News 2024-2025
Congratulations to our Mathseeds and Freckle Winners in Term 1B
P2 brought lots of Christmas Cheer to pupils, parents, guardians and staff this week!
23 pupils in P6PS will become published poets in the new year, when their poems are included in a new poetry anthology. How proud are we?!
Merry Christmas from P1. We hope you loved our Christmas Cheer as much as we did.
Enjoying Hot Chocolate Treats with Mrs Roleston
Pupil Leadership Roles 2024-2025
Congratulations to all the pupils from P5-7 who applied for leadership roles in our school. Putting yourselves forwards and being willing to take the lead and promote the pupil voice within our school is so important. Pupils chosen will have opportunities to develop their leadership skills. Within these roles they can make changes, voice their opinion, fundraise and lead school assemblies. They play an active role in their learning and advocate for change.
Congratulations! We look forward to see what amazing things you do this year!
Christmas Carol Service 2024
Congratulations to the staff and pupils in P6 and the choir who led our Christmas Carol Service on Monday 16th December. The P6 pupils outdid themselves with excellent speaking parts and some fantastic acting too. The choir, as always sang beautifully and this was rounded off with a very special song by the staff choir and a final whole song song too. Now it definitely feels like Christmas!
Willy, the minister in Holy Trinity church was so impressed by the pupils and he enjoyed a bit of a chuckle at some of the funny acting scenes too. He congratulated pupils on bringing the spirit of Christmas to all of us. Well done everyone! We are so very proud of you all!
Journey to Santa
We made it to Santa!
So many children participated and completed 15 Active Travel Journey’s to and home from school. Congratulations to all our children and to the lucky prize winners!
Choir Spread Some Festive Cheer at Tesco 17th December
Our wonderful and hard working school choir paid a visit to Tesco this morning and had a great time entertaining some local shoppers! Thank you to Colette, Laura and Jolene , our Parent helpers for walking with us! Thanks to our parent Lynsey who is the Tesco Community Champion for having us! And thanks to the many parents who turned out to support us and sing along!
Congratulations to Katie - our latest AR word millionaire!
Whole School Trip to IMC cinema
Staff and pupils enjoyed an end of term trip to IMC cinema to see Paddington 3. A huge thank-you to all of the lovely staff there who looked after us all.
Dream Space Digital Ambassadors
On Tuesday 10th December our Dream Space Ambassadors received their second training session with Dream Space on Minecraft - The Hour of Code. The ambassadors were really engaged in the training and are super keen to get out and share the new skills they have learned with small groups and hopefully some whole classes after Christmas. Keep up the excellent work everyone!
Boogie Woogie Nativity
P3 had so much fun performing the ‘Boogie Woogie Nativity’ to our school pupils, parents and guardians this week. We also welcomed local schools and nurseries to join us including Donard School, Kids Academy and Little Friends! We are certainly feeling the Christmas Spirit!☃️❄️
Cross-Country Race on 6th December
Santa's Daily Mile
On Friday 6th December staff and pupils enjoyed wearing 'Christmas-themed' head gear on their daily mile. We all love top get out into the fresh air to clear our heads, chat with friends and get some much needed exercise.
Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day
Everyone in the school community enjoyed wearing their Christmas jumpers to school on Thursday 5th December. Look at all those smiling faces!
Lots of people enjoyed eating a delicious Christmas dinner prepared by our hardworking canteen staff. Thank-you to all of them - the dinner was delicious!
Peace Proms Practice
Pupils involved in the Peace Proms coir headed off to the SSE in Belfast for a practice today. Lots of excitement. Pupils had a fabulous time.
The first of the Flahavan's Primary Cross Country league races was held at Portadown Rugby Club this morning. Bridge IPS was represented by a strong team of 16 runners who took part in the fun run and team race events. The weather stayed dry and was mild. The course was muddy and soft in some places, but mostly fair underfoot, which meant good times for everyone. The enthusiasm of the runners was met by the encouragement and team support on the side of the course. Well done Team Bridge!
Congratulations to the P5 Freckle users
Halloween Dress up fun and Scavenger Hunt
To see photos click Halloween
Congratulations to Jonah and Rhys in P5T on becoming Accelerated Reader Word Millionaires!
Congratulations to Connor, Chloe and William who each won a £20 Amazon Voucher for guessing the Masked Singers on Wednesday night.
Raising Awareness, Showing Kindness and Finding Ways we Can Help Others Communicate
Bridge Primary enjoyed 2 special visits for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Day.
Nichola and Luca McDonald share their wonderful resources from ‘Luca’s Voice’ and Frances and Jamie Dorrian shared their hard work with the ‘Buddy Chat’ program!
Many thanks to our hardworking parents and pupils for raising the profile of language difficulties!
Gaelic Tournament
Well done to all our Gaelic footballers who took part in a blitz today, Friday 18th October at Clann na Banna! Our boys’ team came in 3rd place!
First EVO Soccer Tournament
Bridge IPS Football teams had a great day at EVO soccer first tournament of 2024 on Thursday 10th October. Thanks to Paul Evans for hosting! Team 1 went unbeaten all morning! ⚽️
VR Taster Sessions
P5-7 enjoyed a tester session with VR today with Andrew and Erin from Burns Skills School. This very exciting afterschool club will start after half term. Keep an eye out on the school app for more details as there only be 20 spaces available from after Halloween to Christmas. However if there is more demand there will an opportunity after the Christmas holidays to apply again.
Celebrating Our Grandparents
On Friday 4th October 2024 we welcomed over 179 grandparents or special family members into our school. It was so lovely to see the pupils enjoying having fun and spending time with these special adults.
Thank-you to everyone who was able to make it in on Friday and also those who were able to come in earlier in the week to read stories in P.1-P4.
Happy Grandparents Day!
Click: Grandparents to see lots more photos of happy smiling faces.
Lifeskills Group
Mrs Proctor brought some keen shoppers from her Lifeskills group to Tesco to do some shopping. David McKay from Tesco gave a kind donation so that the pupils could go shopping for some ingredients. We look forward to seeing some of the tasty treats they bake this year!
Congratulations to all our October Award winners!
Masked Singer
Wednesday 16th October was certainly a night to remember in Bridge IPS. What can we say about our recent Masked Singer event? It was absolutely AMAZING!!
AR Word Millionaire
Congratulations to Charlie P5T who became the first AR word Millionaire this year, after only a few weeks!
