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Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

P4SK

 

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29th Apr 2025
Congratulations to Lola, Arthur, Adrians, Juliet and Natalie who were awarded the April Teacher Certificates. Also thank you to Tommy who brought us a beautiful birds' nest to study.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11th Apr 2025
We had a fantastic morning at the Palace Stables learning more about our senses. 
 
 
 
 
11th Apr 2025
Please find some dates for term 3 to help you plan ahead.  Sports days are obviously weather depending. 
Thank you.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10th Apr 2025
The boys and girls had a fantastic day, dancing at our Easter disco today! 
 
 
 
 
31st Mar 2025
Back in December, we surveyed our parents and guardians on all things 'Hart!'  We asked parents questions regarding their child; their experiences when visiting our school; and what they see the main strengths and areas for development to be in our school.  
This data was analysed in January and February and we are now pleased to provide you with the results.  Alongside the results, we have also included comments to answer any queries etc which were raised.  Please read and consider these carefully.  
As a school, we were absolutely delighted with the results of the survey and the high regard which you have for our school.  
Moving forward, we will be using this data, and many other data sources, to help steer our school for the next 3 years.
May I, on behalf of the whole school community, thank you for your contribution.

Mr A Frizzell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25th Mar 2025
Last week we wrote letters to some very special ladies. We then addressed our envelopes and walked to the local post box to send them on their way. This was a lovely way of extending our letter writing and we really hope the recipients enjoy reading our letters. 
 
 
 
 
25th Mar 2025
Congratulations to the winners of the Teacher’s Monthly awards. Congratulations also to the whole class as we won the Mathletes of the month prize!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14th Mar 2025
As part of British Science Week we carried out a taste and smell experiment. The boys and girls had to guess which flavour of crisps they were tasting with and without holding their nose and guess the smells in the cups. They thoroughly enjoyed the activities. We also did a reading comprehension to find out more about Science Week and the changes in the seasons. 
 
 
 
 
6th Mar 2025

P4SK had a brilliant day celebrating World Book Day!

Everyone looked fantastic in their costumes and we all enjoyed lots of themed activities and a BBC live lesson. We even had a librarian visit our classroom and she read us two funny books. 

 
 
 
 
25th Feb 2025

This morning we enjoyed a visit by Orla from Young Enterprise. During our session, we discussed what makes up our community, other facilities we might like to have in our community and the important people and jobs that add to our community. We also learned how important our taxes are in paying for the services we take for granted such as medical care, education, rubbish collections, leisure centres, etc. We finished off the session by working in groups to design our own communities and what we’d like in them. The children thoroughly enjoyed their morning.

 
 
 
 
29th Jan 2025
We met with our friends from Presentation to enjoy another Shared Education lesson. We played ‘Friends’ Bingo’. This was a really fun way of finding out much more about each other. We also learned lots more about Evacuation during WW2 and how this affected children and their families. We ‘packed’ our suitcases and made Evacuee figures, adding speech bubbles so they could tell us how they felt leaving their families, not knowing when or if they would see them again. We had a super day and look forward to seeing our friends again at our fun day in June.  
 
 
 
 
15th Jan 2025
We had a really interesting and fun time today when we travelled to the Palace Stables in Armagh to learn more about WW2. Some of us dressed up as Evacuee children and really looked the part. We met Mr Heany, the Evacuee Officer and Colonel Shepherd from the American army. As you can see from the pictures, we had a great day.
 
 
 
 
14th Jan 2025
We were delighted to have our friends from Presentation PS visit us for our first Shared Education session last week. Our lesson was based on our WAU topic for this term which is WW2. We learnt about the Belfast Blitz and joined together to make models of Anderson Shelters from shoe boxes. Learning together was great fun as you can see from the pictures.
 
 
 
 
20th Nov 2024

Today we enjoyed a trip to watch the Ulster Orchestra perform a special schools’ concert in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. This was a fantastic opportunity to hear live music and the children thoroughly enjoyed it. We were introduced to the different sections of the orchestra and listened to music based on the theme of ‘Our Wonderful World’. The children’s favourite piece was ‘The Bare Necessities’ and the percussion section playing on Dustbins and saucepans was also enjoyed by all. We also joined in at the end of the concert to sing the classic song, ‘ What a Wonderful World’.  Unfortunately recording and photography was not allowed during the performance but here are a few pictures of our day out. 

 
 
 
 
22nd Oct 2024
This term our WAU topic has been ‘Trees’ and the children have really enjoyed learning about seasonal changes, seeds and why trees are important to our environment. As part of our exploration we went on a scavenger hunt and gathered natural materials, which we examined and sorted. We then made Mandalas with them. Finally we planted the conkers and acorns we’d gathered. Hopefully we will all have seedlings to take home next spring.