St. John's Primary School, Coleraine, Coleraine Videos

Y1 Celebration Assembly - St. John’s P.S.
Our Y1 children shone on the stage during their recent Celebration Assembly as bright as the sun! Maybe it was Y1’s singing, dancing, poetry recitals and individual speaking from every child that has brought the sun back. After all, our topic is Here Comes the Sun! ☀️

Doherty Shield Final 2024
Good luck to our Football Team as they take on Ballysally in the Doherty Shield Final! See you all at the Showgrounds for the 6.15pm kick off! 🟢

St. John’s Y1 ‘Here Comes the Sun’
‘Here Comes the Sun,’ in Year 1! ☀️ Y1 have each created a Digital Art and Design picture to depict our World Around Us theme using the Just2Easy app. Here’s hoping the sun returns to our sky! Sit back and enjoy Part 1 of our Digital Art Gallery! More artwork next week!

St. John’s Y1 Art Attack - Behind the Scene!
Behind every product there is a process and here is a behind the scenes peek of the artists at work. Each child used a range of features contained in the Just2Easy app - pencil, paintbrush, colours, shapes, images and graphics to complete this ‘Art Attack’ task. Through the completion of this task, the Y1 children are also developing key computer skills - mouse control, touch screen manipulation by applying pressure to the screen and keyboard input. #CrossCurricularLearning 💻

St. John’s P.S. Y5 Deforestation - Rainforests
Y5 loved making stop motion animations to demonstrate the effects of deforestation in the rainforests. They had great fun building their sets and creating props to bring their story come to life. Future film makers in production in Y5!

St. John’s Y2 Author Visit
The pupils of Year 2 and 3 were actively engaged in the presentation about creatures that are found on our beautiful North Coast and showed off their artistic skills by drawing their very own 3-animal creation. Can you guess how long Paddy took to draw this?

Composing Music - St. John’s
Y1&2 used body parts, untuned instruments and most importantly, our voices to perform 'The Tiny Caterpillar' song. One child had the very important job of playing the triangle at the exact time - didn't she do well?

Y1& 2 The Arts (St. John’s)
Y1&2 engaged in a variety of musical tasks that included opportunities to listen and respond, compose, perform and conduct. Check out our fabulous conductors! Can you tell what the hand gestures mean? ✋

St. John’s PS - Healthy Comprehension
A Q&A session with Mr. Burns and some Y6 pupils summarising the features of the comprehension text along with outlining key pieces of information, specific language and phrases used in the text! ‘You are what you learn children!’ Well Done to everyone in Y6!

‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ - Year 7 St. John’s PS
Using a range of apps (Chatter Pics, Pic Collage and iMovie), Y7 created a digital introduction to their novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree.’ #DigitalLiteracy

St. John’s -Y5 Rainforest
Year 5 wrote an explanation text on The Water Cycle and presented the final draft using Explain Everything App. These hydrologists fully understand both the process and the language used to describe the cycle! See what you think for yourselves.💦☀️☁️🌧️

Harp Performance
Our Harp Ensemble played ‘Brian Boru’s March’ at Maeve’s Retirement Celebration! It was a real treat for our school community to hear our award winning Harp Ensemble as Term 2 comes to a close.

Easter Orchestra Performance
We were then treated to a ‘German Polka’ by our award winning school orchestra! What an array of talented musicians we have here in St. John’s!

Easter Celebration Assembly
And to end their performance at our Celebration Assembly, our orchestra played ‘Twinkle Twinkle.’ Thank you to everyone who prepared and performed at our Assembly. What a musical extravaganza for us all to enjoy including our special guests!

Our musicians were asked for an encore and up stepped our very talented staff who played a Barn Dance to bring our Celebration Assembly to a conclusion. We hope you enjoyed your special assembly Maeve and remember to visit us!

St. John’s PSNI visit
Y1&7 Buddies enjoyed a visit from two local policemen who talked to the children about their job keeping us safe and how we can keep ourselves and others safe when we are out and about. We got to sit in the police car and use their walkie talkies! Thanks for visiting us! 👮‍♂️👮‍♂️🚓

Traditional Group - Coleraine Library
St. John’s Harp Ensemble and Traditional Group who have both had recent success at Coleraine Festival went on tour this week to perform Libraries NI Coleraine. Did you see and hear their performance? Well Done to all involved! 👏

Musicians - Coleraine Library
Our Traditional Group and Harp Ensemble were delighted to perform for the audience who gathered in Libraries in Causeway Coast and Glens (Coleraine). We hope you enjoyed listening to us as much as we enjoyed playing for you! 🤗

Harp Ensemble - 2024
To say we are proud of the achievements of our musicians would be an understatement! The Harp Ensemble who played 'Brian Boru's March' and 'The Chimes', won first place with a distinction!

Traditional Group - ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’
The Traditional Group, playing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and a Polka received a first with distinction. The adjudicator was extremely impressed and remarked on the blend of sounds with so many instruments playing at once with the children keeping a steady pulse throughout. ⭐️