session, between 3.30 - 4pm, we will have an open time where your children can show you what they’ve created and learned.

We are very excited about this years CodeCraft and we hope you consider sending your children along. It will be a fun few days where they will learn so many new skills and get their creative minds buzzing with ideas for how they can use their coding in new, exciting ways.

This past week has been another busy one in P3. The children have really been enjoying their Activity Based Learning times where they have been carrying out tasks related to our current Word Around Us theme of transport.  The children have been making their own pin models of different forms of transport, creating transport models from junk, building moving vehicles from large construction toys, recording one another giving travel reports, investigating how slopes and different surfaces affect the distance and speed of cars and they have even had the chance to visit our very own P3 travel agents, to book some exciting trips.

In order to answer a very good  question some children had asked, which was ‘how can big heavy boats float?’, we have had fun getting our hands wet while experimenting with plasticine to see what types of shapes float and which don’t.

We all really enjoyed Thursday which was World Book day, when we were allowed to take our books everywhere with us and just 'drop everything and read' each time the bell went…which  might explain why we were seen sitting in the middle of the PE hall, in our PE kits, reading!  Turns out we have some real book worms who were able to hunt and name all twenty characters from children’s books, who had been hidden around the hall.  Another enjoyable activity for World Book day.

Finally our last bit of big news is that after building up to it for some time, we have just started to do tens and units adding sums with carrying and it doesn’t look like very long before we’ll be experts.  Watch this space!