We were delighted to hear that Darby passed his Grade 4 piano exam with distinction AND his Grade 5 piano with distinction. He practised a lot over lockdown! What an amazing achievement Darby. We are very impressed! CONGRATULATIONS!
STARS OF THE WEEK 16 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS WILSON: Joseph for always listening and doing his best.
P1 MISS DOBBIN: Phoebe for being a super girl and completing all of her activities with enthusiasm.
P1 / P2 MISS ARMSTRONG: Faye for always doing her best and ensuring her work is beautiful.
P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: George for having beautiful manners. Always remembering to say please and thank you.
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Jude for trying really hard with all his work.
P3 MR ATCHESON: Selena for singing a beautiful song in class to remind everyone of their odd and even numbers.
P3 MRS GIBSON: Jack for working really hard on exclamation marks and speech bubbles.
MERIT BADGE WINNERS 4 NOVEMBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Caolan for excellent spelling in his Literacy work
Willow for amazing money work!
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Joshua and Elsa for working well as a team on their Fair Play poster. Well done!
P4 MRS SMITH & MRS McCARTNEY:
Cara-Louise for super spelling and reading with Mrs Ebbinghaus.
Archie for working really hard with adding Tens and Units.
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Deborah Agnes and Lacey for their extra special reading this week!
P5 MRS BROWN:
Faith and Ollie for super use of ipads when completing activities about USA Landmarks.
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Zoe and Ellie for great ideas when they were writing Haiku poems.
P6 MISS McGUILE:
Holly and Saxon for designing wonderful information posters on the water cycle.
P6 MR McCONNELL:
Macie for an excellent Haiku poem on Flamingos.
Mimi for a superb Haiku on the Sunset.
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Millie for using leaves to create excellent reflective symmetry.
Jay for an amazing Dark Hedges painting.
P7 MRS HART:
Rob for communicating his ideas excellently during his groups’s ‘Build a Bridge Challenge.’
Minnie for her excellent creative ideas especially her Iron Man and her interpretation of the Dark Hedges.
STARS OF THE WEEK 9 SEPTEMBER
P1 MRS WILSON:
Bess for being so kind and a great helper.
P1 MISS DOBBIN:
Jack for making a great start to Primary 1. He does super colouring in too.
P1 / P2 MISS ARMSTRONG:
Jake works so hard. He makes Miss Armstrong smile and laugh everyday.
Nico does beautiful work and is a great listener.
P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON:
Sarah has done her very best in all the P2 work completed so far. Well done !
P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD:
Tom for his great work when he was writing about ‘Amazing Me’.
P3 MR ATCHESON:
Caleb is a great helper and kind to all his friends in Room 4.
P3 MRS GIBSON:
Ava has worked so hard and has made some lovely new friends in her P3 class.
MERIT BADGE WINNERS 9 SEPTEMBER
P4 MR FIELD:
Taylor for amazing Numberwork, he has five Dojo points already!
Jack for great joined up writing.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Emilia for settling well into her new school.
Shion for making sure everyone is included during playtime in the playground.
P4 MRS SMITH & MRS McCARTNEY:
Jonah and Marnie for a brilliant start to P4 in HPS!
P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON:
Charlotte for patiently waiting for a technical issue to be sorted out on her MySchool account.
Campbell for working really hard to complete mental maths activities.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Sarah for working conscientiously and finishing all activities she is given to do.
Kielan for settling in well to Primary 5 at Holywood Primary School.
P6 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD:
Patrick, Isaac & Krista foe settling really well into their new class.
P6 MISS McGUILE:
Maia for a brilliant mnemonic for the seven continents in the world.
Ashton-Khloe for working really hard to multiply H T U.
P6 MR McCONNELL:
Tilly for making a great start to Maths activities.
Anthony for trying extremely hard at his sounds. Well done!
P7 MRS RIDDALL:
Ruby for fantastic research using the computer.
Mason for working hard across the curriculum. A great start to P7.
P7 MRS HART:
Carling for having learnt her Maths & Literacy facts brilliantly over the summer.
Noah for displaying excellent knowledge about Northern Ireland.
Not out! Cricket success for Lucas and Scott!
CONGRATULATIONS to P7 pupils, Lucas and Scott , who were part of the Junior Holywood Cricket Club team that recently won the Instonians Tournament. Both played key roles in the win! Well done boys.
Stars of the Week 11 March
P1 MRS FULTON: Joni for a great start to P1. Joni tries her best and also has worked really hard to make new friends. Room 1 love getting to know her!
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Skye for writing lots of super sentences all by herself!
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Daniel for working hard and trying to concentrate really well.
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Eve for making a fantastic book cover for World Book Day.
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Penny for being so brave and working very hard over the last few weeks even though she had a broken arm!
P3: MR ATCHESON: Ethan for fantastic place value work in class.
P3: MR FIELD: Carl for excellent creative writing.
P3: MRS GIBSON: Carter for designing a fantastic parachute.
