New Netball Tops Revealed

The school netballers were thrilled to see their new netball hoodies courtesy of Mrs Robertson and anyvision. The girls enjoyed sporting the new tops and can’t wait to wear them during the upcoming season. The new hoodies will look great alongside their new kits and tracksuits.

A massive thank you again to Mrs Robertson and anyvision for supplying the school with the personally designed kits.

Harvest Assembly 2019

Our two areas for PDMU in school for September and October are ‘respect’ and ‘sharing’. As part of our Harvest collection this year  the children were encouraged to help share ‘their wealth’ by donating to STOREHOUSE, a Charity that collect donations of food and then distribute all the items to families in need in the Belfast area. We were delighted with the response from all the families of HPS. Boxes and boxes of food were collected! Matt from Storehouse can along to our Assembly to thank everyone. With the help of some P7 pupils his car was filled to the brim! Everything will be distributed in the coming weeks to families in need. 

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone. 

Our Harvest Assembly celebrated this special time. Granny came to visit!   (Aka Angela Megarry from Holywood Parish Church!)She spoke to the children about how we should all take care of our world.The boys and girls also enjoyed listening to the P4&5 choir as well as having the opportunity to sing a number of songs too. Well done also to a number of our P5-P7 musicians and members of our Music Club who helped accompany the songs we sang too.

Ulster Swmming Success

Congratulations to five HPS swimmers who took part at the Swim Ulster Schools Cup and Championship, held in Bangor.
Eira, Bea and Ellie competed in the morning session for 9/10 year olds, each swimming in two events. All three achieved personal best times in their races and Ellie made the final of the 10yr 50m fly where she came 9th.

Jorja and Ben each competed in two events in the afternoon session for 11/12 year olds.

Jorja qualified for two finals where she was 9th in the 11yr 50m freestyle and 6th in the 11yr 100m individual medley. 

Ben also qualified for two finals where he was 4th in the 11yr 50m backstroke and 6th in the 11yr 50m freestyle.

Both Jorja and Ben achieved personal best times in their races and have qualified for the Irish Minor Schools Championships in February, which will be held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.

Well done to everyone, such great results all round. Sincere thanks to Mrs Starks and Mr McBride for helping on the day ensuring everyone was in the right place and ready for their races in plenty of time!

PTA Wish List Winners Weeks 2&3

WELL DONE to our four classes who have recently won the PTA Wish List £100! The boys and girls can't wait to spend the money for lots of lovely new games for their classrooms.

Mrs Brown P5 Mrs McGonigle & Mrs Harron P2

Mr Mc Connell P7 Miss Dobbin P1

Flavahans Primary Cross Country Round 1

On Tuesday a record number of 24 boys and girls across P5-P7 competed in the Flavahans Primary School Cross Country Competition at Henry Jones Playing Fields. It was great to see so many pupils willing to participate and enjoy keeping active!

A massive well done to both the boys team who finished in a fantastic 3rd place and also the girls team who finished in an excellent 5th place overall in their team races.

There were some fantastic individual performances as well, most notably with Reuben finishing an impressive 4th overall in the mixed fun run and Matthew L finishing 6th, Lucas 9th and Isla 10th with some super fast times in a very competitive field in both the girls and boys team races!

A massive well done to all the boys and girls who took part and enjoyed the opportunity to challenge themselves while having fun and keeping fit! You all did HPS proud!

Thanks to Mr Lockington as the parent representative and for all the parents who helped out on the day. photo cred: Mrs Crowe :)

Check out the results in Round 1 using the link below:

https://athleticsni.org/Results/Flahavans-ANI-Primary-School-Cross-Country-League

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Bangor Cares Football Tournament

Today Holywood participated in the Bangor Cares Football Tournament at Bangor Fuels Arena. Holywood entered two teams, fielding 20 boys and girls across P6 and P7 in what was a super day for some sports fun in the sun.

The teams played some fantastic football showing great teamwork, work ethic and displayed some individual moments of brilliance leading to some terrific goals. Both teams registered 2 wins and 2 losses respectively in what was a fantastic afternoon of football.

Many thanks to all the parent helpers for providing transport and for staying to cheer the boys and girls on!

RESULTS:

Holywood A - Grange Park A: 0-1 (L)

Holywood B - Holywood A: 0-2

Holywood B - Grange Park B: 1-0 (W)

Holywood A - Grange Park B: 0-1 (L)

Holywood B - Sullivan: 1-0 (W)

Holywood B - Grange Park A: 0-2 (L)

Holywood A - Sullivan : 4-0 (W)

P6 Bryson Energy Awareness Talk

P6 pupils and staff welcomed Education Advisor Rachel Brady to HPS.

Rachel gave an informative presentation on behalf of the Schools Energy Efficiency Awareness Programme By Bryson Energy which is part of the Bryson Charitable Group.

The boys and girls enjoyed the afternoon and learnt lots about the importance of being energy efficient in our every day lives.

P3 Superhero Day

On Thursday P3 had a blast dressing up as their favourite Superhero and testing their Superhero Senses! They explored all 5 of their senses in an action packed day of fun investigations. It was truly a SUPER DAY!

Wish List Winners 2019-2020

Back by popular demand! We are delighted that PTA funds are once again being used to give each class the chance to win £100! Each week a winning ball with a classroom number is drawn from the Wish List box! There is much excitement already as the teachers and children are having fun together deciding what to put on their Wish List. e.g. books, board games and craft materials.

Mrs Riddall’s P6 class and Mrs Hunter & Mrs Heawood’s P2 class were delighted to be the first winners of 2019- 2020! A BIG THANKYOU to the PTA for supporting this!