At the start of January, we started Waste Free Wednesdays to work to reduce our use of single use materials and encourage each other to buy in bulk and use reusable containers. Thank you to all the parents and pupils who have been working hard to achieve this! Here are some pictures of our reusable containers in P4 room 16! Let’s try to keep this up!
On Wednesday 22nd January Holywood set off to compete in the Northern Ireland Primary Cross Country Finals at Mallusk Playing Fields in Belfast. After some tough competition in the County Down qualifying rounds before the new year Holywood earned themselves a spot in the finals with a boys team qualifying alongside two individual competitors Isla and Mia in the girls race.
The boys and girls were very excited for what was a fantastic day out. The atmosphere was electric and with so many schools across the country competing the runners were piled up at the starting line. This made it difficult for the Holywood runners to make their way to the start of the pack in the early stages of the race but none the less they pushed themselves all the way to the finish line. The boys and girls did immensely well with the boys team finishing 12th overall across the whole of Northern Ireland and the individual competitors in the girls race recorded excellent times to finish off a great cross country campaign!
Holywood are very proud of all the pupils who competed across P5-P7 in what was a great way to get active with friends and enjoy a healthy dose of competition.
A special well done to the boys team and girl individual finalists for their superb efforts and performances throughout!
Matthew L, Benjamin, Oliver, Matthew L, Reuben, Lucas, Isla and Mia
A big thank you as well to both Mr Lockington and Mr Wright for their help as parent representatives for the school at each of the events. Their continued support has been greatly appreciated!
Well done to Megan, Isla, Bea and Katie who represented HPS at the Zonal Finals of the UK Trampolining competition recently in Newcastle, England. We are very proud of you all and what you have achieved! The girls came a creditable 7th place in the team events. Megan had also qualified for an individual event too. CONGRATULATIONS GIRLS!
What a fabulous way to finish their WW2 topic.
The football team took part in the annual Ashfield tournament on Friday. The two teams put in a number of great performances, showcasing some super skills and terrific teamwork.
The Holywood B team were placed in a very difficult group but produced some brilliant performances. Despite a difficult start against Strandtown A they bounced back to defeat StMatthews, with Ben Curson scoring a well placed strike. They put in one final performance against an Ashfield Boys Select team but sadly fell to a narrow defeat.
The Holywood A team started strongly with two victories and a draw before falling to a narrow defeat to Elmgrove. They fought well but it wasn’t until the last group game that they secured fourth place and a spot in the semifinal of the Bowl. In the semifinal against Rosetta, the boys produced a dominating performance but it wasn’t until the last ten seconds that they found the breakthrough, Zac Wright finishing from close to put Holywood A into the final. The final was a hard fought game with the boys conceding early to Knocknagoney but they kept their heads and turned the game round coming out 2-1 winners.
Well done to both teams!
Take a peek at what we are up to!
Holywood travelled to Bangor Football Ground today to kick off the new year in the North Down League.
Holywood were feeling fresh and started brightly in their first game against St Malachys. The boys worked well as a team and were on top for large parts of the game but just couldn’t break down the resolute defence of the opposition which meant the game ended 0-0.
In their second game they came up against a strong Ballyholme side but brought the game to the opposition from the first whistle. Holywood had some great spells of possession and had their fair share of chances. After falling behind Zac brought the sides level after a fantastic individual goal that left the keeper helpless. The game was well balanced with both teams going end to end but with a late break away against the run of play Ballyholme managed to steal a late goal and hold out for the win. A disappointing result but the boys left it all out on the pitch in a great performance.
On to the last game against Crawfordsburn and the team had gone from to strength to strength from their previous games. Holywood dominated the play and overwhelmed their opponents in the opening stages leading to a great goal from Connor who had pushed from defence into the middle of the park to drive the ball into the side of the net. Holywood continued to apply the pressure but against the run of play were caught out with a quick break away. With the game all level Holywood continued to press for the winner with some great strikes on goal but the Crawfordsburn keeper pulled off some wonderful saves to earn their side a point at the final whistle.
