Kick Off for HPS Footballers

Holywood’s football season got underway this afternoon as the new league format kicked off at Eddie Irvine Sports Complex in Bangor.

The league consists of 16 teams competing from across the Ards and North Down area and matches take place once a month where each school plays a total of 3 games.

Holywood’s opponents for todays fixtures were Towerview P.S, Crawfordsburn P.S and Clandeboye P.S. Holywood had a lot of boys competing and representing the school for the first time and their enthusiasm showed from the first whistle. The boys worked hard as a team and put together some brilliant passages of play over their 3 games that led to some fantastic goals by Ben (3), Ruan. Zak and Luke. For all their hard work, Holywood unfortunately were edged in all 3 of their games but their attitude and application were excellent and they did themselves and their school proud.

A great day of football overall with plenty to build on for the future games to come!

SQUAD: Cameron, Benjamin, Joshua P, Matthew, Ruan, Luke, Oliver, Zak and Ben (C).

HPS Christmas cards 2018

The Christmas cards designed by the boys and girls were great this year!

Special congratulations to Matthew (P6) and George (P7). 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.

WELL DONE boys!

PTA Christmas Fair another great success!

Many thanks to everyone who came along to support the Christmas  Fair. A highlight for many of the younger children this year was a  visit from Santa!
We are so grateful to the fabulous parent volunteers,  family friends and Priory College pupils who helped to set up earlier today, man  a stall and / or help to tidy up extremely well afterwards. It was so  encouraging to see a number of new faces on the PTA team today along with the  familiar HPS faces too. It simply made everything so much easier!
A special  mention to Kellie Shimmin and volunteers who have been working really hard to  prepare for the Fair over a number of weeks. Their teamwork ensured everything  ran smoothly and hopefully allowed parents and grandparents to relax while the  boys and girls had great fun. Thanks also to Kellie Grant for co-ordinating the  great raffle prizes too which were generously donated by local businesses and  families closely connected to HPS . 

**********************A FANTASTIC TOTAL OF OVER £2400 WAS RAISED !**************************
Once again thank you so much for all your help and supporting the Fair today. There certainly was plenty of Christmas cheer at HPS!

It's PJ Day in HPS for Children In Need!

As usual Holywood Primary supported BBC Children in Need. This year we had a PJ Day ! EVERYONE TOOK PART AND HAD GREAT FUN! THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE WHO DONATED. So far £499.83 has been raised .... there’s more to add!

Please enjoy looking at the fantastic photographs!

HPS P4 - P7 After School Clubs are underway!

Over 290 boys and girls have signed up to be part of our extensive After School Clubs. There are 13 clubs for the children to choose from. Many thanks to all members of staff involved in leading these clubs.

Monday

Multiskills

Tuesday

Boys’ & Girls’ Hockey Camera Science

Wednesday

ICT Netball Football Scripture Union P4 Choir

Thursday

Art Rugby ECO Multiskills

P3 Superhero Assembly!

Check out some of the photos from todays awesome assembly where Mrs Gibson’s P3 class spoke to P1-P3 all about their topic of Superheroes! :)

Shared Education Day for P3!

All the P3 boys and girls in Holywood Primary travelled today to the Queens Leisure Complex in Holywood to meet for the first time with all the P3 pupils at Glencraig Integrated Primary for what promised to be a fun filled day! Both schools were excited and enthusiastic about their first meeting as part of their Shared Education Partnership.

The P3 pupils experienced lots of icebreaker games to get to know each other followed by lots of activities to keep both the pupils, staff and parent helpers entertained. The pupils from both schools worked together in groups to complete arts and craft activities and parachute games before all coming together to do lots of dancing during our energetic Zumba class! Mr Atcheson stole the show with his own rendition of the Cha Cha Slide!

All the pupils finished by singing a lovely song all about friendship before waving goodbye! All the P3 pupils I’m sure will be looking forward to meeting up with their new friends from Glencraig Integrated Primary School very soon! :)