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Hart Memorial Primary School, Portadown, Craigavon Co Armagh

Latest News - School Council

7th Feb 2025

A team of P7 pupils represented our school at the Credit Union Quiz in Portadown on Friday night. They had tough competition against a number of primary schools in the area. We are delighted to announce that they were the overall winners!!!
They are now through to the next stage in Armagh in March. The team were so happy with the win and we, as teachers in the audience were so proud. 😊 

 

 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025
This week, our P1 boys and girls enjoyed showcasing their junk art toys that were made as a technology project, during a class ‘Show and tell’ session. Well done boys and girls, you made some fantastic creations!!!! We have also had fun adding a variety of loose parts to old socks to make sock puppets that the boys and girls have enjoyed playing with in our Puppet Theatre during Play-based Learning.
 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

This week we had a visit from Mrs McClelland’s teddies. We found out that Morgan, the biggest teddy is 14 years old, Ted the smallest teddy is 2 years old and Bert, the middle sized teddy is the 45 years old!

Bert and Mrs Heare’s teddy, Donald, got on like a house on fire.

Have a look at our photos

 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

In Hart Haven we have been very busy working together, helping each other and being kind friends. We have enjoyed lots of activities together including feeding the birds, creating kindness snowflakes, making a comfortable home for our our Ollie owl puppet. He is a very wise owl who is helping us to make wise choices everyday.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

Here are some pictures from the past two months for the P7's to look at, in case they start to miss school.

I hope you all have an amazing break!

Mr. Lossy and Miss McAdam

 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

Well done to Daniel and Sally on reaching their Accelerated Reading target.📖

Excellent Mathletics work completed by our Certificate winner. ➗➖✖️➕


Congratulations to Nadia on winning the GTBG raffle prize. 🐸

Eilidh and Cristavao wear our Class Award winners. 

 
 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

We had an exciting day, dressing up as pirates and teaming up with P3WA for iZak9 challenges, PE with Captain Steve and a treasure hunt outside. We boarded each others classrooms to show off our costumes and practise our best pirate talk. It was a day full of fun and adventure! 

 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025
This week P3WA had their second day with friends at Presentation Primary School, we enjoyed doing a friendship activity together. Then we took part in a carousel of tasks around the theme of 'fairytales', as you can see we focused on The Three Little Pigs. We particularly enjoyed the yoga!

We also had an A-MAZ-ING day with our Pirate fun day!!!
We had a pirate parade, a talk like a pirate session, IZAK9 numeracy pirate tasks, pirate PE with Coach Steve and a treasure hunt. Mrs White and Mrs Flavelle had great fun too.

Please look at our photos...
 
 
 
 
7th Feb 2025

We have been working hard on IMPS - Investigative Maths and Problem-Solving. 

Lots of discussion and communication were needed, as well as using our thinking skills! 

We had to explain how we worked each one out too, which was very impressive. ⭐️👏

 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
5th Feb 2025
Everyone is enjoying the new online resource, Spelling Shed. Like Mathletics, points can be earned for completing all of the Spelling based activities and games.
 
 
 
 
4th Feb 2025
Well done to Billy, our Good to be Green raffle winner, who stayed on green this half term 🎉👏
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4th Feb 2025

We loved having Morgan, Bert and Ted to visit today!

They gave us the opportunity for lots of discussion.

We compared them and decided if they were old or new and why. We looked at their shapes and sizes and how they were made. We then wrote about them. 

We got a chance to have a feel and a cuddle!  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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. 

 
 
 
 
3rd Feb 2025
What great discussion there has been this month about all the different birds we have seen in the Nursery garden. The children have enjoyed painting, drawing and making birds from Lego. There was lots of experimentation and language development  through the exploration of freezing water to create ice and then making it melt. The children are starting to look out for each other and form friendships, leading to lovely collaborative play in the Nursery both indoors and outdoors. 
 
 
 
 
3rd Feb 2025
Sarah and Chloe from the Dairy Council gave us an excellent presentation today about the benefits of Dairy Products for our health and nutrition. The session was very interactive, making it a fun experience for all present.
 
 
 
 
3rd Feb 2025
We had a super talk from Sara and Chloe, from the Dairy Council today.
They reminded us of the importance of having a healthy, balanced lifestyle - an equal balance of food and fitness. 

