Bridge Integrated Primary School

News 2024-2025

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!☃️❄️

Santa even paid a visit when the nursery pupils and Donard Special School came to see Boogie Woogie Nativity.

We loved welcoming our visitors from Donard Special School to our school.

Cross-Country Race on 6th December

This morning, our Cross Country team participated in the second round of the Flahavan’s Primary School Cross Country League at Lurgan Park. After two days of rain, the ground was incredibly wet, making for a muddy and slow course. There were several challenging sections to navigate, but despite the conditions, our runners rose to the occasion with incredible determination.

Sidney (P7YD) had an outstanding race, flying through the mud and finishing 3rd in the girls' event – a fantastic achievement! Arabella showed courage after a slip near the end of the race. She quickly got back up and pushed through to finish strong, demonstrating great resilience and sportsmanship.

Despite the challenging conditions, everyone embraced the mud, with shoes and ankles getting well and truly caked in the wet earth! The team showed excellent spirit and had a great time, making the most of the experience.

Well done to all our runners – you should be proud of your efforts today!

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

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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!

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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!

P1-3

P4-7

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!!

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