Ruzi and Heidi represented Holywood PS in the NI Schools Gymnastics Association Championships held in Belfast. The girls won Gold medal in the ‘Under 11’ category for their floor routine. There were over thirty schools taking part, the girls did fantastically well to take first place.
Heidi and Ruzi will now travel with their coach to England next term, to represent HPS at the all UK finals in Stoke-on-Trent.
Well done girls. That's great news. Best wishes for the UK finals.
Ruzi and Heidi
Ashton - Khloe for making a great effort with her words and reading. (P1 Mrs Wallace)
Luke for being able to tell Professor Topping all about herbivores. (P1 Mrs Elliott)
Finn always has an enthusiastic attitude and a big smile on his face..... a star! (P1 Mrs Maher)
Carling for always working hard. (P2 Miss Dobbin)
Jack for always being helpful and having beautiful manners. (P2 Mrs McGonigle)
Lucas for super 'th' phonic work. Well Done. (P2 Miss McGuile)
Andrew for fabulous adjectives about 'our mystery egg'. (P3 Mrs Gibson)
Annie is really enthusiastic about everything she does in class. She also makes Miss McKeown giggle by putting on lots of funny voices. (P3 Miss McKeown)
Ella for writing a great story about meeting a bunny in our BIG WRITE. (P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood)
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P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Tia for reading with great expression.
Ethan for a great improvement in reading.
Room 16 Mrs Stewart
Isaac for excellent work on multiplication.
Jason for fantastic work in English and Maths.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Rishau for settling in well to his new school.
Oliver for great work on fractions.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Jake for making a huge improvement in his handwriting.
Emily for working hard at her mental maths.
P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Andrew for producing an excellent Story Board on the computer describing events from the class novel.
Cameron for reading aloud in class so well.
P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Caitlin for excellent digital time work.
Harris for super work and contribution to class discussions on volcanoes.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Adam for always working neatly and accurately in both Literacy and Numeracy.
Ethan for useful and informative contributions to discussions on the solar system.
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Rachel for a good beginning to crochet.
Katie for a good beginning to crochet.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Jake for working hard at his reading words and being a great helper.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Scarlett for being an excellent worker in everything she does.
P1 Mrs Maher: Bronagh for beautiful writing about her half term holidays.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Scott for writing lots of super words with a 'th' sound.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Mariama for knowing her number facts really well.
P2 Miss McGuile: Reuben for always being very polite. Good boy Reuben!
P3 Mrs Gibson: Joshua for a fantastic piece of writing about his half term holidays.
P3 Miss McKeown: Ben for good sportsmanship and super fast running in P.E. Ben tries his best and encourages others.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Holly for painting a beautiful aeroplane and always making Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood smile.
Georgia (P6) qualified for the Northern Ireland Irish dancing championships again this year. She competed in the Under 11 category and danced extremely well.
Georgia and two friends from St Patrick's Primary School in Holywood were placed a fantastic 4th in their three hand dance…a great achievement!
Well done Georgia, we are very proud of you. We also really like your dress Georgia.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Bea for trying so hard with her handwriting. Well done Bea.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Jessica for being a fantastic girl at her work this week.
P1 Mrs Maher: Mara for doing beautiful work and being so well behaved.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Daisy for being a super and enthusiastic helper.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Oskar for retelling the story of The Owl Babies in his own writing. A great story.
P2 Miss McGuile: Noah for super adding and taking away 4.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Joshua for reading lots of novels. He's a GREAT bookworm. Well done Joshua.
P3 Miss McKeown: Megan for becoming an author in P3. Megan has written three pages on 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and is still going.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Lennox for speeding up to complete his work on time.
Congratulations to P6 pupil Andrew who was 3rd in the Under 12s High Jump NI & Ulster Championship in Magherafelt.
Andrew
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Ellie for beautiful handwriting.
Jamie for super work on times tables.
Room 16 Mrs Stewart
Charlie for super work on times tables.
