Hockey success for Harriet!

What exciting news! Well done to P1 pupil Harriet!

Harriet plays hockey at CIYMS. At the end of season awards ceremony, she won P1 player of the year!
What a fabulous achievement and trophy to go with it too! Congratulations Harriet.

Posted on April 7, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Beaming about basketball!

Polly (P6) was chosen to play in the Basketball NI finals which took place in Craigavon. She has been playing for Queen’s since September and her team (U12 girls) won the League. CONGRATULATIONS to Polly and her team. We look forward to hearing of her involvement in other basketball tournaments and hopefully more finals too!

Posted on April 5, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Hockey success for Jamie

We were delighted to hear about Jamie’s hockey success.

Jamie is in P7. He competed in the Ulster U11 hockey finals. His team, Lisnagarvey won the Cup.

As you can see Jamie is very happy! What a great outcome. We’ve no doubt there will be many more hockey trophies for Jamie and his team mates in the future! GREAT JOB JAMIE!

Posted on April 5, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 31 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Faye for using her knowledge of phonics to do super reading.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Sophia for a great effort when retelling about Humpty Dumpty’s visit to Room 3!

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Lynne for fantastic indepedent writing about the Three Little Pigs.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Rafferty for great retelling of the Three Little Pigs.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Annie for beautiful presentation and lovely handwriting.

P3 MR FIELD: Layla for working really hard on her handwriting.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Maahi for super work on her number bonds in maths.

Posted on March 31, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 25 MARCH

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Eden & Penny for great work on telling the time an hour later.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Grace & Ella for good work and good behaviour throughout P4 so far.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Blake & Oscar for having a really good understanding of x6 tables facts.

P5 MRS BROWN: Iris & Rama for making a great start to TU multiplying sums.

P5 MRS WILSON: Lucas & Archie for working hard on converting units of measurement in maths.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Meadow for great work on Times Tables Rock Stars. Emily for excellent work on decimals.

P6 MRS HART: Ollie for becoming more organised in class and for his continued excellent manners. Isabelle for her excellent work on fractions and decimals.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Jessica for great work on rounding to 10 and 100. Patrick for trying to improve presentation - keep going with this.

P7 MISS McGUILE: William, Luke & Evan - for working very hard to master problem solving strategies.

P7 MR McCONNELL: Abi for super detail in her sentence writing this week. Mia for excellent problem solving.

Posted on March 25, 2022 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Let's dance!

Charlotte participated in the Greenisland Irish Dancing and came away with the following accolades - 3rd in her Reel, 2nd in the Slip Jig and 3rd in the Trebel Jig. Clara also participated in the same festival and was awarded 1st in her Reel, 1st in the Single Jig and 1st in the Treble Jig. These fantastic placings gave Clara an overall 1st place title. Well done girls!

Clara participated in the Portadown Irish Dancing Festival and came away with another four podium finishes. She was 2nd in her Reel, 1st in the Single Jig, 3rd in the trebel Jig and 3rd Overall.



Posted on March 25, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 24 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Aidan for being a great listener and for always working so hard.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Darcie for always taking such care to make her work beautiful.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Luke for great money work.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Ellie for lovely work for her mum, Ellie completed this work independently.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Tom for brilliant writing about a ‘suitcase adventure’.

P3 MR FIELD: Jake for always working hard and offering to help.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Maisie for writing a wonderlly detailed diary account of the first ever flight.

Posted on March 24, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

All smiles for Lexy's wonderful results!

Lexi had a fantastic haul of three trophies and two medals at a dance event in Newry she competed in at the weekend. She attained firsts in her Lyrical and Jazz group dances, 2nd in her Jazz partner dance and two thirds in her Lyrical solo and partner dance. Well done on another great series of performances.

Posted on March 21, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 16 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Nao for always trying his best.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Eloise for being so helpful and kind and always looking out for others.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Luca for accurate measuring in outdoor numeracy.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Ellie for doing great measuring work during outside numeracy time.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Ciara for her amazing account of the Three Little Pigs story.

P3 MR FIELD: Daniel for great time work.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Olivia for wonderful sorting of famous landmarks around the world.

Posted on March 16, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 10 MARCH

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Toby for always being helpful. Emily for always trying her best in all she does.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Indie and Caleb for following instructions well to get work completed. Books are well presented and handwriting is always neat.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Carl for good reading. Zoe for good answering on equivalent fractions.

P5 MRS BROWN: Charlie and Will for writing very creative stories all about getting lost in the Stone Age. Also for including extra information from the topic.

