Stars of the Week 13 NOVEMBER
P1 Room 2 Mrs Smith and Mrs Kajugu
LEXI
For being a lovely, kind girl who listens very well.
P1/P2 Room 17 Miss Dobbin and Mrs Kajugu
PENNY
For being great at learning new sounds.
P2 Room 3 Mrs Cornish
JADEY
For being a beautiful and caring friend to everyone in the class.
P2 Room 18 Mrs Hunter and Mrs Harron
ZARA
For excellent singing when practising our Nativity.
P3 Room 4 Mr Atcheson
TENZIN
For working so hard on his reading.
P3 Room 6 Miss Irvine and Mrs McKeown
JUDE
For excellent independent literacy and phonics work.
Stars of the Week 6 NOVEMBER
Congratulations to our fabulous Star of the Week winners!
FREDDIE P1 R2
For holding his pencil really well and doing lovely writing!
CHARLOTTE P1/P2 R17
For always working hard and lovely manners!
ELLEN P2 R3
For working incredibly hard and always doing her best.
JAMIE P2 R18
For being a great friend.
JACKSON P3 R4
For wonderful alphabet work and for always trying so hard.
LILLY P3 R6
For super independent phonic work.
Stars of the Week 23 OCTOBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Cassidy for working hard, helping others and having a very happy start to P1.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Sam for being a great boy at everything he does.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Bea for great independent writing, about our Autumn walk!
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Ezra for being very brave when he got hurt in the playground.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Camryn for being such a wonderful role model and excellent helper!
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Beth for excellent listening in class and at Nativity rehearsals.
Merit Winners 16 OCTOBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Thomas for working really hard on his spellings and number bonds.
Kiara for amazing number bond work.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Emily for great work in her reading activity.
Harry for getting lots of his maths busy book completed.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Eliza for good thinking in dividing,
Nathan for good work in tens and units.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Freya and Connor for super posters on their chose minibeast.
P5/ P6 MR McCONNELL:
Indi and Sophie for great Minibeast posters.
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Tom and George for good thinking and problem solving in math’s challenges.
P6 MRS HAMMOND:
Jude and Claire for building fabulous construction pieces and designs during STEM Day.
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Joe and Grace for working brilliantly together to create and describe a simile monster.
P7MRS HART:
Asher for a great talk discussing his Iron Man creation.
Caleb for giving great ideas on our outdoor senses walk,
Stars of the Week 16 OCTOBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Yarik for being a very brave boy when he had a nose bleed.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Amelia for writing super news independently.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Seth for working incredibly hard and being so caring.
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Peter for writing great sentences in his news book.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Seth for fantastic number work in his maths.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Austen for excellent independent phonic work.
Stars of the Week 9 OCTOBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Anna for getting better at following instructions and helping to tidy up.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Ethan for being great at naming rhyming words!
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Charlie for always working so hard and being so helpful.
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Charles for always trying his best with all his work!
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Miley for fabulous acting when retelling the story of Little red Riding Hood.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Peter for using lots of exciting adjectives in his descriptions of Fairy Tale characters.
Merit Winners 2 OCTOBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Magnus for super space art.
Abi for brilliant comprehension work.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Charlie for great reading aloud in class.
Molly for being very helpful with organising class scissors and glue.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Abbas for making a real effort in swimming.
Faye for good work on dividing.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Lizzie and Aoife for writing super stories about the day Mrs Brown went missing!
P5/ P6 MR McCONNELL:
Freddie for a great Haiku on Autumn.
Dylan for using excellent descriptive phrases in his creative writing, about Mr McConnell going missing.
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Charlotte for a fantastic performance during a PE dance display.
Riley for always working hard, being polite and kind to his peers.
P6 MRS HAMMOND:
Ciara for writing great instructions on poaching, using lots of bossy verbs.
Henry for working hard at alphabetical order and having good focus and concentration.
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Alex for fantastic work on line symmetry.
Isla for creating a brilliant poster about ‘Rodgers Dairy Farm.
P7MRS HART:
Violet and Harrison for both doing great work on reflective symmetry.
Stars of the Week 2 OCTOBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Alex for great work in his ‘P’ booklet. - careful colouring.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Emilia for trying really hard to use scissors.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Layla for being so kind and caring.
M2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Layla for being such a good helper.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Ruby for being so kind and such a wonderful friend.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Joseph for fabulous facts about castles.
Fab football outcome for Eva
Eva has been working hard on the pitch to develop her football skills for many years and all the hard work has now paid off. After three grueling trials, she has been awarded a place in the 2013 Elite Girls' National Programme with the IFA. Keep up the great work Eva, we're all very proud of you at HPS!
Stars of the Week 25 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Rosie for great cutting and sticking and for listening well to instructions.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Alex for being super at bouncing and catching a ball during PE.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Caleb for always having a big smile - it brightens up his classroom!
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Tom for being a good friend.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Isaac for fabulous ICT work.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Clea for super reading in a group in class.
LOOK OUT for Sienna in the Specsavers UK campaign
During the summer P2 pupil Sienna was selected from a UK wide competition to be involved in a Specsavers campaign aimed at making going to the opticians less scary for children and to promote a positive attitude to wearing glasses. She attended a studio workshop in Manchester with global illustrator Melanie Williamson and other children from England, Scotland and Wales. Sienna was involved in a workshop and shoot to design a monster which will be included in an instore campaign across Specsavers stores in the coming months.
