Best wishes to our School Choir who are taking part in Priory College Music Festival this week. They have been preparing two pieces to sing, I Believe and Bright Eyes.
School Photograph Orders
School photographs will be sent home this week. The boys and girls look wonderful !
Please return orders with payment by Friday 14th March. Many thanks.
PTA Meeting Tuesday 4th March
PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN IMPORTANT MEETING AT 7.00 P.M. IN HPS TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF APPLYING FOR PTA CHARITY STATUS.
Giro d’Italia launch at HPS!
On Monday we welcomed a number of visitors and photographers to school. We were asked to host a photo shoot to accompany a press release promoting the forthcoming Giro d’Italia cycling event as well as the Giro Schools Programme and schools competitions organised by DRD Travelwise, SportNI and Sustrans. Look out for photos in the local press in the coming days which include some of our children, MLAs Mr. Kennedy, Minister for Regional Development and Education Minister Mr. O’ Dowd. Click on the DENI website and DRD website to read more information Following the visit I received a number of emails from our visitors complimenting our children and members of staff.
What a great way to begin the new term.
New Sensory & Wildlife Garden underway
Thanks to our successful Challenge Fund grant application to NI Enviromental Link work is well underway converting a disused area beside the back gates of school. The ground is being developed to create a Sensory and Wildlife area for the children to use and observe birds, minibeasts and an area we hope where small creatures may make their habitat. Plans have also included disabled access to and from the area as well as enhancing the Garden areas at the front of the school and next to the school playgrounds. Please enjoy viewing the story so far below and look back soon for more pictures!
Success for Ellie at Irish Schools Swimming Finals !
Ellie was all smiles after her great success at the Irish Schools Swimming Finals. Ellie can be seen holding two GOLD medals following her fantastic wins in her two races Backstroke and Butterfly! Well done Ellie.
What a wonderful result!
Provisional HPS Holiday List 2014-2015
PTA Bag Pack Raised £785
Thank you to all our volunteers who helped raise a fantastic £785 at the Bag Pack at Tesco. We really appreciate all your support. Thanks to Gillian Morrow who co-ordinated the event and to the many mums, dads, children and grandparents who bag packed throughout the day. More pictures to follow soon.
What's going on?
Don't forget to look in the activities section to see what's going in each Year Group.We regularly post pictures of the boys and girls. You might like to leave a comment too!
CBBC visit Holywood PS
What a great day!
LIGHTS, CAMERA ......ACTION!
A number of our P5 and P6 boys and girls had a great day when CBBC came to film at HPS for a new CBBC programme called Joke Machine. Along with children from Springhill PS and Sullivan Prep, thirty boys and girls from Holywood PS were chosen by the team to tell their favourite joke.The programme will be aired on the CBBC channel later in the year. Enjoy looking at photos from the day here.
PTA BAG PACK Please help
The main fundraising event in Term 2 will be a bag packing day at Tesco Knocknagoney on Saturday 18th January 2014. Please come along to help pack bags! We believe if 10 parents & children volunteer from each Year Group and give at least an hour of their time on Saturday 18th, we are sure we could raise £1000 in just one day!
To help the PTA please volunteer by completing the form here and return it to your child's teacher this week. We are simply asking for an hour of your time (but you are welcome to stay longer if you wish!).
PTA Christmas Fair
What a wonderful afternoon of fun, food and festivities for all families and friends! There was a great range of stalls to browse and buy from! The PHOTOBOOTH was very popular with some very funny poses being captured! We do not have a final total as yet but we believe it to be over £1300. Thanks to Kelly Shimmin and her team who did a marvellous job of co-ordinating this event. We would also like to thank the many parents and 6th Form pupils from Priory College who helped to set up the Fair, sort and price gifts and also for helping to tidy up after the event.
P1- P3 Christmas Nativity
Proud friends and families of our P1, P2 and P3 children gathered in a packed Assembly Hall where they were treated to a delightful Christmas Play ‘A Midwife Crisis’. The children sang, danced, played instruments and acted so well and really did give all their appreciative audiences performances to remember for a very long time! Thank you to a number of P4- P7 children who provided a musical programme prior to the Nativity. We were delighted to welcome some younger boys and girls this year from Plas Merdyn, Holywood and Glendhu Nursery Schools. A picture of the Nativity even featured in the Belfast Telegraph!
Open Morning Wednesday 8th January 2014 9.30 - 10.30 a.m.
For those who were unable to attend our Open Day in December we are having an Open Morning for prospective families on Wednesday 8th January 2014. There will be a guided tour of the school at 9.30 a.m.
The morning should offer everyone the opportunity to have a real look around and have a taste of what goes on in our school.
HPS really did enjoy being Madhatters for Children In Need Day!
What a day! The boys, girls and members of staff had a great day in school! Everyone entered into the spirit of things! We were delighted to see so many creative and very original designs. Thank you mums, dads, grannies and grandas for helping to make this such a special day.
Thank you to everyone for their generosity. Over £500 was raised!
All the photographs can be seen in our gallery.
We also presented prizes to two children from each class for their extra special hat! The winners can be seen here.
Corin puts her own stamp on things!
We were delighted to welcome Mr Gordon Dunne MLA and Barbara Roulston from the Post Office Head Office in Belfast to present Corin in Primary 6, one of two Northern Ireland winners in the Royal Mail’s Children’s Christmas Stamp Design Competition. She has won £500 for herself and for our school!
There were over 240,000 entries in this UK competition.
CONGRATULATIONS CORIN! You can see the other entries on the Royal Mail website.
Waste Free Lunch Week 18th - 22nd November 2013
As part of the European Week for Waste Reduction and in line with our promotion of Healthy Lifestyles, we are making Monday 18th to Friday 22nd November 'waste free' lunch box days.
We want to minimise the waste paper and wrappers from breaks and lunches. Your child's lunch box should contain the normal healthy food but resuable small containers should be used.
This is a whole school challenge, with a view to extending the challenge later in the school year. We hope that you will support this new endeavour and welcome your comments. Further information about healthy lunch boxes can be found in this leaflet supported by the Department of Education and the Public Health Agency.
HPS Pupils Involved in Road Safety Week
To coincide with November Road Safety Week, the PSNI and some of our older children will be visible and vocal at the school entrances to ask drivers to slow down. Please continue to be considerate to members of the school community and local neighbourhood.
PTA Bake Sale A great success!
The bake sale was a busy, happy success today. The total raised was £315.
Thank you to all the helpers and to all the parents and children for their wonderful baking. We hope everyone enjoys the lovely goodies!
Get Safe Online
This week is Get Safe Online week, an annual awareness campaign to reinforce the fact that people can stay online safely just by following some simple precautions.
Everyone needs help sometimes and that’s especially true of parents trying to stay switched-on to their children’s online safety. Get Safe Online provide expert, up-to-the-minute advice and have produced some checklists according to your child's age. They are available for under 5 years, 6 - 9 years, 10 - 12 years, and if you have older children too, 13 years and over. This year the campaign has launched an online code of conduct - a set of ten safety tips for parents too.
PSNI Constable Chris Rose will be visiting HPS to lead an awareness workshop with our P4 – P7 pupils highlighting the importance of safe use of the Internet. PSNI reccommend that you help your children to visit thinkuknow.co.uk. This website helps children to go on the Internet in a safe way and know who to talk to if they are worried. Links are provided for each age group.