Friends of Edenderry

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The hall is all decorated for the Halloween disco tomorrow 💀🎃👻

We hope everyone had been practising their dance moves at home ⭐️

P2 are featured in The Banbridge Chronicle this week. Looks like they all had fun! 🚜

THE P2 classes in Edenderry Primary School have been enjoying their new topic 'Wheels, Wings and Other Things.'
As part of the topic, there were visitors into school to see different forms of transport.
On Wednesday, October 18, P2 got to see and ask questions about the visiting police car, rally car and tractor.
Edenderry PS would like to thank the Police Service, the Spence and McElherron families who very kindly took time out of their busy schedules to visit.
They helped to provide a fantastic learning experience for the children in the Primary 2 classes.

🎃Halloween Disco💀

We didn’t think we would be able to organise a disco this year with a lot of DJs already booked but GREAT NEWS a parent has volunteered to run it on Friday for us. There is no extra cost for this.

A big thank you to Downshire Arms Hotel for lending us a speaker at the last minute.

Tell the kids to get their dancing shoes ready!

Just a note about the congestion expected tomorrow afternoon at collection time.

This might be useful info for P7 parents in November

💥 What To Bring / Not To Bring 💥

As a busy parent, it's easy to miss the details so just taking a moment to consolidate and make sure everyone knows that they need to bring, what they can bring and what the assessment centre will provide.

🤜 Parents To Bring:
📌 Pupil ID Card - printed is best, and when you're printing it, print a few so you have backups.
📌 The child can bring a highlighter to use on the question paper only (not the answer sheet).

🤜 The Assessment Centre Will Provide
📌 Pencils (the best type for the answer sheet)
📌 Rubber (in case the child makes a mistake)
📌 Water for the child
📌 Spare paper - if child requires more they just need to raise their hand
📌 There will be a clock in the room for the child to monitor their progress and they'll be told exactly what time the test will finish.

If your child is doing the test this year, and you're looking for some last minute practice, check out The Transfer Tutor with thousands of questions across thirty topics in English and maths, so the perfect for honing in on challenging topics at this stage.
👉 Link in Bio or here: www.thetransfertutor.co.uk/explained

This year for Halloween we have a spooky colouring competition for everyone to enter. Pages will be sent home with the kids and must be returned by Thursday 26th October to be in with a chance of winning a prize!

Cat colouring competition for P1-P3
Pumpkin design competition for P4-P7

Friday 27th October is FANCY DRESS for everyone. Please no scary costumes or face paints.

It is £2 to enter the competition and come in fancy dress. Payment is made via the Edu spot app before TUE 24th October.

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A big congratulations to Arnold, who not only coaches at Banbridge Academy but coaches the kids table tennis at Edenderry. What an achievement 🎉

Make sure to check your letter/email to see which day you have been invited on.

💥 Anyone for Banbridge Academy? 🥳

There will be two Familiarisation Days and different parents will be invited to each session so keep an eye out for your invite:
📌Monday 23rd October and
📌 Tuesday 24th October.

It’s a great opportunity to see the school, the room where they will sit their test and meet the invigilators who’ll be there during the actual test days, so well worth the visit.

💡If you can’t make your Familisation Day, you could consider sending a friend, partner, grandparent or even send your child along with their mate’s mum. 😉 It’s a good experience for the child and will help them settle any nerves if they have the foresight of seeing the room etc.

Also, if you are sitting the tests and fancy a bit more focused learning, check out The Transfer Tutor which supports focused learning, so if your child is great at maths but needs a bit more focus on English, it works well. 👍
Link in Bio or here: www.thetransfertutor.co.uk/explained

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Banbridge Community Litter Pick- Calling all cleaner neighbourhood enthusiasts.

Everyone deserves to live in a clean environment. That’s why a group of community volunteers and students from Banbridge Academy are organising a Litter Pick in Banbridge to support local residents.

The more volunteers there are the more areas can becover. By actively participating in the fight against litter, you can help create a cleaner environment and more connected communities.

What to bring:

Litter hands, high viz jackets and rubbish bags will be provided by Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council. If you have your own litter hand, please bring it. Gloves and wipes might come in handy.

