Stars of the Week 17 May

P1 Mrs Donald: Noah

P1 Mrs Elliott: Vivien for trying really hard to complete all her work on time.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Caroline for trying to sound out words independently when writing stories.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Luke for great behaviour and good listening!

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Olly for filling in with a speaking part last minute in his class assembly. He did a great job, well done Olly!

P2 Mrs Curran:  Ronan for great reading and trying really hard to remember his reading words.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Bea for creating a fabulous Triceratops!

P3 Mrs Fulton: Madison for working really hard and getting ALL her work finished on time.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Struan for being so helpful during Dinosaur Day!

Ella wins again!

We were delighted to hear about Ella's success in 'Thatz Showbizz' Dance Competition. Ella will be competing in the Semi-Final of the competition in Liverpool!

Ruan represents NI County Down NI select

Holywood Primary’s very own football captain, Ruan, has been selected to play for the U12 NI County Down Select. Ruan and his teammates will be travelling to France on 1st June 2017 to compete in the Tournou International de Football in Dirinon.  All at HPS are very proud of his achievement and wish him all the best.

Merit Badge Winners 11 May

P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney        

Daanyaal for great X2 tableware and for always joining in class discussions.

Faye fir great illustrations and for good X3 and X4 table work.                                                                                                                                            

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown

Kieran for working quietly and quickly in class.

For his positive attitude to everything in class.

P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.

Robbie for great focus in class and super understanding of money tasks.

Ella for an excellent attitude to her classwork and being helpful in class.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell

Imogen for giving an excellent talk about her animals.

Olivia for giving an excellent talk about her gymnastics.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown

Aimee for wonderful creative writing.

Casey for more confidence in maths and 'giving it a go!'

P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke

Ella for always making a good contribution to class discussions.

Jeanie for working hard to understand new concepts in maths.

P6 Room 10 Miss McGuile

James for fantastic recorder playing!

Rebecca for a great start to persuasive writing!

Stars of the Week 10 May

P1Mrs Donald: Ollie for super progress with his phonics. Ollie is reading and writing words all by himself!

P1 Mrs Elliott: Meadow is a superstar! She gets all her work done on time. 

P1 Miss Armstrong: Isaac for fantastic number work!

P2 Miss Dobbin: Daniel for doing great literacy work.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Sam for always listening carefully and having beautiful manners.

P2 Mrs Curran: Erin for writing super sentences about her class trip to the Folk Museum.

P3 Mrs Fulton: Oskar for bringing in lots of brilliant dinosaur drawings that he did himself!

P3 Mrs Gibson: Zac for fabulous work when adding tens and units.

P3 Mrs Hunter / Mrs Heawood   Charlie for excellent problem solving during their dinsosaur activities.

Gymnastic Academy success

It was lovely to see Lily & Eva visit earlier this week. They came to tell me that they both had recently completed the 5 Start Skills Award. Their big smiles certainly give you an idea of how proud they were to receive their certificate too. Well done girls!

Stars of the Week 3 May

Art Competition Winners

We were delighted to hear that a number of our children had been successful in a recent art competitions.

Well done to P4 pupils, Fay  and Kieran  who were commended for their drawings in the North Down Model Railway Society competition which had almost 2,000 entries.

Well done also to our prize winners in the Holywood District and Community Council Art Competition. Congratulations to Ellie (P2), Clara  (P1) and Bronagh (P2). 

P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney                                                                                                            

Fionbharr for working as part of a group to draw a life size penguin!

Scarlett for being a helpful pupil and for always offering to hold the door.                                                                                                     

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown

Thomas for great symmetry work, he took his time and showed great attention to detail with his symmetry man!

Erin for being a very helpful and  hard working girl.                                                                                                                                                                                          

P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Jack for excellent work on symmetry.

Philippa for showing great understanding of homophones.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell  

 Libby and Erin for a very good Egyptian story written in the first person.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown      

James for making a great improvement in handwriting.

Sophie for very good editing skills in Literacy.

P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke      

Sophie K and Sophie C for great recount writing based on the class novel The Silver Sword.

P6 Room 10 Miss Mc Guile              

Kristian for being very engaged and answering well at Bangor Heritage Centre. Well done Kristian!

Lucy for wonderful work on factors!

P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Molly for her positive attitude to 'catching up' when she had been off ill.

James for his enthusiasm and input into the Young Enterprise Project.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Noah and Eve for a super attitude and excellent performances during Cinderella Rockerfella. Noah and Evekept up with all their class work too - WELL DONE!

Stars of the Week 26 April

P1 Mrs Donald: Charlie for great number work!

P1 Mrs Elliott: Daisy for knowing all her reading words.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Rachel for amazing reading!

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Lara for writing lots of super detailed about her holiday at Easter.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Charlie for always trying his best and being so well behaved.

P2 Mrs Curran:  Tilly for great bat and ball skills. Well done Tilly for  showing great control of the ball in P.E.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Jacob for being enthusiastic about his class dinosaur research! Jacob has some great ideas for describing a velociraptor.

P3 Miss McKeown: Scott for listening carefully and answering questions well about his P3 topics.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Alana for being so helpful all the time!

Stars of the Week 29 March

P1 Mrs Donald: Amber for brilliant work on the story of 3,4 and 5. Well done!

P1 Mrs Elliott: Ruby for being such a kind and helpful girl.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Faith always tries her best and has a great attitude to all her work.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Matthew for doing super number work.

P2 Mrs McGonigle: Chloe for fantastic addition and subtraction.

