Class News

Christmas Festivities

17.12.19

Riverside School have had a fun week of Christmas festivities as a reward for working so hard for our Christmas play and throughout the school year. Everyone got a present from Santa in Santa's inflatable grotto, enjoyed an inflatable snow globe and had a visit from Elsa and the Grinch at our Celebration assembly. The Christmas sprit has well and truly begun at Riverside.

Thanks to Enkalon for providing the Snow globe and Grotto

Thanks to the Montgomery Family for providing the Grinch and Elsa

We have had a blast!

Christmas Shows

December 2019

Parents and friends were welcomed by Mrs Lavery, Head Boy Luke Monaghan and Head Girl Hope Baxter to our Christmas shows. The Juniors performed Children Of The World. After a short interval and Christmas raffle, the Seniors performed Christmas Day with Scrooge. Parents and friemds enjoyed Tea, Coffee and Mince pies after. Both performances were thoroughly enjoyed by all. A massive congratualtions ato all the pupils and staff who took part.

Riverside would like to thank:

Starbucks, Antrim for donating Christmas Blend Coffee
Colin McClellend for narrating the Junior Christmas Show
Parents and friends for serving the tea and coffee
Everyone who had any part to play in making our Christmas show celebration so special

Junior Christmas Show

Children of The World

CAST

Mary Louisa Shannon

Joseph Jessy Lane

Donkey Daniel Wallace

Angel Cole Maginty

Angel Teigan Douglas

Children from Poland J2

Aoife O’Neill

Ethan Fenton

Ashton Hickman

Gemma Creighton

Cadyn Waldron-Campbell

Jenson-Cole Freeburn

Daniel McKeown

Matthew Skelton

Corey Black

Children from China J4

Kelan McKee

Alfie Elder

Oliver Gracey

Tyler Newey

Krzysztof Witula

Dylan McFarland

Lucas Bigger

Children from Australia J5

Naomi Crawford

Mojere Oluteye

Michael Mc Allister

Larson Walker

Children from Malawi J3

Josh Boyd

Omar Harfouch

Eva Kerr Clarke

Eva Kirkpatrick

Holly Louise Peeples

Connor Mc Callen O'Leary

Sophia Turtle

Blazej Wardzichowski

Callum Wright

Children from USA J1

Max Buick

Max Rantin

Morgan Newey

Tiernan Brown

Cameron Rodgers

Gary J Tidyman- Peeples

Harley Redmond

Senior Christmas Show

Christmas Day with Scrooge

CAST

Fairy Of Christmas Past: Luke Monaghan

Fairy Of Christmas Present: Charlie Escalonilla

Oliver: Stephen Millar

Emily: Grace Phillips

Kirsten: Tori-Lee Cahoon

Mum: Amber Lloyd

Dad: Matthew Preston

Granny: Hope Baxter

Uncle Ebs: Daniel Ostler

Santa: Ben Gibson

Edgar Elf: Matthew Holmes

Edwin Elf: Jack Kennedy

Edward Elf: Matthew Reid

Eric Elf: Ryan PrinceMouse:

Mouse: Morgan-Rose McStravick

Cat: Devlin Heffron

Cracker 1: Tyree Hill

Cracker 2: Tyler Davidson

Dancers

All I want for Christmas is You:

Leah Kennedy

Colin McLaughlin

Alysha Brown

Money, Money, Money: Filipe Guedes

Jamie Dunbar

Carol Singers

Silent Night: Sophia Matchett

Charlotte Regan

Rachel Davies

Ella Michael

Dara Gribbon

Elves

Santa Claus is coming Sam Stockdale

to town: Ewan McGall

Kaelin Wall

Toys

I’m so Excited: Caotlin Lemon

Filip Zvolsky

Madilyn Melville

Snowmen Adam Goodram

Andrej Witula

Eunan O’Kane

Steven McConville

Eco Schools

December 2019

Riverside School is working very hard to gain an Eco Schools Award. Mrs Irwin set all pupils a task this month where they had to create pieces of Art from recycled material. Thees are displayed in our Front Foyer. We had a competition to see who could make the most Eco Friendly display. The results were:

Junior: Nursery

Senior: S4

A super effort made by everyone! Make sure to see our Eco friendly displays when you visit Riverside this half term.

Happy Halloween from Riverside School

October 2019

Balmoral Show

May 2019

A big congratulations to Jack, Charlie and Matthew for taking part in the Special Schools' Dexter Young Handler Class at Balmoral show. They all did brilliantly in the ring. Jack represented Riverside in the Grand Parade at the end of the show. Congratulations to Kyle, Jamie and Grace and all the other teams who took part. Riverside made a tremendous effort but in the end, Roddensvale School won the rosette.

Riverside Post 16 Pathways Class

May 2019

Pathways have been very busy this year as they prepare themselves for life after school. The pupils in Pathways are given many opportunities and life experiences to develop their life skills.

Every Wednesday, they attend either the Bridge or the Gym. At the Bridge in Antrim the pupils learn cookery, woodwork and ICT skills. Once a week they attend the MET College in Belfast where they develop their ICT skills on Ipads and enjoy classes to prepare themselves for transitioning once they reach the age of 19.

They practice cooking dinner each week, go shopping to get the ingredients and further get to practice these skills in a school based café.

They have their own Young Enterprise business know as PUP (Pathways Unique Products.) This year they won two awards for their efforts including Best overall team and Team programme for outstanding teamwork.

Well done Pathways. Keep up the Great work!

Roald Dahl Day

13th September 2018

Junior classess mixed with Senior classes to celebrate different books writtwn by Roald Dahl. Lots of differtn activite related to these books were held around the school.