Merit Badge Winners 11 March
P4 MRS SMITH / McCARTNEY:
Olivia and Ollie for working hard to get better at their work and always trying their best, especially with Number and Reading activities.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Flynn and Isaac for working hard to use the correct punctuation and keep their handwriting neat in their grammar work each week.
P5 MISS RIDDELL/ CURRAN:
Noah and Caleb for being great Narrators in their class Assembly.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Cole for having a great interest and wide knowledge of his class World Around Us topics.
Chloe for working hard to learn times tables.
P5 MRS WILSON:
Abi for being a great team captain during their class Chester's Challenge session.
Lawson for asking and answering lots of questions and showing great interest during Chester's Challenge sessions.
P6 MRS RIDDALL:
Eva for fantastic comprehension work. Eva was able to extend her answers by using evidence from the text.
Joshua for super work on comparative and superlative adjectives.
P6 MRS HART:
Jack and Hugo for the thought and humour preparing for World Book Day........ What a great double act of Thing1 and Thing 2!
P7 MRS CLARKE:
Matthew and Nina-Grace for sensible contributions to class discussion on Internet Safety.
P7 MISS MCGUILE:
Fionnbharr for great contributions to the class discussion of the Irish Famine.
Noah for taking part so enthusiastically during a science experiment on floating and sinking.
P7 MR Mc CONNELL:
Roger for good work on rotational symmetry.
Dylan for good contributions to a class debate on the Victorian Workhouse.
Fabulous Fencing from Timur & Daria!
Congratulations to brother and sister Timur and Daria!
Both have won 3rd places in Northern Ireland Junior Fencing Series Competition which consist of 5 games over the whole year
Timur took 3rd place in Boys Under 12th category and will be representing Northern Ireland in 2020 British Youth Championship in Birmingham later this year!
Daria took 3rd place in Mix Under 10th category.
Well done to both of you, what a great achievement!
Stars of the Week 4 March
P1 MRS FULTON: Ella for being such a kind friend to a new pupil in her class.
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Holly for doing great work with clocks.
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Jacob for amazing numberwork.
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Lorne for adding on 3 to different numbers.
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Jayden for doing really good money work with 1p and 2p coins.
P3: MR ATCHESON: Rene for fantastic African dancing in PE for her class topic on travel.
P3: MR FIELD: Ethan for excellent research using an iPad.
P3: MRS GIBSON: Emmy for great work when building tinfoil boats. Emmy did an excellent design!
Medals for Isla at Trampolining Competiton
Isla was delighted after a recent trampolining competition. Isla came 3rd in the Doubke Mini Trampoline section and 2nd overall in the trampoline competiton. This means Isla has successfully qualified to go to the Northern Ireland Championships. What a great achievement. Well done Isla, congratulations. We are very proud of you and all your hard work.
Merit Badge Winners 26 February
P4 MRS SMITH / McCARTNEY:
P4 MRS SMITH & MRS
Eve and Jacob for showing many acts of kindness throughout February.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Vivien and Campbell for working hard to practise and learn their weekly spellings.
P5 MISS RIDDELL/ CURRAN:
Lori and Frankie for working really hard to complete money calculations accurately.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Molly for working hard on equivalent fractions.
Thomas for working hard to reconginse fractions.
P5 MRS WILSON:
Jamie and Hannah for excellent behaviour and always being ready to listen and learn.
P6 MRS RIDDALL:
Daisy for taking part in the Firework Maker’s Daughter drama activities with such enthusiasm.
Freddy for great algebr work.
P6 MRS HART:
Minnie for learning her maths and literacy facts so well at home.
Rob for excellent basketball skills during PE.
P7 MRS CLARKE:
Ben W for skills and agility in PE basketball sessions.
Ben G for great mental maths and problem solving.
P7 MISS MCGUILE:
Lennox and Nina for enthusiastically taking part in Day 1 of Shared Education at Aurora, Bangor. Both Lennox and Nina mixed really well with the children from. Glencraig IPS.
P7 MR McCONNELL:
Benjamin for excelllent, accurate maths work multiplying fractions.
Noor for always presenting her work neatly.
Stars of the Week 26 February
P1 MRS FULTON: George for great careful work, sounding out his own words.
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Tommy for always working hard and trying her best.
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Henry for beautiful writing and being so helpful.
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Zayn for excellent writing about how to make pancakes!
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Adam for trying really hard with his phonics and reading.
P3: MR ATCHESON: Cooper for a fantastic effort to keep his cursive handwriting so neat!
P3: MR FIELD: Harry for excellent reading and comprehension work.
P3: MRS GIBSON: James for being a good role model to others.
Stars of the Week 12 February
P1 MRS FULTON: Olivia for great talking and listening. Olivia listens so carefully to others and always has interesting things to say.
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Martha-Rose for super writing about things she loves!
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Theo for being so helpful and also for his beautiful writing.
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Kate for fantastic sentences about things she loves.
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Charley for making a lovely picture of the Marble Arch caves for her class display of Northern Ireland.
