P5/P6
P5/6 had a great day out at the AMMA centre in Armagh with P5 from St John’s PS. They took part in two different workshops, using Adobe Express to design their own game character and using Microsoft Make Code Arcade to design their own game. Everyone loved the workshops, wishing they had more time to work on each project.
Some of Mrs Young’s P7 class came to join us for some Easter cookery. We made Easter nests and decorated fairy cakes. We all enjoyed our Easter treats!
Thank you Noah for bringing in your team football trophy for winning the 2015 South Belfast Youth Football League. Well done Noah and your Dungannon United Youth team!
Well done Lucas, who received a certificate and prize for reading 100,000 words in Accelerated Reader.
Thank you Oliver for bringing in your instrument and playing for us, you sounded brilliant!
Well done Destiny, who recently received a certificate and prize for achieving 80% in 20 accelerated reader tests.
Some video clips of our volcanic eruptions
In World Around Us, we have been learning all about Natural Disasters. We recently took our learning outdoors to take part in a volcanic eruption experiment. Using water, washing up liquid, red food colouring, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, we all created a mini eruption! Everyone had great fun!
Ropes and bars fun in P.E
Outdoor x12 Tables Practice
Pupils really enjoyed learning about the multiples of 12 and practising the x12 tables by playing the ‘Ladders Game’.
They listened to the x12 tables that were displayed and called out. If one person from the pair was holding that multiple of 12 answer, they then responded by racing against their partner sitting opposite them up through the middle of the ladder and back to their seat. This was a lot of fun! Children were quick to react and demonstrated a very good recall of their x12s. Well done all!
KS2 Music and Drama
at Moy Regional
We have all been rehearsing hard for our KS2 Show:
The School-o-vision Song Contest
We really enjoyed performing it for our friends and families!
It’s ……..Show Time!
Places everyone!
Introducing the Show: School-o-vision Song Contest Hosts
Rabble singing ‘ What a School! ‘
Parent Support Group Members (P.S.G)
Parent Power singing 'Join the P.S.G'
(Parent Support Group)
Premises Officers Selling Pupil Property on ebay
The Mop Tops singing ‘ Cleaning’ Up ‘
Moy Teachers in the Staffroom
Hot Coffee singing ‘ Boom! Boom! Boom! ‘
Dinner Ladies prepare school lunch for ‘French Day’
Haute Cuisine singing ‘ Chips and Beans ‘
P7 pupils learning to tie their ties in preparation for starting their new schools.
Announcing the final winners of the song contest.
Final song by the P7 Be-Leavers: ‘ Moving On ‘
Final thanks delivered by Oliver, P6
Really well done to everyone who performed in our very recent show. You all delivered your lines with such great confidence and your singing and dance moves were excellent. We are so proud of you all for the many hours of hard work which you put in over the past few months of practice and for the terrific courage which you showed on the night! Very well done to you all!!
Congratulations to our recent Hockey Stars!
Your hockey skills are progressing really well!
Adverb Spellings
Working in groups, the children used the given adjective word cards to think about how they could possibly group them to reflect the spelling rules they would follow to form adverbs.
They practised forming adverb spellings and sorted these into spelling rules groups.
Directions and Turns
We have been learning about compass directions and making turns at 90 and 45 degree intervals.
Lots of correctly labelled compasses, well done all!
Dividing by 11
Pupils had fun out in the Spring sunshine when they used a beach ball to select the multiples of 11.
Each time they hit a number they divided it by 11 and shouted out the answer.
x11 Tables Practice
Pupils also used cups with the multiples of 11 on their bases to practise recognising these multiples and to build quick recall of the divide by 11 tables.
Wishing all our lovely Moy Regional Mums
a very happy Mother's Day!!
Let’s get Cooking!
It's Pancake Tuesday!
We all really enjoyed making fresh pancakes to celebrate 'Pancake Tuesday'.
We explored the ingredients we would need and participated in helping to weigh out and combine the ingredients.
It was fun watching for the bubbles to appear and getting to try out flipping the pancakes.
The pancakes made such a beautiful smell in our classroom and they tasted so yummy. The best bit was getting to try the different delicious toppings.