We were helped to understand why we need to eat some dairy foods. We also got to take part in a fantastic Food and Fitness rap😀
 
 
 
 
3rd Feb 2025

We had our first 'Healthy Me' workshop today with Laura from Action Mental Health. 
We talked about lot of interesting facts, including how our mood can be and how it can change. We also discussed the importance of good physical health, to help to have a good mental health. We learned a new technique to calm us callled 'Rollercoaster Breathing'.

 
 
 
 
3rd Feb 2025
Our topic this term is bears! 🧸 We all enjoyed bringing our teddies in on Friday to write about. Mr Frizzell came to our class to tell us all about his teddies.🐻
 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025

Wishing our February prefects all the best!


Well done to our Mathletics Certificate winners. 


Congratulations to Freddie on reaching your Accelerated Reader target and choosing a prize. 

Well done to our stars of the week. 

Cristavao won the raffle for attendance in the Key Stage 2 Celebration Assembly!!! He won a Spar voucher 😊

 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025
P3WA have had an exciting week with Presentation Primary School visiting us. Take a look at all the activities we did together, it's lovely learning alongside another class :)

We were also learning about instructions and made playdough. Luckily we are all brilliant at following instructions or we might have gotten into a sticky mess!
 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025

We had great fun in P2H today when Mr Frizzell popped in with his favourite teddy, Polly the Pig. We were able to ask him lots of interesting questions and  found out that his granny bought it for him in Portadown when he was about our age!  We then wrote about his teddy during Literacy time.

 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025
Today we made beautiful Winter tree pictures. We started by looking at the different parts of a tree. The children enjoyed tearing strips of paper of varying thicknesses to the correct size for making a trunk, branches and twigs. We then used bubble wrap covered in white paint to give a snow effect. 
 
 
 
 
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. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31st Jan 2025

Well done to all our January certificate winners. 🎉

We wish our February prefects all the best.⭐️

Well done to Cristovao, from P7MM who was drawn out in the attendance raffle and won a voucher to spend in Spar. All pupils who were in school every day in January were included in the raffle. 😊

 
 
 
 
 
29th Jan 2025
We have our first Attendance HERO. Congratulations to Daniel who came to school everyday in January! Many thanks to the Spar at the Chalet for sponsoring our attendance initiative.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29th Jan 2025
One of P5P’s favourite times of the week are the PE lessons with Coach Steve. They are always fun and challenging for every boy and girl. Thank you, Coach Steve!
 
 
 
 
29th Jan 2025

We had a visit from the PSNI to talk to us all about keeping safe. They talked with us about 'Stranger Danger' and that they are there to help us. They also told us about the importance of wearing a helmet when on our bikes/ scooters. We had great fun sitting in the police car and watching the flashing lights and listening to the siren.

 
 
 
 
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.  
 
 
 
 
28th Jan 2025

Wow, we did it again.... P3WA have achieved Mathlete of the month for the 3rd time this year!

This is a huge achievement and I am so proud of each boy and girl for taking part so often.

Please keep up this great effort and participation for another month!  Every day doing Mathletics just 10 minutes really helps learning styles and factual information about all types of Numeracy skills.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28th Jan 2025

On Monday we were able to enjoy a visit to the toy museum in Armagh.  This gave us an interesting insight into the difference between old toys and new toys.  We were able to play with all of the old toys on offer and even make some of our own. 

Today we had Mrs Shields in for a visit to show us all of the old toys she had at home.  The children really loved hearing about all of the different toys and comparing them to the ones we have now. 

 
 
 
 
28th Jan 2025
Well done to these children who have stood out this month for their hard work, behaviour and achievement. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23rd Jan 2025
We had a lovely time at the Toy Museum in Armagh, making and playing with old toys.
 
 
 
 
22nd Jan 2025
On Wednesday 15th January P4AK travelled to the Palace Stables to take part in their WW2 programme. The children got to experience how it might have felt hearing the air raid siren and evacuating to an underground shelter. They also met an air raid warden and an American soldier. Then the pupils got to make their own name tag and identity card.
 
 
 
 
21st Jan 2025

The boys and girls had a wonderful afternoon using bulbs, switches, wires, batteries, bulb holders and battery holders. They had to use the equipment to build circuits and test to see if the circuits were complete or incomplete. Lots of fun was had trying to get the lightbulbs to light up. 

 
 
 
 
21st Jan 2025
P2H thoroughly enjoy Healthy Kidz sessions each week with Coach Steve. We learn different ways to test our speed, agility, balance, coordination and strength.
 
