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Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

P4SK

 

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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.
 
 
 
 
22nd Oct 2024

This afternoon we enjoyed a visit from the Dog’s Trust. We learnt how dogs should be treated  in order to keep them and ourselves safe. Also, congratulations to this month’s teacher certificate winners and our GTBG winner for Term 1A.

 
 
 
 
18th Oct 2024
P4SK were bursting with excitement when creating our AI animals using Adobe Express. We then sent our animals on some fun adventures in our story writing. Hopefully the judges at Newsdesk are as impressed as we are with the creations. 
 
 
 
 
 
17th Oct 2024
We took our learning outdoors again this morning. This time we were looking for 3D shapes around our school. We were very successful. Well done, boys and girls. 
 
 
 
 
8th Oct 2024
This morning, Amanda from REIM visited our classroom to help us learn how to stay safe on line. We discussed cyber bullying, how it might make us feel and how  to deal with it. We also decided who our ‘trusted adults’ might be. We learnt some important life lessons in a fun way and know much more about how to stay safe on line.
 
 
 
 
1st Oct 2024
We’ve had a great first month in P4. We’ve been measuring outdoors and we’ve painted and created fabulous fabric trees as part of our WAU topic for this term. We are really pleased with our display.