Pupils can earn a ‘Merit’ for good work, great manners, kindness, being helpful and effort.  Staff will post this on SeeSaw so you can talk about their achievements at home.

A ‘Positive Postcard’ may be posted home in recognition of exceptional work, achievements or attitude so you show the family and celebrate!

A ‘Note’ will be sent home via SeeSaw to make you aware quickly of issues such as lack of effort, poor attitude, being late to class or not producing homework.

Congratulations to all the Jordanstown School staff who successfully completed a recent course to become an archery instructor. Well done!

Cerys, Dean and Grace completed their BTEC Level 2 practical exam on Tuesday 19th March.

The brief was to plan and make a healthy two course meal that incorporated lots of nutritious vegetables and/or fruit.

As you can see from the photos they were amazing!

Cerys made a delicious Spaghetti Bolognese packed with vegetables and a super healthy salad starter with a low fat, home made dressing.

Dean made a flavour packed Asian noodle stir fry that incorporated no less that 7 different fresh vegetables. This was served with apple and pear crumble with an oaty topping.

ace made a tasty black bean, pepper and beef chilli with wholegrain rice that was full of fiber, vitamins and minerals. This was served with a scrumptious starter of bruschetta with bay tomatoes, red onion and garlic served on a bed of lettuce and garnished with pine nuts.

Well done chefs!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Jordanstown School is delighted to offer to parents a free 8-week introduction to BSL. The program will run on Wednesday afternoons from 2-3 p.m., starting on Wednesday 6th March (with a break for Easter).

If any parent has a child who finishes at 2 p.m., the child can be supervised in Primary until 3 p.m. Although this initiative aims to support parents of deaf children, parents of children with a vision impairment are most welcome.

The teachers will be members of the school’s BSL support staff, Mr Trevor McCormick and Ms Colette McMahon. The topics covered will be (in no particular order):

• Greetings
• Family
• School life
• Days of the week
• Numbers / Time
• Hobbies
• The weather
• Asking questions

We hope this will be a good opportunity for parents with no (or very little) BSL to enjoy learning along with other parents in a relaxed environment over a cup of coffee.

If you already have a basic level of signing, please feel free to come along for the practice and to meet other parents. We hope that in future we can run courses to support parents to develop their signing to the next level, so if you would be interested in more advanced classes, please let us know.

If you would like to attend, please let us know so that we can organise the refreshments.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

A huge thank you to our pupils and parents and to the speakers this morning from: Job Start, Make The Call, Newtownabbey JBO and Now Group. 

An inspiring hour of information and advice on benefits, jobs, and work experience. 

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”— Bo Bennett (Entrepreneur)

Dear Parents/Guardians of Classes

S4, S5, S6, S7 and S8

The school is hosting an information morning on Tuesday 6th February 2024 at 10:00 – 11:00 and you are cordially invited to attend.

Those attending from the groups I have invited are:

Newtownabbey Jobs & Benefits Office: They will advise on job vacancies and coaching, maintaining benefits, Universal Credit, and funding to remove barriers to work.

Make The Call: They will advise on the range of benefits available and eligibility and on entitlement to further support and advice.

JobStart:  They earmark vacancies for 16–24-year-olds and work experience and offer advice on development of skills to enhance CVs.

NOW Group: Will offer information on training opportunities, employability skills, confidence building and voluntary work placements.

Cedar Foundation: Offer advice and aid to those transitioning and helping to place them in further education.

Would you please indicate via Seesaw if you can join us for this or by letting your child’s Form Teacher know.

Mrs. Brittain

Transition Officer

Jordanstown School applied for 30 native trees from Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s Plant One Million Trees Programme.

Our pupils helped the Mayor, Councillor Mark Cooper, to start planting in January 2024 and we added new apple and pear trees to our fruit tree collection.

The rest of the trees will be planted in the coming week by pupils in our Primary and Post Primary departments and we look forward to adding to the biodiversity in our school grounds. 

For World Book Day, we were one of three schools picked to be part of the World Book Day BBC Teach Live Session.

This was a very exciting project to be part of. We show cased one of their activities, re-designing a character from a story.

The pupils did an amazing job! Check us out on the BBC link below where you will see us!

World Book Day 2023 – Live Lesson

Emily, in Class W, is cutting her hair for the Little Princess Trust and is raising money for both school and the charity Love, Hope, Faith.

You can see Emily having her hair cut at the fund raising coffee morning at Victoria Evangelical Hall, Carrickfergus on Saturday the 4th of March between 10am and 2pm.

Emily’s family have also organised a raffle and tickets at £2 a strip which can be bought from Class W. Details below.