Football season kicks off!

HPS footballers headed down to Bangor Football Ground to lace up their boots and kick off the start of the season in the North Down League.

Holywood played 3 games in the first round of fixtures winning two and drawing one. There was some super possession football played under the floodlights topped off with some great teamwork and precision strikes that nestled nicely in the net!

RESULTS

2-0 St Patricks (W)

4-0 Bloomfield (W)

1-1 Glencraig IPS (D)

SQUAD: Tate, Fraser, Cade, Luke, Harry, James, Peter, James and Rudy

We look forward to more football fun in the new year. A big thank you again to all the parent helpers for their assistance and support on the day!

Pupils of Term 1

All pupils are taught to appreciate the importance that our school places on treating each other with kindness and supporting each other. That’s what the HPS team promote every day.

Well done to nine pupils who have shown acts of kindness and thoughtfulness that were noted by various members of staff this term.

Oscar & Taylor (P7) show great enthusiasm and display excellent behaviour during recorder lessons.  

Maisie (P4) Mrs Harper noticed how helpful Maisie was when she cleared away all the cups in the Dining Hall without being asked.

Josh B & Ethan (P7) Both Josh and Ethan are always helping others and being kind. Well done!

Ella (P6) Well done to Ella. Mrs Cornish and other members of staff have noticed that Ella is a super Buddy in the P1-P3 playground.

Beth (P2) Beth is an extremely polite and helpful girl towards others at all times. Well done Beth !

Susanna (P6) for stepping in at the last minute to do a reading at the Carol Service. She read with confidence, Mrs Riddall and Mrs Crookshanks really appreciated what Susanna did. Well done Susanna.

Rudy & Emmy (P7) Both Rudy and Emmy have been really committed to the cycle programme. They have taken their responsibilities seriously, listened carefully, following instructions with great success!

Out and about in Holywood

Thanks to Mrs Forster, Hannah, Susanna, Toby and Jacob who went into Holywood to deliver posters advertising our Open Day which will be taking place in January. Thanks to all the local businesses for putting our posters in their shop windows.

A special thank you to Knotts, who very kindly gave each of the pupils a lovely bun to eat for their efforts! What a great community we have!

HPS are Feeling Festive

The whole of HPS had a fun filled start to December dressed in our festive clothing to complete the Daily Mile . The children across P1-P7 wore all things bright and beautiful to bring some seasonal festive cheer while completing 12 laps of the main playground for our Santa Run.

The Daily Mile is a simple and free initiative which gets children out of the classroom for 15 minutes every day, to walk, run, jog or wheel at your own pace. Whilst making them fitter, healthier and able to concentrate in the classroom, it has huge social and emotional benefits too.

HPS were among many schools across Northern Ireland, to get moving on the same day, to celebrate the positive benefits that daily activity can have on our mental health.

Check out some of the festive fun in the photos below:

P3 Rugby Blitz

P3 had great fun today when they met at Spafield playing fields to play some tag rugby alongside both Glencraig IPS and St Patricks. Both P3 classes have enjoyed the opportunity to develop their rugby skills during the coaching they have received with Holywood Rugby Club over the last number of weeks in their PE time.

At the event they got to take part in lots of small sided games and enjoyed the sunshine and mud! We mixed with lots of new and familiar faces - all while getting active and playing sport. A big thank you to all the parent helpers for their support and to Holywood RFC for having us down.

Check out the action in the photos below!

Autumn Sweep

Last week we had our HPS Autumn Sweep, this involved a big tidy up of the school grounds in preparation for Winter. We want to thank the great team of parents and relatives who got involved! Our Eco club also pitched in with weeding and planting bulbs. We also want to thank Bill, Sam and the team from Holywood Men’s Shed who have built a picket fence to mark off the construction play area for the P1 and 2s and created a lovely log border for one of our wildflower areas. Sam was remincising that the last time he was at HPS was in the 1950s as a pupil! Lovely to have you back Sam! Here are some photos of everyone’s hard work.

Kindness Links Us!

Primary 1-7 all participated in the NSPCC Kindness Challenge Week this week and created kindness paper chains with acts of kindness written or drawn on them. Kindness links us together at Holywood Primary!

Operation Christmas Child Harvest Collection

We were blown away by the generosity of our school community in our Harvest Collection in aid of Operation Christmas Child. Lots of toys, pencils, paper, books and hygiene products were brought in. These have been packed into shoe boxes and will be sent to children in other parts of the world who lack basic necessities. A big thank you to Laura Blacklock and the 3EN Group in Holywood who kindly added a generous donation of toys to our collection. Another big thank you to Mr and Mrs Armstrong from Operation Christmas Child who came in and spoke to our pupils about where their donations were going and collected the items. They were able to assemble ninety one boxes with your donations! Thank you Holywood Primary School!

2023/24 HPS Eco Committee

We are proud to present our recently elected Eco Committee for this academic year. The committee comprises a representative from each class from P4-7. The committee will work closely with Mrs McKeown promoting our Eco topics of Biodiversity, Healthy Living and Marine Life as we work towards the renewal of our Green Flag in June.

The committee:

Chair Person: Finn P7

Deputy Chair Person: Harry P7

Other committee members:

Miller P7, Jamie P6, Harrison P6, Ella P5, Ellen P5, Ellie P4, Jack P4 and Evie P4

We look forward to the great ideas and intiatives they will bring to our school this year.