St John the Baptist Primary School Bunscoil Eoin Baiste

Welcome

Dear Parents/Guardians and Friends

It is my pleasure to invite you to our school website, thank you for visiting.

Fáilte go dtí suíomh idirlín Bhunscoil Eoin Baiste.

Welcome to St John the Baptist PS’s school website.

Our aim is to celebrate the achievements and talents of our children and to inform you and the entire community about everything we do in school for the boys and girls.

Please consider downloading the Schools NI app which will enable you to receive notifications from us.

Should you have any questions please contact us in school; we welcome any enquiries and will do our utmost to respond as quickly as we can.

Go raibh míle maith agaibh.

Mr J McComb

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Halloween Spooktacular

We have been busy planning lots of fun activities to make Halloween at St John’s a spooktacular place to be.

🎃 Pumpkin carving / decorating competition

This competition is open to all children in our school who wish to enter. Entry costs £1 and winners from each key stage will be announced on Friday 25th October. Carved/decorated pumpkins should be brought into school no later than Wednesday 23rd October with the child’s name and class clearly attached. We can’t wait to see these creations.

🧛‍♀️ Halloween Parade 🧙‍♀️

On Friday 25th October, all classes will participate in a Halloween parade - this year, our loved ones are invited to come along to see all the ghouls and ghosts dressed up in their spooky best.

Foundation Stage - 9.30am
Key Stage One - 10.00am
Key Stage Two - 10.30am

Prizes for best dressed, home made costumes in each key stage.

The Hatch Coffee Cart will be there for the duration of the Halloween parade for spectators to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea.

We look forward to seeing you all then.

Online Learning

Below are online learning links which we intend using throughout the course of this school year. Our pupils will be issued with digital passports detailing their usernames and passwords which are required for the various sites.

Our online learning journey is going to be like any journey, very exciting but sometimes stressful! We all having varying degrees of Wifi coverage, device usage and technological skills but we will work together to ensure that our pupils reach their online learning destination.

Accelerated Reading

Accelerated Reading is our online reading tool which monitors and evaluates the reading skills of our pupils.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is our online learning platform between home and school. See the Google Classroom login directions in our News section.

Mathletics

Mathletics is an award-winning online maths program used to help students learn maths in an engaging and fun way.

My School Login

Gives children access to school documents and apps including Newsdesk. Children require their C2K Username & password to access this (e.g. username: joebloggs192 password: password).