 
 
 
20th Jan 2025

Our new topic this term is Bears and we were able to write down some facts we already knew on our KWL grid.  We then discussed what new information we would like to know bears.  The first two bears we looked at closely were the Panda and the Polar bear.  We wrote about the Panda bear and displayed our work in the corridor for everyone to see.  

We can’t wait to learn more facts about the other six species of bears. Have a look at our work so far, we are so proud of it!

 
 
 
 
20th Jan 2025
The boys and girls worked in pairs to design and create a wooden Viking photo frame, as part of Technology in Term 1. 
 
 
 
 
20th Jan 2025

The children recently explored tessellation during Numeracy. They used the template of a lizard to create a wonderful tessellating pattern. Well done P6!

 
 
 
 
20th Jan 2025
Controlled schools in Northern Ireland are all governed in the same way; this is done through a Board of Governors.  As a school, we recently reconstituted our Board of Governors. 
Following our reconstitution, our new Chairperson is Mrs Heather Mallagh-Cassells and our Vice-Chairperson is Rev Darrin Thompson.  
Our governor for Safeguarding and Child Protection is Mrs Clare Proctor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17th Jan 2025
This week we have done lots of practical Maths!
We explored symmetry using a range of resources - can you tell which side we mirrored? We also used IZAK9 to investigate number sequences, even and odd numbers and we have to work as a team to find totals and problem solve. 
We are brilliant mathematicians!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16th Jan 2025
A group of children in P5D had great fun during Numeracy today using mini boxes of Smarties to calculate fractions. After all the hard work, the reward was to enjoy eating the Smarties 😋
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
14th Jan 2025
Noreen, Barry and Kaitlyn from Oxford Island came to share their knowledge of local birds with us today. We learned about the different bird names, where they live and what they eat. 
 
 
 
 
14th Jan 2025
We had a lovely morning with our visitors from Oxford Island. They taught us all about different types of birds and we played lots of fun games outside- looking for food for the birds and listening to the sounds the birds make.
 
 
 
 
10th Jan 2025
This week in P3WA we have been having great fun with practical lessons. We enjoyed working in teams to organise number sequences using our special iZAK 9 equipment - we were so good at this!

This week we have also completed our artistic 'Winter' display by using twigs and branches to create 3D trees. We are so creative!

We also started our new WAU topic - Pirates!

Have a look at the fun we had...
 
 
 
 
10th Jan 2025

Mrs White and the School Council came to our assembly today, to remind us of the importance of coming to school every day. 

Be a HERO - H is for Here. E is for Every day. R is for Ready for School. O is for On time. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10th Jan 2025
Massive thanks to everyone from the Royal British Legions for money collected during this year's poppy appeal - what a great total! Thank you, all! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9th Jan 2025

We made a model lung today, to demonstrate how we breathe and how the diaphragm helps the lungs work.🫁

At the start, we were given the equipment needed, but no instructions!

A lot of discussion took place, as well as using our thinking skills and personal capabilities!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9th Jan 2025
Trying out new things is such an important part of going to School. For some boys and girls in P5P, today was their first time having a Swimming lesson. Everyone enjoyed themselves and all are already looking forward to the next lesson. Well done, everyone!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.

 
 
 
 
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. 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
Well done to our certificate winners and our GTBG winner⭐️
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
Well done to all our winners⭐️
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
On Thursday the whole school took part in a fun day. We had to visit lots of different stations with so many great activities!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
What fun we had with Jo and Jennifer this morning, singing Christmas songs, rhymes, playing instruments and playing parachute games.
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
What a lovely way to end our first term at Nursery. Jo Jingles came to visit- we sang lots of Christmas songs, used the musical instruments, danced and had lots of fun! 
 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024

We had an amazing fun day with arts & crafts, reindeer food, elf-ercise and so much more.

 
 
 
 
20th Dec 2024
The children have been settling into Hart Haven, forming friendships and having fun. We have been covering the curriculum through a wide variety of play activities.  We have also been learning how to regulate our emotions and develop our listening skills using the initiatives Nurture in 5 and Six Bricks. The children have thoroughly enjoyed outdoor learning this term where they have had the opportunity to explore, investigate and create their own master piece. 
 
 
 
 
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! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
The children had a wonderful day at the Christmas Fun Day event.
 
 
 
 
19th Dec 2024
We had a super afternoon of fun with art, craft, games, exercise and hot chocolate.