P2 Mrs Curran:  Jake for retelling the story of The Three Little Pigs so well.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Katie for being an extremely thoughtful girl.

P3 Miss McKeown: Mollie for cleverly making a super parachute.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Steven for making a lovely Mothers Day card for his mum.

Harry & Jacob mascots at NI v Norway World Cup Qualifier!

Congratulation to Harry & Jacob who had the opportunity to be mascots at a NI World Cup Qualifier match against Norway.

It was  especially exciting for Harry as he was able to lead the others  out onto the pitch with the NI captain Steven Davis!! Jacob his younger brother was also a mascot.

The IFA were superb, treating the boys to a tour of the stadium, dressing rooms and press centre as well as presenting them with an NI kit. The team went on to beat Norway 2- 0 with. A very exciting weekend for everyone with a great result!

Merit Badge Winners 23 March

P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney                                                                                                            

Zak and Amy for working very hard to learn spellings and improve their number work.                                                                                                                                              

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown                                                                                                                                                                                                  Carson for using expression and voices confidently when reading each week.                                                                                                             Erin for consistently trying hard in her work and being very helpful around the classroom.

P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Dylan for working very hard to produce neat handwriting.                                                                                                                                          Phoebe for super concentration in Maths and doing very well when multiplying. 

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell                                                                                                                                                                                                         Jacob for learning his 3D shapes really well and performing well when using the ICT programme  Scratch.                                                                                                                                                                          Erin for always trying hard and producing work of a high standard.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown                                                                                                                                                                                                      Damarus for making a great improvement at reading.                                                                                                                                                     Paige for making progress with fractions.

P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Daisie and Ellen for making a great start to learning about decimals.

P6 Room 10 MissMcGuile                                                                                                                                                                                                       Patrick and Hadi for brilliant recount writing on the novel 'The Silver Sword.'                      

P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves                                                                                                                                                                                                              Bradley for working really hard to catch up with work that he missed when he was off school sick.                                                                                                                                                                                  Emma for enthusiastic contribution to the class Young Enterprise Project.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart                                                                                                                                                                                                             Christian for a very sensible and mature attitude towards internet safety.                                                                                                               Andrew for a continued high level of presentation through all his work.

Stars of the Week 22 March

P1 Mrs Donald: Sophia for knowing all her sounds and trying to read short words.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Jacob for knowing lots of his letter sounds. Well done!

P1 Miss Armstrong: Clara for always doing her best work. Clara is a great girl!

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Molly for great throwing and catching during P.E.

P2 Mrs McGonigle:  Finn for reading really fluently and using expression. Finn is a fabulous reader!

P2 Mrs Curran:  Darby for making a fantastic Powerpoint about St. Patricks Day

P3 Mrs Gibson: Fergus for working really hard on his numbers.

P3 Miss McKeown: Matthew for being a great help to Mrs Robinson when she was looking after his class.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Eva for doing excellent Irish dancing, winning a trophy and three medals!

NI gymnastic winners!

WELL DONEto Heidi (P7) and past pupil Ruzi who together won gold again this year in a gymnastics competition at the NI NDPS at Salto. This impressive win has qualified them to represent NI in the British Championships.

What an achievement! Well done girls!

Stars of the Week 15 March

P1 Mrs Donald: Alexander for thinking of lots of rhyming words.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Amelia for super reading and getting all her written work completed.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Emily - Rose for brilliant reading and sounding out unfamiliar words so well.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Abi for always trying really hard at everything she does.

P2 Mrs McGonigle:  Bronagh for always doing fantastic work.

P2 Mrs Curran:  Molly for super reading and knowing her spelling words so well.

P3 Mrs Gibson: Ruby for always trying very hard. Well done Ruby.

P3 Miss McKeown: Daisy for trying very hard to keep her writing neat. Daisy works hard at anything she does.

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Ollie for trying so hard to be really well behaved and make sensible choices.

Stars of the Week 10 March

P1 Mrs Donald: Lacey for working hard to remember all the sounds.

P1 Mrs Elliott: Ciara for writing super sentences all by herself.

P1 Miss Armstrong: Ben always tries his best and so well behaved.

P2 Miss Dobbin:  Ben for trying hard to spell new words.

P2 Mrs McGonigle:  Emma for doing her best work and making sure it is presented beautifully.

P2 Mrs Curran:  Ellie for writing really interesting sentences.

P3 Mrs Gibson:  James for trying really hard at his new school. P3s love having him in their class.

P3 Miss McKeown: Lexi for always doing her best work! She is a star!**

P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Omar for settling in really well in his first week at HPS!

Merit Badge Winners 9 March

P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney        

Jonathan and Jemima for carefully making lovely polar animals from clay.                                                                                                                                                  

 P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown

 Adam for working hard and making good progress with adding and subtracting H T U with exchanging. 

Holly for making good progress in P4, she consistently tries her best and listens well.

P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.

Leah and Oliver for working very hard during the green screen news report.

P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell

Darcie for super reading this week.

Oliver for great work learning his times tables.

P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown

Lucy for working hard to grasp equivalent fractions.

Luke for writing a super persuasive letter.

P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke

Chloe for great work on dividing thousands.

Ben for working hard to improve his handwriting.

P6 Room 10 Miss Riddell

Ella and Amy - Louise for super work on compass turns.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves

Will for consistent focus and application to all work.

Annabel for enjoying maths - friendly fractions!

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart

Alison for always trying her best and being an excellent friend.

Ben for his willingness to help Mrs Hart in all aspects of school life.