Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Transition sessions for Year 1 intake Sept 2024 commence
Fri 03 May 2024
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Eco-Flag Assessment
Fri 26 Apr 2024🌍 Our ECO team were visited by Peter McErlean from Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful today. Peter was here to carry out an assessment to decide our green flag status. He was very impressed with the work we are doing in school and we are looking forward to hearing the outcome very soon! 🌍
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Core Kids Exercise-A-Thon
Fri 26 Apr 2024Core Kids Exercise-A-Thon
Today was a fun-filled day of fitness for the whole school as all our classes from Nursery to Year 7 took part in our first ever Core Kids Exercise-A-Thon.
Each class had their own personalised workout with Gary from Core NI and also fitted in a range of other fitness related activities through the day with the overall aim of promoting an active and healthy lifestyle for our pupils.
This was a sponsored event and we were blown away by the generosity of our parents and members of the wider community in raising so much. We are still finalising the total amount raised, but all of this money will be used to further enhance and develop the teaching and learning of PE within the school over the coming years. Thank you so much for your generosity and support for this event.
Special thanks also, to Gary Wallace for all his fitness expertise today and for making it so fun and interactive for the pupils. You will certainly sleep well tonight, Gary.
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Sports Day
Fri 19 Apr 2024🏃🏻♀️😀🏃🏼 Sports’ Day 🏃🏼♀️😀🏃🏻
The sun has finally appeared so it must be that time again ☀️ Weather permitting, we will see you all on Monday 20th May 😃
Look out for A Wee Foosie too ☕️ 🧁 👀
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KPS and KCN are nominated for an award!
Thu 11 Apr 2024🏆 Families First Primary School Education Awards 2024 🏆
Kesh Primary School and Community Nursery are Fermanagh’s finalists in this year’s prestigious Families First ‘Primary School Awards’. We are delighted with this nomination, especially with the knowledge that it came from our own community. We are so proud to serve you and thank you for this nomination!
We would kindly ask that you continue to show your support through the link below, should you wish to do so, to share why you think that we should win.
https://www.familiesfirstfinalists.com/keshps
Thank you in advance for your support 😃
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STEM in Action competition
Mon 25 Mar 2024STEM IN ACTION:
Thanks to Joanne McGovern, a design engineer from South West College, Kesh PS and Community Nursery pupils have all been involved in this year's Primary Engineer's Leaders' Award, 'If I were an engineer'. The competition provided us with a visit from Joanne to discuss the wide and varied work of engineers.As well as talk to our children, Joanne brought Lego and set the children a challenge to build a bridge. From the youngest children in nursery to our Year 7s they set to work to create some fantastic models.
Following Joanne's visit, the children had to think about an everyday problem they, or someone they know, might have and try to design a solution. The variety of ideas the children came up with was so varied and mind-blowing ranging from: alarms to help elderly relatives, solar powered chargers in work vans for tools, automatic hay feeders for horses, wardrobes with scanning functions to choose your outfit based on your choice of shoes (!), robots that can help with homework, sock pairers for those random single socks (we all need this!)...the list goes on!
With all entries in the post, we await news if any of our ideas make it past the judges tables!
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SEL PATHs Model School Award
Sat 23 Mar 2024This has been an incredibly proud week for everyone in Kesh Primary School and Community Nursery, as we received our SEL PATHs Model School Award. The whole school programme empowers children to develop socially and emotionally, teaching them the fundamental skills of enhancing their self-esteem, resilience and conflict resolution. Lyndsey McSparron (Representing Barnardo’s UK) met with the School Council for a tour of our school and classrooms. Lyndsey was immensely impressed by the level of engagement and commitment to the PATHs’ approach’s and strategies throughout the school. The morning of celebrations was also attended by a very special guest. Twiggle the PATHs’ turtle made a surprise visit to our Nursery to meet some very enthusiastic fans 🐢 Our school remains dedicated to the emotional development and mental wellbeing of our pupils, and we look forward to continuing to see the benefits of this wonderful programme.
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Mandarin Celebration Day
Thu 21 Mar 2024🇨🇳 Mandarin Celebration Day 🇨🇳
Last Monday, the whole school enjoyed a fantastic show of music, dancing and face masks, thanks to Phoebe and her friends from the Confucius Hub.
Children enjoyed created craft pieces after our assembly, including Chinese lanterns, bright face masks and 3D paper dragons.
Thanks for a wonderful morning, we have some talented linguists in the making! 🐲
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International Maths Day
Thu 21 Mar 2024➕➖ International Maths Day ➗✖️
Children across all year groups enjoyed celebrating International Maths Day with a range of mathematical activities and games throughout the school. Pupils had a lot of fun challenging themselves from sudoku to IZAK 9 cubes, measuring length and competing in Mathletics challenges. Well done to each and every pupil! 😃
‘Life is a maths equation and the challenge is to turn negatives into positives’
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Walk and Wheel Week Focus Day
Thu 21 Mar 2024🚲👣🌍 Well done to the boys and girls who joined our walking bus at Castle Manor and Butchers car park this morning as part of our Walk and Wheel Week. We are encouraging children to make active journeys to school, improve air quality and discover how these changes benefit our world. 🌍 👣 🚲
