Please find our November Newsletter attached here
Hats and Shades Day May 2024
This week we have been learning about how to stay safe in the sun! We have also raised money for Cancer Fund for Children by wearing our hats and shades to school. We enjoyed a nice refreshing ice lolly to keep us cool too!
June NIFSA Newsletter
National Children's Day
Today we celebrated National Children’s Day by wearing something blue!
You can find out more information here: https://www.nationalchildrensdayuk.com/
We also had visitors Mr Barry Mulholland (chairperson of the Education Authority) and Mr Mark Baker ( chief executive of the Controlled Schools’ Support Council) in our school to see how we implement our rights and how we respect the rights of others.
April Newsletter
Please find our April Newsletter attached here.
March Newsletter
Our March Newsletter with details of upcoming activities and important calendar dates is attached here.
Performing Starz Puppet Show
We were delighted to welcome Jo from Performing Starz to conclude our World book celebrations with a very fun and engaging puppet show! We had a chance to move, dance and laugh as we watched and listened carefully to the puppets!
📚📚World Book Day 2024 📚📚
Thank you to the very kind mums, dads and siblings that came to read a story or two for us! We loved having you in our classroom!
And thank you all for your kind donations to the Book Aid charity; as a Gold Rights Respecting School we would like to continue developing the children’s awareness as citizens of the world with this type of charitable opportunity.
We are a Rights Respecting Gold Award holder!
We are the only controlled mainstream Nursery School in Northern Ireland to have attained this award. A big thank you to all the children, parents and staff, particularly Mrs Welsh, who have worked tirelessly to ensure we achieve the award. The full report can be read here.
Shared Education Event at Parish Center
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.
NIFSA Forest School - February 2024
Plant a tree event at KNS- One Million Trees project.
A great big thank you to all the kind volunteers that came on 31st January 2024 to help the children plant a tree in support of the One Million Trees project. It was fantastic to see the children so happy being out in nature and our school grounds looking clean and tidy from the litter pick. Thank you also to Aodhan O'Kane from the Belfast Hills Partnership for supplying the variety of trees.
You can find more information about this initiative on https://belfasthills.org/projects/one-million-trees/
February Newsletter
Our Newsletter for February 2024 is attached here. This includes details of the upcoming events and activities planned for this month.
We are aiming for Gold!
Thank you to all the parents that attended the informative session on our journey from Silver to Gold Rights Respecting School Award from UNICEF.
The assessment day will take place on 8th February and we are looking forward to inviting a member of the UNICEF team to see how rights are embedded in Knockbreda Nursery School.
NIFSA Forest School - January 2024
January Newsletter
Our January Newsletter with details of all of our planned activities and events is attached here. The School calendar for the remainder of the year is included.
Our First Term!
We have had a lot of fun during our first term at school! Have a look at the photos to see how busy we have been and how much we have learnt!
Visit from the E.L.F
We were delighted to receive a very special visit from the North Pole! Ellie the E.L.F. (Environmental Litter Friend) came to tell us about how Captain Cleanup saved Christmas last year after all the grownups had littered in Belfast and Santa’s boots got covered in dog’s poo and the reindeers’ hooves were covered on gum and rubbish. We promised to help Santa this year by making sure the grownups put the rubbish in the bin and remember to bring poo bags to clean up after their dogs.
Christmas Jumper Day
Thank you for taking part on Christmas Jumper Day and for giving generously to Save The Children.
We talked to the children about the reason for giving money to this charity and we sang our Rights Respecting Song as we remembered how lucky we are to have our rights respected.
Shared Education event- Visit from St. Bernard's Preschool
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.
