Merit Badge Winners

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P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney

Erin for completing all activities in class within the given time.

Libby for accurate work in T U multiplying by 2 with exchanging.

Room 16 Mrs Stewart

Emma for being a great helper in class always doing everything with a smile.

Elsa for excellent work in T U multiplying by 2 - Well done Elsa.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell

Skye for writing an excellent fairytale story.

Maddie for great work on teeth and great contributions to class discussions.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown

Patrick for always asking interesting questions during topic work.

Georgia for good creative writing on the 'mysterious egg'.

P6 Room 12 Mrs Hart

Eve for always learning and putting effort into her FACT BOOK homeworks.

Frankie for writing a great 'BIG WRITE' story about the appearance of the egg.

P6 Room 11 Mrs Eves

Rory for much improved effort in all his work in class and homework.

Susi for her interest and input in all discussions and self checking her maths work.

P7 Room 9 Mrs Clarke

Louise for great work on rotational symmetry.

Harry for writing a good summary of information on the planet Mercury.

P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell

Emma for an excellent report on 'The Moon'.

Megan for good thinking during maths work on millimetres.

Stars of the Week

Each week we celebrate a star pupil in each P1 to P3 class. This week's stars are:

Ben for being cheerful and trying hard at all times. (P1 Mrs Wallace)

Daniel for wonderful work on o'clock. Well done. (P1 Mrs Elliott)

Dylan for trying to work independently - Mrs Maher is so pleased. (P1 Mrs Maher)

Carter for always being a super helper. (P2 Miss Dobbin)

Logan for a great improvement with his handwriting and writing sentences independently. (P2 Mrs McGonigle)

Noah for being an amazing friend to everyone in P2 Room 19. (P2 Miss McGuile)

Megan for always being so helpful and well mannered. (P3 Mrs Gibson)

Kieran for trying hard to win tokens outside and for good effort in class this week. Well done. (P3 Miss McKeown)

Thomas for helping to turn the Travel Agent area into an aeroplane! (P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood)

Gold for Ruzi and Heidi

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.

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Ruzi and Heidi

Stars of the Week

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)

Merit Badge Winners

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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.

Stars of the Week

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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.

Great Dancing Georgia

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.

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Stars of the Week

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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.

Andrew Aiming High

Congratulations to P6 pupil Andrew who was 3rd in the Under 12s High Jump NI & Ulster Championship in Magherafelt.

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Andrew

Merit Badge Winners

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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.

Stars of the Week

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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.

Stars of the Week

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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.

Angharad's Trampolining Success

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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!

Merit Badge Winners

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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.

Stars of the Week

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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.

Stars of the Week

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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.

Merit Badge Winners

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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 & Arianna at Kingspan

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.

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Stars of the Week

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.

Merit Badge Winners

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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.