Aimee for wonderful data handling work.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Sophie for an excellent piece of persuasive writing.
Oliver for an excellent piece of persuasive writing.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
BrodieToby for an excellent idea for a persuasive letter.
Hadi for learning his dividing by 2 tables.
P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Makayla for fantastic work on time!
Sarah for an excellent improvement in all her work.
P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Curtis for excellent work on negative numbers.
Charlotte for excellent work on negative numbers.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Poppy for great work on finding common denominators and adding mixed numbers.
Lucy for great work on finding common denominators and adding mixed numbers.
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Ruzi for good work on spreadsheets.
Luke for good work on adding fractions.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Erin for taking great care and doing well with number work.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Lara for knowing all of her reading words and for excellent number work.
P1 Mrs Maher: Riley for always trying her best.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Emily for painting a super painting of our school.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Gabrielle for remembering capital letters and full stops in her writing - a great writer!
P2 Miss McGuile: Chestha for always remembering to say please and thank you. Such a polite girl!
P3 Mrs Gibson: Lilly for working so hard on her numberwork. She is a superstar.
P3 Miss McKeown: Scarlett for settling in so quickly and for making such an effort with all the P3s. We love having Scarlett in our class.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Hannah for trying so hard in her number work test. Hannah always tries her best.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Abi for making a great effort with her numbers and letters.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Lawson for excellent reading and number work.
P1 Mrs Maher: Evan for amazing sounding out when reading a tricky word.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Joshua for spelling four letter words correctly.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Karleah for great money work with 1p and 2p coins.
P2 Miss McGuile: Lucas for excellent labelling of cities on the Northern Ireland map.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Rebecca for writing a lovely poem about strawberries.
P3 Miss McKeown: Amy for lovely manners to everyone. Amy is a good helper to her class and Miss McKeown. Well done.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Brooke for painting beautiful sushi when she was learning about food from around the world.
Congratulations to Angharad who recently represented HPS in the Under 14 section of the Zonal Schools Trampolining Competition in Gateshead. Angharad performed very well finishing 9th overall. Well done!
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Oliver is working really hard in maths. He is doing challenging H T U subtraction sums well!
Smokey for being very well organised - he got ready to leave school for rehearsals and pantomime performances at the Grand Opera House and caught up with any work he missed.
Room 16 Mrs Stewart
Dawud has worked really hard to learn his X 2 tables.
Imogen has worked really hard to learn his X 2 tables.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Rusula for knowing her times tables so well!
Zach for working so well with money this week.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Rebecca for making a great start to writing in fountain pen.
Hannah for making a great start to writing in fountain pen.
P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Christian for great work on hompohones, noting the differences in spellings and meanings.
Heidi for great work on homophones, noting the differences in spelling and meanings.
P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves
James for excellent concentration and methodic approach to his Numeracy task.
Emma for enthusiasm and interest in her homophone work.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Eleanor for a great effort to learn X 9 tables.
Tia for a great effort to learn X 9 tables.
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Rachel for excellent presentation of written work.
Katie for a fantastic effort in numeracy work this week.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Annabelle for settling into a new school and trying hard at all her work.
Mrs Elliott: Abbie for excellent number work and behaviour.
P1 Mrs Maher: Lexi for amazing balancing in P.E.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Jay for writing super speech bubbles for the Owl Babies
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Reid for knowing some great facts about Northern Ireland.
P2 Miss McGuile: Arianna for spelling all the double sound phonic words correctly.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Oliver for a fantastic scientific report on jelly.
P3 Miss McKeown: Cameron for a lovely friendly attitude to all the boys and girls in his class. A great boy.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Adam for being such a brave boy when he fell over on Monday and hurt his eye and head.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Zoe for making a great effort to improve her work.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Arianna for working hard to learn all her reading words.
P1 Mrs Maher: Jayden for working hard independently.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Roo for beautiful neat handwriting.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Freddy for walking sensibly in the corridor and good behaviour.
