Each month we have a display in our foyer showing recent or forthcoming events and activities. A number of parents, visitors, staff and children have commented how much they enjoy looking at it. We thought you might like to see it too! Please click here to see it.
Well done to our PTA Wish List winners for WEEK 3 & WEEK 4
WEEK 3 MRS GIBSON'S CLASS
They would like to buy some board games, Lego, toy cars, trains, aeroplanes and new felt tips for their class.A BIG THANKYOU from P3 Room 6!
WEEK 4 MRS HART'S CLASS
They would like to put the money towards buying some class novels and some board games.
They are really pleased to have won!
HPS always likes to support events in the community. This year over 60 pupils will be participating at the Festival. Both P7 classes and brass ensemble are preparing well for their performances.
Please click below to watch some of the P7 rehearsals
P7 Room 10 Miss Riddell's class
WELL DONE to everyone and thanks to Miss Riddell, Mrs Clarke and the music tutors for their support of the children.
THE BRASS ENSEMBLE CAME 1ST IN THEIR GROUP.
P7 ROOM 9 CAME 1ST & P7 ROOM 10 CAME 3RD IN THE INNOVATIVE CLASS.
WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU ALL! CONGRATULATIONS!
Holywood Music Festival Safeguarding Policy can be downloaded here.
What a day! The boys, girls and members of staff had a great day in school! Everyone entered into the spirit of things! During the day each class enjoyed doing practical maths activities, investigations and board games. P4 & P5 were spotted walking about in Holywood in their PJS too. (They were really on their way to swimming!) More photographs on our gallery .
Thank you to eveyone for their generosity. £500 was raised for Children in Need.
Congratulations to Miss McKeown's P3 class who are the first P1 - P3 winners. Well done P3! We hope your £75 will help towards getting a role play corner for Room 5.
Mrs Stewart's P4 Room 16 were the winners of the first P4- P7 Wish List prize. They are looking forward to spending it on some new board games and K'Nex for their class.
The ever popular Book Fair is on from Tuesday 10th November. Please feel free to call in to browse the large selection of books on display. Any books that sell out may be ordered and will be delivered within three days of the Fair closing.
Our school benefits from all sales. Funds generated are used to enhance the School and class libraries.
Parents may view books at the following times:
Tuesday 10th - Monday 16th 1.00pm - 3.30pm
A programme of activities for the year ahead has begun. Thanks to Mr Topping (Bryn & Jay’s dad) who in conjunction with the ‘NI Year of Food 2016’ has arranged for The Hastings Group to support HPS. A number of activities have been arranged to involve our boys and girls during the year. Our new planters have just been delivered. Our garden area in the P4 –P7 playground has also being spruced up. Mrs Wallace and her ECO Team would really appreciate any parent volunteers who periodically would be willing to help maitain our school gardens.
Our P7 pupils are very busy this week visiting all the classrooms to promote the Poppy Appeal.
Your child will be designing their own Christmas cards again this year and will be bringing home their personal design this week.
Your child's original design can be professionally printed and sold in packs of 10 cards for £6.00. The design can also be ordered as Christmas wrapping paper and gift tags. Full ordering instructions can be found on the back of the card.
All profits go to PTA funds. If you wish to purchase these exclusive cards please ensure your order is returned by 3pm on Wednesday 11th November. Please make cheques payable to Holywood Primary School PTA.
Thanks to our fabulous PTA, Mrs Crookshanks was presented with a cheque from PTA funds. This money has been used to order another 25 IPads.
The PTA has now bought 50 IPads for the school in recent months. Added to the 27 bought by the school at the beginning ot term, each class will have 4 or 5 to use on a daily basis.
We hope everyone had a lovely holiday over Half Term.
HPS re opens on Monday 2nd November. After School Clubs recommence too.
We regularly review and update school policies. Many policies are distributed to new HPS families. We would particularly draw your attention to our newly created Social Media Policy which can be found in the Parent Section of the school website.
The Assembly Hall was packed with children and staff for our Harvest Assembly.
Enjoy watching some clips from the morning here.
This year we would like to help Blythswood Care which transports gifts to European countries.
Our two areas for PDMU in school for September and October are ‘respect’ and ‘sharing’. We also talk about healthy eating and keeping ourselves healthy.
We would ask that all the children help to share ‘our wealth’ by bringing in either a toothbrush and toothpaste or a face cloth and a bar of soap. These will be packed and sent to children who have very little to call their own. 
Please send in your items by
Thursday 8th October. Thank you.
We are delighted with our new ipads. Many boys and girls have been using the ipads in class to enhance their learning.
Enjoy looking on our class pages throughout the year where we will be showcasing creative work completed by the children with just a little help from their teachers and classroom assistants.
Click here to see an example from Mrs Elliott's Primary 1 class.
We are very pleased that two of our pupils, brother and sister Phillipa & Luke Wilson (centre), were recently involved in the launch for the NI Child Flu Immunisation Programme 2015.
They were pictured outside Stormont buildings. All NI Primary School children will be offered this vaccination in the coming weeks.
For more information please click here.
It's hard to believe that we have already completed three weeks of Term 1. The boys, girls, teachers and classroom assistants are well settled into the routines of school life. We hope you enjoy looking at some photos of our P1, P2 and P3 boys and girls who are busy bees!
What a great morning. Our P4 and P5 boys and girls have begun their first term of swimming. The P4 classes came back to school very proud of themselves as they had managed so well on their very first class visit to the swimming pool and only managed to misplace 1 sock in the process!!
Our P3 classes joined with a team from Active communities to celebrate European Week of Sport. There was much fun when each P3 class worked together to enjoy participating in Multiskills activities.
Enjoy seeing them in action below!
Congratualtions to 50 boys and girls who achieved full attendance this year. What a great achievement!
Well done to......
P1 Anna, Lily, Tamara, Reid, Carter and Matthew
P2 Ruby, Megan, Lewis, Adam, Carter & Joshua
P3 Elsa, Charlotte, Sophie, Erin, Erin, Smokey, Bryn, Jamie, Isaac, Oliver, Mitchel, Keelin, George & Nathaniel
P4 Molly, Hannah & Georgie
P5 Kriti, Curtis, Ruan, Will, Andrew, Yu, Jamie, Jack
P6 Angharad, Poppy, Erin, Jonathan, Patrick & Greg
P7 Haley, Rachel, Izzy, Danielle, Matthew, Luke & Jason
