MERIT WINNERS 25 JANUARY

P4 Mrs Gibson: Freddie for an excellent riddle for Chiese New Year.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Jacob and Amy for great underarm throws in P.E..

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Jonah and Charlotte for working together well while demonstrating super throwing and catching skills.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Eve and Joe for writing great recount letters - adding lots of extra details

P5 Mrs Brown: Logan for making a good start to working with HTU.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Ethan and Jonah for great work and effort in all subjects and for good manners and behaviour.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Tate for always being a kind and helpful pupil to his freinds and to staff.

Zoe for completing all work with fabulous care and beautiful presentation.

P6 Mr McConnell: Emilia for very good work identifying lines and angles.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Charlotte for completing a fantastic travel brochure for Northern Ireland.

Lucy for excellent effort during our Pie Corbett poetry lesson.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Sophia for completing a maths mystery investigatino all on her own.

Lexi for much improved fractions and percentages.

STARS OF THE WEEK 18 JANUARY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Harriet for always working really hard at everything she does.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Elin for being so well behaved and very helpful all the time.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Esme for concentrating on her work and trying hard.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Josiah for excellent ideas during group work on his class hared reading book.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Bess for creating a wonderful food menu in ICT.

P3 MR FIELD: Oliver for excellent ICT work.

P3/P4 MRS GIBSON & MRS MCKEOWN : Mason for amazing football skills in PE.

P3 MR ATCHESON:

P3 MR FIELD:

P3 MRS GIBSON:

MERIT WINNERS 11 JANUARY

P4 Mrs Gibson: Henry has shown great interest in our WW2 topic and created a fabulous poster.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Sophia for excellent full sentences in her reading activity.

Hafsah for working hard on her plural rules.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Juliet and Archie both wrote lovely WW2 Evacuee letters. Their work was well presented and full of evacuee facts.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Ella for excellent reading activites.

Harrison for working really hard at spelling homeworks.

P5 Mrs Brown: Emily for working really hard to prepare spellings for Friday quiz.

Lorne for making a good start to digital clocks.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Ashley and Joshua for great writing and drawing to create a storyboard for part of the Firework Maker’s Daughter.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Carter and Arthur for brilliant work for turns in a circle!

P6 Mr McConnell: Catherine and Sam for super work on angles and turns.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Zara for great participation during the Carbon Literacy Programme.

Megan for writing a fantastic mystery story.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Polly for a fabulous mystery story.

Katie for great accuracy when converting fractions, decimals and percentages.

STARS OF THE WEEK 11 JANUARY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Joseph for doing fabulous writing.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Raya for the most beautiful writing iin the world.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Myla for great counting in numeracy.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Olivia for excellent progress with her reading.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Heidi for designing and creating a beautiful art pattern for her 2023 calendar.

P3 MR FIELD: Rafferty for excellent writing in his weekend news.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Aoife for being thoughful and kind.

Centra Christmas competition winners

Congratulations to seven pupils who recently won a colouring competition organised by Centra in Holywood. The children were delighted to receive their prize.

Well done to........

P1 Bea

P2 Isabella

P3 Andrew

P4 Sophia

P5 Toby

P6 Caolan

P7 Charlotte

STARS OF THE WEEK 16 DECEMBER

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P1 MISS DOBBIN: Peter for doing super, neat hand writing.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Beth for working incredibly hard and being so polite.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Levi for working hard and always doing his best

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Olivia for being a great helper.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Nina for wonderful dancing in PE to the story of the Nutcracker.

P3 MR FIELD: Aurora for brilliant number work to 90.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Noah for excellent work on being an elf.

MERIT WINNERS 15 DECEMBER

P4 Mrs Gibson: Joshua for a fantastic WW2 helmet

P4 Mrs McKeown: Nina for great enthusiasm in our P4 dance.

Tom for great factual contributions to class discussions.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson Juliet and Jude for bringing Christmas sparkle to our concert rehearsals

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Molly and Jack for taking part enthusiastically in our Christmas concert rehearsals.

P5 Mrs Brown: Poppy and Toby for taking part enthusiastically in our christmas concert rehearsals.

P6 Mrs Clarke & Mrs Heawood: Cooper for fantastic work on co-ordinates. Emmy for excellent understanding of pronouns.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Scarlett for writing a wonderful newspaper recount on the three pigs. Mark for always giving 100% in all Maths, English and topic activities.

P6 Mr McConnell: Erin and Skye for writing great newspaper reports on the three pigs and the big bad wolf. Both had great detail, good headlines and interviews in their accounts.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Issac for excellent enthusiasm during mystery story writing lesson.

Flynn for making lovely designs using a compass.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Clara for excellent written English work across all subjects.

Louis for an expert construction of his decoupage box.

Christmas cards 2022

The Christmas cards designed by the children were great this year!

Special congratulations to Zara (P7) & Isla (P5). Their Christmas cards were chosen by Mrs Crookshanks as covers for Holywood Primary School’s Christmas cards that will be sent to other schools this Christmas.

STARS OF THE WEEK 9 DECEMBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Dylan for always working hard.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Charlie for being so helpful and kind.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Darcie for excellent sounding out and spelling.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Maisie for always doing her best in all her work.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Andrew for fantastic number work.

P3 MR FIELD: Luca for super graph work .

P3 MRS GIBSON: Eliza for her fantastic performance in the nativity play.

SPAR Competition winners

Congratulations to four pupils who won prizes in the recent art competition organised by Spar, Kinnegar. Well done to Juliet,Sophia, Afie & Sara!

