Notre Dame du Rosaire Primary School, Guernsey Our School Notre Dame du Rosaire Primary School, Guernsey

Notre Dame du Rosaire Primary is special because: We are part of the Diocese of Portsmouth which is 18544km and is across the English Channel We are on a split site – our Infant and Junior departments are a 10 minute walk away from each other We are one of the two Catholic primary schools in Guernsey Our Infant school used to be St Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School Our Junior school was built in 1902 and we have grown to take over what was formerly the convent of the sisters of the Sacre Caeurs During World War 2 when the German army invaded and occupied the Channel Islands, the children from our school were evacuated to Lancashire Although we don’t have a football pitch we still have lots of cups and shields from winning tournaments We have lots of clubs at lunchtime and after school: Reading Group, Writing Group, cricket, football, rugby, netball, Green Team, Music Club, Choir, Mind Games

Buildings and surrounding areas

Our Location Our school is in St Peter Port, the island’s capital town. Children from all over Guernsey come to our school.

Our School Upper Juniors There are one main building for year five and six with two classrooms . Also there is a hut in the top playground just for year five. Lower Juniors Again there is a building with year three and four and there is one over a bridge. Year three and four classes are mixed classes.

The Infants We have an another building about ten minutes away. It has reception and year 1 and 2. It has a hall so we can gather for our important assemblies. We have Christmas Parties, discos and Movie nights in the Hall

Playgrounds Playgrounds We have a top playground which you can play football on. Also we have a middle playground which has many games painted on the tarmac. We have two bottom playgrounds which are either side of the Year 3 and 4 classrooms.

Pupils and staff

We have 23 staff Our reception Teachers are Mrs. Cable and Miss We have 23 staff Our reception Teachers are Mrs. Cable and Miss. Hearne Our year 1 Teacher is Mrs. Scullion Our year ½ Teacher is Mrs. Cameron Our year 2 Teacher is Mrs. Sanders Our year ¾ Teachers are Miss. Beebe, Mrs. Vanvliet and Mrs. De Jersey Our year 5 Teacher is Miss. Hervé Our year 5/6 Teacher is Mrs. CourtEnay -Warren Our year 6 Teacher is Mrs. Foxen our Receptionist is Mrs. Marquis Our Supply Teachers are Mr. Le Page, Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Gleeson The Teachers Assistant is Mrs. Mcklusky Our PPA Teachers are Mrs. Burchell and Miss. Jones. Staff

history Our school used to be run by nuns . The nuns asked the education council for funding. The nuns were told that they would not get funding until their buildings were better. They put a proposal for the new building on December 1901 There was a big debate whether to treat ND as a school as some people worried that mixing with French pupils would encourage anti-English thinking and with whom English children would want to fight with in case of a war. They had the four playgrounds split into parts one for the rich girls one for the rich boys one for the poor girls and one for the poor boys . On July 1995 the last nun, Sister Mary-Paul returned to Canada after 125 years of the convent running.

Sports Day The house groups are in different colours because of there normal colours. So Jethou is blue This is our sports day, in the infants they have black team, red team, yellow team, blue team and green team. In the juniors we have house teams, four house groups. They are Jethou, Sark, Herm and Brecqhou. Which are part of the bailiwick of Guernsey.

Sports achievements. We play some sports including football, netball, tag rugby, athletics and hockey. Recently in football our b-team won a 5-aside tournament. Our tag rugby team came 2nd in a tournament. The girls football team came 3rd and 8th . In athletics last year we had three people coming third in sprints. There on the right are the trophies.

In our school we have many topics. Including Learning In our school we have many topics. Including English, Maths, French, PSHE, PE, E.S.B, Phonics, Reading, Science, R.E, History, and Comprehension. These pictures show that our school is a hard working school.

English In English we do spelling and sentence structure. We also have different topics in English, we have as our topic arguments. In a couple of months we have our E.S.B(English Speaking Board). Only Reception, yr3 and yr5 are allowed to do the E.S.B.

Trip to Chateau Beaumont Events & celebrations! In our school we have special events like going to France for year 5, Joseph performance, Herm for year 6 and Lihou for year 3\4. Or small events like the disco, movie night, topic trips, smoke house ,the hub. My favourite event is the smoke house and the one that I am the most excited about is the trip to Chateau Beaumont. Joseph performance Trip to Chateau Beaumont Smoke house