Overall three great performances in what was a great start to the new footballing year! Well done to all the boys involved! Time to rest and recharge before another fun filled footballing day when HPS head to the Ashfield Football Tournament on Friday.
SQUAD: CAMERON, JOSHUA, CONNOR, THOMAS, MATTHEW L, MATTHEW K, KYLE, ZAC, OSCAR AND ZAK
Waste Free Wednesdays and Pen Competition @ HPS
Congratulations boys and girls!
Well done to a number of pupils who have shown acts of kindness which were noted by various members of staff and visitors to the school.
Saxon (P5)
Thank you to Saxon for being so kind and pleasant. He has such good manners and greets Mrs Ruine each morning with a big smile!
Susannah P5
Mrs Carberry was very grateful when Susannah politely offered to deliver a lunch box that had been left for a pupil at the Office.
Matt P7
Thank you to Matt for explaining the role of a Playground Buddy to P1-P3 pupils so well during Assembly. Matt also helped Miss Riddell tidy up in the Dining Hall after Music Club.
AJ (P3) & Jacob (P4)
Thank you to both boys for being very helpful in the Dining Hall.
Tom P7
Tom helped to tidy Miss Armstrong’s classroom without being asked. She REALLY appreciated his help.
Erin P7
Erin was exceptionally kind and helpful when she acted as a Buddy in the P1 & P2 playground during Term 1.
Charlie P2
Charlie was very helpful during Assembly by showing a P1 pupil how to put their Star of the Week badge on. He also showed them where the certificates were.
Benjy P7
Benjy has impeccable manners and is so helpful to others each day in school.
The start of the month saw Holywood PS kick off the new league campaign at Bangor FC in what was a wet and windy day.
The team played some fantastic football and worked hard as a team in what was their first competitive matches of the season. They narrowly lost 2 of their 3 games finishing with a draw.
Well done to all the boys who represented the school so well in what was a fun filled footballing afternoon.
SQUAD: Cameron, Joshua, Thomas, Connor, Matthew K, Zac W, Oscar, Kyle, Zak and Matthew L
RESULTS
0-2 Kilmaine PS
0-2 Clandeboye PS
1-1 Bloomfield PS
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Please join us at our Carol Service on Monday 16 December 2019.
All children should meet in the school Hall at 6.45 p.m.. The Carol Service will take place in St. Philip & St. James Parish Church. Please collect your child at 8.00 p.m. from the School Hall.
The stage at HPS was sparkling this year!
On Tuesday 25 pupils from across P5-P7 headed to Newcastle to compete in the Second Round of the Flavahans Cross Country competition.
On a beautiful, bright and brisk morning the boys and girls had a blast running at the foot of the Mourne Mountains. The boys team finished 3rd overall in their heats and qualified for the NI Finals in January and although the girls team narrowly missed out on qualifying both Isla and Mia both made it through to the finals based on their individual performances. A huge congrats on what is a great achievement!
All the boys and girls loved getting out and getting active in what was a brilliant day all round! A massive congratulations to all the boys and girls who took part and a big thank you to both Mr Lockington and Mr Wright for all their help as parent representatives.
What a lovely afternoon for all HPS families!
Thursday 7th November was National Outdoor Classroom Day! Over 690,000 children were involved in outdoor learning across the UK and Ireland! Unfortunately for us in NI it was pretty wet on the Thursday but P1-6 took their learning outside at some point that week or the week after! It was a great success! Between Autumn walks, leaf hunts, clock and fraction work and even making poppy pictures out of leaves, the pupils really enjoyed it and engaged well. P5 even put out bird feeders as part of our ECO focus on developing our school’s biodiversity! Take a look at some of the photos we took!
Podium finish for Megan, Isla, Katie & Bea
We love CIN Day at HPS!
P4 have just finished their Space topic this week with a junk models homework. Waste is one of our current ECO topics and we were so impressed at how our P4s creativity reused old items and junk to form these exciting models! We had a whole range of rockets, planets, astronauts and the International Space Station. The models are currently on display in the foyer for the next few weeks. A big thank you to all the parents who gave a helping hand.
