Welcome to the News section of the website. I hope you find it interesting and useful in keeping you informed of the many events that happen in Victoria Park School.

• Hustle Award Winner!

  Fri 05 Apr 2024

  Congratulations to Murphy from Room 14 for winning awards for defense, spirit and being helpful at the PeacePlayers - Northern Ireland Easter basketball camp this week. He also made lots of new friends. Well done Murphy!

  

• Mathematical Association's Primary Mathematics Challenge

  Sat 23 Mar 2024

  A massive well done to Loghan from P7 Room 14 on being the first Victoria Park pupil to ever sit the bonus round of the Mathematical Association's Primary Mathematics Challenge (we had two boys, Harrison Brown and Gavin Wang, who had previously reached the bonus round in 2021 but they never actually got the opportunity to take it because of the lockdown). He received this certificate from the organisers to recognise his achievement.

  

• Acrobatic Gymnastics and Tumbling Championships

  Thu 21 Mar 2024

  On Sunday, five of our incredible P6 and P7 gymnasts competed in Northern Ireland Schools’ Acrobatic Gymnastics and Tumbling Championships at Bangor Aurora. We had Bai and Sonia as well as Rosa and Oliwia competing in the acrobatic pairs and Renée competing in the tumbling section. This is our first year of running Gymnastics Club at Victoria Park and we are so proud to see what the girls achieved in such a short time under the expert tutelage of Mrs Hamilton and Mrs Perrott. It was a tough competition and we are so pleased with the girls’ achievements, as well as how supportive they have been of each other and how committed they’ve been to attend practices running up to the competition. It was a fabulous day. Well done girls and a massive thank you to Mrs Hamilton and Mrs Perrott for an incredible amount of hard work leading this new club for the school and giving up part of their weekend to accompany the team.

  

• BPSFA 5-a-Side Semi-Finals

  Wed 06 Mar 2024

  Our girls did themselves proud this reaching the semi-final stage at the BPSFA 5-a-Side Tournament finals at Shankill Leisure Centre this afternoon. After three draws against Lowwood, Seaview and Nettlefield and a narrow loss against eventual winners, Lisnasharragh, in the group stage, they then played the winners of the other pool, Holy Child, in the semis as runners-up. Our girls took the lead but Holy Child quickly equalised and the score remained 1-1. It then went to extra-time and Holy Child scored in the closing minute. A massive well done to Tanya and the team on the superb performances over the two afternoons.

  

• Girls Football Team Progresses to the Finals!

  Tue 27 Feb 2024

  All Tanya's hard work with our girls every Wednesday after school paid off handsomely this afternoon as the team progressed to the finals of the BPSFA 5-a-Side Tournament at Shankill Leisure Centre. After narrowly losing their first game 2-1 against Holy Child, they soon clicked into gear drawing 1-1 with Seaview in the second game and then finishing off the group matches with 3-0 and 2-0 wins against St Theresa's and St Therese of Lisieux respectively. The finals take place next Tuesday. Thanks to all the parents who came down to cheer them on. Well done Tanya and the girls!

  

• Congratulations to Lillie

  Wed 07 Feb 2024

  Big congratulations to Lillie in P2 Room 4 for competing recently in the All Ireland Dance Championships 2024. She won first place in the Jazz category and was placed 2nd and 3rd in two further events. We are super proud of you Lillie. Well done!

  

• Medics in Primary Schools Initiative

  Tue 06 Feb 2024

  Our P7s have just completed their participation in the Medics in Primary Schools initiative with Queen's University medical students Rachel Lipson and Rachel Scott. They visited the two classes every Thursday morning for the last two months to deliver a science and health education programme. We would like to thank the two Rachels for all their hard work and making learning about the human body so fun!

  

• Best of Luck to Loghan!

  Tue 30 Jan 2024

  We were delighted to receive the news that Loghan from Room 14 has been invited to take part in the Bonus Round of the Mathematical Association's Primary Mathematics Challenge next week after scoring 20 out of 25 in the PMC before Christmas. What makes it even more impressive is that he is only the third child from Victoria Park to achieve this feat. We wish him all the best.

  

• Ashfield Football Tournament

  Tue 30 Jan 2024

  We were delighted to recently take two teams to the Ashfield football tournament. They were placed into groups of 6 teams and each team played five group matches. Both teams got off to a great start, winning their opening matches: the A team 2-0 with two goals by Jack and the B team 1-0 with a good finish by Nathan.

  The two teams played very well in what was a high quality tournament as always. The A team managed to qualify third in their group but were cruelly beaten 1-0 in their semi-final, while the B team put in a huge effort in all their games. All players should be proud of themselves and how they represented our school. Thanks to Mr Gullen for organising our participation and the Ashfield PE department for inviting us along.

  

• Poppy Appeal

  Wed 29 Nov 2023

  Thanks for the amazing support for The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. We managed to raise an amazing £637.57!