The event was also filmed and the campaign is now live across Specsavers social media channels, you can view this via these links:
What a great experience for Sienna. WELL DONE SIENNA!
We LOOK forward to seeing you as part of the campaign across the UK! How exciting!
Merit Winners 23 SEPTEMBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Faya for excellent reading.
Dylan for great place value work.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
James and Maisie for lovely blackwash space pictures.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Oliver for great comprehension answers.
Edith for taking an interest in our minibeast topic.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Zara and Kaylee for trying hard in all activities.
P5/ P6 MR McCONNELL:
Merryn for great instructions on how to clean your teeth.
Amy for an excellent poem on how to fly a kite. ( From Danny Champion of the World )
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Emily for putting in a fantastic effort in her Maths so far in P6.
Archie for great contributions to class discussions and for always being so cheerful.
P6 MRS HAMMOND:
Reagan for working hard to revise for X7 tables.
Ellen for a lovely kite poem, full of fantastic verbs.
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Elizabeth for excellent ratio work.
Spencer for super writing work on The Iron Man.
P7MRS HART:
Charley for excellent improvement on her recall of the times tables.
William for excellent work on conversion graphs.
Stars of the Week 18 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Jack for working hard and answering questions well in our class.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Jack for always working hard at everything he does.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Lottie for being so kind and caring to all her class mates and Mrs Cornish too!
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Zara for settling in so well to HPS!
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Elin for a fabulous comic using speech bubbles in the ICT suite.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Ella for super demonstration of her gymnastic skills in P.E.
Golf Sixes success
P6 pupil, Daniel represented Helen’s Bay Golf Club in the Golf Sixes junior event during the summer.
The team he was in were placed third in the League.
CONGRATULATIONS Daniel!
Stars of the Week 11 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Georgia for being a great P1 girl, working really well and making new friends.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Constantine for doing super sound work for ‘s’.
P2 MRS CORNISH:
Oscar for being so helpful and working hard.
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Rory for trying so hard with his work and ALWAYS smiling.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Jesse for doing a super Batman symbol using sponges and paint.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Yasir for a fabulous superhero picture using oil pastels.
Merit Winners 4 SEPTEMBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Chloe for being kind and helpful.
Evie-Rose for excellent “ All About Me” writing.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Torin for settling in well to HPS.
Eloise for great listening skills.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Elijah for being helpful in class.
Evie for beautiful work on setting goals.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Teddy for settling in well to P5.
Luca for working very hard on his maths.
P5/ P6 MR McCONNELL:
Sarah for good work on nouns and adjectives and some lovely handwriting,
Tristan for great procedural writing on the lifecycle of a butterfly.
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Frankie for fantastic work in Maths, especially times tables.
Olivia for listening carefully and focusing well on all aspects of her work.
P6 MRS HAMMOND:
Freya-Skye for working really hard for x by 6.
Qayssar for working hard at comprehension activities.
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Cara for excellent progress dividing decimals.
Pranati for working hard during comprehension work.
P7 MRS HART:
Ava for a great limerick that made Mrs Hart laugh!
Rory for working very well in all activities. A great start to P7.
Stars of the Week 4 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS KAJUGU:
Paddy has really lovely manners and is helpful tidying up.
P1/P2 MISS DOBBIN & MRS KAJUGU:
Julia for writing super weekend news with no help!
P2 MRS CORNISH
Patrick for excellent behaviour and great listening.
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Isobel for excellent writing about her summer holidays!
P3 MR ATCHESON
Harriet for presenting her work so beautifully.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Sara for fabulous writing about her weekend.
STARS OF THE WEEK 17 JUNE 2024
P1 MRS SMITH & MRS WILSON:
Lena for always getting her work done with a lovely happy smile.
P1/ P2 MRS CORNISH:
Harriet for being a very kind and caring friend to everyone.
P1 MRS FULTON & MRS KAJUGU:
Cora for super work sounding out her own words. Well done!
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON:
Joseph for great independant writing!
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Josiah for creating a wonderful stained glass big during ABL.
P3 MRS GIBSON & MRS McKEOWN:
Nao for a fabulous mini beast drawing using oil pastels.
P4 - P7 MERIT BADGE WINNERS 17 JUNE
P4 MR FIELD
Lauren and Harriet for working hard on their reading all year.
P4 MISS MCDONALD
Bailie-Mae for great writing on P4 memories.
Abe for learning his timestables well.
P4 MRS MCKEOWN
Rachela and Ellen for excellent sunset camel paintings.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS WILSON
Maahi for being well organised and working hard at reading.
Aria for good progress in Mental Arithmetic.
P5 MRS BROWN
Rayan for working extremely hard on dividing.
Luke for working extremely hard on literacy.
P6 MRS RIDDALL
Toby for working hard to learn his weekly facts.
Susanna for taking great care and attention over her artwork.
P6 MRS HART
Molly for giving a good persuasive argument for no homework.
Jack for always participating fully with enthusiasm in all class practical activities.
P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD
Josh B for being very helpful to Mrs Nagyova during her talk about bees and bee keeping.
Iris for super artwork on Matisse.
P7 MRS FRANCIS
Tate and Charlie for great participation during the class invisible traffic workshop.
P7 MR MCCONNELL
Abraham for an excellent model of the Louvre.
Emilia for an excellent model of the Colosseum.