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Camphill Primary School, Ballymena
If you ordered a Class photograph from Lafayette Photography it will be home with your child at the start of this week. | The School Nursing Team will be in Camphill this Friday administering the FLU Vaccination to P1 - P7 pupils. | Senior Choir members from P6 & P7 will be performing on BBC Newsline in December (date to be confirmed) ....... Parents of P6 & P7 choir members please see your Parentmail this week.  | Poppies will be on sale in school this week - minimum 50p donation. | ANNUAL TOY SALE is coming next FRIDAY 15th November...... all donations are now welcome...... | P2 parents - 'Three Little Builders' STEM workshop in school this Tuesday. | P3 & P4AMcL parents attending the 'Fresh Little Minds' workshop this Wednesday - The workshop will take place from 2-3pm - please see your Parentmail for details.  | P4 parents - Class Visit to Ballymena Library this Thursday - have you given permission for your child to go - via your Parentmail payment?  | P6 parents - pupils in P6 go to Ballymena Academy this Tuesday to see 'The Addams Family' musical - have you given permission via your Parentmail payment?  | P6 Nov/Dec swimming payment opens on Mon. 4th Nov - see Parentmail for details. | P6 parents - See information in Parentmail regarding a 'Viking Workshop' coming to school in Jan'25. | School Car parking reminder - as we move into the darker mornings and afternoons please remember to drive safely around school grounds. At morning drop-off time this is a reminder that no one should be stopping on the roundabout - cars should keep moving at all times to allow the swift flow of traffic in and out of school grounds.  Thank you. 
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P4JC Celebrations

21st Mar 2022

P4JC really enjoyed learning about our World Around Us theme 'Celebrations'.

We found out lots of new and interesting information about how we celebrate and also thought about how people from other places celebrate too.

First we learnt about Christmas and compared Christmas Celebrations from around the world. Then we looked at New Year, followed by Chinese New Year.

We were very interested to find out facts about China, its people and places, as well as some of the traditions of Chinese New Year. Do you know how long it would take to walk the whole Great Wall of China? Ask one of our class and they will tell you... (hint... If we started now, we would be in P6 before we got to the end!!) We even wrote some facts about Chinese New Year and recorded ourselves presenting them on a green screen to look like we were at the Great Wall of China!

We thought about other times we celebrate, such as Weddings, Easter, if we win something and especially our Birthdays. Some of our class shared their tradition of Name Day which we found very interesting. 

We even talked about Birthday celebrations in the past compared to how we celebrate now. 

We looked at paintings by the Artist Piet Mondrian, and used these to help us make our own mixed media Mondrian inspired Hearts for Valentine's Day. We will keep thinking about Mondrian's work to help inspire us with some activities for our next theme, Home Sweet Home.

Have a look at some of the things we have been doing.