HPS Eco Committee 2024/2025

We are proud to present our recently elected Eco Committee for this academic year. The committee comprises a representative from each class from P4-7. The committee will work closely with Mrs McKeown promoting our Eco topics across our school.

The committee:

Chair Person: Lydia P7

Deputy Chair Person: Nico P7

Other committee members:

Joni (P6) Emily (P6) Tom (P6) Ellen (P5) Sophia (P5) Eliza (P5) Nao (P4) Torin (P4)

We look forward to the great ideas and intiatives they will bring to our school this year.

Eco Schools Awards

Last Thursday Finn, our Eco Committee Chairperson, and Mrs McKeown represented Holywood Primary School at a 30 Years of Eco Schools Celebration and Green Flag Awards at Stranmillis University. We are very proud to have our eight Green Flag. Well done to all involved!

Waste Free Wednesday Winners!

Well done to Room 5 and Room 19 who are joint winners of our Waste Free Wednesday Competition, the pupils of the winning classes received a packet of wildflower seeds each as their prize. Thank you to everyone from P1-7 for working hard to cut down their single use wrappers. Let’s keep working together to swap single use items for reusable containers.

Green Flag Success

We are thrilled to have confirmation that we have been successful in being awarded our eighth Eco-Schools Green Flag! The Eco-School’s team were very impressed with the hard work of the Eco Committee and wider school community. A big thank you to all the parents and relatives who have volunteered to help with gardening and the local community groups who have partnered with us including Men’s Shed, the Ulster Conservation Volunteers and Ards and North Down Council. Let’s keep working together for the environment.

H.P.S Rugby at the Kingspan Stadium

The H.P.S Rugby Squad travelled to Ravenhill today to play in the Ulster Rugby Primary School Festival. They played some fantastic rugby over 3 games and scored some great tries.

They then got the opportunity to get a tour around the changing rooms and, thanks to Rudy’s dad, they even got to visit the gym.

Many thanks again to all the parent volunteers for helping with transport and for cheering us on throughout the year.

It is a been a pleasure coaching this group of players throughout the year and I hope they all continue to play rugby at their new schools.

Final Football League Fixtures

Yesterday the HPS Football Team competed in their final league fixtures! The team have had some amazing results this season and went 9 games unbeaten! The football at times was a joy to watch and they left everything on the field!

Although the league campaign didn’t end how we would have hoped the team should be immensely proud of their achievements and efforts this season!

Hampered with injuries the team succumbed to defeats to league winners Ballymagee, league runners up Kilmaine and St Comgall’s in what were all very tightly contested matches.

A huge well done to all the footballers in what has been another fun filled season of football!

PLAYER OF THE DAY was awarded to Tate for his dominant performances in the midfield and 3 brilliant solo goals!

TEAM: James R, Fraser, James C, Luke, Peter, Cade, Tate and Rudy.

Winning House Crest Design

The P5-P7 classes took part in another competition to earn not only points for their House but also the accolade of designing their own House Crest to be displayed in school. Pupils had to work independently to get creative and design their own House Crest that they felt best represented their House and its values that they themselves could choose.

Each Crest had to incorporate their Houses Colours and also some values they believe their House should uphold. (e.g. kindness, sportsmanship, loyalty, trust etc). Once all the designs were completed the House and Sports Captains had to select the top 10 crest designs from their represented Houses which they felt were the best which proved to be a very difficult decision as lots of the entries were of a very high standard! The House and Sports Captains worked diligently together as a team to fairly rank and order all the entries for their House which they brought to Mr Atcheson who selected a winner from each House to be displayed on the House Competitions board. A prize was also given to the best House Crest Design overall and they were also awarded 80 House Points!

Well done to all involved in what was a very difficult competition to judge.

The OVERALL WINNER goes to CHARLEY in P6 from the BLUE HOUSE with her amazing artistic design! Well done!

The House Competition is well and truly heating up with Sports Week, the House Sports competitions and many other fun events already underway in Term 3!