Book Week NI starts Monday 14th October and we will be taking part! Reading record cards have gone home today so your children can all feel involved with this fantastic scheme ran by Libraries NI. If your child already has a library card I’m sure they would love to visit your local library this week […]

On Friday 27th September, Nursery joined in with the world’s biggest coffee morning (and afternoon) in aid of raising money for Macmillan. The staff room was filled with lots of delicious treats, tea, coffee and juice which we hope everyone enjoyed. Together we raised £268 for Macmillan – thank you! Thanks to all of the […]

Mrs Coulter, Mrs McGall and some returner families took a visit to Larne today to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. With arts, crafts, singing, dancing and storytelling great fun was had by all. We hope to enjoy some more fun later at school when the company involved visit Nursery for Chinese New Year.

Welcome to Nursery boys and girls. We’ve all enjoyed our first wee while settling in and most children are now comfortable and confident in their new classrooms. Thank you for all your parental support during the settling in period.

Calling all parents and guardians! If your child is registered to start Ballymena Nursery School in September 2019, please make sure all of your forms have been returned to Nursery before Monday. They can be posted, delivered to our post box at the Trostan Avenue gate or given to staff in nursery over the next few days. […]

We are going to be kept very busy, right until the end of term. On Monday we enjoyed a visit from Dr. Donnelly from Ballymena Academy for some science experiments. The children learned about the attraction between magnets and iron, the power of the egg and met a stick insect, much larger than those we […]

Many thanks to the sensei from The Dojo who joined us for our sports day today, providing another physical activity for the children to try. They gave the children the opportunity to try some pad work for punching and kicking, allowing them to work on control and coordination. We were developing our maths by counting, […]

Thank goodness the rain stayed off enough today for all of the children to complete their circuit! We all had a great day with fun play indoors and physical activities outside. The children responded really well to the different activities on offer and everyone, including some adults gave it their all. Well done sports stars! […]

We’ve had a busy term with lots of visitors, from mums and dad with stay and play, to parent helpers bringing baby animals from the farms our children live and work on. To round it off we all enjoyed some Easter activities together which included an extra special visitor, who was definitely NOT “just the […]

We have a strict ICT policy at nursery which the children, parents, staff and volunteers all must adhere too. Mrs McMullan, our ICT coordinator has also recently been involved in the e-safety consultation of Safe Guarding NI to ensure the continued protection of our children. More information on this can be found at www.safeguardingni.org/esafetyconsultation for […]