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• Brooklands gets blinged for the Big Pedal!

  Sat 30 Mar 2019

   

  The Big Pedal continued in dazzling style on Friday in Brooklands with a very special 'Bling Your Bike or Scooter to School Day'! Hundreds of pupils added a variety of 'bling' to their 2 wheeled transport - as well as themselves - our playground was a sea of sparkle, colour and style! Mrs Smart, Mr Massey and Mr Henry headed out first thing for a cycle around the streets surrounding the school and were joined by our friends Alan and Shelley from the PSNI. We celebrated together in a special fun Assembly with prizes, singing and dancing in true crazy Brooklands style! The Newtownards Chronicle arrived later in the day to photograph the entire school with their bikes and scooters - look out for photos in the newspaper soon!

  Thank you to 440 pupils who paid £1.00 on the day to book their place at next Friday's (5th April) hot dog breakfast which will bring this year's Big Pedal to a conclusion.

  It was fantastic to see so many boys and girls blinging their way to school - join us on Monday (1st April) for the Big Walk of Fools (check the date again!) when we will walk to school together starting at Longstone School at 8.30am...don't be late!

  

• 3rd Place Winners - Environmental Youth Speak 2019!

  Wed 27 Mar 2019 F. Smart
  Lennon and Kacper proudly represented Brooklands in this year's Environmental Youth Speak Competition on the 27th March. With outstanding entries from twelve different primary schools throughout Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, we were delighted when our very own pirate duo - 'Captain Kasp Spyro' and 'Lennon Long John Silver Beard' were awarded 3rd place! They had the audience and judges in laughter as they took us on a journey through The 5 Arggghhhs, oh sorry The 5 Rs - Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot! We have all learnt a lot by studying these important environmental issues and well done to all P6 and P7 children who entered our in-school competition, you were all fabulous. A very special congratulations to our two m' hearties who saw Brooklands win 3rd place!  

• Big Pedal launch!

  Mon 25 Mar 2019

  The whole school gathered together this afternoon to launch 2 weeks of cycling, scooting and walking to school as part of the UK wide 'Big Pedal' event!

   

  Mr Massey, Mrs Smart and Mr Henry have put together a variety of events to make the fortnight a lot of fun!

   

  This Friday: Bling your Bike or Scooter AND  Yourself to School Day - no uniform - bring £1 and dress yourself and your mode of transport to impress- sparkly, shiny, jazzy - whatever you want! Brilliant prizes to be won!

   

  Monday 1st April: The Big Fools Walk to School - starting at Longstone School at 8:30 - be part of the first ever Brookies 'Walking Bus' to school - more details to follow!

   

  Friday 5th April: If you paid your £1 the previous Friday when blinging your way to Brookies...you get a hot dog and drink for breakfast!

   

  Full details in a note home and via text to parents and guardians.

   

  Don't miss out - it will be WHEELY, WHEELY good fun!

  

• What a World Book Day!

  Thu 07 Mar 2019

  WOW! What a day at Brooklands Primary School! World Book Day has been a MASSIVE success! We welcomed Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Oompa Lumpas, Gangsta Granny, Horrid Henry, The Cat in the Hat... and hundreds more fantastic book characters...thanks to pupils and parents for all the effort put into today's costumes!

   

  Thanks too to our magnificent staff team in the school - their hard work and dedication to the pupils in their care - and their capacity to allow themselves to be laughed at AND with ... is second to none! 

   

  More to follow in due course! :)

  

• 2 days into World Book Week!

  Tue 05 Mar 2019

   

  World Book Week is in full swing at Brooklands Primary!

  On Monday we welcomed retired principal Mr McCartney back to school as a Secret Storyteller along with Mr Henry's brother Simon! They surprised the P4s and P5s and read a variety of funny and well known stories! 

  On Tuesday, there was lots of movement between classrooms as pupils enjoyed a Story Swap with another year group...P7s read to P4s, P2s read to P6s...P5s read to P3s...P4s read to P1s and so many more exchanges! It was a really wonderful, encouraging experience for staff and pupils!

  COMING UP!

  Extreme Expression contest P4s to P7s on Wednesday afternoon with guest judges...

  WORLD BOOK DAY on Thursday...dress up as a book character ...plus P1s to P3s Pyjama Party in the evening....(£3.00 per child, MUST be booked)

  EXTREME READING...which class will win the treat break and a mountain of new books for their classroom? Get your photo into your teacher so each display can be made before Friday!

   

  Stay involved - it's fantastic!

  MH

  

• World Book Week is here!

  Sun 03 Mar 2019

   

  3...2...1....let's go! Brooklands' first ever World Book Week (and after consulting the internet, possibly a world's first?!?) gets underway this week 4th - 8th March with a variety of events in school aimed at stimulating and enhancing each child's love of reading! 

   

  Mon 4th : Secret Storytellers ... which well known faces will visit the P4 and P5 classrooms to share a story?

   

  Tues 5th: Story Swap ... which other class will each child visit to read aloud or welcome to their classroom to hear a story from?

   

  Wed 6th: Extreme Expression ...who will represent their class to read aloud in front of all of P4-7 and the guest judges in this brand new competition?

   

  Thurs 7th: WORLD BOOK DAY - we will join with thousands of other schools to celebrate all things book related! Dress up as a famous book character at NO CHARGE...just for fun! P6/7s will enjoy a Drama workshop with a guest teacher and P4/5s will see the finished results in the afternoon!

  P1/2/3s...the World Book Day Pyjama Party at 6pm! Come back to school and hear some stories with milk and cookies - dress up in your pjs or onesies. *Cost £3.00 - booking closes on Tues 5th March*

   

  Fri 8th - World Book Week Celebration Assembly - the whole school will gather together to give out a raft of prizes, including the winning class in the Extreme Reading photo competition! 

   

  Phew! What a week ahead - and there's the World Book Day £1 book tokens for everyone too - get a FREE book at Asda/other bookshops!

   

  Don't miss a thing - see you there!

   

  MH

   

   

• Playtime fun ahead!

  Fri 01 Mar 2019

  Today our Pupil Council members unveiled the new playground equipment which has been purchased for both our infant and senior playgrounds!  Pupils can now look forward to trying archery, badminton and basketball during breaktime and lunchtime and there are also lots of new skipping ropes, football nets, balls and hoops to play with too!

  All of this equipment has been purchased with the sponsor money raised by our recent Fitness Freddy event so THANK YOU to everyone who helped to raise over £2200  - your support is much appreciated!