Well done Charlotte! Charlotte came 4th in her first mini jumping event at Pony Club at Birr House Riding School.
She s very pleased to have a rosette!
White belt winner!
Joshua (P3) has been successful in achieving his second belt in jujitsu (white belt). Joshua has been attending jujitsu at Queens Leisure Complex in Holywood for just over a year, and has improved greatly during that time whilst also enjoying his classes every Saturday. Well done Joshua!
Zac is a finalist in Corries Meats Competition
Mmmmmm, why not try one of Zac's flavoured burgers for yourself!
Double success for Holywood FC P7 boys
Four of our Boys' Football Team have also had a very successful season with their club outside school. Carter, Ryan R, Matthew and Ryan M are members of Holywood Football Club's 2005 Colts team, who won both the South Belfast Youth League and Cup double! Well done boys, we're very proud of you and hopefully you've a huge trophy cabinet for those cups!!
Georgie aims high!
WOW.... terrific trampolining from Georgia
Merit Badge Winners 25 May
P4 Room 15 Mrs Smith & Mrs McCartney
Andrew & Annie for working well together when using the iPad to create an informative Safe in the Sun poster using Pic-Collage.
P4 Room 16 Mrs McKeown
Kayla for working hard and trying her best.
Katy for a great class talk on her pets, she spoke confidently and made a fantastic powerpoint.
P4 Room 8 Mr Eves.
Ben W & Ben M both produced excellent class talks, spoke with great expression, confidence and enthusiasm.
P5 Room 13 Mr McConnell
Ellie for always working hard and producing a good standard of work.
Sarah for an excellent talk on ballet.
P5 Room 14 Mrs Brown
Simrah for working hard on Literacy this year.
Paige for always trying her best.
P6 Room 9 Mrs Clarke
Patrick & Oliver for good work in Mental Maths activities.
P6 Room 10 Miss McGuile
Hamish for super work converting fractions and decimals to percentages.
Georgia for brilliant reading of The Silver Sword in class with great fluency.
P7 Room 11 Mrs Eves
Charlotte for working hard on rotational symmetry.
Curtis for putting his ICT skills to practical use designing a banner for the Young Enterprise project....Keytastic Keyrings!
P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart
Jack and Harrison for their enthusiasm and interest shown during their class Young Enterprise lessons.
Posted on March 9, 2017 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.
Two Superstars in P3 Room 6
Fantastic achievements in football and gymnastics for Zak and Grace.
Stars of the Week 24 May
P1 Mrs Donald: Sarah for always working hard and behaving so well!
P1 Mrs Elliott: Ruby for being a very kind and helpful member of the class.
P1 Miss Armstrong: Zara always does beautiful work and listens so carefully.
P2 Miss Dobbin: Cally for being a lovely, kind friend.
P2 Mrs McGonigle: Jude for an AMAZING arrow throw in P.E.
P2 Mrs Curran: Maia for super reading with great expression. Amazing!
P3 Mrs Gibson: Lucas is always ready to listen and tries hard to do his best.
P3 Mrs Fulton: Rob for his enthusiasm about our new topic - Minibeasts!
P3 Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood: Eva for making a 100% effort in all her work. Well done Eva!
Swimming success for Ruan
Congratulation Ruan for being selected for the Aqua Sprint Squad at Bangor Aurora
Eva dances her way to first place!
Congratulations to Eva (P3) who recently came first in the Under 8s Irish Dancing Competition at the Bangor Festival.
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
Music makers!
Clarinet success!
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!