Area of 2D Shapes
We learned all about finding the area of 2D shapes and different strategies that can be used to do this. Firstly, pupils saw how it was important to use a consistent unit of measure by comparing areas where the shape was the same size but the grid squares inside it were different.
Some pupils were counting the squares within the grid.
Some pupils were making use of area formulae along with their multiplying knowledge.
Well done all!
x9 Tables Practice
Pupils really enjoyed playing 'Flip it and Times it!' In pairs, they had to flip the playing card and times the number shown on the card by 9. They then added their counter to the multiples of 9 around the side of the board. This was great fun!
Contraction Apostrophes
Pupils did a great job of exploring how apostrophes can be used to shorten or contract two root words into one shorter word. The apostrophes shows you where the letters have been left out.
Here the children are making a folded booklet to show how words shorten by adding an apostrophe.
They are sorting sentence cards to show the contractions they included.
Use of Ownership Apostrophes
We enjoyed learning about use of ownership apostrophes by completing active learning games. In teams we had to take turns to label the ownership pictures with the correct label: 's for singular ownership examples and s' for plural ownership examples. We had to move around the table as a team and worked together to try to finish adding our labels before the other class teams.
More learning about use of ownership apostrophes.
Plate Tectonics
We have been learning about how the earth’s crust is made up of moving plates. We used the Internet to find out the names of these plates.
Irregular Shape Perimeters
We have been learning how to calculate the perimeter of irregular 2D shapes by counting the squares and measuring with a ruler.
We have also been using given measurements to help us work out the missing measurements.
Dividing by 8
Some examples of the types of games we played to help us learn the divide by 8 tables and also apply this knowledge to other calculations.
Pupils have been thinking carefully about how these past tense -ed verb word cards could possibly be grouped to reflect their spelling patterns. You are doing very well with this.
Well done to our recent star players in hockey!
Making super progress!
Perimeter of 2D Shapes
We explored a variety of ways to calculate the perimeter of various 2D shapes, including squares, rectangles, triangles, regular shapes and irregular shapes.
It was fun to develop our use of the different perimeter formulae along with our multiplying knowledge to help us find these perimeters more efficiently.
X8 Tables Practice
Find my Legs: The boys had fun playing this game to practise the x8 tables. They wrote multiples of 8 into the circles. They then rolled the dice. The number they rolled was multiplied by 8. If the answer was inside a circle they got to draw on one of the spider’s legs to join up to this circle.
The Calculator Game: Pupils practised the x8 tables by “typing” in the answer using their feet on the calculator buttons below them as the sums were shown on a loop.
Some games we recently have played in our Numeracy work on rounding
Rounding Numbers
Pupils used a range of Active Maths game boards and counters to select numbers to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
P5/6 have been working hard to make up their own PowerPoint about a topic of their choice, then presenting it to the rest of the class. Everyone has worked very hard on this and did a great job presenting their PowerPoint to their classmates, great job everyone!
We recently went to visit Parkanaur with Mrs Young’s class and met up with P5 and P7 from St John’s PS. We all had great fun out in the forest, learning all about woodland wellbeing.
A big well done to our recent accelerated prize winners, Katie, Cameron and Holly for reading 100,000 words and James for achieving 80% in 20 accelerated reader tests.
Some phonics activities with our spellings.
Pupils are completing spelling practice, sorting words by the number of syllables they have and arranging spelling words into alphabetical order.
Pupils are learning about verb tenses: past, present and future.
We learned about the language linked with these tenses and how to recognise them, such as by verb endings, use of auxiliary verbs and how irregular verbs change their spellings.
We explored different types of texts and the tense they are most likely to be written in.
Problem Solving with Weights
Pupils were given a range of familiar weights within 1kg to choose from. They were only allowed to put 2 of these weights together at a time. They investigated to find out how many different weight totals they could make using these and recorded the possible combinations.
Some of our P6 pupils also used their thinking skills to position weights within the grid based on the written descriptions about how they should be placed.
Pupils did very well with planning how they would approach these tasks and thought carefully to complete these successfully. Well done all!
Weight
We have been learning about converting between weights shown in different forms.
