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Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

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Today we had our annual trip to Armagh Museum to explore Toys from the past. 
We travelled by bus & had great fun learning about toys old & new, how they were made & what materials were used. 

 

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20th Mar 2025

Today we played outside in the sunshine. We enjoyed catch the ball with Mrs Shields, building Lego and even making meals for others in our imaginary McDonald’s. 

 
 
 
 
19th Mar 2025
Our boys and girls were very excited this morning about going to Presentation P.S. to meet up with their new friends. We began by playing a few space games, followed by a fun-filled Play-based Learning session and finishing off our day by watching the ‘Smeds and Smoos’ film together.
 
 
 
 
12th Mar 2025
Today, we had lots of fun making new friends and playing with the P1 boys and girls from Presentation Primary School. Our day was based on the story ‘Smeds and Smoos’ by Julia Donaldson, with lots of space and alien-themed indoor and outdoor play-based learning activities on offer. The story tells of how even though the Smeds and Smoos were very different in many ways, they could still be good friends. Our boys and girls are already looking forward to seeing their new friends again next week!
 
 
 
 
6th Mar 2025

We all enjoyed dressing up for World book day and listening to a storyteller.

 
 
 
 
 
5th Mar 2025
As part of our Spring/Once Upon a Time topics this term, we have been looking at the plant lifecycle and what plants need for growth, relating this to story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. 
 
 
 
 
20th Feb 2025
We have enjoyed making sock puppets in P1.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5th Feb 2025
This term we have enjoyed developing our speed, agility, balance and co-ordination skills within lots of fun group activities and games with Coach Steve.
 
 
 
 
23rd Jan 2025
We had a lovely time at the Toy Museum in Armagh, making and playing with old toys.
 
 
 
 
8th Jan 2025

Our new topic for term 2 is ‘Toys’. This week we have been talking about our favourite toys. Our P1 boys and girls were given the opportunity to bring their favourite toy into school today. Firstly, we enjoyed a circle time, where each child had the opportunity to name and describe their favourite toy and tell the class why it was their favourite. Then we used our toys to complete a sorting task for different criteria, such as hard/soft, big/small, noisy/quiet. After break, we enjoyed completing an observational drawing of our toys. We also discussed how their choice of toys has changed as they have grown from a baby to a child, and why this might be.

 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
What an amazing day we have had in P1, filled with craft, hot chocolate, party games, dancing, exercise and making reindeer food, to name but a few of our activities! 
 
 
 
 
18th Dec 2024
Over the last few days we have been having lots of fun making food for our class Christmas party. We have made jelly in our World Around Us lesson, looking at how jelly dissolves in hot water. We have also enjoyed making melting snowman biscuits. This morning, we joined our other P1 friends in our assembly hall for a Christmas disco and ended up very tired after all of our dancing!! We are now really excited about our Christmas Fun Day tomorrow!
 
 
 
 
16th Dec 2024
Today we enjoyed going on a walk around our school grounds, looking for signs of winter. We had fun completing our winter hunt checklist and the boys and girls took fantastic photos of their findings, including winter flowers, leaves, pine cones, hats, gloves and berries.
 
 
 
 
12th Dec 2024
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11th Dec 2024
Today, P1 went on a Christmas trip to the Navan Centre in Armagh. We enjoyed watching a Christmas play, making a Christmas craft, meeting Santa and singing some Christmas songs while eating shortbread and top hats! A fun-filled festive morning! 
 
 
 
 
23rd Oct 2024
Crown Jesus Ministries joined us in assembly this morning, putting on a fantastic interactive show called ‘Parties, Pigs and Promises. They used puppets to tell us all about the Bible story of the Prodigal son and involved the boys and girls in lots of singing and dancing.