Sponsored Bounce
Congratulations to everyone involved in the sponsored bounce this year. With your help
we have raised a magnificent total of £1535.20. This money will provide additional
learning materials for use in the school, as well as allowing us to make a number of
donations to charities throughout the year. Thank-you for your generosity.
Santa’s Grotto and Christmas Sale £50 Toys R Us Voucher to win
The school will be open on Friday 2nd December from 7.00-9.00pm to welcome
Santa to his Grotto (7.00-8.15pm). Admission to the Sale is £1 per adult. Children are
free. Each adult will be entered into a draw for a £50 Toys R Us voucher.
A variety of stalls will also be available including art activities, face painting, tattoos,
bottle, cake, toys and other stalls. We look forward to seeing you there!
PTA Ballot
Tickets (£1 each) for a ballot are available for the following prizesA Hamper, a voucher for Sunday Carvery at Dobbin’s Inn for two people, a treatment at
Bridewell’s Beauty Studio, a voucher worth £25 for Versatile Hair Studio, a gift card
voucher from Tesco, a voucher from the Clarion Hotel and one from About Face, two Zoo
Park vouchers, two large pizza vouchers from Dominos Pizza. Tickets will be available at
Santa’s Grotto, our Year 1-4/5 presentation, or by forwarding your money to school in an
envelope marked School Ballot. We also have a guess the birth date of a Build a Bear,
one for boys and one for girls and guess the number of sweets in a jar, both of which
are available each day at the tuck shop, at the cost of 20p a guess. There is also a
Fireside Quiz available at £1 each, with a £20 prize.
School Carol Service
Our annual Carol Service will take place on Monday 5th December at 7.30pm in
St. Nicholas’ Church, Carrickfergus. You are warmly invited to attend this service and
celebrate with the school in our preparation for the Christmas season. Our collection at
this service will be donated to Childline. Pupils involved in the service should arrive at
church no earlier than 7.15pm.The service will last about one hour.
Town Hall Panto
The school will visit the Christmas Panto, “Santa’s Sooty Christmas“ which will be held in
the Town Hall on Tuesday 6th December at 9.30am. Pupils will walk to the Town Hall,
supervised by staff and return in time for lunch. There will be no charge for this
performance. School uniform will be worn. Please complete the reply slip below.
Principal: G.A. Campbell B.Ed., D.A.S.E., L.T.C.L.
Thomas Street, Carrickfergus BT38 8AL
Tel: (028) 93351272
Fax: (028) 9336 1577
Web-site: www.centralps.co.uk E -mail: info@centralps.co.uk
Christmas Presentations by Years 1-4/5.
Pupils in Years 1-4/5 will present their Christmas show on Wednesday 14th December
at 10.00am. We hope to see as many parents and friends as possible at this event,
which is always a wonderful experience. The doors open at 9.35am, with car parking
available in the school playground from 9.35am. The Year 4/5 class will present
Sulky Santa and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe and this will be followed by Years 1, 2 and 3
presenting Prickly Hay. You should allow at least an hour for both shows. You may take
your child home after their performance. If you would like a photograph of your child
in costume, please use the pre-order form enclosed with this newsletter.
Opera House Visit Jack and the Beanstalk
We travel to the Opera House on Friday 16th December and pupils will meet at the
Harbour Car Park at 12.45pm. There is no morning school on Friday.
We will leave for Belfast using three coaches and will return to the Harbour car park at
approximately 4.15pm. You should arrange to meet your child off the coach at this time.
Each coach will be numbered 1 and 2. Please leave and collect your child from the
appropriate coach- Coach 1 Mrs Blair’s class, Mrs Leathem’s class and Ms Chambers’
girls. Coach 2 Ms Chambers’ boys, Miss Hagan’s class and Miss Houston’s class.
Opera House Snack Pack
Rather than have our pupils try to buy tuck at the interval of Jack and the Beanstalk,
I am asking that you provide your child with three items of tuck that they can put into a
coat pocket. No carrier bags please. This should include a non fizzy drink and some
snacks. No food will be allowed to be eaten on the bus or before the interval. All pupils
should have their lunch before leaving home. No other sweets or money will be needed
at the Opera House.
PTA Support
The PTA has generously agreed to help support the cost of transport to the Opera
House. This has helped enormously to reduce the overall cost of the pantomime to each
family in school.
Gifts for Staff
Each year parents very kindly choose to buy a gift for staff. Although this is very
generous and gifts are gratefully received, we recognise that the additional financial and
organisational burden of buying gifts can be a problem. Last year we introduced the idea
of supporting a local charity 1 in 3 cancer support, which benefited from parents
donating a monetary gift in their child’s teacher’s name. We plan to repeat this alternate
Christmas Present idea this year and if you wish, we would encourage you to support it.
Thank you.
Exceptional School Closures
If the school has to close at short notice due to bad weather or some other exceptional
circumstance, you will be notified by text or phone as soon as a decision is reached. It is
essential that you keep us informed about changes to telephone numbers.
A web site www.nidirect.gov.uk/schoolclosures will provide further general details of
closures.
Principal: G.A. Campbell B.Ed., D.A.S.E., L.T.C.L.
Thomas Street, Carrickfergus BT38 8AL
Tel: (028) 93351272
Fax: (028) 9336 1577
Web-site: www.centralps.co.uk E -mail: info@centralps.co.uk
Board of Governors Parent Election
Mrs Fiona Montgomery was elected as a Parent Governor at a recent public meeting and together
with Mr Tommy Darrah will represent Parents on the Board of Governors.
Donate A Coat
Mrs Leathem and the pupils of P2/3 would like to thank everyone who donated a coat. We were
able to donate forty coats to the Salvation Army. Thank you.
School Dinners
A menu is available from the school for school dinners. If there is a particular meal your child
wants, please write and let us know on the Monday of the week, together with the dinner payment
and we will do our best to reserve that meal for him/her.
Christmas Parties
Our class parties will be held on Wednesday 21st December. Children may dress in their own party
clothes.
School Holidays
School will close for the Christmas holiday at noon on Wednesday 21st December and reopen on
Thursday 5th January 2012 at 9.00am. There will be no school dinners or school bus at noon on
Wednesday 21st December.
Christmas Greetings
May I take this opportunity on behalf of the Pupils, Staff and Governors of the school to wish you
all a very Happy Christmas.
_______________________________________________________________
Carrickfergus Central Primary School
Please complete this slip and return to school by
Friday 2nd December 2011 at 9.00am
I give permission for ________________________ to walk to the pantomime in the Town Hall on Tuesday
6th December and travel to the Opera House on Friday 16th December.
Signed __________________
Photographs of Pupils in Year 1-4/5
Please complete this slip and return to school by
Friday 2nd December 2011 at 9.00am
Please order ____ copy/ies of my child’s photograph of the Christmas play.
Pupil’s name ___________________
Copies are £1 each. I have enclosed £_________
PTA BALLOT
Please forward me ____ ballot ticket/s at the cost of £1 each. Enclosed £______
Parent of ___________________________
Tickets are available until Wednesday 14th December.
Principal: G.A. Campbell B.Ed., D.A.S.E., L.T.C.L.
Thomas Street, Carrickfergus BT38 8AL
Tel: (028) 93351272
Fax: (028) 9336 1577
Web-site: www.centralps.co.uk E -mail: info@centralps.co.uk