Gilford Primary School

Halloween Hooley.
A night of games, songs, crafts and food.
Well done to every who took part in our pumpkin competition and congratulations to our two winners. Hope all our amazing pupils enjoyed themselves and had fun.

Have a great half term, stay safe and we will see you all again on Monday 6th November.

Mrs Weir and the two members of our eco-council received their new bird and bat boxes today. Thank you to Mr McNeilly who built and painted them.

Pupils from the school attended the official opening of the new playpark located at Woodlands.

Well done to all our amazing Mathletics certificate winners. Keep up the hard work.

Congratulations to all our amazing 'Star of the Week' pupils.

Nursery: Donal
P1/2: Brooke
P3/4: Leja
P5/6: Lois
P7: Fernando

Anyone who would like to support our cash for clobber collection, please leave your bags of clothes into the school by Wednesday 25th October.
All proceeds will go towards funding our school ICT resources.

On Tuesday all pupils celebrated world mental health day by completing a sponsored walk around Gilford, stopping of at the park and enjoying a well earned hot chocolate on returned to school.

Thank-you to all parents for your generosity and support. An additional thank-you to the members of the parent support group who provided the hot chocolate for our pupils.

Congratulations to all our amazing 'Star of the Week' pupils.

Nursery: Harley
P1/2: Ellie
P3/4: Jessica
P5/6: Alex
P7: Erin

Meet our new Gilford P.S Eco-committee members. These pupils will be working hard to make our school a more eco-friendly environment. They have already sourced and distributed brown bins for every classroom. Keep up the hard work.

Congratulations to all our amazing 'Star of the Week' pupils.

Nursery: Indi
P1/2: Jahsmine
P3/4: Joshua
P5/6: Annie
P7: Olivia

Pupils and members of the public have the opportunity to take part in the "Shoeboxes for Ukraine" appeal.

We want to help provide as many Ukrainian families as possible with a small gift this Christmas.

If you would like to take part, we ask all filled shoeboxes to be left into school by Thursday 9th November.

Key stage 2 enjoyed their first African drumming lesson this week. Thank you to the parent support group who organised the fundraiser to raise the money for the workshop.

Due to the predicted warm weather for tomorrow (Thursday) pupils will be able to wear a summer dress or their full school PE kit (T-shirt with the school badge and black PE shorts) instead of full school uniform.

Due to the predicted warm weather pupils today will be able to wear a summer dress or their school PE kit (T-shirt with the school badge and school PE shorts).

This will be updated daily.

School is back!
All staff are excited to welcome back our pupil's tomorrow morning for a new fun filled year at Gilford P.S.
Staff would like to make an extended welcome to all new pupils and parents who are starting with us for the first time tomorrow.

School uniform will be available for collection on Thursday 31st August between 9.30am and 12 noon.

Another successful year at Gilford P.S. Pupils have made leaps forward in their education and had lots of fun experiences.

Some pupil’s highlights include, finishing 1ST in the Armagh, Banbridge, and Craigavon area schools in, ‘Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel’ event, developing our KS2 girls football team, KS2 trip to Shannaghmore Outdoor Centre, KS1 trip to Gosford Park, P5/6 trip to the Ulster Museum, P7 trip to Emerald Park and finally, our whole school Christmas visit to the pantomime.

All staff at Gilford P.S would like to wish all our pupils and their families a fun and safe summer. We look forward to having you back in September.

The whole school took part in our P7 leavers service. All participants sang and spoke very well. From all the staff at Gilford P.S we wish our P7 pupils a great summer and the best of luck moving on to the next chapter of their lives.

Another successful Gilford P.S fair. Thank you to the school PTA who organised the event and to all the local businesses who took part.

Well done to our P6 + P7 pupils who worked incredibly hard over the past 12 weeks to obtain their cycle proficiency certificate.

Big graduation day for our nursery pupils at Gilford P.S.

With our P7 leavers assembly coming up on Friday, here are a few snapshots of their time at Gilford P.S.

P5/6/7 girls played against St. Johns P.S yesterday. Weather and the football was top quality. Thankyou to Tandragee Rovers Academy coach Emily Doherty for supporting the girls.

Our P7's had a fantastic day on their class trip to Emerald Park. The perfect weather for an ice cream.

P5, P6 and P7 pupils did an amazing job representing the school and singing for the Gilford community song.

Thankyou to our Music coordinator Mr Martin who organised and practiced with the pupils.

Premiere: Gilford Community Song Welcome to the Gilford Community Song Premiere!Please click on the music video of the song and refresh your page from 11am!__________________________________...

School Sports Day 2023:
Well done to all pupils who took part in sports day.
Congratulations to our two pupils who won the Sustrans scooters.
Thank you all staff, PTA members, local business' and parents who, donated and served snacks, took part in races and helped during the day.

Congratulations to Mr Leckey who received his MBE for services to education. Mr Leckey is the head of the board of governors at Gilford Primary School and all staff want to congratulate him on his award.