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Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

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21st Mar 2025

P5D enjoyed a wonderful art workshop at the Armagh Museum that was run by Orlaith Cullinane. The children got to view the AE Russell exhibition and used it as inspiration to learn techniques to create their own 3D pop up artworks on the theme of ‘From the Sea’ using chalk pastels, paper folding and lots of imagination. 

 
 
 
 
14th Mar 2025
P5D have had a wonderful week celebrating British Science Week. They have taken part in online lessons about the ocean and life in space, used Skittles to create the rainbow and eaten lots of Oreo biscuits while trying to make the phases of the moon. In the computer zone they got to build their own town and try make it run on renewable energy sources. A super, fun week that everyone throughly enjoyed! 
 
 
 
 
14th Mar 2025
Mr Lossy and some of P7L led our assembly today. They spoke about the importance of being an encourager, of encouraging others by making encouraging comments to others. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6th Mar 2025
The children had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day. It was amazing to look at all the ‘Book In A Box’ masterpieces that the children made. The time and effort that went into making them was fantastic! We took part in the BBC live lesson and then got the opportunity to complete a variety of different activities in class. 
 
 
 
 
4th Mar 2025

P5D enjoyed toasting, decorating and eating pancakes today. In Literacy they looked at instructions and wrote out how to make pancakes. During Numeracy it was time to calculate how much the toppings would cost for each pancake they wanted to make. Finally, in WAU they researched how countries around the world celebrate Pancake Day. 

 
 
 
 
21st Feb 2025

We were delighted to have Laurence from Hope Community Church again today, to lead our assembly. He spoke about: Contentment, Respect, Gratitude and Kindness. 


Some of the P7 Digital leaders also spoke to us as part of our Safer Internet Day work that has been happening all week. 

They talked about online scams, how to spot them and what to do. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20th Feb 2025
Anna, from NI Water was in talking to P5D today about how important it is to try and reduce the amount of water we are using each day. She explained how the water cycle works, what happens each day to the dirty water we make and how water is cleaned. The WAU topic for this half term is 'Our World' and the children will be looking at how we can reduce the amount of water we use each day, learning about the plastic pollution that is happening all over the world and the names of the seas all over the world. 
 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

This half term P5D have been learning about lighthouses and during technology they have used their knowledge of circuits to design and make lighthouses. 

 
 
 
 
4th Feb 2025

P5D have been learning the names and properties of 3D shapes in Numeracy this week. They completed a variety of different activities in class to help with their knowledge and understanding. 

 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025

We had Mrs Lee as a guest in our assembly this morning, She talked about a new programme we will be focusing on in school, called TREK.
The T stands for Trust and she reminded us of the importance of trust in all our relationships and in school life.