P5 MRS WILSON: Oliver and Natasha for writing a great story about ‘The Stone Age Boy’.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Ciara for excellent co-ordinates work (Viking Longboat). Vivien for working hard to read aloud in class.

P6 MRS HART: Katie for excellent defending/interupting during our netball sessions. Ethan for displaying excellent manners and always greeting me in the morning.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Jessica and Maria for both working hard to master problem solving strategies.

P7 MISS McGUILE: Matthew and Jude for always putting in 100% during spelling activities. Well done boys!

P7 MR McCONNELL: Frankie and Missy for great work when using co-ordinates.

Posted on March 10, 2022 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

STARS OF THE WEEK 10 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Josiah for being a super friend.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Esme for being such a kind and caring friend.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Indi for excellent writing about ‘Our homes’.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Freddie for doing excellent money work includng the 10p.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Zach for fantastic facts about transport.

P3 MR FIELD: Emily for excellent writing in her ‘Travel Diary’.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Sofie for brilliant coding work while in the ICT suite.

Posted on March 10, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Fabulous result for Harry

WOW Harry! What agreat outcome on your competition. Harry was placed first in his competitions and received two medals! Super duper Harry!

Posted on March 7, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

Super Susannah!

Well done to Susannah (P4) who took part in her first ever Irish dancing competition. She got first place and a highly commended. We think the smile tells all just how happy Susannah was! VERY WELL DONE!

Posted on March 7, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 3 MARCH

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Emily for doing super gymnastics during our PE lessons.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Kirstie for being a brilliant listener and so helpful.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Felix for being such a great mathematician!

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Heidi for working hard and doing number bonds of 9.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Faye for amazing African dance moves.

P3 MR FIELD: Fletcher for working extremely hard in Term 2.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Lucy for working really hard on her number work.

Posted on March 3, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

NI Irish Dancing Championship (Copy)

Charlotte and Clara both enjoyed a day’s dancing at the Northern Ireland Irish Dancing Championship in Belfast. They qualified for this competition after a successful year of placing 1st-3rd in local competitions. Charlotte came third overall with Clara gaining 5th place. This is a fantastic achievement competing against the very best in the country. WELL DONE GIRLS!

Posted on February 27, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 24 FEBRUARY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Oliver for doing super writing about his half term news.

P1 MISS ARMSTRONG: Allyson for being such a lovely kind and caring girl.

P2 MRS FULTON & MRS CLARKE: Edythe for settling in so well to Holywood PS.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HEAWOOD: Sophia for completing a tricky lunchbox investigation independently.

P2/3 MRS GIBSON: Jack for fantastic work on his lunchbox investigation.

P3 MR FIELD: Ciara for brilliant number work.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Archie for being such a kind friend in class.

Posted on February 27, 2022 and filed under Stars of the Week.

Holywood Music Festival success

We were delighted to hear that P5 pupil Emmy was awarded 2nd place and won a silver medal in the ‘Enjoying Jazz Under 12 category. Emmy played her piano for this class.She also came first place in the violin solo Grade 3 category. She was delighted to receive her trophy and a gold medal! Congratulations Emmy on your great performances.

Posted on February 27, 2022 and filed under Superstars Outside School.

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 24 FEBRUARY

P4 MRS McKEOWN: Emily and Caleb for excellent work on opposite pairs, they have both worked hard this week.

P4 MRS SMITH & MRS HARRON: Zach and Elizabeth for knowing the answers to their new multiplying tables.

P5 MISS RIDDELL & MRS HARRON: Caden for working hard all week - I’m so proud of you. Harry for fabulous spelling.

P5 MRS BROWN: Harry for making a wonderful Stoneage spear. Ethan for working very hard on his spellings.

P5 MRS WILSON: Logan for a super test on Friday and Bethany for working really hard with vertical addition.

P6 MRS RIDDALL: Caleb for working hard to complete his Crannog. Sophia for always contributing to class discussions and consistently producing a high standard of work.

P6 MRS HART: Charlotte for always being helpful to both Mrs Hart and her classmates. Ashton for excellent work on fractions.

P7 MRS CLARKE & MRS HEAWOOD: Jonnie and Calum for super work on multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.

P7 MISS McGUILE: Maia and Scarlett for working hard at multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.

P7 MR McCONNELL: Cyrus and Logan for excellent work multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.

Posted on February 25, 2022 and filed under Merit Badge Winners.