For instance, 1/4 kg = 250g = 0.25 kg. This is three different ways of showing the same weight.
We changed amounts from grams into kg and g and vice versa.
We also explored weight scales where weights are shown at various intervals and practised reading these scales and marking on given weights.
7 Times Tables Practice
We took part in a number of energetic games and fun activities to help us to learn our multiplying and dividing by 7 tables. The rainbow relay, when worked together in teams, was the best fun!
Some pupils in P5 visited the sweet shop. How many bags of 7 sweets can you fill with each jar of sweets?
Other pupils enjoyed playing this board game to practise dividing these numbers by 7. Great tables work everyone!
Victorian Day
Well done to everyone for coming to school in your Victorian style outfits. Everyone went to a great deal of effort to put their outfits together and certainly looked the part!
A huge thankyou also to Stephanie Lavery, who kindly joined us to tell us about life in Dungannon Workhouse around the time of the Potato Famine.
Dungannon Workhouse
P5/6 had the opportunity to experience what life was like for a Victorian child who had to resort to living in Dungannon Workhouse. We were greeted by 'Mrs McKinley', the workhouse Matron. Pupils were registered as inmates and their records revealed the many ways in which they had ended up in this terrible situation. These included being evicted from their cottage, being orphaned and involvement in criminal activity to mention a few. Mrs McKinley told us about aspects of workhouse life such as clothing worn, daily routines, jobs children would have done, rules to be followed, punishments and foods children would eaten. We made gruel and saw the small amount of food children had to survive on. They must have been so hungry! It was very interesting to find out all about this!
Pupils also tried writing with ink pens. It was difficult to avoid getting the ink on your hands and on your page. You had to work quite slowly. However, taking your time allowed everyone to form neat and tidy letters. Well done!
The porridge we tried for snack was very tasty and healthy to eat!
Dungannon Workhouse
Victorian Yard Games
Outside at playtime, P5/6 had the opportunity to try a range of Victorian yard games. Pupils played marbles, German jumps, hop scotch, rolling the hoop, walking on stilts, catching the flying circle, hand clapping games and skipping. It was brilliant fun getting to play these games together.
Victorian Crafts
Pupils also had the opportunity to develop their knowledge of Victorian textile skills. They used a range of wools to complete some weaving on a simple weaving loom. The children came onto this really well and demonstrated great focus to weave successfully. “ Over, under, over under! “ They have produced some beautiful pieces of weaving. Well done everyone!
We enjoyed singing some traditional songs like ‘ Tell Me Ma ‘ .
Victorian Artefacts
A massive thankyou to Katie, who kindly brought in this Victorian child’s boot to show us. It was found in a relative’s garden when digging. What a fascinating find Katie! It was really interesting for us all to see this beautiful boot.
Grouping different types of triangles based on their properties.
New Year Fireworks Problem Solving
Pupils were given three firework colours to create their New Year’s Eve display with. They could include 1, 2 or all 3 of the colours. How many different possible colour combinations can you create?
Pupils shaded to create and record their combinations.
It’s 2025! Happy New Year Everyone!
Hockey success for star players: Katie, Dorian and Rhys!
Really well done everyone!
Christmas Jumper Day
“ Let the games begin ! “
We made hot chocolate and Christmas treats. Delicious!
Decorating our Christmas Classroom!
Beautiful Christmas Tree Paintings
We made paper mâché snowmen heads.
We used Macrome cord to create these beautiful Christmas angel decorations.
Well done everyone!
KS2 Christmas Choir
Very well done to the KS2 Christmas Choir who went carol singing at Tesco’s in Portadown and the Oaks in Dungannon. Their singing was thoroughly enjoyed by shoppers and created a lovely Christmas atmosphere. This was followed by a very well deserved trip to McDonalds where pupils enjoyed some lunch and ice-cream together.
The choir also visited the residents of Roxborough House in Moy and entertained them by singing some festive songs.
Non-uniform day to raise money for PeacePlayers
Well done Holly, who received a great mark and remarks from the adjudicator at Banbridge Speech and Drama Festival, performing a duologue at the festival for the first time.
We joined Mrs Young’s class and P5 and P7 from St John’s PS to head to Parkanaur for a trip all about forest wellbeing. We all enjoyed orienteering in the forest and team building activities.
