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.

• P4 Trip to Ulster Museum

  Tue 27 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  The P4 classes had a great time visiting the Ulster Museum last week and took part in a World War 2 workshop. Thanks to all the parents who helped accompany the children.

  

• PSNI Visit to P7

  Mon 26 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin
  Our P7 classes were visited on Friday by Damian, one of the Community Officers at Strandtown Police Station. He chatted to them about his job and answered all their different questions. He will be making a few visits over the coming weeks delivering the CASE programme

  

• Dumbworld’s production of 'Rain Falling Up'

  Mon 26 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  Miss Boyd's class are busy rehearsing for Dumbworld’s production of 'Rain Falling Up' taking place in the Ulster Hall on Friday 16th March. They’ve had dance lessons, singing lessons and even created some of the props. The musical is all about a little boy who invents a Gravity Switch and the music will be provided by the Ulster Orchestra. Ticket can be purchased by clicking the link below and you can use the promotional code DWRFU2018 to get a discount on 2 adult tickets. This is an incredible opportunity for our pupils and Miss Boyd will send home further details for parents.

  https://www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk/event/rain-falling-up/

  

• Man of the Match

  Mon 26 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin
  Congratulations to Harry who was Mr Gullen's pick for best player at the finals of the 5-a-side football tournament last week. He pulled off a string of fantastic saves. Well done Harry on your second award of the year!

  

• Rainbow Communications 5-a-Side Tournament

  Mon 26 Feb 2018

  Our footballers had a great afternoon taking part in the finals of the Rainbow Communications 5-a-Side Tournament at Shankill Leisure Centre last week and finished in third place overall. Thanks to Mr Gullen for accompanying the boys. Well done boys!

• Chinese New Year

  Mon 19 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gong Hei Fat Choy! We celebrated the Chinese New Year early last Friday. Here are some photos from P7 Room 13, P4 Room 8 and P1 Room 2. Miss Campbell's class had a go at using chop sticks to lift sweets. They also sampled pea crackers (they were not very nice!), prawn crackers, fortune cookies and Chinese New Year ‘Lucky Candy’! They also had a go at origami. P1 read a story about the animals of the Chinese zodiac and found out which animal it was in the year they were born. They also made cards and coloured pictures for the Year of the Dog. They looked at some Chinese new year decorations and watched a parade. Mrs Adams wanted to show off Zak's amazing face paintings. Brilliant Zak!

  

• Rainbow Communications 5-a-Side Tournament

  Thu 08 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  Our footballers continued their rich vein of form as they progressed to the finals of the Rainbow Communications 5-a-Side Tournament. They topped their group at Shankill Leisure Centre this afternoon winning their games against Donegall Road, Cliftonville and St Theresa's and drawing against Christ the Redeemer and Currie. Well done to Mr Dunlop and the boys.

• P7 trip to RADAR Centre

  Thu 08 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  The P7s had a very enjoyable and informative morning at the RADAR centre in Sydenham Harbour Estate. RADAR is Northern Ireland’s only life sized interactive safety and life skills education centre. The children took part in interactive workshops on fire safety, home safety, bus safety, road safety and online safety. We are very grateful to Belfast City Council for funding our visit. Thanks to Ashton's mum for helping out on the trip.

  

• Connective Learing day at Ashfield Boys High School

  Thu 08 Feb 2018 Mr rankin

  Our P7 classes had an appsolutely fabulous time at Ashfield Boys' High School this week. They were learning to create their own apps using App Inventor 2 with Mr Lowe from the school's ICT department on our Connective Learning days there. It was amazing what they achieved in a few hours.

  

• January Stand Cinema ticket winners

  Thu 08 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  Congratulations to our latest winners of Strand Cinema tickets: Sofia (P1 Room 1), Lucy (P2 Room 4), Eva (P3 Room 6), Oliwia (P4 Room 7), Jeremiah (P5 Room 9), Reuben (P6 Room 11) and Jayden (P7 Room 13). Their names were picked out of the hat for achieving 100% attendance in January. Well done guys!