Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

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7th Jan 2025
Our new topic this term is Toys and to start us off we talked about our favourite toys and sorted these into various categories such as: dolls, vehicles, soft toys, plastic toys and games.  We then did some observational drawings of our toys before using oil pastels to colour them. 
 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
What a great day absolutely full jam packed full of fun activities to enjoy. 
 
 
 
 
12th Dec 2024
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11th Dec 2024
The boys and girls in P1 had a busy morning on our school trip. We started off by watching Dame Money bags and Elfie where we got very animated. We then got to visit Santa, and he gave us each a selection box to take home. Then we moved on to our craft activity where we started our Elf hats and then finished these in the classroom to take home. To finish off our trip we each got a Suki and a top hat and enjoyed a little sing along together. Everyone should sleep well tonight, adults included. 
 
 
 
 
18th Nov 2024
We read the book ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Can You See?’ during Literacy.  This was an absolute favourite of ours so far this year so we made lovely brown bear paintings using forks. Watch out for our next piece of art and try and guess what we have used.
 
 
 
 
7th Nov 2024
We celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day during our Play-based learning session outdoors today. However, we have had lots of fun playing and learning outdoors every week in term 1 so far. Have a look at some of the fun activities we have enjoyed since starting P1………
 
 
 
 
6th Nov 2024
In our Healthy Kidz lessons this term we will be in the hall focussing on gymnastics. Today we were learning about balance and how to use our core to help us when we complete a pencil roll and an egg roll.
 
 
 
 
25th Oct 2024

In our literacy lesson today, we enjoyed reading ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. We then had an interesting circle time time, talking about what type of spell we would cast if we had a magic wand. We also had fun decorating our Halloween masks and making spooky spiders.

 
 
 
 
22nd Oct 2024

After our observational drawing of apples on Friday we had the opportunity to taste some cooking apples to see how they are different from the apples we eat at snack time. The children also helped to stew the apple and some of us were even brave enough to try some of the stewed apple on a biscuit. 

Today we were able to sequence the pictures in the correct order to recall how we made our apple treat.  The children also labelled their pictures by following along with the sounds as they were written on the board.

 
 
 
 
18th Oct 2024
This week, we have been painting apples. We began by picking an apple each and studying it closely, observing the different shades of colour we could see and any marks or bumps. We then set to work using our paints to recreate what we had observed.