Simon Community Christmas Appeal

We had an overwhelming response from prep parents to the Community Action Group’s call for donations of tinned food, toiletries and other essentials for the Simon Community charity. Representatives from the charity collected the donations today to help people in need, ably helped by members of CAG.

‘A Christmas Carol’

P6 and 7 enjoying a drama production of A Christmas Carol yesterday hosted by Inst and performed by RBAI and Victoria College pupils.

Forest School play

Pre-School girls donned their cosy splash suits and wellies and took advantage of the crisp, bright Autumn weather to go outdoors for Forest School play and built some homes for teddies!

Toy time with nanny

Prep 2 girls had a visit from Nanny Thompson from Mount Stewart and they learnt about the toys Lady Rose use to play with including a hard teddy bear, a porcelain doll, a jack in the box and a magic coin trick. They heard about the materials used to make toys in the past and compared how toys move differently today than in the past. The girls even got to play with some of Lady Rose’s toys.

And relax….

P7 took some time out ahead of the first SEAG Assessment paper last week to relax with a yoga class in the morning and in the afternoon the girls showed off their culinary skills by baking some very tasty cookies. Yummy!

Prep 1 Literacy and Maths Challenge

Prep 1 were busy today using different skills in Literacy, and then had a Maths challenge. It was tricky! We had to colour caterpillars using patterns of 2, 3 and then 4 colours .... go outside to find leaves the correct size ... cut out the caterpillars and stick them onto their leaves and then, stick the finished leaves in size order starting with the smallest, onto coloured card!

Ulster Scots Collaboration

Mrs Carson Hair and her father, Sammy, visited Prep 1 to teach the girls some traditional musical instruments, Mrs Carson Hair leads Ulster Scots music and interschool collaboration projects across Prep.

Fundraising for playground equipment

P6 Pupils April and Coco worked very hard selling bracelets to raise funds for new playground equipment that all the girls can enjoy. Thank you so much, girls!

Children in Need fundraising

Thank you to Prep 3 teacher, Mrs Glover, the CAG girls and to everyone who contributed to this worthy cause.

FoP Calendar competition design winners

Mrs Coggins representing Friends of Prep and artist Rebecca Murphy with Abigail (P5), whose design will appear on the VCB Prep calendar cover and Emily (P2), whose design will appear on the back cover of the calendar. Beautiful work, girls!