If you would like any further information email [email protected]

October Community Litter Pick

Calling all cleaner neighbourhood enthusiasts!
Everyone deserves to live in a clean environment. That’s why a group of community volunteers and students from Banbridge are organising a Litter Pick in the local area.

If you wish to volunteer your time along with the kids here is the info you need:

Details
Meeting Point: Main Entrance, Banbridge Academy
Date: Thursday 12 October
Time: 3.30pm to 4.30pm (come for 3.15pm, 3.30pm start)

Areas to Cover (delegated to groups)
· Banbridge Academy, Edenderry Primary and Banbridge Nursery Grounds
· Church View Terrace and Drive
· Mountview Drive and Park
· Moorfield and Hill Street
· Lurgan Road between Church View and Kiln Lane
· Kiln Lane
· Lurgan Road towards Church Square

If you would like to register to join the Litter Pick, please contact Cllr Joy Ferguson.

What to bring?

Just yourselves.
Litter hands for adults and children, high viz jackets and rubbish bags will be provided by Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council.

Any enthusiastic swimmers may be interested in this….🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️

It’s that time again - trials for new members !
Email our secretary to book a trial.

Please find email address on advert.

Children should be able to complete the following:
· Be able to swim 25 metres front-crawl
· Be able to swim 25 metres back-crawl
· Show good understanding of breaststroke & demonstrate this
· Be able to kick 25 metres front-crawl & back-crawl using a float

Make friends - Swim fast - Have fun!!

Just a reminder about the MacMillan Coffee morning that’s happening tomorrow.

Everyone will be in for a treat with songs being performed by the school choir 🎶

Just incase any of the kids are interested in learning some Spanish 🇪🇸

Dot's Playroom is running a series of classes to help Primary school children deal with exam stress.

The information and contact details to get involved are included below.

Just a reminder about our first meeting next Monday.

Please come along and find out what Friends of Edenderry is all about with no obligation to join. You will be made very welcome 🤗

Our first Friends of Edenderry meeting is taking place after our annual AGM.

The details are below and all new faces would be made most welcome, particularly those new to the school.

Please share or tag anyone who you think would be interested in joining us to discuss our fundraising ideas for the 23/24 academic year.

Our first Friends of Edenderry meeting is taking place after our annual AGM.

The details are below and all new faces would be made most welcome, particularly those new to the school.

Please share or tag anyone who you think would be interested in joining us to discuss our fundraising ideas for the 23/24 academic year.

Here are the updated dates and times for the pop up shop.

After visiting this morning, there is LOADS of great uniform for Edenderry. 🙌🏻

A Free Uniform Pop Up Shop is available several times this week at the church hall at Holy Trinity.
Saturday 19/8 from 10-12
Monday 21/8 from 6-7:30
Thursday 24/8 from 6-7:30
Saturday 26/8 from 10-12
There is a wide range of school uniforms as well as baby clothes. Please share and let others know.

Holy Trinity Church have their pop up uniform shop open tomorrow morning with LOADs of FREE uniform.

Primary and Secondary school uniform available including Dromore/Academy

Please share this post and tag away to spread the word.

Thanks 😊

With the next project being the refurbishment of the school library it would be amazing to win new books for it.

Please can you follow the link and nominate Edenderry Primary Banbridge for us to be in with a chance to win the competition 📚

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Friends of Edenderry wanted to acknowledge the Primary 7 helpers who are there waiting at the gates each morning to walk the P1 & P2 children into school.

Such great friendships have been formed between Ava, Sarah, Izzy and Zoe with all the little ones…and plenty of smiles, laughter and conversations going on.

We hope the girls enjoy their Oggies Dessert Bar voucher as they will all be missed when they head off to their new schools. Good luck girls!

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We want to say a big thank you to the following suppliers who supported us on Fun Night

Centra Scarva st
Spar Dromore Rd
Mcaleenans Hardwear
Windsor Home Bakery
David McKay at Tescos
Tayto Crisps
Trader D’s meat
Tandragee Golf Club
Infinity
Banbridge Leisure Centre
Jill McGarry’s make up
Robin Fields
Adjendence NI
St John’s Ambulance
NI Inflatables
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council

🪩P7 Leavers Disco🪩

This was the first year that Edenderry has held a disco for those leaving in P7.

