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.

• 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!

  

• P5 Trip to Ulster Museum

  Thu 08 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  P5 had a wonderful day out at the Ulster Museum last week. After braving the cold and snowy conditions, the pupils came face to face with a 3000 year old mummy and even turned into professional archaeologists, handling real life shabti which were over 3000 years old. They explored the museum and investigated a range of real life and replica Egyptian artefacts which brought their learning to life. A big thank you to Ellen's mum, Sebastian's mum and Bailey’s mum and Zoey’s dad who helped with the trip.

  

• Peace Players Super Twinning Day

  Tue 06 Feb 2018 Mr Rankin

  Mr Ryden's class and Mr Gullen's class had a fantastic time at the PeacePlayers Super Twinning Day at Queen's PEC last week. They took part in a variety of activities with pupils from St Joseph's. A special mention to Henry, Dylan, Nicole, Calum and Zoe who were presented with trophies for being the outstanding members of their teams by their coaches. Sarah-Jane, Ryan and Keisha were also presented with medals for being on the best team during the day.

  

• Health Fair

  Wed 24 Jan 2018 Mr Rankin
  Our parent support officer, Rachel, has organised a Health Fair on Thursday morning in the school hall. There will be a wide variety of different organisations with stands: EBCDA (nutrition/smoking/mental health); Cancer Focus (sun safety and general health/cancer prevention); Belfast Trust (oral health); Parenting NI; NI Chest, Heart and Stroke; Autism NI; Disability Sport NI; and Belfast City Council (preventing food waste). There are also health check options such as diabetic risk assessment and blood pressure. It would be great to see you there.

  

• Ashfield Boys' Primary School Soccer Sevens tournament

  Mon 22 Jan 2018 Mr Rankin

  After coming close for so many years, our football team finally won the Ashfield Boys' Primary School Soccer Sevens tournament on Friday Morning. They beat St Matthew's 1-0 in the final. Kameron Black was also named as the Player of the Tournament by the organisers. Our B team also made it through the group stage before losing their semi-final against Orangefield. A massive well done to Mr Dunlop and all the boys who represented the school so magnificently.