STARS OF THE WEEK 6 SEPTEMBER

P1 MRS SMITH & MRS WILSON: Richard for settling well and doing great “S” work.

P1/ P2 MRS CORNISH: Mark for having an amazing attitude towards his work. Mrs Cornish is so proud !

P1 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Evelyn for settling in so well to P1 - working hard and making new friends.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Miley for being so hard working and trying her best everyday.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Kiara for creating a fantastic Superhero using art materials.

P3 MRS GIBSON & MRS McKEOWN: Arthur for fabulous ideas about Superhero powers!

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

All smiles for Mason

Well done to P3 pupil Mason. His football team won The Rocky Cup football tournament. Mason had great pleasure in bringing the very large trophy into school to show us. Great work Mason to you and your team!

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 8 JUNE

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Anabel for doing super reading and writing.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Ella for writing amazing stories independantly.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Esme for great concentration and independent work.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: James for knowing 200 high frequency words!

P3 MR ATCHESON: Brooke for being a super sports woman and competitor during Sports Week.

P3 MR FIELD: Jaxson for being fantastic all week during Sports Week.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Faye for being creative with minibeast art activities.

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT WINNERS 7 JUNE

P4 Mrs Gibson: Joshua for being such a kind and caring friend.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Maisie and Amy for using ear buds to create lovely snake patterns with paint to create paper snakes.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Jake and Charlotte for creating lovely patterns to carefully paint onto their paper snakes.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Spencer for hard work and excellence in every subject.

Ella for excellent flute playing and working hard for Grade 1.

P5 Mrs Brown: Abigail and Martha for competing so well in our recent Sports Week.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Marnie and Liam for always listening carefully to advice, to make improvements to their work

P6 Mrs Hammond: Hollie and Carter for fabulous work on chance and proportion.

P6 Mr McConnell: Gracie for an excellent volcano file on Mount Vesuvius.

Natasha for an excellent volcano fact file on Mount Tambora

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Leah for wonderful sunflowers in the style of Van Gough

Bella for excellent participaiton during Sports Week.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Sarah for much improved research using the internet.

Clara for super Sport’s Week performances and being humble in victory!

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

Happy Hollie

Congratualtions to Hollie on winning first place in both the Greenisland and Ballyclare Irish Dancing Competitions. Hollie was delighted to receive two trohies and medals! Well done Hollie!

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 1 JUNE

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Luke for wriring lots of excellent sentences all by himself.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Elin for always doing her best work and having beautiful manners.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Safaa for always working hard and being a great girl.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Eloise for doing such beautiful work.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Tristan for listening so well and always being a great helper in class.

P3 MR FIELD: Sophia for excellent sorting using a Carroll diagram.P1 MISS DOBBIN:


Posted on June 1, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

STARS OF THE WEEK 17 MAY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Jude for doing super number work.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Jesse for amazing adding. ( Working independantly too )

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Thomas for being kind and caring to others - children and adults!

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Ella for always trying her best.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Freya for building a wonderful Diplodocus dinosaur during dino day.

P3 MR FIELD: Luca for excellent vertical addition.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Joseph for building an amazing dinosaur.

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT WINNERS 17 MAY

P4 Mrs Gibson: Ellen for an amazing presentation about Endangered Animals.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Cormac and Sophia for their beautful cactus art with pastels.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Euan and Skye for great preparation and presentation of their class talks.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Ryan and Zach for excellence in talking and listening.

P5 Mrs Brown: Adam and Susanna for taking part with enthusiasm during Sports Week and House competitions.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Alex for neat and careful work in both Maths and Literacy.

Joshua for great problem solving in Maths and good explaining of methods.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Elsa and Oliver for wonderful work finding the area fo a triangle.

P6 Mr McConnell: Lachlan and Harry for good work finding the area of triangles and a big improvement in the presentation of their Maths classwork - much neater!

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Alfie and Emily for presenting an excellent class talk.

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Will for planning and presenting an excellent class talk.

Ethan for an excellent Javelin technique during Sports Day practice.

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

STARS OF THE WEEK 11 MAY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Joseph for writing a super fact about elephants!

P1 MRS CORNISH: Charlie for amazing reading - so proud!

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Sophia for always listening well and working hard.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Dylan for showing great sportsmanship during sports week.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Sophia for building a fantastic dinosaur out of Lego.