P3: MR ATCHESON: Ben for always being enthusiastic to share and take part in all activities in class.
P3: MR FIELD: Tili for always trying her best in everything she does.
P3: MRS GIBSON: Oliver for great enthusiasm during a music lesson
Stars of the Week 5 February
P1 MRS FULTON: Sofie for focusing so well on her throwing and catching in P.E. She gets better every week!
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Ciara for being super at spelling words with three sounds!
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Eliza for being a ray of sunshine in Room 3, she’s always smiling!
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Rory for putting excellent effort into all his work and making great progress.
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Phoebe for excellent work being a summarising Superhero!
P3: MR ATCHESON: Juliette for working really hard on her reading in class.
P3: MR FIELD: Ella for always being helpful and kind!
P3: MRS GIBSON: Archie for always having such enthusiasm towards his work.
Merit Badge Winners 5 February
P4 MRS SMITH / McCARTNEY:
Zach and Amber for their hard work on exchanging HTUs and learning number facts for multiplying as well.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Alfie for working hard on taking away with exchanging!
Bella for great sentences in her reading activities on the Planet Emerald book.
P5 MISS RIDDELL/ CURRAN:
Jake for imaginative story writing.
Tilly for designing a great advertisement for a new chocolate bar!
P5 MRS BROWN:
Luke for writing a super letter to Rosa Parks.
Riley for speaking so clearly in her class Assembly.
P5 MRS WILSON:
Mara and Charlie for always working hard and completing their work to a really high standard, including joined up writing.
P6 MRS RIDDALL:
Kaleb for great work on homophones.
Toni for trying hard to master equivalent fractions.
P6 MRS HART:
Noah for writing down methods and checking his answers during his check up tests.
Grace for neat presentation during all her written work.
P7 MRS CLARKE:
Amy for great progress in maths.
Ben for a big effort to improve the presentation of his work.
P7 MISS MCGUILE:
Leah and Amber for working hard to find the lowest common denominators (LCD) in fraction work! They have both made wonderful progress, well done!
P7 MR Mc CONNELL:
Finn for excellent work on the LCD and dividing decimals.
Daanyaal for super dividing and great knowledge of times tables too.
Stars of the Week 29 January
P1 MRS FULTON: Lucy for great focus during independent work and for being a fabulous friend to others.
P1: MISS DOBBIN: Alfie for always working hard and trying his best.
P1: MISS ARMSTRONG: Rosie for amazing sounding out when reading challenging words.
P2: MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Kian for lovely writing about our town.
P2: MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: James for being an excellent narrator in his class Assembly.
P3: MR ATCHESON: Will for being a superstar and getting changed so quickly for P.E.
P3: MR FIELD: Chloe for working extra hard to complete all her work recently.
P3: MRS GIBSON: Carter for working really hard in Literacy and always having a positive attitude towards his work.
Swimming to success
P7 pupil, Jorja, was competing in the Swim Ulster Development Gala in Newry.
She won Gold in the 100m backstroke 12yrs and Bronze in the 100m freestyle 12yrs. Both races were personal bests.
Congratulations Jorja. That's also great preparation for the Irish Schools competition in a few weeks!
Christmas Charity collection
We were delighted to receive information about brother and sister Charlie (P6) and Eve (P4), who helped raise money for local homeless charity the Welcome Foundation.
Charlie and Eve joined their friends at the beach on Christmas Eve to sell hot chocolate and buns to the swimmers and supporters taking part in the annual charity swim at Helen's Bay beach.
They raised £87 to add to the rest of the collection for the charity.
What a great idea. We're sure the swimmers and their friends really appreciated the treats. Well done Charlie and Eve!
Merit Badge Winners 22 January
P4 MRS SMITH / McCARTNEY:
Millar and Will have a very good attitude and work hard. They both know how to be a good friend and know how to accept advice given to them.
P4 MRS McKEOWN:
Charlotte has done great work on contractions and her Literacy jotter is very neatly presented.
Deborah -Agnes for working hard when completing Bug Club books.
P5 MISS RIDDELL/ CURRAN:
Mimi and Jason for making a great start to writing using their fountain pens.
P5 MRS BROWN:
Evan and Holly for presenting their work well especially since beginning to use fountain pen.
P5 MRS WILSON:
Lucy and Calum for trying really hard in Maths when completing activities involving analogue and digital clocks.
P6 MRS RIDDALL:
Steven for brilliant work on right angle turns.
Chestha for excellent work on direct speech.
P6 MRS HART:
Aoife for making a fantastic trifle in Cookery Club.
Toby for listening very carefully in class and doing such a great job when completing activities on the class topic on averages.
P7 MRS CLARKE:
Isaac and Leah for creative contributions to their class poem , A poem to be Spoken Silently.
P7 MISS MCGUILE:
Amelia for reading her class novel with such an enthusiastic expression.
Brooke for working hard to include detail in written comprehension.
P7 MR McCONNELL:
Philippa and Phoebe for making a great effort to improve their comprehension work.