P2 Miss McGuile: Minnie for fantastic box sums in Maths.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Matthew for fabulous work on numbers to 100.
P3 Miss McKeown: Nathan for trying his best to get all his work finished on time. Well done Nathan.
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Matt for trying really hard in all areas of his work.
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
James for good skills when using the Book Creator App on the Ipad to make a WW2 book.
Zach for accurate work when adding Tens and Units.
Room 16 Mrs Stewart
Maria for fabulous work on plurals.
Charlotte for fabulous work on plurals.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Amy- Louise for an excellent piece of writing on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Kathryn for an excellent piece of writing on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Brodie for writing a super biography of Abraham Lincoln as part of the class topic on America.
Claire for writing a super biography of Abraham Lincoln as part of the class topic on America.
P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Alison for always working hard and trying her best.
Ben for always listening carefully in class and this has shown an improvement in his maths.
P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Annabel for neat and accurate graph work with appropriate scales and labels.
Benjamin for neat and accurate work with appropriate scales and labels.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Kiera for working hard to learn tables.
Keir for great work in all aspects of maths.
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Carter for making an effort with handwriting.
Carly for good work on tenths and hundreths.
Charlie and Arianna were delighted to be picked to form a Guard of Honour at the Kingspan Stadium for the Ulster Team. The Ulster boys had a convincing win over Toulouse 38-0. Charlie and Arianna went onto the pitch ready to wave the Ulster men.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Jessica for trying very hard at everything she does and also for her great dancing.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Anthony for excellent numberwork. Well done.
P1 Mrs Maher: Charlie for beautiful writing and trying his best.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Toby for writing super sentences about the Firefighter.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Mason for much improved numberwork.
P2 Miss McGuile: Kaleb for super adding and taking away.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Matthew for excellent numberwork.
P3 Miss McKeown: Jorja for great effort in all she does! A great girl!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Fionnbharr for making an excellent photo frame.
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Sofia for trying her best during all class activities and being very helpful when asked to do something.
Joshua wrote a very detailed version of 'The Bundle of Sticks' story. He was enthusiastic and very focused.
Room 16 Mrs Stewart
Sophie for super writing about 'The Bundle of Sticks'.
Bryn for fantastic problem solving in Numeracy.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Patrick for a great effort when working on Time - especially digital time.
Daisie for a great effort when working on Time - especially digital time.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Alana for her contribution to her class Thanksgiving Assembly.
Georgie for her contribution to her class Thanksgiving Assembly.
P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Jamie for a fantastic performance on the P6 residential trip to Ardnabannon.
Tori for a fantastic performance on the P6 residential trip to Ardnabannon.
P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Yu for a great performance when he was at Ardnabannon.
Megan for a great performance when she was at Ardnabannon.
P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Molly for approaching all aspects of school life with enthusiasm and a smile.
Erin for approaching all aspects of school life with enthusiasm and a smile.
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell
Max for excellent trumpet playing.
Joy for excellent glockenspiel playing.
P1 Mrs Wallace: Luke for beautiful Christmas colouring.
P1 Mrs Elliott: Darby for having wonderful manners and always remembering to say please and thankyou.
P1 Mrs Maher: Jamie always tries his best and his work looks beautiful!
P2 Miss Dobbin: Cerys for writing lovely sentences about winter.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Bea for such enthusiastic singing at Natvitiy rehearsals.
P2 Miss McGuile: Isla for lovely writing about winter.
P3 Mrs Gibson: Leah for painting a lovely Elf.
P3 Miss McKeown: Connor for teaching Miss McKeown new facts about animals. He is an animal expert!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Beth for writing and decorating a beautiful letter to Santa.
Congratulations to a number of our girls who took part in the Regional School Trampoline. An under-11 novice team competed that included Zoe McD, Izzy D, Charlotte C, Emily C and Georgie W.
Angharad K came second in the under-14 novice competition. This means she is through to the UK northern zonal round in Gateshead in January 2016.
Well done girls! Best wishes Angharad for the next round!
Angharad with her medal
