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• Richhill Health Centre Staff and COVID 19!!

  Mon 18 Jan 2021

  A huge thank you to Lynsey Lucas and the team from the Health Centre who have produced a video for our school community to show how the vaccine roll out is happening and what they are doing in Health Centre to help fight COVID 19.

   

  Richhill Health Centre Video Link

   

   

   

• Wk 1 Online Learning

  Thu 14 Jan 2021
  Have a look at what some of our pupils are getting up to!!

  

• WOW!! - 500KG OF FOOD AND £1252 COLLECTED

  Fri 08 Jan 2021

  December 2020

   

  Hardy Memorial Primary School  

   

  Thank you so much for your  support of Armagh Foodbank during Christmas 2020.

   I’m pleased to report that you successfully collected an amazing 500 kg of food donations and £1252.00 in cash which is amazing

   

   

  2020 has been a very busy year for Armagh foodbank and has seen many challenges and blessings. Apart from all the practical challenges we really miss sitting and chatting with people face to face, but we have had  many opportunities to chat on the doorsteps and via phone with many people facing challenges from all walks of life.

   

  From we have opened on 18th July 2015 we have given out over 65 tons of food to people in need in the local Armagh area with around 25 tons of that in 2020.

  During first lookdown we were distributing food via a council box scheme which we were distribution  320 boxes per week . None of the food distributed via the box scheme is recorded in our statics as we felt the need did not necessarily fall into people being able to afford food but rather were shielding and struggled to get access.

   

  With one in five children living in poverty in the Armagh area, every day local people are forced to send their children to bed hungry.

  Thank you for your continued support and being part of the solution.

   

  Many thanks,

   

  Richard Thompson

  Armagh Foodbank Manager

   

• Santa visits Hardy Memorial

  Fri 18 Dec 2020

  A sincere thank you to Richhill Football Club, Gary McCoo, Neil Megaw Neil Dawson, Gregory Brown, Santa and all his helpers!!! Thankyou also to all  Richill Club sponsors! What a fabulous way to end our school term!!

   

  Please click on the link below to view the video produced by Paul Gwynne - an absolutely fantastic production. We are so proud of Richhill Community and their devotion to our school. Thank you!

   

   

  SANTA VISIT

• Festive Virtual Performances!

  Tue 15 Dec 2020

  All our boys and girls have been working extremely hard on their virtual nativities. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we did making them!

  They have all been uploaded to YouTube for you to enjoy, please head over to the 'Video Gallery' which you'll find under the 'Children' tab. Sit back, enjoy and spread the word to friends and family near and far!

   

  Video Gallery

   

   

• VIRTUAL TOUR - check it out!

  Tue 15 Dec 2020

  As we haven't been able to hold our usual Open Night this year, we have put together a wonderful 'Virtual Tour' of Hardy Memorial Primary School. Please have a watch and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested in seeing all the fantastic things we get up to in school!

   

  Click on the 'CHILDREN' tab and go to the 'VIDEO RESOURCE CENTRE'.

   

  or

   

  Click the following link:

  https://hardy-memorial-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/hardy-memorial-ps-virtual-tour

   

  Enjoy!

• £2312.40 raised for Movember!

  Sun 06 Dec 2020
  With November having drawn to a close and the last few donations counted, we are delighted to announce that Mr Willis, Mr Smyth and Mr Glenny managed to raise an incredible £2312.40 for the Movember Foundation.
  Sincere thanks to everyone for the support!

• EA Literacy Service Letter

  Wed 02 Dec 2020

   

  The EA Literacy Service announces the launch of the first edition of its Literacy Newsletter.

   

  Dear Parent/Guardian,

   

  We have received this exciting first edition Newsletter from the EA Literacy Service, and we invite you to share this with your child/children at home, if suitable. The content of the newsletter is for parents and children, who at some point in their school career may experience difficulties with literacy.

  This issue focuses on spelling with lots of useful, practical ideas and resources to use at home. It also contains details on how the newsletter can be read out loud using assistive technology (Texthelp Read & Write and Immersive Reader) and provides instructions for this. Please copy and paste the link below into the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser to view at home and explore this amazing new resource for Northern Ireland pupils, parents and schools.

   

  https://sway.office.com/GgRFD5xCBes1e2Hr?ref=Link

   

  With this new initiative the Literacy Service would value your feedback via the Survey Monkey at the end of the newsletter. Any contributions of your child’s work showing their super skills, comments and stories may be included in future issues, with your consent.

  This is the first edition and our school have been asked by the Literacy Service to run a competition to suggest an original name for this newsletter. If your child has an idea or suggestion for a name, please send it to your school from your child’s c2k email address. All suggestions will be considered and the best sent to the Newsletter Editors. The winning suggestion, the child who made it and the school that the child attends will be part of a feature in the next edition.

  We hope you enjoy sharing this new project with your child or young person, should it assist in the development of their literacy ability.

   

  Yours sincerely

  Mrs Janet McCann
  Head of Pupil Support Services
  Children and Young People’s Services

• Movember Success!

  Fri 27 Nov 2020

  What a day! A massive thank you and well done to all the boys and girls who came to school today wearing an array of fantastic moustaches. Thanks to the generosity of the Hardy community, our three teachers have raised an incredible total of £1901.71. So far!!

  a special thank you to our visitors, Mr and Mrs Livingstone, who came to watch the live Shave-Off. Mr Livingstone spoke to our pupils about what the Movember foundation meant to him personally, helping to prolong his life by four and a half years and counting! A really special day enjoyed by all.

  Please head over to the ‘Video Gallery’ which you’ll find under the ‘Children’ tab. More photos will appear on class pages in due course.

  Thanks again 👨🏻👨🏻👨🏻

  

• Nursery receive their new Getting Ready to Learn Packs

  Fri 27 Nov 2020

  A huge thank you to Mrs Marks and her team in Nursery who arranged for every Nursery child to receive Learning Resource Packs funded by the 'Getting Ready To Learn Initiative'.

   

  Equipment was carefully selected to ensure each pack provided activities and equipment for enhancing  a wide range of skills.

   

  Please click on the link below.

   

  New Learning Packs