As well as receivng their winning prizes, the children had the honour of cutting the ribbon to mark the new extension!

STARS OF THE WEEK 2 DECEMBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Max for doing super number work!

P1 MRS CORNISH Miley for working hard each day

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Sophia for writing a great letter to Santa

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Charlie for working really hard at home and at school

P3 MR ATCHESON: Brooke for painting a beautiful sunset backdrop, by blending different colours together

P3 MR FIELD: Harriet for super singing and dancing

P3 MRS GIBSON: Alfie for fantastic acting and singing

MERIT WINNERS 30 NOVEMBER

P4 Mrs Gibson: Claire for excellent research on WW2.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Emily for working hard to learn her spellings ( she got them all right last week! )

Daniel for great work in subtracting and exchanging.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Aria & Jake fo working hard and being good team players with a great attitude.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Danny & Ella for wonderful posters on American states.

P5 Mrs Brown: Isla & Jack for wonderful posters on American states.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Calvin & Frazer for showing flair and great problem solving skills in ICT.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Logan for working hard to revise the x3 tables

Will for wonderful reading and always ensuring to use enthusiastic expression.

P6 Mr McConnell: Harry & Blake for great work on capacity and showing they know their measurement facts.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Daisy for super work finding fractions of numbers.

Jack for brilliant simplifying fraction work.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Zach for expert understanding shown on complex perimeter and area.

Jacob for working so hard on his spelling.

STAR OF THE WEEK 25 NOVEMBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Jackson for being a lovely friend.

P1 MRS CORNISH Lilly for the most beautiful hand writing and fabulous pictures.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Isabella for amazing work solving problems.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Hollie for great problem solivng during numeracy time.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Bethany for super reading in class this week.

P3 MR FIELD: Saul for super number work.

P3 MRS GIBSON: James for being so helpful.

MERIT WINNERS 11 NOVEMBER

P4 Mrs Gibson:

George for excellent scientific reasoning during experiments about space.

P4 Mrs McKeown:

Cormac for good work on plurals adding “S”

Eva Great expression reading the part of Professor Tangle.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson:

Sarah & Sam for completing a great write-up abiout their junk model designs.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson:

James & Con for great Clarinet / Glcokenspiel playing practising for Holywood Festival.

P5 Mrs Brown:

Kian for accurate work on probelm solving

Alex for a fantastic picture of Andy Warhol’s soup cans.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood:

Luke for logical thinking skills during coding for ICT

Rama for excellent work in literacy especially in homophones.

P6 Mrs Hammond:

Molly for working hard at long multiplication!

Betty for being a good friend and always including everyone.

P6 Mr McConnell:

Rene & Lachlan for excellent and creative work when coding in ICT.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall:

Oscar for workig hard as part of a team.during the recent catpapult STEM challenge.

Tsubasa fro working extemely hard and settlign in well to HPS

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart:

Ethan for excellent revision work on factors and direction.

Oliie for conquering how to interpret linegraphs

STARS OF THE WEEK 18 NOVEMBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Jude for always trying his best at everything he does.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Eben for being a good friend to everyone - so so kind and helpful.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Phoebe for super sounding out to spell new words and write sentences all by herself.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Aidan for writing a great letter of apology!.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Erica for drawing a super picture and writing a lovely sentence about her favourite toy during ICT.

P3 MR FIELD: Heidi for always being so polite and helpful.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Ciara for fabulous work on the teddy bear..

Congratulations Charlotte and Clara!

Charlotte and Clara recently took part in the FDTA Ulster Championships. They Irish danced their way to an overall 4th place for Clara and a 6th place for Charlotte as well as winning duo and trio awards. Well done girls!

STARS OF THE WEEK 11 NOVEMBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Holly for using lovely manners.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Ella for the most beautiful work, always amazing pictures.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Harriet for fantastic independent writing about her half term holidays.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Robyn for being a really good friend.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Abe for super telling of the time in maths.

P3 MR FIELD: Ellie for excellent singing during rehearsals.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Ellie for excellent acting in Nativity rehearsals.

Dance! Dance! Dance!

Lexi took part in a dance competition in Dundalk coming away with a treasure trove of trophies!

Well done Lexi for your solo and duo placings!

MERIT BADGE WINNERS 25 OCTOBER

P4 Mrs Gibson: Annie for fabulous acting skills. She was a reporter and interviewed Neil Armstrong about the moon landing.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Reagan for great work adding up coins. Luke for great work finding change from 50p.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Ryan for brilliant number work and knowing his number facts. Rosie for working hard to neatly complete grammar work.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Megan & William for behaving really well on the trip and representing Holywood by getting involved in all the activities.

P5 Mrs Brown: Asher & Kate for joining in with enthusiasm at our pumpkin harvest - evening though it poured.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Marnie for super ideas for her Autumn Haiku. Cara-Louise for working hard on HT&U.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Rudy for great work on long multiplication. Finn for super work with money amounts.

P6 Mr McConnell: Oscar for excellent work on long multiplication. Casey for great work on word problems.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Caleb for a great Iron Man model. Rachel for excellent rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Eve & James for excellent Iron Men constructions that each explained in super detail for the whole class as to how they’d been built.

STAR OF THE WEEK 25 OCTOBER

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Kayleigh for doing super sound work.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Archie for amazing catching in PE.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS HARRON: Nao for amazing sounding out during story writing.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Molly for great sequencing of all the characters in our shared reading books.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Sophia for fab work on our tricky triangles in class.

P3 MR FIELD: Lauren for always trying her best.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Joseph for creating a fantastic castle.