Pupils of Term 1 2019

Well done to a number of pupils who have shown acts of kindness which were noted by various members of staff and visitors to the school.

Saxon (P5)

Thank you to Saxon for being so kind and pleasant. He has such good manners and greets Mrs Ruine each morning with a big smile!

Susannah P5

Mrs Carberry was very grateful when Susannah politely offered to deliver a lunch box that had been left for a pupil at the Office.

Matt P7

Thank you to Matt for explaining the role of a Playground Buddy to P1-P3 pupils so well during Assembly. Matt also helped Miss Riddell tidy up in the Dining Hall after Music Club.

AJ (P3) & Jacob (P4)

Thank you to both boys for being very helpful in the Dining Hall.

Tom P7

Tom helped to tidy Miss Armstrong’s classroom without being asked. She REALLY appreciated his help.

Erin P7

Erin was exceptionally kind and helpful when she acted as a Buddy in the P1 & P2 playground during Term 1.

Charlie P2

Charlie was very helpful during Assembly by showing a P1 pupil how to put their Star of the Week badge on. He also showed them where the certificates were.

Benjy P7

Benjy has impeccable manners and is so helpful to others each day in school.

Footballers Kick Off League Campaign

The start of the month saw Holywood PS kick off the new league campaign at Bangor FC in what was a wet and windy day.

The team played some fantastic football and worked hard as a team in what was their first competitive matches of the season. They narrowly lost 2 of their 3 games finishing with a draw.

Well done to all the boys who represented the school so well in what was a fun filled footballing afternoon.

SQUAD: Cameron, Joshua, Thomas, Connor, Matthew K, Zac W, Oscar, Kyle, Zak and Matthew L

RESULTS

0-2 Kilmaine PS

0-2 Clandeboye PS

1-1 Bloomfield PS

P6 & P7 Carol Service 2019 7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.

Please join us at our Carol Service on Monday 16 December 2019.

All children should meet in the school Hall at 6.45 p.m.. The Carol Service will take place in St. Philip & St. James Parish Church. Please collect your child at 8.00 p.m. from the School Hall.

Cross Country qualify for NI Finals

On Tuesday 25 pupils from across P5-P7 headed to Newcastle to compete in the Second Round of the Flavahans Cross Country competition.

On a beautiful, bright and brisk morning the boys and girls had a blast running at the foot of the Mourne Mountains. The boys team finished 3rd overall in their heats and qualified for the NI Finals in January and although the girls team narrowly missed out on qualifying both Isla and Mia both made it through to the finals based on their individual performances. A huge congrats on what is a great achievement!

All the boys and girls loved getting out and getting active in what was a brilliant day all round! A massive congratulations to all the boys and girls who took part and a big thank you to both Mr Lockington and Mr Wright for all their help as parent representatives.

Outdoor Classroom Day 2019

Thursday 7th November was National Outdoor Classroom Day! Over 690,000 children were involved in outdoor learning across the UK and Ireland! Unfortunately for us in NI it was pretty wet on the Thursday but P1-6 took their learning outside at some point that week or the week after! It was a great success! Between Autumn walks, leaf hunts, clock and fraction work and even making poppy pictures out of leaves, the pupils really enjoyed it and engaged well. P5 even put out bird feeders as part of our ECO focus on developing our school’s biodiversity! Take a look at some of the photos we took!

P4 Space Models

P4 have just finished their Space topic this week with a junk models homework. Waste is one of our current ECO topics and we were so impressed at how our P4s creativity reused old items and junk to form these exciting models! We had a whole range of rockets, planets, astronauts and the International Space Station. The models are currently on display in the foyer for the next few weeks. A big thank you to all the parents who gave a helping hand.

New Netball Tops Revealed

The school netballers were thrilled to see their new netball hoodies courtesy of Mrs Robertson and anyvision. The girls enjoyed sporting the new tops and can’t wait to wear them during the upcoming season. The new hoodies will look great alongside their new kits and tracksuits.

A massive thank you again to Mrs Robertson and anyvision for supplying the school with the personally designed kits.

Harvest Assembly 2019

Our two areas for PDMU in school for September and October are ‘respect’ and ‘sharing’. As part of our Harvest collection this year  the children were encouraged to help share ‘their wealth’ by donating to STOREHOUSE, a Charity that collect donations of food and then distribute all the items to families in need in the Belfast area. We were delighted with the response from all the families of HPS. Boxes and boxes of food were collected! Matt from Storehouse can along to our Assembly to thank everyone. With the help of some P7 pupils his car was filled to the brim! Everything will be distributed in the coming weeks to families in need. 

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone. 

Our Harvest Assembly celebrated this special time. Granny came to visit!   (Aka Angela Megarry from Holywood Parish Church!)She spoke to the children about how we should all take care of our world.The boys and girls also enjoyed listening to the P4&5 choir as well as having the opportunity to sing a number of songs too. Well done also to a number of our P5-P7 musicians and members of our Music Club who helped accompany the songs we sang too.

Ulster Swmming Success

Congratulations to five HPS swimmers who took part at the Swim Ulster Schools Cup and Championship, held in Bangor.
Eira, Bea and Ellie competed in the morning session for 9/10 year olds, each swimming in two events. All three achieved personal best times in their races and Ellie made the final of the 10yr 50m fly where she came 9th.

Jorja and Ben each competed in two events in the afternoon session for 11/12 year olds.

Jorja qualified for two finals where she was 9th in the 11yr 50m freestyle and 6th in the 11yr 100m individual medley. 

Ben also qualified for two finals where he was 4th in the 11yr 50m backstroke and 6th in the 11yr 50m freestyle.

Both Jorja and Ben achieved personal best times in their races and have qualified for the Irish Minor Schools Championships in February, which will be held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.

Well done to everyone, such great results all round. Sincere thanks to Mrs Starks and Mr McBride for helping on the day ensuring everyone was in the right place and ready for their races in plenty of time!

PTA Wish List Winners Weeks 2&3

WELL DONE to our four classes who have recently won the PTA Wish List £100! The boys and girls can't wait to spend the money for lots of lovely new games for their classrooms.

Mrs Brown P5 Mrs McGonigle & Mrs Harron P2

Mr Mc Connell P7 Miss Dobbin P1