P3 MR FIELD: Conor for working hard with his reading.

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT WINNERS MAY 4

P4 Mrs Gibson: Ella for a fabulous watercolour painting of a lion.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Reagan and Frankie for working hard on the gr blend in their spellings.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Aria and Sam for following instructions, being enthusiastic and showing great skills during cricket sessions.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Charlie and Elizabeth for making an effort to prepare their parts for assembly.

P5 Mrs Brown: Vanessa and Luke for making a good start at multiplying by tens.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Lucy and Peter for very enthusiastic participation in all aspects of Viking Day and asscoiated arts and crafts.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Tate and Leon for enthusiastically taking part in cricket sessions with the Holywood cricket coach.

P6 Mr McConnell: Katie for great work on plurals.

Abraham for making a great start to percentage increase and reduction Maths.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Isaac for super participation at Greenhill.

Ruby for writing a lovely quote in the style of “The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse”

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Grace and Isabelle for excellent performances by both during the Drug Education workshop.

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Merit Badge Winners.

STARS OF THE WEEK 4 MAY

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Seth for being a kind friend.

P1 MRS CORNISH: James for beautiful manners and excellent behaviour..

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Talia for settling in so well into her new school and working extremely hard.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Faye for doing a great recount about our school trip.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Bethany for doing so wonderfully in her role for our P3 assembly on feelings.

P3 MR FIELD: Ellie for excellent work using speech bubbles.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Reuben for painting a fabulous dinosaur.

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

STARS OF THE WEEK 26 APRIL

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Isaac for doing super Literacy work!

P1 MRS CORNISH: Edward for amazing throwing and catching at PE.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Tristan for great numberwork.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Faya for working SO hard.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Nico for being an amzing role model in P3 and for always litening and trying his best.

P3 MR FIELD: Toga for excellent reading and writing.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Noah for thinking of some wonderful questions at the beginning of the Dinosaur topic.

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

A gold rush for Megan!

We were delighted to hear about P7 pupil Megan who recently took part in the Ulster Dance and Fitness Chamionships. She won 5 gold medals for lyrical duo, jazz duo, lyrical group, jazz group and handjive.

She was over the moon!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS MEGAN.

Well done from everyone at HPS!

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Superstars Outside School.

STARS OF THE WEEK 19 APRIL

P1 MISS DOBBIN: Ruby for being super at sounding out words and spellig them.

P1 MRS CORNISH: Alexander for sounding out lots of sentences completely by himself.

P2 MRS McGONIGLE & MRS FULTON: Finn for having beautiful manners and being helpful.

P2 MRS HUNTER & MRS HARRON: Nate for trying really hard to listen and follow instructions.

P3 MR ATCHESON: Rachela for drawing an incredibly detailed digital picture of the Taj Mahal.

P3 MR FIELD: Jessica for being so welcoming and helpful when Toga started.

P3 MRS GIBSON: Faye for great writing about the history of travel.

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Stars of the Week.

MERIT WINNERS 19 APRIL

P4 Mrs Gibson Holly for showing great interest in minibeasts and birds on her school trip.

P4 Mrs McKeown: Archie and Amber for showing great interest and enthusiasm on the class trip. Archie asked some very good questions.

P4  Mrs Smith & Mrs Wilson: Riley and Grace for showing great enthusiasm and good behaviour on our school trip.

P5 Miss Riddell & Mrs Wilson: Hala for working hard to improve her reading.

Caleb for thoughful comprehension and neat presentation.

P5 Mrs Brown: Ava for a beautiful painting of cherry blossom

Beth for good work on 3D shape.

 P6 Mrs Clarke / Mrs Heawood: Mya for working hard to learn her tables.

Emma for good explanations during problem solving in maths.

P6 Mrs Hammond: Caden and Cade for working very hard at finding information from a comprehension text.

P6 Mr McConnell: Teigan for settling in so well to life at HPS.

Willow for always working hard to learn her spellings and times tables.

P7 Room 11 Mrs Riddall: Isobel for writing a fantastic autpbiorgaphy with a superb title!

Niamh for mastering long division!

P7 Room 12 Mrs Hart: Evan for excellent batting and catching during our cricket sessions.

James for writing a very entertaining autobiography with an excellent title.

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Debbie Crookshanks and filed under Merit Badge Winners.