Well done to Oliver and Anna who received a certificate and prize for reading 100,000 words in Accelerated Reader
Amy Funnell from Sustrans came out to teach us all about the history of the bicycle
We all recently enjoyed our shared education Healthy Kidz session down in the Moy Presbyterian church hall with P5 from St John’s
Paul Henry
Traditional Irish Cottage Paintings based on the work of Irish Artist, Paul Henry.
Patchwork Quilting
We studied patchwork patterns and created our own whole class patchwork quilt.
Traditional Cottages
As part of our learning about the Irish Potato Famine, we examined traditional cottage designs and identified their common features. It was interesting to see how cottages built in one area had slightly different features to those build in another area. It depended on the building materials that people had access to nearby.
Cottages, near the coast especially, had to secure their thatch on with ropes formed in a criss-cross style pattern because of the strong winds coming in off the sea.
At the top of our board, you will see the patchwork quilts that we designed. We used different crafting papers with a variety of colours, patterns and textures to give our quilts interesting finish. Beautiful work everyone!
Exploring Powerful Verbs
We sorted to create groups of interested verbs to link with our Dr Barnardo text.
We thought about how verbs with a similar meaning could be ordered to show their strength. Some verbs are more powerful, in terms of the meaning they create, than others.
Dividing by 6
Pupils used dice pictures to split multiples up into sets of 6 in order to practice their dividing.
They recorded the dividing sum to match their picture sets on their whiteboards.
Learning how to use a Protractor
Some examples of our learning carried out about types of angles and use of protractors to measure the amount of turn shown within the angle.
Ordering Angles
P5 worked together to order these angles by their size to show the progression of smallest to biggest.
Types of Angles
P6 pupils enjoyed using this Active Maths Gameboard to identify and name the different types of angles.
Homophones
We learned about general homophone words. They sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings. We found the homophone words which matched our meanings cards. Then we found the matching pairs of these examples and made a set.
Out and About in our Wellies
We all went on a ‘Welly Walk Adventure’ around our school grounds and forest area. It was fun to go exploring out in the fresh air and play games in our forest. The Popcorn game and Thirteen are two of our favourites.
Types of Angles
We learned about the names and properties of the different types of angles. We looked for examples of angles in our surroundings and were able to form examples of these angles using our angle makers. We used art straws to make an angles poster and sorted angles we were given to create groups. A great job on this learning everyone! Well done!
Co-ordinates
We have been learning to identify and describe coordinate positions within the first quadrant of a co-ordinates grid.
We shaded the columns and rows to highlight how the co-ordinate are formed. We then added 2D shapes into the grid at various co-ordinate positions.
Dividing by 4
Pupils pictures of farm animals with 4 legs to explore the concept of dividing by 4.
The Amazing Journey!
KS2 were joined today by the brilliant team from The Amazing Journey. We enjoyed meeting the interesting characters from bible times and hearing their wonderful stories. It was great fun to dress up in the colourful costumes and we enjoyed getting to sample some of the foods typical of this time. The olives and pineapple were delicious!
Forest Homophones
We had fun in our forest area where we were learning about homophone words.
We searched the forest floor for matching homophone word leaves to make a pair. We searched for homophones in our Literacy text and recorded these along with other matching homophone words. We found so many!
Using our text words, we formed matching homophone word groups by hanging word cards beside these examples already displayed on our ‘homophones tree’. It was interesting to think about these word groups and talk about their different spellings and meanings. Fantastic working on this activity everyone!
Thank you to Gordon Stewart from Dungannon Fire Station, who came out to give a Fire Safety talk
Dress up day fun
Movie day treats
S’mores and campfire story fun
Halloween Baking
Pupils did a great job of making their own chocolate apples for Halloween!
DELICIOUS!
Spectacular Halloween Fireworks in Oil Pastel
Well done Holly and Katie, who were our class winners of the Parent Support Group colouring competition
Well done James, who received an accelerated reader certificate and prize for reading 100,000 words
Moy Credit Union Art Competition: 'The Joys of Life'
Forest Mandala Patterns
To celebrate the joys of autumn, we used leaves from the autumn forest floor to create these interesting repeat mandala patterns. The different colours, shapes and textures you can see are just amazing!
