Pupils from all classes had a fantastic time looking through the books provided by Concern Worldwide. Thanks to our fabulous P7’s for reading to some of our younger children and suggesting book titles. It was wonderful to be able to welcome parents to buy books after school. There was such a buzz around the hall.
We love reading books! When we get pre-loved books from Concern Worldwide bookshops we support a local charity and help the environment.
Our P5s enjoyed a fantastic performance by the Lyric Theatre called ‘Waste Busters’ this morning. The play used music and drama to raise awareness of littering and plastic pollution. It has a powerful message and tied into our work as an Eco School. A big thank you to the team from the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
The pupils enjoyed wearing colourful clothes to raise money for Place2Be and celebrate the end of Children’s Mental Health Week!
There is excitement about the posting and receiving of Christmas cards in school. Thanks to our P7 pupils who will be sorting and distributing thousands of cards to classes in the coming days. Thanks to everyone who has bought charity stamps in aid of the Cedar Foundation.
P5 went to Helen’s Bay this week to harvest pumpkins that they planted back in June in P4. We were amazed at how well they had grown and couldn’t believe the size of them! Room 7 were very lucky with the weather but unfortunately Room 8 had the opposite! Nevertheless, both classes had great fun on the farm. Thanks to Helen’s Bay Organic Farm for having us!
We have really enjoyed our Ancient Egypt topic this term. As part of this topic we created our own ‘Shaduf’ which the Egyptians used as an irrigation tool to lift water from the River Nile. We also designed our own ‘Sarcophagus’ using chalk that were made for Pharoahs thousands of years ago.
P5 have been taking part in a borough initiative learning about air pollution and in particular cars idling outside school grounds. Room 8 completed a survey to investigate how many cars sit with their engines idling. We all created posters for the initiative and entered them for the local competition.
Primary 5 brought some creepy crawlie friends to school yesterday! We had great fun studying them and even drawing graphs on excel.
Our assembly yesterday was all about kindness. We learned about a man called Danny Wallace who started a global movement, encouraging people to carry out random acts of kindness. We read the story of The Good Samaritan and discussed that we should be kind to everyone, not just people we know. As a class, we are going to try to perform small acts of kindness each day - at home and in school.
Sumdog NI South Eastern Maths Week!
Sumdog held a Maths contest last week and our P5-P7 classes took part. Everyone did brilliantly and solved lots of the Maths problems. Well done everyone!
Here are photos of the amazing pupils who came top of their class and also of P5 pupil Dylan who came first in the whole school! Dylan came 143rd out of 892 pupils from all the EA South Eastern schools that took part.
P5 Rm7- Luke P5 Rm8- Emma P5 Rm14- Dylan
P6 Rm11- Omar P6 Rm12- Charlie
P7 Rm9- Joshua P7 Rm10- James
Overall HPS Winner- Dylan from P5 Room 14
We are having fun every Tuesday spending time with our reading buddies!
Every Tuesday afternoon, P1R3 look forward to reading our favourite books with our P5 reading buddies. We wish it was Tuesday every day! :)
From measuring, painting, science, construction and music....... where do they find the time?! Well done P5!
Sam (P7) has been busy taking photos from the P5-P7 classrooms. There's lots going on! We hope you enjoy looking at our displays!
P5 had a visit from Young Enterprise. They learned all about 'Our City' and came up with some exciting business ideas.
