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What a Night!

Thu 25 Apr 2024

The opening night was awesome. The closing night promises to be a classic. If you didn't manage to get tickets, never fear. The video will be coming to a screen near you soon!

Robin & the Sherwood Hoodies

Tue 23 Apr 2024

Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies are in town making last minute preparations for two stunning shows - one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Look out for low flying arrows!

Big Breakfast Cheque Presentation

Mon 22 Apr 2024

It was good to welcome Malcolm and Stephen from Moneyrea Masonic Lodge 556 to our assembly this morning. They presented a cheque for £250 to the school which had been raised at a free Big Breakfast 🍳 🥓 coffee ☕️ for our local senior citizens.

Also pictured are our Moneyrea Marvels 🌟and Phoebe who was talking to the children about science 🧪.

Olympic 'Come and Try' Taster Event

Thu 18 Apr 2024

Please find attached a flyer for an ‘Olympic Come and Try’ Taster event to be held in Moneyreagh Community Centre on Thursday 2 May from 7pm.

LCCC hope to use this event to engage with local young people in Moneyreagh to see what sort of planned activities they would be likely engage in if we were to look at offering something over the summer/Autumn period.

Please share this event on your social media and ensure that local families know that this is happening?

A flyer is up in the Community Centre noticeboard.

Please note anyone who has children (8 - 14 yrs) who are interested in attending need to register by emailing richie@healthy-kidz.com

Many thanks

Gina Biggerstaff

LCCC

Community Development Officer

Nursery And Year 1 Admissions

Thu 18 Apr 2024

Dear Parent/Guardian,

I wish to advise you that the EA will issue an email notification on Thursday, 25 April 2024 informing you of the outcome of your child’s application to nursery/primary school for September 2024.

Emails will be issued to almost 24,000 parents and consequently some parents will receive their email before others. It is intended that all parents should have received their notification by 10:00am. If you do not receive an email please remember to check your junk mail and other folders.

It is not necessary for you to log into the online portal to view the outcome of your child’s application. However, if desired, you may log in on Thursday, 25 April 2024 at the link below. Remember to use a supported browser, e.g. Google Chrome, Safari or Microsoft Edge.

https://connect.eani.org.uk/parent

Your login details are the email address and password you registered with when you applied online. You can check these details by visiting the link above and can use the ‘forgot password’ link to receive an email to reset your password, if required.

A large volume of parents may log in on notification day. The first few hours are likely to be the busiest period and you may be placed in a queue. You may wish to consider logging in at a less busy time.

Information on what action you need to take, if any (depending on the outcome of your application), will be available on the EA website https://www.eani.org.uk/parents/admissions.

For help and advice you can contact our Admissions Helpline on 028 9598 5595 or via email to preschooladmissions@eani.org.uk or primaryadmissions@eani.org.uk.

Kind regards,

Admissions Administrator (EA)

Education Minister Visits Moneyrea PS and Nursery

Thu 11 Apr 2024

We are grateful to the Education Minister, Mr Paul Givan MLA for spending a morning with the children and staff of Moneyrea.

We also welcomed officials from the Department of Education and Education Authority, along with school governors and our PTA Chair.

The Minister was welcomed to Moneyrea by 4 members of our School Student Council.

The morning commenced with a Welcome Assembly to showcase some of our pupils' amazing talents.

Our assembly began with a rousing rendition of our morning praise song, The Rainbow , followed by a Highland Dance demonstration by Joel and Angela who performed 'Seann Triubhas' (Old Trousers), a flawless violin duet by Sienna and Aryia who played 'Ode to Joy', a mesmerising drum solo by Josh and a pitch perfect performance of 'Let it Be' by our school choir.

Rev. Mark Brown concluded our assembly with a prayer for our school community and the Minister and all those who work in the DE and EA to support our schools.

We then enjoyed an informal chat with the Minister over coffee when we had opportunity to discuss:

1. Funding of Primary and Nursery Schools.

2. The need to promote and acknowledge the inclusive ethos of our Controlled Schools.

3. The need for school counsellors in primary schools.

4. Supportive approaches to school inspection.

5. The importance of primary children learning a second language.

6. The importance of the DE and EA working in partnership with our schools for the benefit of all of our children.

7.The need for more PGCE places in Northern Ireland for teacher training.

The Minister and our guests were then taken on a whistle-stop tour of the school by our Yr7 School Council reps. It was good to see how comfortable the Minister was in talking to our children and staff. I know our staff were pleased that the Minister took time to visit all of our classrooms and the children thoroughly enjoyed asking the Minister all sorts of wonderful unscripted questions .

The photos below give a little flavour of the visit.