Beautiful work everyone!
The Autumn Hedgerow
We used drawing pencils to sketch some items from the autumn hedgerow. We took time to really look at the details and tried to capture these shapes.
Super drawings everyone!
Factors and Products
P6 pupils used the x4 tables to learn about the Numeracy concepts of: factors, multiples and finding the product.
In the same way as the colours blue and yellow mix to make green, the numbers on these blue and yellow circles (factors) multiply together to make these green multiples of 4 ( the product ).
We recorded factors for various numbers and notices how some numbers have more factors than others.
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
Following our learning in the forest about different types of words, we paired up and used stickers to label these types of words within sentences strips taken from our Literacy text.
If you go down to the woods today.....you're in for a big surprise!
Bringing our learning in Literacy out into the Forest
As part of our Forest Schools Learning, we had brilliant fun using our forest area to learn about types of words which make up our speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We were able to use our surroundings to generate so many great examples of interesting language. Well done everyone!
Types of Nouns
P5/6 worked together to produce a mind map all about different types of nouns, including:
Common nouns ( everyday objects)
Proper Nouns ( these need a capital letter like a person’s name or a country)
Abstract Nouns ( the names we give to our feelings like happiness)
Collective Nouns ( names for specific groups like a shoal of fish)
They did a great job of grouping word cards to demonstrate these nouns categories.
Common and Proper Nouns
Rhys and Destiny created a Common and Proper Nouns sorting tree in our forest area. They were given a set of nouns word cards and sorted these by following the arrows on the grass to hang them on the correct side of the tree.
Great work on thinking about these types of nouns boys, well done!
Assembly with Colin
Pupils enjoy assemblies led by Colin Tinsley where they take part in singing fun Christian songs, explore bible stories and verses, and complete quizzes and colouring competitions.
Peaceplayers weeks 3 and 4 with St John’s PS P5 class, at the Torrent Complex in Donaghmore
Peaceplayers weeks 1 and 2 with St John’s PS P5 class, at the Torrent Complex in Donaghmore
We worked together to make fractions cards to show the different ways we can represent a fraction
Different Types of Lines: Parallel, Perpendicular and Intersecting
P6 pupils have been learning about different types of lines.
We also explored 2D shapes which include these types of lines within their edges.
Maud from Peaceplayers came out to see us to introduce us to the Peaceplayers programme
Some Numeracy games we have played together
Tessellating 2D Shapes
We worked together to sort 2D shapes that can be placed together to form successful tessellations.
Pupils used an online interactive game to create their own tessellating patterns.
Tessellating Paper Patchwork Quilts
Pupils used a variety of craft paper and card to create their own patchwork quilts. They used their Numeracy knowledge of 2D shapes that tessellate well to help them design these effectively. Looking great everyone!
Alphabetical Order
We have been learning about putting word lists into alphabetical order at various levels using the letters at the beginning of the words to help us.
Musical Talent at Moy Regional
Oliver enjoys showing us how he can play his cornet in class. He is coming on so well! Go Oliver!
Mental Maths Games
We enjoy using a variety of fun Numeracy materials and game boards to develop our understanding of the Mental Maths concepts.
Sorting 2D Shapes
We learned about the 2D shape names and examined their properties. It was fun working in pairs to sort and display the 2D shapes based on the properties indicated at the top of the various sorting diagrams.
Capitalisation within our Writing
Some of the activities that we completed to learn about when capital letters should be used in our writing. We sorted word cards taken from our Literacy text to show those that do / do not need a capital and sorted general word cards into categories within the grid. In groups, we played the capitals categories game where we had to suggest examples of words belonging to that category which need a capital letter. For example, seas, lakes and rivers : Atlantic Ocean.
Pupil Mental Well-being
At Moy Regional, we value the voice of our children and take children’s mental health and well-being very seriously! Pupils have access to a variety of tools which they can use to help them think about and articulate how they are feeling and have knowledge of strategies to help them manage their emotions. They know that staff are always very willing to listen and help if they have a problem or concern.
