Ampertaine Primary School

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Memorable Learning

Welcome to the Ampertaine Primary School website. Whoever you are, we hope that you will enjoy your visit and find our pages interesting and useful.

Our small rural school has one hundred and twenty two 5-11 year-old girls and boys whose experiences are designed by 7 teachers, 5 classroom assistants and 1 administrative staff.

We welcome everyone to our school and do all in our power to ensure that children's time with us is safe, enjoyable and fruitful.

Parents, children, residents and business folk rely on us to provide the future drivers of our community... hopefully, your visit will give you some idea of how the ambition, confidence, reliability, integrity and spirit of our youngsters are nurtured and guided.

Latest Newsletters

26 May 2020
Ampertaine WAVE!
Thank you to all who have already been sending in video clips. They look fantastic!
Remember you are sending a wave to all the folk you are missing at school at the moment. It has been lovely to see all the happy faces again.
Keep them coming in to info@ampertaineps.maghera.ni.sch.uk and thanks again to all who have already done so.
22 May 2020
Remote Learning Week 5
Please find attached our Newsletter for this week. We hope you all have a great weekend and a lovely Bank Holiday. Thank you for all your comments and feedback from this week.
Take care and stay safe

From all at Ampertaine.
19 May 2020
Free Apps For Children
We have attached a collection of Free Apps recommended by Autism NI. The Apps are suitable for all children to use and may be a useful tool where pupils are experiencing difficulties from the changes around them at present.
We hope you find these useful and an extra resource to benefit from.

Keep persevering, keep safe and take care

From all at Ampertaine
19 May 2020
Sharing your special moments
It has been a real pleasure to include photographs of the different things you have been up to since last in school.
If you would like be included in our next Newsletter please send to info@ampertaineps.maghera.ni.sch.uk.
Your photograph can be of an interest, a hobby, a project or even an adventure you have had.
It has been wonderful to see the amazing things you have all been doing.
Thank you to all for sharing with us so far.
Keep persevering, Keep safe and try your best.
19 May 2020
Helpful resources for pupils who are experiencing difficulties with the current changes.
Dear Parents/Guardians

Please find below a link to a wide range of Covid specific resources from Middletown Centre for Autism that are available on their website. These include social stories, games, stories, visual supports and resources from a wide variety of sources for children, young people, parents and carers.

www.middletownautism.com/covid19

The wide range of resources are suitable for pupils who are experiencing difficulties from the changes around them at present. We hope you find some of these useful and beneficial. Please take a moment to see which resources would best suit your child. The age range on the site includes post primary and young adults.

Keep persevering and keep safe,

From all at Ampertaine

Ampertaine kids are Google Internet Legends

Latest 2019 - 2020 Events

Breakfast Club Mon-Fri01Jun2020

8:00 am - 8:35 am

Breakfast Club Monday - Friday Last entrance to club is 8:25am

Breakfast Club Mon-Fri08Jun2020

8:00 am - 8:35 am

Breakfast Club Monday - Friday Last entrance to club is 8:25am

Breakfast Club Mon-Fri15Jun2020

8:00 am - 8:35 am

Breakfast Club Monday - Friday Last entrance to club is 8:25am

Breakfast Club Mon-Fri22Jun2020

8:00 am - 8:35 am

Breakfast Club Monday - Friday Last entrance to club is 8:25am

Calendars page(s): 2019 - 2020 >>

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2019-2020 School Calendar

NSPCC: SHAREAWARE

www.nspcc.org.uk/shareaware

2018 - 2019 E-Safety
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Introducing Stripes!

Who is Stripes? Find out more on P1's page. Just click on the 'Classes' tab, then P1.

You can click on this CEOP logo to report on-line abuse to police.
Think Carefully!

SUPER AMPERTAINE

STARS

VE DAY CELEBRATIONS

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR RAINBOW CHALLENGERS... for our brilliant NHS, key and essential workers..THANK YOU!!

#Ampertainerainbowchallenge

A short story which may help to explain things at this present moment and time.

Take care from all at Ampertaine

Thank you to everyone who collected their children’s learning packs this and cooperated so well with the social distance rule, respecting each other and keeping safe in this current climate! Try to enjoy working from home, ‘learning’ with your kids and spending more time with them!

Please feel free to access these recommended educational websites listed below with your children. Most are available for free!!

Useful websites for home school learning

Here's some good advice for your adventure ahead too...

'Rise & Shine' BREAKFAST CLUB - 8am-8:35am and C.I.A 2pm-5pm operates Monday to Friday Please see Parent section for more info.

As we can’t be together for a while, we’re trying to keep you updated as best we can!

Please find below a list of all the Mathletics certificate achievers for the month of March.

I’m sure as the weeks progress, the list will get longer!

Big shout out to the new P1s who have logged in and achieved their FIRST Mathletics certificate as well as the GOLD achievers and highest scorers...keep up the good work.. that’s brilliant!!

Mathletics achievers

Swimming certificates for P5 & 6

We also took 8 children to Magherafelt leisure centre for the Mid Ulster Swimming Gala in February..they’d a great day out swimming for their school.

Harvest Service 2019

Thank you to all who contributed in any way to our annual Harvest Service. The school looked amazing - Super Team Ampertaine!

We were blown away by Rev John Martin on his debut in Ampertaine!

A HUGE thank you to ALL our brilliant volunteers....mums and kids... for giving up their time at the weekend, for an hour or two, for our PTA organised bag pack in Tesco.

A FANTASTIC FUNDRAISER!!