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Antrim Primary School |
31 Station Road, Antrim, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland BT41 4AB |
Antrim Primary School is now involved in an exciting project, where our school is now having close links with a school in Brandenburg (Germany) and a school in Hungary. Children from Key Stage 2 will have the opportunity over the next three years (and hopefully for several more years to come!) to communicate and share ideas with boys and girls from the other two European schools. Two teachers from the German and Hungarian schools will be visiting us from Monday 6th November to Wednesday 8th November. During this visit the foreign teachers will have the opportunity to meet the pupils and staff of Antrim Primary School and later in 2007 the visits will be reciprocated to Hungary and Germany. Over the next few months Mr. Magrath's Primary 7 class will be recording a video, which with help from the ICT department at the Antrim Board Centre, will be turned into a dvd. This dvd will be sent to the German and Hungarian schools showing some of the aspects of everyday school life at Antrim Primary. There will be several collaborative projects and visits between the three schools over the next few years and details of these will appear on this page. We are also looking forward to be able to display pictures and information on our website from our partner schools. Keep watching this page in coming days to find out more about how our project is developing! |
The two German and two Hungarian visiting teachers in Mr. Magrath's room with all the pupils in his P7 class. Also pictured are Mr. Magrath and Mr. Patterson. |
Our visitors enjoying a lesson about our local environment in Mrs McKee's classroom. |
Enjoying a mental Maths lesson in Mr. Magrath's class. |
Watching a music lesson with Mrs. Mooney. |
The 4 visiting teachers discussing an Art lesson with Mrs. McConnell. |
Chatting to the children after a music lesson in Mrs. Moore's room. |
Admiring the efforts of children in Mrs. Reid's class. |
In discussion with Mrs. Stewart during a classroom visit. |
The Hungarian visiting teachers presented with some gifts at the end of their visit to Antrim Primary School. |
The two German visiting teachers receiving some gifts from children on the last day of their visit to Antrim Primary School. |
COMENIUS CHRISTMAS TREE |
Children from the three participating Comenius schools (Antrim, Germany and Hungary) made traditional Christmas decorations. Some of these were then sent to the other two schools, helping make a Comenius Christmas tree. Our children duly received decorations from Germany and Hungary last week and a Christmas tree (beside our Comenius notice board) was covered with the decorations. As you will see in the photos below, there was much excitement opening the parcels and admiring the handiwork from our partner schools. Thank you very much - and we are sure you also enjoyed the decorations made by Antrim Primary School pupils. |
Ready to open the box of decorations and Christmas treats from our German friends. |
Inside the box were several more smaller boxes containing beautiful decorations and chocolate treats. |
The children were delighted with the gorgeous decorations which will look great on our Comenius tree. |
There was even an advent calendar containing little treats for the children - MMMMM - can't wait to open them! |
Everyone watching expectantly as one of the children is ready to open the box sent from Hungary. |
There were lots of lovely gifts to put on our Comenius tree - and presents for the children - from Hungary. |
We can all see the decorations and sweets sent from Hungary. Thank you! |
Some of the Antrim Primary School pupils are shown how to make an edible penguin by Mrs. Cummings. |
The finished article! Now the children are going to make some to send to Germany and Hungary. |
Great concentration as the penguins are being made. The finished articles were sent to Hungary and Germany for their children to enjoy.. |
Our Comenius Christmas tree filled with decorations made by German children, Hungarian pupils and also work from our own Antrim children. The tree looks really well in our foyer, admired by many of the visitors to our school. A superb collaborative effort from the three schools. Well done! A great start to our Comenius project! |
Click on the link below to see pictures of the trip to Dolgelin, Germany. |
A surpise for Hungary! |
Three children from Antrim Primary School displaying a present for the children of our Hungarian Comenius School, Vorosmarty Mihaly Altalanos Kozep Es Muveszeti Iskola. The present, made by children from each year group in Antrim Primary School, was winging its way to Hungary over the May Bank holiday! |