Friends of Edenderry provided the DJ, selfie props, banner and balloon arch. A big thank you to the P7 parents who helped organised the event along with providing the food and drinks.

The showstopper was definitely the homemade cake baked by parent Sarinda Campbell…how amazing!

Last night was a massive success and hopefully the parents next year will keep this new tradition going. 🤞🏻 We hope the kids all had a blast 🎉

🎉 Fun Night Total 🎉

After expenses, the total raised is £3712 - our best Fun Night EVER!!

The biggest thank you to everyone who came along. The next big project for the school is going to be upgrading the school library so this money will be a massive help for resources and books towards that.

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👩🏼‍🍳Bake-Off Winners👨🏼‍🍳

⭐️Lana and Isla Stewart
⭐️Sam Campbell
⭐️Izzy & Thea McKelvey

Congratulations and thank you to everyone to sent in cakes and buns for Fun Night.

Well done Eco committee - Mrs Hewitt and Mrs McGregor .

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Edenderry P.S dad Chris Henning has organised a charity coffee morning at Banbridge RFC to raise much needed funds for TinyLife.

Chris volunteers for Friends of Edenderry in a very important role each December (🎅🏻😉) and helped paint the sheds in the playground last weekend.

Taking place tomorrow, it would be great to show your support. Extra buns for Edenderry kids 🙌🏻

Good luck Chris!

⭐️What an amazing Fun Night at Edenderry⭐️

A MASSIVE thank you to every single person who volunteered from setting up, to looking after stalls, to cleaning up and also for all the donations.

It has been our most success Fun Night to date. The final total will be announced shortly..

Let us know in the comments what you enjoyed the most ⬇️

When we set the bake off challenge of Bugs and Blossoms we didn’t think you guys would exceed all expectations, how wrong where we 😳

Check out these amazing treats 😍😍

Who is ready for FUN NIGHT!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

A massive thank you to Tesco Bridgewater Community Champion David McKay for helping to organise a massive donation to our Fun Night.

We have plenty of ice cream, cones, toppings and BBQ extras for tonight.

Who loves Ice-cream?? ☝🏻

⭐️Fun Night Volunteers⭐️

If you have volunteered to help out at 6.30pm please can you be at the school for 6.15pm. You are welcome to purchase tickets or have a cup of tea before the gates open at 6.30pm

⭐️Bake Off Entries⭐️

Due to the heat today these can either be dropped off this morning, at pick up time or bring them along tonight at 6pm.

Tomorrow night is the official opening of the new garden and poly tunnel in Edenderry.

The eco-school will be selling seeds for vegetables and plants in the hope of raising money to invest back into the garden.

Set to take place about 7.15pm there will be a VIP guest to do the honours whom some people might just recognise 🤔 Any guesses?

⭐️New Fun Night Attendee ⭐️

Ajendance NI will be coming along to give a taster lesson in commercial dance! 💃🏼🪩🕺🏻

Just a reminder that we can’t wait to see everyone’s creations on Thursday!

All buns, cakes, cupcakes are welcome particularly themed ones to celebrate our garden being officially opened on Thursday night ⭐️

In conjunction with our new garden being officially opened, this years theme for the Fun Night bake off is Blossoms and Bugs.

We want to see how creative you can get with garden, vegetable and bug theme cakes and cupcakes.

You can get some great inspiration over on Pinterest so get your thinking caps on as we are on the countdown to crowning our Bake off winner on Thursday 15th June.

Here is a summary of the ticket/price info for Fun Night so please bring change if possible 🙌🏻

Looking forward to seeing everyone (and the sunshine ☀️ ) on Thursday night!

A big thank you to everyone who made a donation towards our tea/coffee stand on Sports Day.

With your help we raised £79 and we hope the kids enjoyed the ice pops provided by Friends Of Edenderry after all the races 🙌🏻